let me go to you, jack jacobs. once evidence, certainly united states in recent history, contemporary history we've all shared is that once you leave a country those who remain behind call the shots. we're out of iraq now, we haven't gone into syria at all really. so how does isis get threatened by us if they know we're containing them now, attempting to contain them now and have no long-term plan to take them down before we pull out again in the air strikes? how do you chase the future if you're not part of it? >> well, you can't, actually. and, as a matter of fact, i hate to go back to what joe biden said before the war started, that maybe the best thing to do is to encourage iraq to go to pieces, to devolve into its component pieces and that appears to be what it's doing by itself now. i don't think you can use the cliche "put the genie back in the bottle." i don't think you can affect it strategically, only tactically. >> can we live with a caliphate in portions of syria and iraq when it does come apart? >> no,

. >>> i want to bring in medal of honor recipient and msnbc military analyst colonel jack jacobs. colonel, i want to pick up on that, here is a look at the territory that isis already controls. so how big of a threat are they here at this point? and as a future threat directly to the u.s.? >> well, let me take the second first. because everybody's been talking about it. they are a threat to the united states. we have fairly porous borders, people without passports have come in and out. the bigger threat to jihadists of us, the bigger threat is to europe with no internal borders whatsoever. people can come and go as they please and they have lots and lots of your pieuropeans con standpointly fighting, consta constanting fighting. the british raised their terror level to severe. we do know who some of the people are but don't know much about their movements. you take your eye off the ball just for a second or two and the next thing you know it will be a genuine threat here in the united states. something needs to be done. >> the political magazine talked to several military and pent

colonel jack jacobs is with us now. colonel, that's the perspective from the administration thinking about limited scope in terms of what they are trying to accomplish. i'm curious what you make of what you heard from the administration. >> i find it interesting the number of strikes has been as limited as it has. the administration has been touting this offensive against isil. i have been in gun fights with bad guys in vietnam where we had more than 17 strikes all in one day. this is very, very limited indeed. ultimately what the administration is planning to do, what the pentagon is planning to do is to target isil the same way we have been targeting al qaeda. find targets of opportunity through intelligence overhead and on the ground. send precision guided munitions to specific targets. there is not going to be any long-term american involvement here except insofar as you have reported we are going to send special forces and special operations forces in order to bolster the peshmerga and others on the ground to take

joining me now is steve clemons, an msnbc contributor, and colonel jack jacobs, msnbc military analyst who we call upon frequently in moments like this. i'm going to start with you, colonel jack. not a lot of specifics but this idea of air drops and air strikes. >> you're not going to have an air drop unless you also have an air strike because you also have to be able to secure the area. and to drop humanitarian aid willy-nilly all over the countryside with the trapped people to collect it up, that doesn't make any sense at all. so i think if you are going to have an air drop, you're also going to have an air strike. this also may prove to be of target of opportunity. if you have isil people ringing this mountaintop, it may be an opportunity to knock a lot of them out. we're not going to be dropping any material or doing a low-level extraction without also having air strikes. it doesn't mean that we're going to do them and it doesn't mean that airplanes necessarily will be involved because the iraqi air force is not really up to snuff. we may use cruise missiles, for example, air launc

let me bring in colonel jack jacobs, medal of oh honorer recipient and msnbc analyst.d the u.s. strikes do today? did they help our situation in sinjar or not? >> all strikes do. our oh military people are looking through intelligence to find pockets of isis, amrat trucks, gun trucks, machine guns, groups of isis soldiers and platoon size and strike with precision-guided munitions. that usually will keep them away. having said that, it's okay for today, maybe yesterday and maybe tomorrow. the president said not so fast, we'll be at it for a while . we are. >> there are people who are suspicious. they think, adviser is really a soldier doing the same thing. what is their function on the ground? >> whoever said it is correct. i spent a long time in vietnam as an adviser. i advised the second battalion, senior adviser to the first vietnamese airborne division. i spent almost 100% of my time fighting bad guys. >> yeah. >> i gave advice to my counterpart. i controlled air strikes, assisted them in teaching him how to train his people. at the end of the day, when you get int

retired colonel jack jacobs and msnbc military analyst, thanks for being with us this saturday morning, colonel. >> good to be with you. >> the white house appears to be trickling out an argument for strikes inside syria. now, is that the right move? is that the most effective move? >> any opportunity we have to take out these people, we ought to jump on it. they are dangerous to us in the interests of us and our allies. but the idea that we can occasionally drop a bomb on formations of isis soldiers, wherever they happen to be, that itself is not going to do the trick. what's really essential is that an effort be made to coordinate air strikes. by the way, air strikes inside syria with action on the ground. action on the ground in syria can only be accomplished by the syrian government. so far we show no inclination to ally ourselves with assad, which is something we have to do. >> speaking of boots on the ground, "new york times" reports special operations boots on the ground. we know americans have been there for that failed rescue attempt. >> what we'll have are special forces and

msnbc military analyst and medal of honor recipient retired army colonel jack jacobs. obviously when we look at the to-do list for congress, most of the things did not get done, but at least we saw some bipartisan comp mission on this bill. >> reporter: it's hard to believe against this bill for getting people care that fought to keep us safe. there was a huge push from the white house and we saw the veterans affairs committees in both the house and the senate to work toward the compromise. it's called the veteran's -- we learned just how dpiflt it was and at times even deadly these long waits that happened. we saw a resignation of the head of the va, and there are other things that happened in the interim. the senate has just named the new veterans -- new head of the veterans affairs, robert mcdonnell, he's a west point grad, he used to be the head of proctor and gamble, so a lot of people hope that that management experience will help him with this sprawling bureaucracy. since the time that all of these allegations were proved true, they have reached out to more than

jim michaels and colonel jack jacobs. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. >>> right now a 72-hour cease-fire between israel and hamas is underway. will the truce hold? we have a live report from tel-aviv. >> tony stewart can be a hot head. he gets into arguments with other drivers at times. >>> lots of questions remains after tony stewart hits and kills a fellow driver on the racetrack. we have an update next. >>> and hillary clinton opens up about foreign policy and draws her sharpest distinction yet from president obama. it's today's first read. >>> join our conversation online. you can find the team on twitter @"newsnation." ♪ [musi] defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. easily absorbed calcium plus d. beauty is bone deep. chances are we're already there. or what you want to do, 12 brands. more hotels than anyone else in the world. like super 8, where every destination is super. for a chance to win one million dollars, visit wyndhamrewards.com female narrator: the mattress pric

thanks so much, jim miklaszewski, thank you, colonel jack jacobs. we appreciate both of you and your reporting today. >>> now to the other top story. the arrival of the second american of liberia with ebola. missionary nancy writebol arrived a short timing a and going to emery university hospital and still is i should say still going to be taken off that plane, that specially equipped plane, chartered. we don't if she'll be brought off on a stretcher at this point. whether she is able to walk off. a same unit where american dr. kent brantly has been received treatment since arriving over the weekend. kate snow joins me now and dr. shandran is a doctor at albert einstein college of medicine and joins me from new york and one or two other points here. first of all, that we have a suspected patient in jetta and flown and would be the first known case of ebola outside the african continent and british airways today suspended temporarily to the end of august the commercial flights into both sierra leone and liberia. kate, first to you. the preparations n

colonel jack jacobs is an msnbc military analyst and recipient of the congressional medal of honor. it's always a pleasure to have you. thanks for joining me. >> thank you. >> putin said something that was interesting. a word that was flagged when he was calling for that humanitarian corridor. he spoke of new russia. and he called the rebels there, the separatists, he called them the militia of new russia. is that significant? >> yeah, it is. it means he's going to continue to support them as long as necessary until at least that whole sloth that includes ethnic russian speakers in eastern ukraine become part of russia. he did it easily with crimea and there was a lot of -- there were a lot of people who acquiesced in that regard. now there's fighting but ultimately, putin will persist until the eastern part of ukraine becomes wholly part of russia. >> we've levied sanctions, levied more sanctions. got the europeans on board. they also levied pretty decent sanctions, it would seem. they don't at least at this point seem to be acting as any sort of deterrence. did the u.s. need to do

i will start with jack jacobs. how do we do both -- keep it limited and win all out war to eradicate isis? >> the irony is our ally in the whole thing has to be syria. >> right. >> just a couple of months ago people were talking about how we needed to squash assad. we need to be on the side of the rebels. exactly the opposite is going to be the case if we want to go after isis. our ally has to be assad. otherwise we won't be able to do it. it will require not only air assets but on the ground. that means assad. >> who fights from the iraqi side if we have assad with us at least by implication on the syrian side. who takes on isis besides us on the iraqi side? >> the only allies there -- it's not baghdad. we have been relying on baghdad for some time to no avail. it has to be the kurds. we have to have more advisers on the ground. more special forces and special operations forces inside iraq in order to train the persshmerga. >> p i have a picture now which shows how much territory in iraq and syria isis has taken o

colonel jack jacobs joins us on the phone. nice to talk to you. what is the pot cool for an active shooter on a u.s. military base? >> the base is locked down, which is not difficult to do since there is restricted access into and out of a military post. there is some training areas which are easy to infiltrate, but they're usually typically far away from the central part of the post is and where the incident was. and in any case, fort lee doesn't have wide spread training area. it's relatively easy to lock down a military installation. then the place is isolated where the accident occurs. that's easy to do because there are quite a few military police within the installation. and the incident area is extremely easy to isolate. locking down is pretty simple to do. there's a series of protocols that reinvolve around the level of a threat, which is actually taking place and what they're going to respond with. >> colonel jack jacobs, thank you so much. it still is an active scene. we're get different reports. but apparently the situation is being con

. >> let's bring in right now colonel jack jacobs, medal of honor recipients, colonel jack, you heardorts of green berets on the ground. >> it's interesting to watch mik smile ruefully, because he's been there a long, long time and he knows when the pentagon is trying to parse some of the extinction, and he's absolutely correct. when the president says no botst on the ground, what he really means is no 82ibility airborne drigs, we have had folks on the ground for quite some time. and as far as the administration is concerned, this is not the same thing. but what mik says is absolutely correct. i spent a lot of time in combat with vietnamese forces advising, advising, and i spent most of my time fighting. if you're embedded with people, if they're fighting, you're going to fight too. >> the numbers on that mountain has greatly reduced based on the information and intelligence we have been able to put together. there are 2,500 or so who want to leave the mountain, some have said, we want to stay on the mountain, we have our animals here and we feel safer than in the lower elevations. if

let's bring in colonel jack jacobs. i say official, because they seem to speculate -- the russian army is what i am refer to. >> he would love to be able to take even ukraine without a shot of the russians shots been fired, if he can, but he will drift forces in there if he thinks he has to. >> if the ukrainians get good at what they do, and so far they don't seem to be able to seize and hold. holding is is really what it is about. but i think he's expecting he won't have to do that, but the ukrainians won't be able to hot on to the ukraine in the east. there was talk maybe they would do it. i know you're not a market guy why don't we, the general population know exactly what's happening on the border. we had arthritis 50ier looking at pickup trucks in cuba. >> most people don't care, actually. take a look, the general public does not care much about the argentine default. nobody wants to pay any attention to what's happen in the ukraine right now. >> i think you may a good point. there doesn't seem to be an appetite to

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and military analyst colonel jack jacobs. thank you all for being here. ed, as we've learned from past involvement in the middle east, there can be unintended consequences of helping one group over another amid regional conflict, consequences which can then come back to work against our interests. what are possible unintended consequences of striking isis? >> thank you for your question, jonathan. i think the most important unintended consequence for striking isis would be the narrative of isis we would end up strengthening. isis and al qaeda and a whole other of ideologically similar groups -- this is about ideology more than operations -- want nothing more than to draw in the united states and its allies, by allies i mean the europeans in particular to this context and to this conflict, allowing them to then say the islamic state was destroyed again by the west because they hark back to 1924, they hark back to previous islamic states, 24 being the destruction of the caliphate in turkey. allegedly that was destroyed by the west. whether that's true or no

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colonel jack jacobs joins us on the phone. nice to talk to you. for an active shooter on a u.s. military base? >> the base is locked down, which is not difficult to do since there is restricted access into and out of a military post. there is some training areas which are easy to infiltrate, but they're usually typically far away from the central part of the post is and where the incident was. and in any case, fort lee doesn't have wide spread training area. it's relatively easy to lock down a military installation. then the place is isolated where the accident occurs. that's easy to do because there are quite a few military police within the installation. and the incident area is extremely easy to isolate. locking down is pretty simple to do. there's a series of protocols that reinvolve aroun

i'll start with you, jack jacobs. what is under consideration tactically right now? >> everybody has been talking about the requirement to drop food and water on to this site. or maybe conducting air strikes on the isis soldiers who are at the base of the mountain. but you can't do one without the other. we're not going to subject aircraft to the vaguearies of enemy fighters on the ground without first neutralizing all the soldiers, as many of the enemy soldiers as we can at the base of the mountain, whether dropping it by parachute or low level extraction or other means of bringing food and water down there, there are going to be air strikes on the enemy soldiers surrounding the mountain. we may not do the air strikes. we'll certainly control them if we're going to do the humanitarian drop. it may be the iraqi air force that will conduct the strikes. >> andrea, we've been looking at isis fighters sweep the kurdish parts of iraq quite successfully in recent days. the kurds have been pleading for more assistance but seems like the white house has been reluctant to get

let's bring in chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski and colonel jack jacobs.l us what you know. >> reporter: well, the general and more than a dozen other american soldiers had gone to that defense university for a meeting with afghan officials. there were

i'm joined by retired colonel jack jacobs and steve clemens stuck around from the beginning of the showenough to stop isis's advance? a continued prolong attack. would that do it? >> yeah, it would. but there will be lots more. you have to get concentrations of isis troops, artillery pieces, mortars, trucks, convoys like we have seen. but lots and lots of them. that's the only way you will take the pressure off irbil. even though it's only a temporary fix. >> can you put in perspective how strong an enemy they are and how well armed they are? >> ironically, they're not all that big. there are 15,000 or 20,000 of them. they have lots of money and lots of weapons captured by the iraqis and supplied by the united states. so they have sophisticated weapons for a ground offensive. >> how about in approximate terms of weaponry. do they have enough to bring down a u.s. plane? >> it reported they have stinger missiles, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. but those have a relatively short slant from where you shoot to where it explodes is relatively short. these bombs, precision guided muniti

let's bring in military analyst retired colonel jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient also.h a welcome to you. what kristen is describing is the president having to look at a coalition and putting that all together. isn't that the right strategy going forward? the united states certainly cannot and does not want to go this alone. >> it is the right strategy. but trying to put a coalition together will be devilishly difficult. europe is morality risk. they have more of their people in syria. they have a much larger muslin population across europe. trying to get them to participate, however, will be much more difficult than just making a unilateral decision to do something. in addition to that, we also have the arabs. they have something to say about this. they're involve. they should be involved. and they're also at risk. we can't seem to get their attention either. going alone, bad. trying to get all our potential allies on our side, it will be extremely difficult for us to do that. >> from what we know of isis, what are some of the potential military options without underta

ambassador ginsburg, colonel jack jacobs, always good to talk to you both.d perspective from both of you. enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend. >> thank you, t.j. >> we're about ten minutes past the hour. >>> now, the showdown between russia and ukraine. just learned that the european union could be getting closer to issuing new sanctions on russia. eu leaders are meeting in brussels right now where ukraine's president warned his country could be on the verge of all-out war with russia. >> thousands of foreign troops and hundreds of the foreign tanks now on the territory of ukraine. a very high risk. not only for the peace and stability for ukraine, but for the whole stability in europe. >> nbc's moscow producer is with me now. how is russia reacting to what we're getting with the eu right now? >> t.j., good evening. russians don't seem to be worried about the sanctions. we don't know what the sanctions are going to be, after all. the previous sanctions have not seemed to hit russians particularly hard. the russian government has seemed unfazed and said, w

. >> colonel jack jacobs, and jornl eric thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you, jose. good day. >> thank you. >>> let's zoom through some of today's other top stories. >>> two tea party loss in primaries across the country. pat roberts fended off a challenger from mark wolf and two lesser known candidates. senator is expected to win a fourth term in november. in michigan tea party incumbent kerry bentivolo got trounced by trott in the republican leading district. >>> a missouri man executed for the 1995 murder and rape of a college student. he was pronounced dead shortly after midnight. the execution is the first one since the lethal injection took nearly two hours to kill an inmate in arizona last month. he's seventh missouri inmate executed this year. >>> hawaii residents and tourists are keeping a cles eye on two major storms. it could hit the island chain this week. hurricane iselle expected to weaken before it hits tomorrow and julio is behind it. the last time was 1982 who back to back hurricanes hit. >> my hometown and known for the beautiful beaches and people

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. >> mik, i want to bring in colonel jack jacobs who is watching this somber dignified transfer. colonel jacobs, what are your thoughts? what is the symbolism behind what we're witnessing right now? >> well, we've always talked continuously about treating our men and women in uniform with respect. that's why it was interesting that it took such a long time for the defense department to come to the agreement that we need to be able to show the return of our heroes, our fallen, because they are treated with respect. it's important that we do this so we don't forget what they have done not only for us but for other people who are seeking freedom. we should keep remembering what they have done for the united states of america. as you can see, they call it a dignified transfer. it is very, very dignified and it brings to light the somberness with which we accept the fallen. >> and we see general odiarno there. this is a military family. this is moments ago, by the way, what we're witnessing. we're just replaying this dignified transfer. in fact let's just watch for a few seconds. the

joining me here in the stud owe is military analyst colonel jack jacobs. a pleasure to have you back even under the dark circumstances. you have history of green on blue attacks. you were a military adviser in vietnam. do you see similarities of there and the ones here in afghanistan? >> they seem to be a lot different. there were occasional 0 tacks like this in vietnam. i spent a couple of tours as an adviser. they were very, very rare. and they were always in my recollection always the result of some disgruntled soldier responding to a real or imagined slight, not getting paid, being owed money from another soldier and so on. and never the result of having a vietcong who was a plant in the unit. this is a little bit different in afghanistan where you have a free flow of people, you have jihadis attempting to attack both -- coalition soldiers, afghan soldiers and so on. it's not entirely clear that this is what this is. it may be an afghan soldier responding to some real or imagine slight, and doing something really dastardly. the atmosphere is very much

colonel jack jacobs was on alex witt yesterday and said something quite alarming. take a listen. >> sending troops in there will be good tactically, but strategically, the only thing that makes any sense is to go there and stay there. we left precipitously and left an iraqi army not willing to serve the iraqi government, which was weak and corrupt, and so if we want to do something to have a lasting impact, it's going to be something nobody really wants to do. certainly not politically. that's go there in force, get rid of isis, and stay there for a long period of time. >> shane, the only way to control this is going all in. again, what do you make of that? >> i think he's probably correct in the long term. you're really not going to repel this group as a force simply with air strikes. interestingly, already we're seeing the question being asked in afghanistan. should we be reconsidering drawing down our troop levels there so we don't repeat the situation? iraq? if you're going to control isis long term, you're not going to do it simply with air strikes. >> shane h

joining me here in the studio is nbc analyst journal jack jacobs. matthew, do we know at this point whether or not this truly was an afghan soldier or someone who had stole an uniform? >> we have no reason to believe he was anything but an afghan soldier. this is not the first time this has happened. it's happened dozens of times. the widespread belief among afghan officials and coalition officials and american officials is that in almost the propond rans of cases, these are afghans who have grown disgruntled, alienated, and frustrated at the foreign presence in their country and have turned their guns on their foreign counterparts. some of them have reached out to the taliban before doing so and said, sure, you know, you can come join us after you do it, those who escape. but in very rare cases has it been a taliban plant or a guy who wandered in. it's hard to imagine some random guy put on a uniform and wandered into the military academy with a loaded weapon and was able to do this. >> the only event that's taken place in the last few weeks that w

. >>> we were just talking about colonel jack jacobs, a medal of honor recipient and msnbc military and list. >> which we still allow you here anyway. >> that sounds like an oxymoron. >> i almost had a show my passport to get in here. you were talking about interest rates, and you were talking about risk, but one of the big problems with low interest rates is that you have a lot of organizations like pension funds and insurance companies who are having a hard time. >> terrible. >> imagine that. >> there are people who say as long as cop rations have low interest rates, that i will just buy back stock and don't want to invest in the future. >> what is scary about the investmentis they say we should use a regulation to solve these systemic issues, which is like regulation has ever worked to deal wall this. >> michelle, they also say in the absence of another $800 billion stimulus program that worked so well lining the unions and congress passing more stimulus, so to continually redistribute you need the fed to do the redistribution instead of congress. >> anyway, did you win the medal of

. >> jack jacobs is a u.s. military affairs and he has two purple hearts. colonel jacobs, good morning. >> good morning. >> can the u.s. protect with air strikes alone? if not, what is the next move? >> the short answer is yes. not without a few 500-pound bombs. you saw in the report, that's not going to do anything. what they have to do is target concentrations of isis troops and their weapons and do it in a continuous way. i don't think we have the stomach for doing even that. that means erbil will be under great stress. >> could we be looking at an evacuation of erbil? >> yes. the short answer is yes. if we are unsuccessful in protecting erbil, if there's a continued evacuation of erbil by the people defending it, i think you are liable to see something awful, that is an evacuation of a large number of americans there. we have a consulate there and contractors, trainers. they are going to have to be evacuated at some juncture. the way to avoid that is keep the pressure on isis and we don't demonstrate we have the guts to do. >> you know this better than

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. >> unfortunate reality, colonel jack jacobs, thank you. >>> we remain resilient to the tensions ine east. we have eukraine to consider. we are 2% away from the record highs on the s&p. joining us now the ceo of principle global investors, has more than $320 billion in assets under management. jim, good morning. >> good morning, good to be here. >> there is a flight to quality here if you look at the bond market. >> yes. >> it was depressed for the reasons noted, the yield below 2.4%. why is the equity market not suffering? >> i think it's not suffering because in spite of the negative news over the last few weeks, u.s. private sector continues to do well, and the u.s. equity market held up in the last two weeks better than other markets in the world, and i think this is driven by the well-known positives in the u.s. market, that's cheap energy, productivity, innovation, and the housing market. so in spite of the height in geopolitical tension and growth slow down in emerging markets in europe, i think the u.s. market is okay. if it were not for the geopolitical tension and the grow

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. >> here with me in new york is colonel jack jacobs and joining me from london is ed hussain., both, for being here. >> thank you, melissa. >> ed, i do want to start with with you. help us to understand the land space that is currently controlled by isis. how vast it is and how strategic and how resource rich. >> it's resource rich in the sense, melissa, that they've gone out of their way to target oil installations. it's oil rich in the sense that it has airports. it is resource rich that it is fertile territory and strategically important because it is on the eastern most part of syria and western most part of iraq and, most importantly, it's important to them because it's in the middle east. it is not as was previously the conflict zone in bosnia or chechnya. this is in the heart of the middle east and exactly where they wanted the and wanted to have a presence in the heart of the middle east and not far from israel and saudi arabia and turkey. so, their choice of this location is not accidental. what's more worrying is what you just alluded to, melissa. the appeal of that

bring in now for his thoughts on the best and worst case medal of hon for recipient and colonel jack jacobsgood to see you on set. where is this heading? are we approaching an inevitable scenario where bother on the ground of some kind are going to have to happen? >> we already have them. we have had before this 130 evaluators showed up. we have special operation forces oak, have had for a long, long time. don't forget we put airstrikes in the north and you really can't do that unless you have coordination on the ground with forces-on-on the ground and so on. now we have another 130. i think the president is not lying when he says we will not have what he says bother on the ground, that is the second armored 82nd air boernborn division to actually go and fight isis. i think we will have an increased presence of various types including advisors to be with peshmurga and assist them in their fighting of isis. >> we have no choice at this point. for a longer-term strategy let's say al-maliki gets out of the way. which maybe it looks finally leak he may do that. can the iraqis organize themselve

oliver, jack, harry, jacob, charlie, thomas. elizabeth is a senior sta activitian.just saw some of the names there. what's the trend this year? >> the top ten names have been stable. it was harry last year, but he's been knocked off by ol verse. in the boys' top ten, george has come in and oscar for the first time. more and more names have landed on the list. this year you have over 27 different boys names and 35 girls' names. >> what are some of the more interesting names that you've heard? >> there's quite a lot of interesting names out there. some people use really short names. for boys, qi. >> qi, like q-i? opposite of i-q. we also have traditional names coming back, some of the girls now in the top hundred again are names like darcy and beatrice coming back in again. >> you have one called george and one called qi. >> and people taking more the older names and bringing them forward now. does that have to do with where we are as a society or -- i mean, these go through cycles, right? >> yeah. i think there are trends in names, go up there and come back again. >>

who better to ask than jack jacobs? he was rolling his eyes when i asked scott about getting up early. you used to sleep -- yeah. >> you would be up and watch all night long. >> you'd be out on a patrol, come back, go to sleep. invariably get to sleep for about 45 minutes before somebody is attacked at base camp and you have to fight all night. not a great deal of fun. >> scott and i are looking at each other -- >> we play ping ball. >> yeah, it's a little more serious. >> but if you see sleep, you can't even get to sleep in the thatter? >> oh, yeah. a lot of times if you went to ranger school, for example, you would be out on a five-day patrol with extensively no sleep. you would have to make sure the count got sent up to make sure you had everybody. >> and might be must be shooting bullets at you every minute? >> that's the kind -- talking about the guy who was supposed to be watching is falling asleep and you see the guy coming through and he missed. >> nothing will get your attention and wake you up more quickly tha

. >> standing by at the pentagon, i want to return to retired colonel jack jacobs on the phone.was a time in 2012 where afghan soldiers would turn on the coalition forces trying to train them. it was quite common, have become more rare. our withdrawal of the troops of afghanistan is predicated on training these afghan forces. >> i spent time in vietnam as an advisor. there were incidents from time to time with soldiers turning on their own troops or advisors. it happened very rarely. almost never was it a function of the soldiers being complacent. that's probably here. frequently these things happen as a result of troops being annoyed that their assignments or not getting paid or just some personal animosity and rarely a function of there being a plant from the other side. it's very disturbing in any case. particularly so since we've spent a great deal of time and money training these troops. >> a sad story we hear about a terrible attack at a military academy in afghanistan. a high ranking army general among the dead this morning. return now to programming. residents are told t

jacob was still there. balding and potbelly. >> host: are we all at some point? >> guest: i want him to show them the animals because he had a red squirrel, tarantula, jack dempsey fish, all these things. he said oh, we had to get rid of those things a long time ago. >> host: did you have a relationship with your father? >> guest: not a strong relationship. we would see them periodically. the last time muslim was the day i got married 39 years ago. >> host: did the second, he had, did you have a relationship with those half-brothers come half-sisters? >> guest: no. >> host: did you ever forgive in? >> guest: absolutely. i kind of look at the big picture. my mother tried to make up for all that. and my father, you know, he was involved with drugs, alcohol, women. nothing wrong with women but you can't have more than one, okay? that's the problem. that probably would not have been the best influence on me. in retrospect even though i was devastated as a kid, i was praying let him come back, now i realize that perhaps it would not have been the best thing for me. >> host: detroit today, what would you be doing? >> guest: first of all, the same thing i would be doin