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Afghanistan as we drawdown forces? did his continued imprisonment create a heightened security threat to our men and women in uniform? >> well, in a sense, congresswoman, as i answered in a previous question about putting at risk american lives to capture, not to capture but to get him back, and to do that if it would have taken another course of action or if we would have taken another option. that would have put our men and women at risk. our men and women are at risk carrying out this one mis...

Demographics of the military, and he is going to look culturally and demographically quite differently, but also, will he leave behind a strategic way of for good or better or leaner or smaller and a different warfare? >> yes, he is. it is not his own doing, but it is the trajectory of the foreign national security and we are gining to see the end of land mass wars as we drawdown in iraq and afghanistan, and for the peace and justice community and those who are citizens, we have to think of enga...

President hamid karzai at the white house as we speak. the two leaders are discussing a range of issues, including the future role for u.s. troops in afghanistan after the war formally ends in 2014. u.s. commanders have proposed keeping anywhere from a few thousand troops to upwards of 20,000 after that date. but the president is reportedly also considering a so-called zero option, leaving no troops. michael hanlon is a senior fellow and foreign policy studies at the brookings insurance taoufplg...

jurys hand. what they tell us about the deliberations. we begin this evening with what you might call the facebook hangover. after the hype and buildup after the initial offering of stock, trading started late, price didnt sky rock and facebook closed essentially flat, just $0.23 higher than the opening. at least facebook was up. dow industrials, nasdaq, s&p 500 closed out their worst week of the year. discuss with business correspondent ali velshi. lets start with facebook. what hap...

Shape or form. the agreement itself is actually a very sort of broad sweeping document. there isnt much specific detail in. what it does address are these key irissues. security, politics and democracy and the economic os spebgts, how much money effectively the united states will give to afghanistan to support the security mission here. how many troops will actually stay on. those specificee tails actually havent been hammered out in terms much the money amount and the amount of troops, that wil...

For selfdetermination than our leaving iraq to its people. that says something about who we are. because of you in afghanistan weve broken the momentum of the taliban. because of you weve gun a transition to the afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there, and around the globe as we drawdown in iraq, we have gone after al-qaida so that terrorists who threaten america will have no safe-haven and osama bin laden will never again walk the face of this earth: so here is what i wan...

house republicans attached unrelated projects to the bill that democrats dont want. the cut expires december 31st and without an extension the typical worker will get hit with $1,000 tax increase in the new year. newt gingrich has lost his iowa campaign director. craig bergman has stepped down over some comments he reportedly made about mormons. the des mois register says he called mormonism a cult. two of gingrichs rivals rather in the republican presidential race, mitt romney and j...

shows the moment of impact. 76 people were killed in the bombing and shooting rampage on an island near oslo. survivors are describing the terror. >> when the shooter got closer, i was left with only one question. how would i like to die. i mean, let him shoot me or shall i just drown in trying to escape. the violence just wont stop in syria. at least eight more people including an 11-year-old boy were shot and killed by security forces outside damascus today. that is according to a ...

Should say that participated in that raid, including the s.e.a.l.s that were in the compound. he comes out, speaks at ft. worth campbell, 101st airborne, many just returned from afghanistan. part of the surge, remember, there are a lot of issues in the balance here. we expect the president to rally these troops to say, yes, the killing of bin laden a major victim in the war but the war continues in afghanistan even as we drawdown in iraq and libya. dylan. >> thank you very much. joining the conv...

The pickings. >> we hope the best happen and at this point i think the president needs and his advisors, military need to make it clear what is going on on the ground. they shouldnt wait until the last minute to say we have to stay. >> shannon: charles, quickly? >> president shifting the focus and energy on to afghanistan out of iraq. the cost of success in afghanistan is higher than the cost of success in iraq where were on the cusp of success, but we could lose it all if we drawdown too quickl...