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Talked about nato funding on the campaign trail a lot, interesting to see him talking about it in front of the leaders there. >> something thats kind of a big misperception that hes propagating which is its not as if -- if heez kthese countries their 2% marks its not as if the u.s. would have to pay less. the united states pays what it wants because we want to have the worlds most powerful military. we want to dominate in asia, we want to dominate in the seven seas and the arctic and the antarct...

Run. and garth brooks set to outset elvis presley in digital sales. he will sell it through his web site as early as this week. industry experts estimate sales will shoot way past the 134 million albums elvis sold to date. next after that, elvis costello. 1,000 national guard troops are headed to the border with texas and mexico. but not because the president has ordered them. texas governor rick perry yesterday taking the border crisis into his own hands while the president sits idly by. new ...

Supplies to american and nato troops in afghanistan crossed the pakistani border for the first time in seven months. they cannot apologize for the american airstrikes that killed border troops in november. >> the wikileaks website says its publishing 2 million e-mails related to syria. the group says the files will embarrass not only damascus, but also the opponents. amateur video shows more shelling damage in city of home homs. up next, lawmaker says dont mess with texas over voter i.d. laws. t...

Credit for ordering those strikes just so close to the time that pakistans parliament said, dont even think about it? >> well its, this is a very complex. we could spend the rest of the day talking about this but i do give the president, the administration credit for uping the quota. for increasing the drone strikes, really since 2009. in part though when youre sitting in that big guys chair around reading classified briefs and looking at the realities you would be hard-pressed to find a lot of ...

syria. tell us what you know about where they went and what theyre seeing. >> reporter: isha, we heard today they went to the city of homs where we heard reports of increasing violence, deaths and injuries the past few days. there were videos purporting to show members of the arab league in homs today. one video purports to show the head of the mission being shown remnants of weapons there by residents in the city. another video purports to show the members of the delegation there with...

>> im curious if you think pakistan might just be posturing for its public and behind the scenes keeping good relations with the u.s. >> well, this may be real bluster. among other things, the pakistani intelligence chief has offered to resign. so they know that theyve got an internal problem with terrorism far aside from any problem that they have with the united states. >> does pakistan have any leverage? i mean, look at how much money the u.s. sends it annually. >> well, it has leverage if it...

Whether those are security forces, border troops or the military. so what youre going to see is that some units wont be replaced. some units will shift. so all of that will be done at a very operational and tactical level. so where pressure must be applied to the enemy, it will continue to be applied to the enemy with u.s. faces as well as afghan faces. >> is the afghan government and its institutions ready for this change? >> the argument would be absolutely not. they are not completely on boar...