messy process as we've seen. >> host: we're talking with long time war reporters, greg myre, jennifer griffin. jennifer i understand you were just back from afghanistan. is that right? >> guest: yes, i was travel actually with afghanistan with defense secretary robert gates and it was at the time when they were deciding what to do with libya and we were hearing a lot -- behind the scenes a lot of the cons against getting involved. i mean, secretary gates has a long history and a relationship with libya because he was deputy director of the cia in the 80s when president ronald reagan tried to -- stride to strike against gadhafi. gadhafi survived in the '80s and secretary gates was to caution against regime change about how difficult it was and you've heard in miss speech one of the firm lands he drew in the sound is no ground troops in african or middle east country. he gave a famous speech in west point talking about how that would be foolhardy and he also cautioned the other day on capitol hill that regime change often takes 10 years as we've seen in iraq. and that is a costly and very diffi

>> jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. >>> today is the 67th anniversary of the d-day invasion. senator john kerry joined other veterans in commemorating the landings in normandy, france. >>> next up, the top story at the bottom of the hour. reaction to the comments and the apology from representative anthony weiner. @@ >> bret: no grapevine tonight. the top story at the bottom of the hour, new york democratic congressman anthony weiner today confessed he had inappropriate exchanges with women online. weiner maintained, however, he sees no reason to resign. let's go back to new york to get update from senior correspondent eric shawn who is at the news conference. good evening, again. eric? >> hello, bret. he stood there for an hour taking all the reporters' questions. congressman anthony weiner was clearly humiliated, embarrassed, contrite and tierful, choking up when he talked about his wife huma who has been married to for less than a year. he said what he did on the internet was dumb, self-destructive and he

. >> next on book tv jennifer griffin and greg appeared on c-span's washington journal to talk about their new book, this burning land and take questions from viewers. this is about 45 minutes. >> we are back with husband and wife reporting team the senior editor at national public radio, co-author of the new book by the husband and wife team this burning lamp lessons from the front when it to transform the israeli-palestinian conflict anr jennifer griffin national security correspondent fox news panel of course the co-author of the book as well. let me begin with b you. let's start with why the conflict continues today. >> guest: it's been going on tenures ago, they were close to an agreement. but they have worked backwards -- 10 years ago, they were close to an agreement. we wanted to emphasize how they dug a deeper hole for themselves. hamas is in control of gaza. relish solomons have expanded from 100,000 to 300,000 today so. a lot of the problems have multiplied and become even larger. that is one thing we wanted to emphasize. it's a deepening of the conflict. >> this includes y

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our national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon tonight.ow about the president's condition here. president saleh? >> we know it's a lot worse than first reported. the burns are essentially on his head, face, and neck, as well as his chest. it's a little under half of his body was burned in the attack. we understand that the attack was the result of a rocket as well as a bomb that exploded inside the mosque at the presidential compound. he reportedly has some swelling on the brain. he has undergone a series of operations in saudi arabia. first the vice president said he would be back in a matter of days inside yemen. that doesn't look like that's going to be the case, shep. >> shepard: there is enormous power struggle going on there how is this effecting that. >> what is happening is there is more violence breaking out in the southern part of the country. in particular the government forces claim to have killed 30 islamic radicals in the southern town and they also called in air strikes on that area taken over by islamic radicals and sympath