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with president karzai while he s there? reporter: we don t have any reports about that right now. as you know the obama administration s relationship with president karzai has been quite strained because karzai has refused to sign the security agreement which would essentially have set those troop levels. the administration is hoping the next president who takes over in afghanistan will do that. there s no reports president obama is planning to meet with president karzai, but i wouldn t rule this out. he just landed in afghanistan. the white house has to keep these types of things under wraps because of the president s security, of course, that being of the utmost concern. this is something we have seen this president do in the past and president george w. bush visited with troops in afghanistan. made a surprise visit.
to do. there s some expectation that now that we can work with the government we think we can work with the government once karzai s left that our troops, special forces, special operations forces, trainers, will be able to make a difference in giving the afghans an opportunity to defend themselves. that s a long, long road. no matter what the president says in this regard, i think it s going to be taken with a grain of salt. the other thing he s probably going to address is what s going on in the other parts of the world. lots and lots of challenges. let me switch gears about the va scandal and let me go to sergeant jones. you re american legion commander
some 32,000 american who is are serving in afghanistan. a very serious briefing under way. we expect we ll get vid greo fr that briefing and the key topic is there s been an increase in taliban attacks as well as what to do about troop levels after 2014. that s the big question that president obama is facing. that s what this administration hopes to determine in the coming months. there will be a new president of afghanistan and it looks like at this point and time. that s something the white house and someone in the white house thinks they can work with as they try to determine these new troop levels. the relationship between the obama administration and the karzai administration has been quite strained. as you pointed out at the top, i don t anticipate that president obama will meet with hamad harr
we re giving everybody a live look at brad paisley. may i ask you, the president as we understand does not have plans to meet with president karzai. there s has been a rocky relationship. would there be chance he would meet or would that be premature in. that might be premature. that would go to great lengths. that could billion in play. i don t know that at this hour. the important thing is hands on with the troops. the other issue is the va scandal and the fact this is way of embracing u.s. troops in field even as the president in his message yesterday acknowledged the failures of the va and the va announced they re