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Are currently filling a gap that allow us to deliver development assistance that focuses on improving the lives of the afghan people. were still gathering information about how it would specifically effect the united states and our contracts with private companies. >> reporter: so a lot of these security contractors are out guarding reconstruction sites, trying to help improve the lives of the afghan people. so a lot of what were hearing is, in essence, its impossible to get rid of them in four ...

Creating more friction with afghan president hamid karzai who has made a clear statement that he wants the security contractors out. u.s. officials say theyre willing to work with him, hes made his intentions perfectly clear, but they say thinking this is going to happen anytime soon is just not realistic. this is not the time or the place to pull those contractors out of afghanistan at a critical time in this war, jenna. jenna: a lot of deadlines looming over there. mike, thank you so much. loo...

Experts say security contractors have not been well regulated. >> we probably depended too much on certain private firms to carry guns and use force, on behalf of the united states or other governments in recent wars. and perhaps karzai is pushing back against that. >> nato officials say the international coalition fully supports karzais object of reducing private security with afghan eventually taking over. but the military emphasizes the scale and scope of the reduction will require time to fu...

Reconstruction and development assistance efforts. but now afghan president hamid karzai says the security contractors, american and those from other countries have four months and then they need to get out. >> we dont want to see a decision like this, you know, shut down our operations. when you look at the volume of security contractors in afghanistan, and there are a lot of them, they more or less equal the other side of the military surge. if we have to pull back military personnel to do sec...

24,000 of contractors because this is an estimate because nobody knows for sure, if you can believe it, 24,000 or so working with the u.s. government in afghanistan providing only security. >> well, is getting private exacters out of afghanistan -- is that even an option? the state department is talking about it will take a look at this. is that honestly going to happen? >> its so not doable in the foreseeable future. mike tebow, studying how the u.s. is using this whole sort of shadow army to d...

Way theyre targeted and that gets back to president karzai. >> what do you think about the state department suggesting that the department of state will look at this? really. are you going to shut down -- >> you want to be honest? what else can they say? theyre diplomats. theyve got to make this look somehow reasonable or doable without being insulting. the truth is, there is no way they could continue their current mission at the level its at in afghanistan without their private security contra...

In four months he wants them all out of afghanistan. lets go live to jill dougherty in kabul for what this means. jill, is this a surprise, and whats the impact of it? >> well, you know, in a way, its not a surprise, because the president has been talking about doing something like this for quite a long time. but the announcement that all of a sudden, by a spokesman today, that they will be shut down, or at least it appears that way, within four months, is pretty much a surprise. and he did not ...

Suddenly that this formal requirement by the president ordered by the president is going to be issued. he did not give a lot of details. he said essentially, as you said, within four months, all of these private contractors in afghanistan are going to have to shut down. now, were expecting that that announcement -- and we want to take a good look at it -- will be coming out tuesday morning. but it is, according to the spokesman, necessary because he says that these private security companies hav...

Atia abawi. atia, tell us what has happened? >> well, ali, what happened today is something that frustrates all afghans. apparently, there was some contractors who were leaving the u.s. embassy. there were security contractors, and they were weaving out of the lanes on airport road. airport road is a very main road for the afghan people themselves. and actually, its a long road connecting the airport and the u.s. embassy. as they were speeding down this road, they had a head-on collision with af...

Contractors. not security contractors you have read about in iraq. it is about how embedded theyve become in every aspect of intelligence and how the government is definitely dependent maybe in an unhealthy way. we have interviews with secretary gates and cia director panetta who both say this is a problem. dane dan and john negroponte will be on this morning talking about this. thanks. >> next, comedienne kathy griffin rips senator browns daughters. the ladies of the view are they laughing? fan...