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Oops, in some cases upping the nuer of troops in afghanistan as point of leverage with the taliban, everyone said yes, we made arecommendation, it is the commander in iefs decision what to do. he listened tous, heard us, made his decision. it was a lawful order and we are executing it. we decided to execute it. thats why in one of the back and fohs, senator cotton asked geral milley why dont you resign. he said thats a very political decision to make. thats why. itas a lawful order. it was decis...

there, or are you alone? >> reporter: i am alone except for the crew and some other reporters. i had to look around. were sort of in a bubble. you know how that is, but, where do we start, ali? oh my gosh. there is so much to talk about in this case. when you talk about propofol. we didnt know anything about propofol before michael jackson. some people get it when you go into procedures but you didnt know the name of it. as you said, opening statements, starting about 8:45 local time, ...

that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. lets go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. >> the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today...

while hiking. texas governor rick perry failed to live up to his front-runners status this weekend. mitt romney won michigan straw poll by a 3-1 margin over perry. now, romneys father served as michigan governor in the 60s making the son somewhat of a home state favorite. in florida, herman cain took top billing. he drew twice as many votes as perry, with romney in third place. cain says he won because voters are beginning to notice his 999 tax plan. heres how he explains it. >> my p...