general allen, set to tell the house armed services committee whether the shooting rampage and koran burning have changed the u.s. exit strategy. huge issues right now. that is about to get underway as we welcome you to a brand new hour of america s newsroom. good to have you with us everybody. i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. how does it feel? good to have you back, martha. good morning to you. the hearings come about as officials are ending nighttime raids. authorities say they were close to deal before the shooting and now these negotiations are a top priority. chief intelligence correspondent, catherine herridge is on this. what are we learning this morning? reporter: good morning. we re moments away before a hearing before the house armed services committee and according to the prepared testimony by general john allen the mission remains on track in afghanistan despite the massacre of afghan civilians and burning of korans and there is no hint in these remarks of a
is not even in illinois. plus, lawmakers getting a chance to question the top commander in afghanistan for the first time since a u.s. soldier was accused of going door-to-door killing women and children in the middle of the night. so what did he have to say about the exit strategy and how things are going in afghanistan? we re live in d.c. with that from the journalists of fox news on this tuesday fox report.
pleasure. we ll be watching you on fox business at 9:20 eastern time. we learned from melissa francis earlier that you now drive a crazy gator, all terrain vehicle. it s a john deere product, american product. these guys have such a rivalry. we have to get you a counselor. keith ablow, come quick! from limits to from limits on where you read the bible to whether or not you can collect rain water, our government is reaching further and further beyond the pale. look at some of the most ridiculous new laws. and then living longer doesn t always mean living better. so how do you make the decision on the best exit strategy? one doctor with some controversial advice on how to die well. nice topic for monday morning. here s my strategy. i m leaving. good-bye!
ron paul with 50 delegates. tomorrow s you will now primary very important. bill: we ll see if it plays out. whether they buck the trend. you are working because martha is working for megyn later today. she is working on her tan. those are just some of the story we are watching. is president obama losing the war in afghanistan? new concern on an exit strategy and a future for that region. an entire town forced to evacuate as a dangerous wildfire approaches. a neighbor came to pick me and the kid up and said we had to evacuate. people with a machine.
joining me this morning is former pennsylvania congressman patrick murphy, himself a veteran of iraq and the first vet elected to congress. it s great to have you here today and having been on the ground in the war are in iraq, how do you respond the current exit strategy is causing these deteriorating conditions for our troops that are right now serving in afghanistan? yeah, thomas, first of all it s disappointing because always in american history we said politics stops the water s edge, and for them to engage in this, you know, when president obama became commander in chief, he tripled the amount of troops in afghanistan to make sure that we focused on bringing bin laden to justice because he murdered over thousands and thousands of innocent american civilians including friends of mine. those troops got the job done. they brought out the forces in afghanistan and now they re coming home. when we had a third of those troops, romney nor san interest tore up didn t say a word. didn