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states. newt gingrich and rick santorum are fighting romney for the conservative vote in the south. tiger woods suffered a tournament ending injury. watch him after this approach shot on the 10th hole at doral. look at him. favoring that left leg. tiger withdrew after the 11th hole. he injured that tendon in the masters last year. we begin this hour in afghanistan where an american is accused of a cold blooded killing spree. the pentagon has not released the soldiers name but says ...

leader mustafa abdel-jalil. he is representing libya at the 65th u.n. general assembly. he has been meeting with president obama the last hour as well as ban ki moon. in a few minutes, president obama will sit down with afghan president happened karzai. this is their first meeting since the u.s. spelled out a plan to leave afghanistan by the end of 2014. today, for the first time, gays and lesbians can openly serve in the united states military. the law known as dont ask, dont tell has...

Valedictorians, your class president, your varsity sports captains, they come from every state in the union. we are just very lucky here to get literally the best and the brightest of the united states. >> hi. how you doing? >> good. >> what are you going to do this year? >> im a platoon sergeant this year. >> if you come to west point and want to be here, youre virtually guaranteed sadly to some that youll be going to war. what does that say about the people who were marching out there today? >...

>> well, then, sergeant, i will talk with the sja and battalion commander. i may have some more questions for you after that, so that i can confirm you are serious about this. i also want to make sure that you understand the implications of your statement. >> i understand, maam. thank you for your time, maam. >> no need to thank me, sergeant williams. >> later in the commanders office -- >> so youre certain about this sergeants sinceritysincerity? >> isg thinks so, especially after talking with ...

Do understand the consequences of my actions. >> well, then, sergeant, i will talk with the sja and battalion commander. i may have some more questions for you after that, so that i can confirm you are serious about this. i also want to make sure that you understand the implications of your statement. >> i understand, maam. thank you for your time, maam. >> no need to thank me, sergeant williams. >> later in the commanders office -- >> so youre certain about this sergeants sin sceritysincerity? ...

And this extra focus in kandahar, now with the xhu commanew commander, general petraeus, there is a feeling this is the final push. if the community doesnt get it right this time, there might be very little will to continue this war much longer. >> how about fourth of july? any kind of celebrations for the troops there? how are they spending this day? >> reporter: they are celebrating this day, and a lot of troops, the ones who have to do urgent patrols, obviously are doing that force protect co...

Thats not news. i think playing it out in front of the press is very bad and im general mcchrystal and survived, i would fire my staff involved in saying all those outlandish things. >> larry: theyre the ones most quoted. one of the bombshells is of the one on one meeting with president obama. it was a ten-minute photo-op says an adviser to mcchrystal. obama clearly didnt know anything about him, who he was. heres the guy whos gown to run his bleeping war. doesnt seem very engaged. the boss was ...

Of pennsylvania. he was wounded in baghdad, april 21, 2007. he was hit by a high-powered armor-piercing bullet. rushed to a medical facility. he died and flat lined for 15 minutes beyond the time believed a person can survive, but the army captain did recover and returned to duty p/e he spoke to our john king about why he went back. >> when you first went back you had to be afraid. >> sir, i absolutely was, and i went back for two reasons. i redeployed to iraq only five months after this injury ...

You, no, sir, no, sir, no, sir, and you insisted on going back. not only did you go back, you will rotate back overseas again in the near future. when you first went back, you had to be afraid? >> sir, i absolutely was. and i went back for two reasons. the -- i redeployed to iraq only five months after this injury, despite everyone telling me not to. but there is two very good reasons for that. the first was for my men. they lost two of their senior leaders in five seconds on one day. a month la...

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