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Yesterday sh at a news conference with russian president medvedev, the president was focused on the war in afghanistan insisting the change of commander does not mean a change in strategy. the president dismissed suggests that it would shake up his time for withdrawal u.s. troops set to begin next summer. >> we did not say that starting july in 2011 suddenly there would be no troops from the united states or allied countries in afghanistan. we didnt say we would be switching off the lights and c...

Yesterday at a news conference with russian president the president was focused on the war in afghanistan insisting the change of commander does not mean a change in strategy. the president dismissing suggestions that the leadership shake-up would affect his timetable for the withdrawal of u.s. troops set to begin next summer. >> we did not say that starting july in 2011, suddenly, there would be no troops from the united states or allied countries in afghanistan. we didnt say we would be switch...

Drawdown of troops but the president is clearly giving the new guy some wiggle room. >> we did not say that starting july 2011 suddenly there would be no troops from the united states or allied countries in afghanistan. we didnt say wed be switching out the lights and closing the door behind us. we said as we begin a transition phase in which the afghan government is taking on more and more responsibility. >> dan is a former foreign policy adviser to president george w. bush. hes now senior fell...

Turning over more and more security that we have built-up. but we are not sud len -- suddenly as of july 2011 finished with afghanistan. >> today, he was asked a similar question. >> i did not say we would be switching off lights and closing the door behind us, but begin a transition phase in which the afghan government is taking on more and more responsibilities. >> well, john, how much wiggle room is he giving himself to step away from the policy? >> he, the president, is softer there than he ...

Momentum, and that beginning next year, we would begin a transition phase in which the afghanistan government is taking more and more responsibility for its own security. heres what we did not say last year. we did not say that starting july 2011, suddenly there would be no troops prosecute united states or allied countries in afghanistan. we didnt say wed be switching off the lights and closing the door behind us. we said wed begin a transition phase in which the afghan government is taking on ...

First place is because 3,000 americans were killed from an attack launched in that region. were not going to have that repeated. in order to achieve that, we have to make sure that we have a stable afghan government and we also have to make sure that we have got a pakistani government that is working effectively with us to dismantle these networks. what we then said was we would put in additional troops to provide the time and the space for the afghan government to build up its capacities to hol...

Security. heres what we did not say last year. we did not say that starting july 2011, suddenly there would be no troops from the united states or allied countries in afghanistan. we didnt say we would be switching off the lights and closing the door behind us, we said we would begin a transition phase in which the afghan government is taking on more and more responsibility. that is the strategy that was put forward. what we have also said is that in december of this year. a year after the strat...

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The president says i wont fire mueller. is that the end of that, judge? >> i dont know if its tend of it. i hope. if he does fire bob mueller the investigation doesnt go away it ratchets up and may give the president some personal gratification to fire his tormenter, some new tormenter will come into play. it comes back because of the perception that bob mueller has a political axe to grind rather than a legal one. that perception is widely held among the presidents supporters. >> now the emails...

The populations are starting to drop down and we are knee a transition phase. were looking, where we can safely allow people to return to the burn areas. >> harris: talk about where this is spreading. i told our audience from what i could see on the map and im familiar with santa barbara, went to college up there at ucsb. when they started evacuations, mostly that was for smoke. but tell me where this fire line stretches, with these six different fires. we have a map up for people, too. >> the m...