host: back in 2007, you talked to peter slen of this network and i want to run a short clip. >> a group of us crossed the border and were trying to get to the capital, kabul, in a convoy of cars and the car closest to us was probably 500 yards ahead on the highway. we really couldn't see it very well. but all of a sudden we saw commotion going on, we heard sounds and saw dust and all of a sudden the driver came around and was rushing back towards us in the car and screaming at us that we should leave so we all turned around and followed him back at 100 miles an hour to the town we'd come from and then he got out of the car and told us that gunmen appeared out of the hills and had shot to death his two passengers who were both foreign journalists and the two passengers in the car ahead of him that were also foreign journalists and if we hadn't been 500 yards behind them, i'm pretty sure we wouldn't be here today. host: what was your reaction when that happened? how did you feel about that? is that the only time that you've come close to getting blown up over there? guest: i've had a numb

peter slen >> caller: when they tried to keep bore off the ballot. >> guest: i was living in new yorkd i don't remember. proceed. >> caller: two questions. one about social security payments and the other about herman cain. my wife and i are entering retirement and i keep hearing social security is an entitlement. we paid funds into social security in six figures for the last 40 years and i keep hearing that social security is an entitlement and that is our money. social security payments are entitled an, so our car payments and blue cross payments and all that. i don't understand -- >> guest: i can explain. the difference is one was paid to the government and you should never trust the government because they weren't doing something safe with your money like putting it under a mattress. they weren't investing it. they were not -- they were spending it as it came in. right now, medicare recipients are already receiving it now three times when they put in. the pending how long you live you will in theory got a lot more out of social security than you paid in yen and as for government h