and wave the american flag and protect the second amendment. thdisparity in level in grass roots, the white house is trying to catch up but doing it as they go s almost headaching it harder, shep. shepard: almost all u.s. troops are scheduled to leave afghanistan sometime this year. today the president is at the white house to discuss the exit strategy. how is that going to work? fox news sunday anchor chris wallace will be in with us next on studio b. i m only in my 60 s. i ve got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn t pay all my medical expenses,
suspended the handgun carry permit of james yeager. that was the first game we quoted tonight. a real nut. david corn, joy reid, thank you for joining us. coming up, real check. gun control advocates say this is the moment to pass new legs laetion. the pro gun crowd say there is no way they will accept a assault weapons ban. exit strategy. president obama made it clear the united states is accelerating its withdrawal from afghanistan and plans to leave very few troops there after next year. this much is clear. and u.s. congressman phil gingrey who apparently felt two so-called rape candidates in the republican party richard mourdock and todd akin, wasn t enough. he s come out defending akin s legitimate rape comments. once again republicans just keep it up. and finally, the city that s the star of oscar nominated films this year isn t new york or l.a. or rome or paris, it s d.c., right here in washington. lincoln, argo, zero dark thirty, the nation s capital ready for its clo
he want us to leave or does he think his country can survive without us there? the yes is does karzai think he can survive without us there. karzai, i think has an exit strategy planned. how long is he going to survive if this is country is torn apart in a multi-part tee civil war? will his military remain faithful to him in the light of pashtoon taliban coming in. his military is phaeupd of different tribes. will they stay loyal and be effective? i think the problem everybody for sees and you can see it coming, that when we leave afghanistan a lot of things will happen. our military leaves. our ability to protect the civilian population that we are leaving behind, including our own civilian ngo aid workers, and then the final thing is will they be able to hold that country together? i think that is a huge question. bill: leon panetta who is exiting the administration said 9,000 troops should be left behind, and we ll see whether or
indeed, the challenges that we will face, and in that regard my own feeling is that chuck will, as he always has done, calls it as he sees it. he and the president have been skre close. they travel together to iraq and afghanistan several years ago. they came to know and understand that conflict firsthand. they came to realize, many of the, that those conflicts needed to be brought to conclusion in a way that brought an exit strategy, that provided for our national security interest that brought honor to the people who made sacrifices in those regions and at the same time assured that we as a country could, in fact, muster the financial support and, indeed, the national support to move the process ahead. people have a tendency in these kinds of situations where a new and potentially different sort of approach is being brought to
so i m wondering what s your take on what s going on in washington? you re sitting in washington. right. the at least we have bipartisan agreement it s all nuts, right? everyone agrees this is ridiculous and in spite of what they say, they ve been talking about it for months and years and there was ample talk about what a framework should be through the election, which wasn t that long ago. there s plenty of debate. to tie the two stories we have been talking wiabout together, there was a colin powerful doctrine that general schwartzkopf executed so well in the first gulf war. which was have an exit strategy and using overwhelming force. this congress had an exit strategy. they had the idea of overwhelming force, and they set themselves these limits. if they got through this deadline the pain would be so great on themself this is self-imposed they would find a way out. they have not executed their own strategy and been able to vote for their own leadership. what you have in washi