are going to go in, you have to get out. you have to have an exit strategy. there are lessons to be learned not only from mu munich, but the last 60 years. the threads of your personal story, we fail to teach our own history, american history to kids today in high school and grammar school. the sweep of your story encompasses so much. i wish, off your story, we taught our own story better in schools. you are able to take i think what was revealed in your book previous to this about what you learned about your family so late in life when you were vetted to be secretary of state. that revelation, given what you went through in these years and watching firsthand the nazi invasion of prague and not affected because your heritage
cane is back, he has a column for theblaze.com. an all-boy panel this morning. you re used to that. you know what? i am getting kind of used to it a little bit. our starting point this morning is day two of john edwards criminal trial. it s going to get under way in about 2 1/2 hours. and back on the stand, his former aide, andrew young. he is the key witness for the prosecution. the issue is did john edwards inappropriately use campaign funds to hide his mistress, rielle hunter? the prosecution called edwards a master manipulator, saying this. if the affair went public, it would have destroyed any chance to become the president, and he knew it and he made a choice to break the law. we re joined by melanie sloan, executive director for citizens of responsibility and ethics in washington. nice to see you, melanie. thanks for talking with us. nice to be here. walk me through what happened. andrew young will be back on the stand as i mentioned again today. yesterday was
weeding thing out a bit. one thing people talk about is the kind of mission creep in 2004, you have the outster of jon bertrand aristede. and a mission brought in by the united states and then replaced by the blue helmets, the u.n. and a presidential election, supposed to happen in 2005, happened in 2006. that s obviously a long time ago, and what happened since then is a combination of them looking for an exit strategy and other people looking for an exit strategy for them. what the cholera epidemic has done, when we talk about the impact on the reconstruction, what we re looking at here is a situation where they are simply by the evidence, all
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army staff sarge apt in custody for the massacre of afghan civilians this month. lawmakers hearded heard today fe man in charge about the exit strategy and the problems trying to get in a position to leave. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has that story. reporter: the major was laid to rest today in arlington national cemetery, killed by an afghan partner shot in the back of the head, an apparent retaliation for the mistaken koran burning that set off a chain reaction of violence. with this backdrop, general john allin in his first testimony to congress since taking command of the afghan war, said 13 of the 60 troops killed in afghanistan since january 1 were killed by afghans they were training. general allen defended the current war strategy. if we get into 2014 and the afghans are not trained where they need to be, and we are