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Rethinking afghanistan. were not winning. its not worth it. ill read a bit from it, richard. the war in the united states is now fighting in afghanistan is not succeeding and is not worth waging in this way. the time has come to scale back u.s. objectives and sharply reduce u.s. involvement on the ground. afghanistan is claiming too many american lives, requiring too much attention, and absorbing too much resources, the sooner we accept that afghanistan is less a problem to be fixed than a situa...

Refused. we have come back again and asked him again. career people from the justice department have contacted me. so i agree. i want to see it looked at, but, yet, we have the inspector general, glenn fine, refusing to take a look at it. >> i think that is completely fair. look at it. i think, you know, the charge by the guy adams was, you know, who is a disgruntled employee and has his own set of issues. the charge is that it is a systemic problem that they are systemically not prosecuting cas...

So to an extend, this isnt like something that nobody knows about, that this is a huge organization with many tentacles across the globe and across our country. and isnt that not surprising in light of 9/11? >> its exactly right. after 9/11, essentially we threw money at this problem. we threw people at this problem and we threw buildings at this problem but it was done without a plan. it just happened and happened and happened. this is the new national security state. we had one national securi...

A lot of things on is his list, education stuff and maybe immigration can only be done with more republicans and trade as well. that is more likely to be done with republicans and the majority. you know, i and others here are sometimes suggested that maybe the president doesnt want to keep the majority. he does for a variety of reons he doesnt want subpoena power to the house republicans. again, he is going to say he is proud of these two years and no mistakes were made that he would -- major mi...

Mark halpern? >> i think we knew this is a big operation but the scale of it is amazing. the number of people involved and number of facilities. >> its fascinating. not surprising but unbelievable fascinating. >> i think the federal government ought to overspend. thats it. >> that, you could make that argument as well. this is part one of three parts and were going to talk to dana coming up, but she talks to -- and the reporter who co-wrote this with her they talk to people who are tasked with h...

I think the physics have set in for sarah palin. it will be harder to say no than yes. >> i dont want to spend a lot of time on this. the reason its a will she or wont she is because she spends her day surrounded by throngs of people in stores and supermarkets. >> you got to run, you got to run. >> please take care of our country and please run. come on. you hear that a hundred, 200 times a day and it gets in your head. if you have a certain sense of yourself, it may not be that accurate. >> rig...

They want to make it more effective and synchronize information so it can be more effective. this isnt -- i mean, i guess what im trying to say is this is an evolving problem. >> its evolving and everyone knows its going to be a problem. after 9/11, vice president cheney and president bush made it their highest priority not to have another attack on american soil during their watch. this president and this vice president have taken up the same cause. there is no higher priority. congress has wri...

Bomber speak to this a little bit? you can have all of the bureaucracy in the world and build all of these buildings but if a guy puts gasoline and fertilizer in a car and drives to times square and information not shared about the guy what is it all for? >> we made it worse. after 9/11, we layered the problem. its exactly what business tells you not to do. american business is going in the direction of flattening. government is going in the opposite direction of flattening. were actually increa...