the white house is condemning the leak of thousands of classified documents about the war in afghanistan saying it s illegal. could it change the politics of the war, which is one of the few topics that republicans and most democrats agreed on during the obama administration. joining us now is dennis kucinich of ohio and mike rogers of mish who is a republican member of the house and intelligence committee. congressman kucinich to you first. what impact you have long said we should end this war and get an exit strategy. what impact do these documents have on the debate? i think they have a great impact because the documents indicate that our troops are in real danger, that there s countless innocent civilians being killed, that the afghan government is hopelessly corrupt and pakistan intelligence is collaborating with the enemy against the u.s. they have a top pakistani general who s visiting a suicide bombing school monthly.
more. we have to do the tough things in congress. that s why we re here. congressman mcgovern, will you take the heat? will the president take the heat from the right? it will come. you democrats cost us afghanistan by pulling the plug on this. the taliban are awful rotten people. but there are a lot of awful rotten people all over the world. we can t occupy every country. here s my hope. if we can set a time line f we can set an exit strategy,that will put pressure on the afghan government to either step up or not. the responsibility lies with the afghan government. we have been there ten years. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars. we have lost thousands of soldiers. are we going to be there forever? that s the question. we can t afford to do so. we re going bankrupt. thank you, congressman and congresswoman pingree of maine. coming up, should affirmative action programs be shut down, how s that for a question, shut down because they discriminate against whites? that d
hill? i don t believe it is. i don t believe a majority of democrats are. we had 60% of the democratic caucus vote with me on an amendment calling for the formulation of an exit strategy in afghanistan. the speaker of the house actually voted with us. so the majority of the democratic priority wants us to figure out a way to get out of this thing. we ve been there almost ten years. we have lost thousands of brave men and women. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a corrupt government and nation building in afghanistan when we should be doing it here in the united states. let s take a look at another document before we go back to congresswoman pingree. one document from september 2007, three years ago disclosed afghan officials made brutal assessments to the afghan government to american civil affairs officer. the report says the oldest member of the afghan
congressman mcgovern, will you take the heat? will the president take the heat from the right? it will come. you democrats cost us afghanistan by pulling the plug on this. the taliban are awful rotten people. there are rotten awful people all over the world. we can t occupy every country. if we can set a time line f we can set an exit strategy,that will put pressure on the afghan government to either step up or not. the responsibility lies with the afghan government. we have been there ten years. we have lost thousands of soldiers. are we going to be there forever? we can t afford to do so. we re going bankrupt. thank you, congressman and congresswoman pingree of maine. coming up, should this be shut down because they discriminate against whites? that debate is coming up next. senator jim webb of virginia wants to do just that. he s a democrat.
hours? i started at noon. 8:30 last night. worst thing i d ever done in an argument with my own country. reporter: doug, i have to ask you about this. we heard the complaints before. federal officials not listening to local officials, the people that know the area best. why is that? well, just earlier this week, july 21st, bp, robert dudley, and doug suttles were supposed to meet with the six parish presidents out at english turn country club, and they just blew them off. it was a long-scheduled meeting. bp thumbs their nose at parish presidents. they don t care. these are little people in the minds of bp, and coast guard is working so closely with the company, they re right now trying to create an exit strategy, bp. they have the well capped, and one paper goes through and they say, let s move stuff for the tropical depression that s coming, and they don t take the time to talk to parish presidents about what s really needed. a lot of this equipment has been very effective in at