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Replacement, the acting secretary and whether or not hes going to be able to manage this enormous problem? hes only been there for a couple of months. >> deputy secretary gibson is a dedicated national servient and served in the uso and private sector experience. hes got a reform mind set but only been there for a few months. whats important is the team going to be put in place around him, as well as the secretary that the president says hes going to announce shortly. >> colonel jack, on the pho...

Which is to train the afghan forces and separately to support ct operations, counterterrorism operations, specifically there to root out al qaeda forces within that nation. andrea? >> and to colonel jack, the presidents going to be explaining this to the military itself at the commencement at west point tomorrow in an important foreign policy speech. first of all, is 9,800 troops the right number to go counterterrorism with the very aggressive taliban pushback that weve seen right in the heart o...

Most nervous people have to be those at these various veterans administration hospitals and facilities who are now under personal investigation. not only by the va inspector general, but in some cases, according to the inspector general, by the veterans affairs criminal investigators. the fbi said today theyre not involved yet, but if the allegations are true, as the president said, they will be punished. theres a real possibility here that if some of those allegations are true, it could involve...

Obama will make a statement in the rose garden about the future for u.s. forces in afghanistan. joining me now by phone, msnbc military analyst colonel jack jacobs. and nbc national correspondent peter alexander, live at the white house. peter, first to you. what were being told by national security officials on background is basically the presidents going to announce the withdrawal, 32,000 troops now in afghanistan, and they are drawing down and he is open to an agreement with the new president...

Benghazi down, interviewed him. interviewed the head, i think twice of the quick reaction force that was involved in this episode. so he knows the full story. >> the chairman of the senate intelligence committee of course, thats dianne feinstein of california, has said today that though david petraeus warks n will not be testifying at the hearings shes called for later in the week, he could be called at a later time. >> mike viquiera, thank you so much. for more on the petraeus resignation, want...

Lets go to colonel jack jacobs. this is shocking news. we dont expect this from a man like general petraeus, with the reputation hes had. what light can you shed on whats going on? >> very little, actually. its such a shock to everybody. ive known him for 40 years, and ive known his wife for the same amount of time. her father was a superintendent of the united states military academy at the time i was teaching on the faculty there in 1973 to 1976. a fabulous soldier, extremely well respected an...

Ago, anybody who thinks this is not an active war, that theres not going to be a loss of life is looking sideways at it. the fact of the matter is, i believe the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of star of staff, admiral mullen both recommended to the president of the united states that we do not do this. they said almost exactly that on the air just about two weeks ago. its a very difficult thing to enforce. i think were going to try very hard to get our allies to do th...