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Defeated more broadly than al qaeda. but weve got an opportunity to defeat them, and then to lay the groundwork for a more hopeful world in which they cant compete. >> are we winning the war in afghanistan? >> i do think were winning the war in afghanistan, but its very, very slow. and we arent in a position yet to declare that the winnings, the advances that weve made are irreversible. and i think thats whats concerning to everyone. theres no doubt that the taliban has been weakened, i think, b...

Republicans were delivering a record number of filibusters. gosh, amazing how this whole thing turns around, isnt it? what cantor is selling aint gonna work, because these are the real numbers that are out there. a new "washington post"/abc news poll shows that, folks, only 18% of americans want to entirely repeal the health care bill. 62% of the american people want to keep this law or go out and make it even better. but the republicans, you think they pay attention to that? you know, see, what...

The national community is dealing with a partner led by mr. karzai which has failed so far. and which has turned a burden of opportunity into a mess as of now. and so they are expected to deliver independent coming few years and take the whole responsibility, assume the responsibility for security and otherwise fight against corruption in the political process that will bring peace, it sounds very unrealistic to me. >> hillary clinton said that president karzai says i gave general petreaus and o...

Notice in appropriate timetables so there would be no harm to people. people would have adequate time to take appropriate steps to protect their families. but the biggest picture i pose to you, illegal immigrants, are they entitled to the comforts and benefits of america, of your state, of your community? thats a bigger issue, but in my case, within my realm, if i can have an impact about protecting my rate payers, i will do that. >> your critics say, and i know a lot of this debate has been goi...

Mission. >> eric: we have the deadline coming up next month. the administration says it will end combat operations, next month. in august, and get to stability operations, what does that mean by ending combat operations, and is it just a guise and what if indeed 50,000 american troops remain there? >> well, we are down to 80,000 now that and e goal next month is 50,000 that and theory is that all combat operations by that point will be carried out by iraqi troops with the 50,000 remaining americ...

Over his policy for the war in afghanistan. what were going to be seeing tonight is a vote to add 33 bill monior dollars for the par to pay in afghanistan, and keeping in mind, sources are telling us that they expect that this will be passion, albeit narrowly, but what were watching are some other votes were seeing. anti-war democrats are going to be given at least a couple of chances to add timetables maybe or conditions to this money, so thats what were keeping an eye on here, and one of the d...

Town. we had timetables in iraq, at least in the latter stages. can you make the comparison? >> here is the dumps and the key word is latter stages, savannah. very early in the development of the afghan security forces, much later than we should be. we know that president bush too many those resources and directed them toward iraq. otherwise, the u.s. and afghan forces would be much further along. but this is at the same stage where iraq was several years ago went pentagon was, in fact, saying l...

Inconsequential insect you brush off when it crawls up your picnic table. amazing. but we start tonight with general david petraeus whose wife has to be just about the unluckiest spouse in politics right now. who is back on the hill today before the senate armed services committee for his confirmation hearing to take over the command of u.s. troops in afghanistan from general stanley mcchrystal. it was a relatively prefunctry affair, petraeus reaffirmed over and over there was no delate between ...

In that timeframe, there has been significant governmental progress and security progress in iraq, despite occasional flarups, suicide bombs and the like which everybody believes is the result of some residual al qaeda elements still in iraq but there is one catch there. what they are going to do is they are going to have some u.s. combat forces remain behind but they are going to call them assist and advisory brigades but in case they are needed, in case they are needed to assist the iraqis in ...

To reach anymore consensus than the eight leaders reached yesterday. guys, back to you. >> wendell, before we get you go. did you get a chance to try out the wading pool they spent 55 billion dollars to build there at the g8. >> thats not intended to be waded in. but a background like a lake, but it doesnt look like a lake. >> for 55,000 you cant go in it. >> get in there, wendell. >> thank you, sir. >> thanks, wendell, thanks for the update. okay. so lets talk about the other news of the mornin...