Afghan Dees News Today

Cancellation of a joint news conference with the new secretary of defense, chuck hagel, that was expected tonight centerpiece of hagels first foreign trip. haig did his best to explain the cancellation. i told the president it was not true that the united states was unilaterally working with the taliban in trying to negotiate anything. i was once a politician, so i can understand the kind of pressures that especially leaders of countries are always under. >> hagel was trying to make a point that...