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No intention of picking iraqs leaders but u.s. officials are clearly losing patience with embattled prime minister nuri al maliki. here is more of my conversation with the president. >> reporter: does the situation in iraq at all make you consider afghanistan differently? especially as it pertains to taking the troops out by 2016. >> no. i think that what we have done, assuming that the afghans sign a security agreement that gives our troops immunity, which the iraqis decline to do, were prepare...

Agreement. >> i felt that the thing, to me, the thing that was most promising was the report saying the maliki government would not give troops immunity, because of the price they would pay with the iraqi people. >> and that means the iraqi policy is working better, and matt said maliki is just a less brutal strong man that hussein, and i dont think thats right because there are politics -- >> yeah, i recognize that and its a great point. as i said, this is not saddam hussein. but there are trou...

robin wright. im joe johns in for candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." the white house has led a very public campaign for the payroll tax cut extension which would save average and working americans $1,000 in higher taxes next year. after weeks of negotiations, a break-through. the senate yesterday voted to extend the tax cut and unemployment benefits for just two months. the house still has to act. president obama seems satisfied but he let congress know he is not back...

im joe johns in for candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." the white house has led a very public campaign for the payroll tax cut extension which would save average and working americans $1,000 in higher taxes next year. after weeks of negotiations, a break-through. the senate yesterday voted to extend the tax cut and unemployment benefits for just two months. the house still has to act. president obama seems satisfied but he let congress know he is not backing off a full-y...

The exact number was never made very clear, beyond 2011. as a trip wire. as a safeguard in case things went wrong and the civil war came back. and the problem was, and this i think benefits the iraqi people much more than the u.s. would have gotten a benefit from this. the problem with certain iraqi politicians particularly muqtada al sadr, thought this was giving into the occupation, extending the occupation and prime minister maliki was getting beat up domestically over this and the u.s. was p...

Behoove the united states. this was a deal that would have helped the iraqis more than the united states. if they dont want to give troops immunity or the latitude to operate, leaving them there seems indefensible. >> you painted a picture of a very fragile iraq. people look back at this and you bring up the loss of life of american solders and iraqis. $700 billion spend over a decade and you have people watching and hearing this and saying it was a failure. >> people may say that. this is the m...