address that and also of course the talk about whether or not tim geithner, now that we know his son is going to return to high school, they never were able to sell their house in west chester county, new york. whether or not he s looking for an exit strategy. let s take on first the part about the july 22nd deadline. this is, according to the way the white house puts it, is that this is the only way, if you want to meet august 2nd, you ve got to get it basically done by july 22nd, because to get the bills written, to get them marked up, to get them passed through both the house and the senate, get those three-day waiting period, you put all that together and essentially that s what they re saying, that in order to get to august 2nd you need to back it up. so that s how they ve come up with july 22nd. now, over the next few days, we are expected to hear from the treasury department about a new estimate of when we hear the debt ceiling. one of the reasons the number has been moving is
saying this makes no sense. bill, i m surprised you re in favor of it. you start smoking pot again legally you get the munchies, you ll be 400 pounds. you know how that stuff works. ouch. ouch. it s ban long ti ae s been ai had a joint ed but i enjoyed it when i used it. i ll be the first to admit it. let s get the take from all three of you on the president s speech last night, his announcement to draw down i say just a troop shift. i don t think it is an exit strategy. what is your take, heidi? i think it was a campaign speech to a certain extent. he started talking about infrastructure at the end. i don t know what it has to do with afghanistan. we have to make a decision. either we are in afghanistan and it is beneficial to us to be there because we can chase bad guys more easily in pakistan and that kind of thing or we ll try to nation build which you cannot do. nobody has ever been able to nation build in afghanistan and we won t be successful either. they ll never have
that is affecting our society. so this is the issue we have to deal with at the kory think, at the root. instead of just putting a band-aid on the problem that around the world people are saying this makes no sense. bill, i m surprised you re in favor of it. you start smoking pot again legally you get the munchies, you ll be 400 pounds. you know how that stuff works. ouch. ouch. it s been a long time since i had a joint ed but i enjoyed it when i used it. i ll be the first to admit it. let s get the take from all three of you on the president s speech last night, his announcement to draw down i say just a troop shift. i don t think it is an exit strategy. what is your take, heidi? i think it was a campaign speech to a certain extent. he started talking about infrastructure at the end. i don t know what it has to do with afghanistan. we have to make a decision. either we are in afghanistan and it is beneficial to us to be there because we can chase bad guys more easily in paki
names to succeed him, will say the same to us, get out of here, we wish you had never come. that s what we re going to get in the end here from both of these countries. finally, the question for both of you, do we need to negotiate with the taliban? is this our best exit strategy at this point in the americans want us out of there, it s like again, you see the american people way ahead of washington, like a year and a half, two years ahead of washington. is our best option to negotiate with the taliban? i think that is how are with as end, you end up talking to people who disagree. you get the people who disagree. i don t think the american people are going to care very much whether or not u.s. officials are involved in talks with the taliban. we know that there are bad guys who you have to deal with, in parts of the world where bad guys have great sway. those are the influencers, i
coming up next, exit strategy from afghanistan. the president s deputy national security advisor. plus, the chairman of the senate armed services committee. and budget talks break down today. we ll get the latest on the republican walkout. see you in 15 minutes. cars 2 doesn t come out until tomorrow but it s driving conservatives to complain. they re not only racing across the world. wish me luck. you go get them, buddy. welcome to the inaugural running of the world grand prix. they re racing to save the world. it s exactly that saving the world bit that s got some conservatives crying foul. they don t like the director s comments in wall street journal. he described thinking about quote, a spy movie in the world where cars are alive. what would be a really good kind of uber bad guy? i kept going to big oil. you could have big oil versus