to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue when you look around at the forested melton's that we have a recent environmental impact statement from the e.p.a. estimates over eight hundred square miles of mountains of already been destroyed this includes the permanent destruction of over four hundred fifty individual mountain summits across the region the report also indicates the permanent loss of over twelve hundred miles of mountain streams. although federal regulations for mine reclamation require that mountaintop removal sites be returned to their original contour these mines are routinely granted wavers mined areas are typically graded and then hydro seeded with less bodies or grass which clings to the compacted shale and rock that now makes up the topsoil nature builds soil for free but she creates the soil very slowly and so you're talking about thousands of years to go from something like a rock mass that has essentially no soil just a very thin covering up to generate a few centimeters of soil you're talking about hundreds to thousands and tens of thousands of yea

ken melton, the acting director of the atf says other agencies were heavily involved in the sting operatione hands of mexican drug cartels and that holder has tried to muzzle his testimony. an appeals court rules the ban on gays in the military must end immediately. the pentagon is well on its way to doing that anyway. activists say the ruling will force the charges until the process is complete. let's head over to steve. >> thank you very much, gretch. our next guest is credited with successful political campaigns against both republicans and democrats but has he ever seen anything like media matters waging war against fox news and our parent company newscorp? fox news contributor and author of "revolt" dick morris joins us from connecticut. good morning to you, dick. >> i've seen it, steve, but not in the united states. in argentina, the kirshna government, the government has gone after a news organization in the form of communist countries, you see it all the time but the spectacle of an organization that is tax exempt, using its money largely donated by soros and a few left wingers to t