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Of 2011 but this is something that general petraeus said wont happen and the commitment and the relationship will continue for years to come. >> brian: what is the sense on the ground there? are they making progress or is it touch and go? >> a mixed bag here. the resources are here and the troops just arrive and they feel like they have the strategy in place and they feel like they will see the incremental progress made. >> as owe no, the violence is at record levels and the taliban insurgency i...

This all happened -- was killed. lets get to connor powell, live on the phone from kabul. it sounds like the two presidents when they met, president obama delivered a pretty tough message. >> reporter: for most of the past year, the tension between president obama and president karzai has really been building. its not been a technically warm and friendly relationship. when president obama was here meeting with president karzai yesterday, the message he delivered was to continue to clean up corru...

Finally stood up and said, yes, republicans have proposals on jobs, on health care, on energy. and now that hes recognized weve actually laid out plans for the last year that he has not recognized in the past, i think hes now maybe willing to go forward and listening to the ideas. chris, i hope you will reach out to the white house and throw out your ideas to them. >> lets look forward to whats really going to happen about im not going to run this thing. presidents going to run this meeting. acc...

We have a number of proposals. the president was saying we didnt for months. the president finally realized and said, yes, republicans have proposals on jobs, health care, on energy. and now that hes recognized weve actually laid out plans for the last year that he has not recognized in the past, i think hes now maybe willing to go forward and listening to the ideas. chris, i hope you will reach out to the white house and throw out your ideas to them. >> lets look forward to whats going to happe...

Nor the last year that he has not recognized in the past, i think hes now maybe willing to go forward and listening to the ideas. chris, i hope you will reach out to the white house and throw out your ideas to them. >> lets look forward to whats going to happen. according to the latest "washington post" poll, 63% of the people want them to compromise on health care. when the president convenes that met of the leadership of the two parties, and i think it may be a big are meeting than just leader...

legislation would actually look like. lawmakers, kevin mccarthy, dick durbin, john corbin, steny hoyer among the group that would sit down today behind closed doors on capitol hill with administration officials and start to go through all of that. coming out of that meeting at the white house yesterday, there was considerable statements, rosy outlooks of claims of progress made, but aides here tell us on capitol hill that there is considerable amount of this that needs to be sorted out. a lot...

I say they had a nice afternoon together where they didnt yell at each other, but i dont see any sort of progress and i dont see any sort of effort to bring down the rhetoric or to make things safer for people in syria. >> i think on the surface you will not see much change. president putin is not going to come forward and say gee, youre right, we made a mistake, this guy is a butcher and were not going to support him any more. youre seeing whats taking place on the surface. below the surface im...

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