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So what are you seeing that isnt getting out? >> what i see is a mixed picture with some signs of progress. what gets out is the negative picture almost exclusively. actually, theres some positive indicators, too. weve been doing a very good job, our special forces, of capturing taliban leaders. you hear that theres an increased number of american casualties, and there are. an increased number of afghan army casualties, and there are. >> and there will be continued to be increased numbers of u.s...

Back, but they dont want to be left in a lurch. they dont know what to do right now. theyre not sure about our commitment. theyre not sure we can beat the taliban. theyd like us to beat them. so next summer hopefully we can show that kandahar has changed. that weve got better governance and the taliban has been cleared and the city is on its road to recovery. >> when you look at afghanistan, we went in there to get al qaeda. now were in there building governance, all that kind of stuff. is that ...

That a lot of them cant even read the manual for shooting -- for the rifles and the guns. so what are you seeing that isnt kind of getting out? >> what i see is a mixed picture with some signs of progress. what gets out is the negative picture and almost exclusively. but actually theres some positive indicators, too. weve been doing a very good job, our special forces, of capturing taliban leaders. you hear that theres an increased number of american casualties, and there are. an increased numbe...

Mattis, warned against an early exit. >> sir, i have no reason for optimism that if the taliban were left in control that al qaeda would not move back in. they did it before, i dont see any reason why wed not expect them not to do it again. >> the question is whether president obama can keep the support of congress for another year. joining me now is the chairman of the armed services committee, senator carl levin of michigan. thank you, sir, for being here. >> good being with you, candy. >> wha...

And these are very important words for the american public to understand. that in this effort thats going on right now near kandahar, that the afghan troops are in the lead there. when their own people see that, it is going to make a difference. and when the taliban sees that theyre not able now to just paint this as a foreign -- a lot of foreign troops present in afghanistan, but now its their own afghan army, a popular, respected army, that they are taking on more and more during this next yea...

One of the things that came out of it was that the pakistan military spy service is helping the afghan insurgency. this is a country and this is a government, an arm of the pakistani government. >> it is, uh-huh. >> and we give them a billion dollars a year. and people are going wait a second. they are training people to come fight us, and were giving them money. >> well, theyre doing a couple things, some good, some bad. put yourself in the shoes of pakistan. you hear this talk about america ma...

Use 150,000 troops in every engagement. but if they beat us in afghanistan, if the taliban capture or regain control of part of afghanistan, its going to make it hard in yemen to get people to help us because the ones who chose to help us in afghanistan are going to meet a very unseemly bad fate. so what i try to tell my colleagues, people back in south carolina, i know youre tired. i know youre weary, but nobody is more tired than the people fighting the war. why do these young men and women go...

Coming together next summer if were not showing progress to basically defund this war. >> give me your best guess. how long will u.s. troops be in afghanistan? >> maybe the better question, and i dont mean to be presumptuous, how much longer will we suffer a lot of casualties? >> okay. >> thats what people care about. weve been in korea since the end of the korean war. weve been in europe since world war ii and nobody cares. they do care when americans die. heres what awaits us. were going to lo...

And i asked the president that. how can we be successful in pakistan, protect that regime from extremists if all goes to hell in afghanistan. so i do worry about an unholy alliance with the right and left coming together next summer if were not showing progress to basically defund this war. >> give me your best guess, how long will u.s. troops be in afghanistan? >> maybe the better question, and i dont mean to be presumptuous, how much longer will we suffer a lot of casualties? thats what people...