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Firm posture of 9800 troops through the end of this year. we want to make sure we have doing everything we can to help afghan security forces succeed so we dont have to go back. so we dont have to respond in an emergency because counterterrorists are, because terrorist activities are being launched out of afghanistan. >> joining us from walk former cia station chief in islamabad, robert grenier, the author of the book "88 days to kandahar a cia diary." so lets talk about this change are we drayi...

Combat forces will be gone. >> mike barnacle. >> mr. grenier, the presidents comments yesterday, isnt he saying look at the afghan regular army security force, theyre nowhere up to the job. we have to continue to own the knife in afghanistan through our operations, special operations and we cant do it unless we stay for a while. >> well, i think thats true. but i dont think that anybody knowledgeable of the situation is going to tell you that the situation for the afghan army is going to be fund...

Will remain in substantial parts of afghan territory. >> mark halperin final question. >> is this war winnable by some measure for the united states? >> no, i dont think its winnable by the united states; however, i do think a larger u.s. presence which is a deployed in the right manner that is focused not just on sustaining the afghan army but also building up militia forces in key parts of the country over time would convince the taliban that they cannot win on their own and it might make them...

eight-minute dissent straight into the alps? could this have been a pilot-suicide scenario? is the airbus considered a safe plane? why is flying at this point considered safer tan ever? we will do our best to answer all those pressing and perplexing questions all morning long here on "morning joe." with us on set we have msnbc contributor, mike barnacle. the news and finance contributor and pulitzer prize and columnist and associate editor of the new york post you jean robinson and an ...

C.i.a. is going to abide by the rules, whatever they are but this is a moral judgment that has to be made and unfortunately its being trivialized by this report. >> robert grenier, thank you very much for your perspective, certainly you know what went on. >> i certainly do. all right, president obama getting laughs last night after he took over the "colbert report" he poked fun at himself, gop leaders and even stephen colbert who is known to mock the commander-in-chief daily. the president als...

Lets remember the report being issued is not a senate select committee report. its coming out solely from the dmocrats on that committee. theres a separate rebuttal which is being launched, also going to be released today from the republicans on the committee as well as the rebuttal from the c.i.a. so quite frankly this is a dogs breakfast and i wish people luck in trying to figure out whats true and whats false. >> quickly, mr. grenier, is america more or less safe because of stopping these tac...

And of course the kurds. the u.s. military should do something to prevent an al qaeda takeover of baghdad, but we have to limit what we do so that we keep our eye on the ball of the ultimate political solution that we have to try to achieve. >> mr. grenier, when you listen to mr. clark, is that doable? is it possible for the united states to kind of stay somewhat removed and as i see what hes saying, as i interpret what hes saying, occasionally get involved, really zap the bad guys when they see...

The united states is doing in iraq, what it should be doing and how effective any potential action might be. i have a terrific panel with me, retired general anthony zinny was the commander of u.s. central command. in that post, he oversaw all u.s. troops in the greater middle east. richard clark spent 30 years working national security at the highest levels of government, including ten years at the national security council under both presidents bush and president clinton. hes also the author o...

Lets dig teeper into what the united states is doing in iraq, what it should be doing. i have a terrific panel with me. retired general anthony zinney is the commander of the u.s. central command. he oversaw all u.s. troops in the greater middle east. richard clark spent 30 years working in national security at the highest levels of government including ten years at the national security council under both presidents bush and president clinton. he is also the author of the new thriller "sting of...

Experts weigh in. >> the black site that i visited was probably the grimmest place ive ever been. >> robert, a 27 year cia veteran ran the counterterrorism center from twoou 2004 to 2006. >> it is a grim business when you are, for understandable reasons, sequestering people who you believe have information, actionable information, which if you are able to acquire it will save lives. >> in your experience, looking at all of the information you got, does it work? is the use of coercive interrogati...