2014 Shepard News Today

Voted -- who voted yes? >> heres who i have. alexander of tennessee, retiring, johnny isaac son of georgia. lisa murkowski, republican of alaska, a moderate. susan collins, republican of maine and cory gardner from colorado. the politics in colorado have swung since he was first elected as a freshman in 2014. >> shepard: so those defections, can we expect that at some point there might be more? if you get to 60, you can get something done. >> again, the math is the math. they got to 52. a long s...

These young men have been at war for 30 years in some cases or at least their country has. so its all of those things which makes it complex. >> general dempsey told me that even with this rise in insider attacks there is no plan to change the withdrawal timetable which will have u.s. troops down to 68,000 at the end of september and out of afghanistan for the most part at the end of 2014. shepard? >> shepard: jennifer griffin live at bag gram air base in afghanistan. denied claims from wikileak...

A family of four. those experts say poverty is on the rise in suburban, america where its already at record levels. we wont get the official levels will until the government releases the census this fall when those figure could say play a huge role in the november presidential election. how big a jump are we talking about here. >> well in 2010 it was 125.1% of americans living in port it could go to 15.7%. most likely come in at 15.2. this is a record you dont want to set. this takes us back to ...

Media attention it. by and large they think the taliban has been contained and the afghan security forces are standing up quicker than expected and that would enable u.s. combat troops to get out in 2014. >> shepard: some touted getting out too soon. according to the president last night when our agreement is up, we will have been there about 24 years and the polls suggest the vast majority of americans want us out yesterday. >> it does. latest fox news poll just in recent days suggest that some...

Insurgents and holding the territory and building it up and the president is considered a proposal to increase the size of the afghanistan security force by 30,000 and that is the afghan security force which lawmakers who just returned from the region say it is important if u.s. service men and women are to get out by the end of 2014. >>shepard: live at the white house, thank you very much. snowy day like this is a great one to kickback and watch a movie at home but if you got it from a brick an...