out of puerto rico into as rick santorum heads into the next two primaries. somewhat the opposite for mitt romney trying to gain the upper hand. he s now in puerto rico, where santorum may have offended some spanish speaker, romney is courting them in their own language. jim a costa is in san juan. what s the latest from there, jim? reporter: candy, mitt romney is in puerto rico for a series of events. after rick santorum s trip to this island, the trick is pretty simple. don t get lost in translation. mitt romney is out to show puerto ricans he is speaker that i majority. if the majority of the p we realizo ricans wish to become a state, i will support that. reporter: romney has not only written letters to voters translated into spanish, he s running a radio ad featuring his bilingual son craig also in spanish. his arrival comes after rick santorum seemed to stumble over whether the predominantly spanish-speaking island should adopt english as a condition of statehoo
kuwait to face court-martial. how is the united states going to leave this country? currently, the exit strategy is for the u.s. troops to gradually withdraw but continuing their operation, handing over more and more responsibility over time to the afghans, but continuing operations until the last soldiers leave at the end of 2014 unless maybe some stay after that. what happened today, yes we want to speed that up and we want the troops to stay on the bases as soon as possible. that, i m told is just not going to happen. thank you. well, now capitol hill and the growing pressure on senate republicans to support the renewal of a violence against women act. several female senate democrats took the floor today demanding an immediate extension. they also ridiculed republicans for opposing that measure which emerged from the judicious committee last month along party
the plan. not the plan of the defense minister, interior minister and maybe not the plan of all people in karzai s office. this is not the first time we ve seen something from karzai that s not on the scripted song sheet that other people were expecting. this complicates the u.s. exit strategy from this country. what are you hearing about the reports of outrage of the soldier being taken out of afghanistan? what s the reaction that you re seeing there? reporter: the reaction has been to the incident itself. there was more reaction to the korans burning, but there was anger when these 16 civilians were gunned down and stab and chased room to room. a horrific incident carried out by an american staff sergeant. there was a little bit more frustration after the suspect was flown out of the country to
will bring the individual involved to justice. and he accepted that and hope that it could be a transparent process, so that the afghanistan people would see that the united states is, indeed, going to not only prosecute this individual, but ensure that he s held accountable. nbc s chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, is in kabul. richard, i know you ve been to these villages. you ve been covering this war from the start. can you give some context on how big a development this is? reporter: what we re seeing right now is the u.s. exit strategy from afghanistan changing, despite claims from the white house, from defense fishes that the strategy is staying the course. it is changing, it changed today. let s take it step by step. first, the taliban statement that it is suspending, not
iwe learned moments ago the american soldier suspected in the massacre of 16 afghan civilians over the weekend has been blown out of the country to kuwait. president obama is claiming he will not make major changes in his exit strategy for the war. we have details. president obama rolling out the red carpet for prime minister david cameron, united front after set-backs in afghanistan. they vow a robust coalition will keep battling the taliba taliban. no change to withdraw all combat troops. in terms of the pace, i don t anticipate we ll make any sudden additional changes to the plan that we currently have. the opposite of what the american people are saying. in a recent abc news, washington post poll. 60% saying it s not worth