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Defined? >> well, gregg, we are dealing with a different dynamic there, i mean, again, general petraeus, wonderful success inside iraq but at the end of the day, the most critical element for success in afghanistan is a properly equipped, trained and capable afghan army and afghan police and, remember in iraq, those were the turning points that got us going and in iraq we had 80% of the population that was literate and in afghanistan we dont have that by any means, and the ability to train peopl...

Bank. >> and thats one source of the administrations frustration. you remember the big cairo speech, and they think this is the key to it and has been the key to it for generations, could you try to get some progress in the israeli/palestinian dialogue to security a different security environment in the region. wolf, youve been covering it as long as any of us, in the past if the u.s. president is mad at you, that causes you problems at home. the israelis think this a little different, because u...

Of the problem. there is no made in america solution to the problem in pakistan. we have to convince the pakistanis that this is their strategic fight. thats going to take an awful lot of persuading. >> reporter: across the border in afghanistan youre sending 30,000 additional troops to fight the taliban. mr. president, is your own team in washington sending mixed signals? bad news from your joint chiefs chairman. >> were in our third straight year of a very significant deterioration with respec...

Abductees but japans security environment, economic environment, the only leader who had not met with north korea f. this is the historic moment when unittorically changes entire relationshi withorth korea and the korean peninsula and chinas relationship with the united states, then japan is left out. >> how many abductees. >> i heard numbers over the years, how many dozens hundred is not the numbers anymore. the problem is for north korea, this issue was settled and if japan continues to make t...

Because nobody could even invision why you would need them here anymore our aviation brigade significantly reduced and by the way all of our allies have done the same thing now with russias aggressive behavior everybody realizes that russia only respects strength so you have to bring back we quit killing are we quick enough is it the reaction to it the situation and you said yourself the russians are changing the security environment what is the necessary respond to that so are we doing enough i...

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>> from my perspective, thats just another tool americans require information, the manipulation of life. >> senator feinstein. >> thank you, mr. chairman. where there is obviously more than one threat to our country, i would argue that the greatest danger to the united states is north korea. i am one of those that have been trying to follow this as close as possible. in the statement for the record, you state and i quote "north koreas nuclear weapons and missile programs will continue to pose a ...

And moving state department personnel in with the c.i.a., where security was high. quote c.i.a. suggested that mission personnel could co-locate to the annex if the security environment degraded suddenly. in the longer-term, we believe former co-location with the c.i.a. will greatly improve our security situation. the state department has always been reluctant to confirm the emergency meeting took place. and the classified cable was one of the last documents provided to the senate intelligence c...

Consultant. and great to see you again. a better out come than maybe we might have thought this morning when it comes to the crisis in the navy yard. we are looking at stories as civilians and you are looking as a security professional that has experience responding to threats. what is your big take away this morning as you see it? >> we are seeing a heightened security environment and this is important take away from this. where as in the past we had a terror structure based on a core al-qaeda ...

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