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And so were going to have to remain helpful in encouraging pakistan to move towards a more stable government and rebuild a relationship with us. that means that our aid that we provide to pakistan is going to have to be conditioned upon certain bench marks being met. so, for me, i look at this as both a need to help move pakistan in the right direction and also to get afghanistan to be ready and they will be ready by the end of 2014. >> mr. president? >> when i came into office, we were still bo...

Would be of extraordinary danger to afghanistan and to us. and so were going to have to remain helpful in encouraging pakistan to move towards a more stable government. and rebuild a relationship with us. and that means that our aid that we provide to pakistan is going to have to be conditioned upon certain bench marks being met. so for me i look at this as both a need to help move pakistan in the right direction and also to get afghanistan to be ready, and they will be ready by the end of 2014....

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Where he was living. are there things that we want pakistan to do or to promise to help us wind down in afghanistan that they might be more likely to do now because they have been through this fiasco? >> i think both sides need to sort of get the terms of their next relationship together. i have to say that the white house is probably pushing them hard on coming forward on which agents if any helped bin laden. but the bench marks for us publicly is will we say ayman al zawahiri wrapped up. will ...

Where he was living. are there things that we want pakistan to do or to promise to help us wind down in afghanistan that they might be more likely to do now because they have been through this fiasco? >> i think both sides need to sort of get the terms of their next relationship together. i have to say that the white house is probably pushing them hard on coming forward on which agents if any helped bin laden. but the bench marks for us publicly is will we see ayman al zawahiri wrapped up. will ...

They there now is becoming a difference of opinion within the democratic party. as you point out, that 102 no votes recently this summer was quite a leap from the 30-some that initially opposed spending the money in afghanistan. you also have leaders such as senator john kerry of has mass saying they are extremely concerned about corruption over there. and he wants to see president karzai step up and be much more forceful in terms of corruption at virtually every level in that country. you see m...

Military man in the u.s. congress, seeing what happened didnt go the way we wanted it to, knowing what is at stake, going into kandahar, and what decision do you think you would make? >> i dont know what i would make. im going to be up front about that. i served at the national security council for president clinton. i saw decisions being made to almost go to war with north korea. we moved carriers off of taiwan and we went into bosnia. until you sit in that seat, all of us out here can say what...

Nasa and say create the architecture, the bench marks and the destinations that were going en route to mars. >> senator, weve got to shift gears quickly. i have to ask you, this week the big week house voting on the senate health care bill. are you happy with the bill as it stands and do you expect it to pass bit weekend? >> yes. i was part of the senate finance committee version. the senate pass bill is mainly the senate finance version. and i hope the house will take it up and pass it. and the...

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