troops, colonel mccullough says the taliban would return in a matter of days. >> a lot of marines i talkistinction between big "t" taliban and little "t." what's big "t" taliban? >> enablers, people in contact with people from pakistan, arabs, chechens. they're the hardcore. >> reporter: the believers? >> right. >> reporter: little "t" are more opportunists? >> well, they're somebody that lives here that doesn't have a very good life. never had an education. is he really a long-term threat to stability? i don't believe he is. neither does the government. neither does the district administrator. >> reporter: you can co-op little "t" taliban just as was done in iraq with former insurgents? >> sure. >> reporter: you think that can work here? >> it has to work. how do you end the war if you don't -- if there's no place for the former fighters to go, how do you end it? >> reporter: how do you end the war in afghanistan? if what's happening here is any indication, the answer may lie in winning the peace. it is a very fragile peace, however, as you heard in that piece. the marines will say in a

but for noah mccullough, studying the past is a passion. he's been into history, since he started reading. >> i got interested in presidential history when i was 5 years old during the 2000 election. >> reporter: noah wanted to know more about the candidates before he voted in a mock election at school. >> what will bush do about this? what will gore do about this? >> reporter: soon noah was researching every man who's held the presidential office. and by age 11, he wrote his first book. which is "the essential book of presidential trivia." now noah has a second book about the littlest people who live in the white house. >> i thought that that would be really cool to have a book that's interesting about something that we've all kind of wondered, what's it like to be the child of the president? >> reporter: according to "first kids" - living in the white house didn't stop our presidents' children from acting their age. >> there were a lot of interesting stories like the time when one of the theodore roosevelt children brought their pony algo

kurt stahl, who has been traveling with us all week, as well as lieutenant bill mccu mccullough and every man and woman serving in the armed forces. thanks for watching. >>> tonight kathy griffin kwesz. secret family dysfunction. >> when i was a little girl, he was very sexually inappropriate with me. >> and a deep down desire to look like kate gosselin. does she really believe this book will sell better than the bible? the queen of the bee list tells it like it is right now, right here on larry king live. >>> she's the only winning star of bravo's "my life on the bee list" and the author of "a memoir according to kathy griffin" -- wait a minute, a memoir according to you? it's your memoir? >> i can't remember if i had my liposuction this month or that month -->> larr larr >>>> larry:. >> has oprah said that? >> yep. >> when did she say that, kathy? when did she say that, kathy? >> all right, look, it hasn't been chosen for the oprah book club. sue me. >> larry: i'm sure she will. >> people who watch this show read? larry, this is a dream come true. >> larry: your book has oprah-type them

troops colonel mccullough says the taliban would return in a matter of days.f marines i talked to make a distinction between big "t" taliban and little "t." what's the big "t" taliban? >> enablers that are in contact with people from pakistan, arabs, chechens. >> reporter: they are the hard core fighters, believers and little can t little "t" tabl are what? >> lived here all their life, never had an education. is he a long-term threat to stability? i don't believe he s.neither does the governor or the district ability. >> reporter: you can co-opt little "t" tabl just as was done in iraq with former insurgents? >> yes. >> reporter: you think that has to be done here? >> how do you end the war -- if there's no place for the former fighters to go, how do you end it? >> reporter: how do you end the war in afghanistan? if what's happening here is any indication, the answer may lie in winning the peace. >> that is a group of reporting and we can see more of anderson's reporting tonight on cnn and "ac 360," a special report inside afghanistan live from the battle zon

curt staal and bill mccullough and all the men and women of the first battalion fifth marines for their service and hospitality. thanks for watching. >> larry: tonight judge judy is outraged. that rapist phillip garrido was left out of prison. free to allegedly snatch jaycee dugard off the street are and keep her locked in a shed for 18 years. tv's tough talker puts sex offenders on notice. they'll be behind bars forever if she has her way. plus exclusive, the police detective's daughter who was kidnapped and murdered, she dialed 911 from the killer's own phone. a witness who knew she was in trouble made another frantic call. why didn't police find denise lee before it was too late? her husband speaks publicly for the first time since her murder trial, the heartbreaking crime that left two children without a mother and could send a monster to the chair, next on "larry king live." >> larry: good evening, one reminder following the president's speech tomorrow to both elements of congress, we will follow it with a major panel discussion, that's following president obama's health speech tom

lieutenant kurt stahl who's been traveling with us all week as well as lieutenant colonel bill mccullough and all the men and women of the 1st battalion 5th marines. thank them for their service and also their hospitality. thanks for watching. >> larry: tonight, a former charles manson follower who was there when the brutal crimes were committed breaks her silence. >> i was told to go get a change of clothing, a knife, my driver's license. >> larry: about the murders that shocked a country and the mad man who ordered them. >> i started hearing like horrible screams. >> larry: plus an exclusive with sharon tate's sister. she was there as the woman who savagely stabbed the actress and her unborn baby without mercy was denied parole. deborah tate tells us why susan atkins should die behind bars, next on "larry king live." we have a fascinating hour ahead an in-depth look at the manson family's reign of terror four decades ago. before we get to our exclusive guests, including a former manson follower, here's a look at charles manson and his so-called family. >> one of the reasons i don't want

lieutenant colonel bill mccullough tells them marines will be here at least until next summer but beyond promise. so a lot of people are not willing to choose sides. >> they're waiting for a little more bona fides from us that we are here to stay. that's what we're trying to develop here. they trust us, they trust their own government and once these folks pick sides and say, you know, we're with the government, i believe that is -- it's not a win, but it's a sign that we're winning. >> signs of winning are hard to find. i can tell you that. 12 to 18 months. that's what the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says the u.s. has to turn this war around. the window is short. time is running out. what happens if that doesn't happen? let's talk to national security analyst peter bergen who is here us here in patrol base jaker. it is amazing when you think about it. the amount of resources and time and effort being put into basically convincing a small number of afghans to support their own government. >> well, you know, to support -- the support for the taliban is actually pretty low, anders

senator kennedy was a big fan of david mccullough's work. and he wanted this book to have that same kind of historical richness. i think it does, actually. in working on a book he had quite a lot to draw upon. he has been taking notes for 50 years. axillar longer than that. we actually had no to that it took notes when he was 7 years old, he dictated them to his governess after he received his first communion, which was from the pope at the vatican. in 1960, when he was campaigning for jack to, first president to campaign, -- after every meeting he had with a major leader or unborn trip, he would take notes and he was dubious and diligent about we had over 50 years of notes which i had the privilege of reading. he also participated in an oral history project at the university of virginia. i believe he was the first senator to be part of this very extensive oral history project. so, there were thousands of pages of documents that we were able to work from. and in addition to that, to collaborate on the project, ron powers and i met with senat

to cover life-saving medical treatment threaten the company's medical loss and investors want mccullough'size to maximize profits, pure and simple. the fact is that in america today you don't know if your health insurance will take care of your bills until you become seriously ill or injured. by then it is too late to shop around. you buy health insurance on blind faith coverage will be afforded when you need it. but you receive no guarantee from private health insurance especially if you get very sick. and that contradicts the purpose of health insurance in the first place. to spread the cost of illness especially serious illness requiring specific care. we will hear today how the private health insurance bureaucrats become more sophisticated that denying extensive treatment and more effective wearing down doctors and patients, conditioning them to choose to pay for the treatment themselves or to go without rather than insist their insurer pay. in the business of private health insurance, corporate bureaucrats may put profits before people thereby becoming as noxious as disease itself. su

david mccullough and i talked about david mccalla and john adams tching a group of teachers is one example. that turned to what would ted kennedy do to find an propriate place to honor john adams in washington, d.c., and that was another pie of unfinished busins that ted kennedy left that others of us will have to continue to work on. that's why he got alo so well here. when he cast his 1,500th vote, i remember sing tt the sureired way to bring a republican audience to his speech was to make a speech against high taxes, against more federal control and against ted kennedy and he laughed that great, big laugh of his. but it was true. but almost everyone on this side will say that there was no one on that side who we would rather work with on a specific piece of legislation because no matter how much we might disagree with him, and we certainly did on many issues, when it got to the point where itas time to decide, can we do something, he was ready to do something and his word was good and his ability to -- to help pass an important -- an important piece of legislation was un-- unquestioned.

david mccullough brings life and vividness and color into the story.ou do not want to put his book down even though it is 1000 pages in some cases. and then it makes you, and i am speaking for myself, you want to read collateral works. you want to know not only about john adams, and harry truman, but their contemporaries. i like the work of robert mann who wrote a book called "the walls of jericho." it was about the fight for civil rights of discussion through 1965. he then did a more recent book. he has done an abridgement of that book for classroom use. he did a more recent book. >> anybody else? >> i like, in terms of institutional history, i like my friend ross baker up at rutgers university who has written two good books on the senate. one was called "friend and foe in the senate." it was about the nature of friendship and the senate. he did a lot of interviews. he does not say who did what. they got into the institution. he did another book for flasch reviews called "house and senate." i like the writings of barbara sinclair, of ucla. she is a po