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President he had taken the first steps on long journey toward democracy but later said his visit wasnt to reward those steps but instead to encourage more. >> flickers of progress that we have seen must not be extinguished. they must be strengthened. they must become a shine north star for all this nations people. >> on this day, burmese authorities released dozens of political prisoners and with hundreds still in jails. some u.s. lawmakers feel be obamas visit was premature. on a trip aimed to ...

Too much, but its spending time together, so that they gain the kind of prepare that allows them to disagree without being disagreeable or ugly to one another. and the second -- the last i would say is look for the consensus first. thats what i always try to do, and i worked, you know, tremendously with both democrats and republicans, but looking to see where we had the consensus, where we agreed, and build outward from that to get something that will move us forward and dont and it to be a work...

Suspending most joint military operations with afghan forces following a space of insider attacks that killed six nato members this weekend. on sunday before the suspension was announced chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general dempsey said commanders have been trying to stop the green on blue attacks adding, quote -- joining us now, nbc news military retired general barry mccaffrey. great to have you on the program. >> good to be with you, alex. >> a lot going on in the region and more bro...

Improved significantly in recent years. the police is still a work in progress, although the nato command saluted the police over the last 24 hours for successfully breaking up demonstrations because of the film. nonetheless these green on blue attacks are undermining this partnership between the international community of the united states and afghanistan. theyve been successfully taking measures to deal with these. ultimately, its poor vetting of the individuals who have been brought into thes...

Cairo. we are talking about the size of the protests there. it does seem to be smaller tonight than it was last night. you see some kids throwing rocks and bottles. i am interested, michael, do you draw a parallel with what is happening now in cairo to 1979. there are similarities on what was going on in tehran in 1979 and what was going on a little bit in cairo right now? >>guest: well, in some ways we have been lucky here. the egyptian opposition, although it is still a work in progress, has p...

>> you know, i dont think that we would consider them an ally, but we dont consider them an enemy. they are a new government that is trying to find its way. they were democratically elected. i think that we are going to have to see how they respond to this incident, how they respond to, for example, maintaining the peace treaty with israel. so far, at least, what weve seen is that in some cases, theyve said the right things and taken the right steps. no others, how theyve responded to various ev...

Wouldnt consider him an ally, i wouldnt consider him an enemy. what does that make the egyptian president? >> well, i think its a work in progress, which is very realistic in terms of where the situation is today. essentially the united states has made a bet, a big bet, a gamble, but theres not a lot of alternative, to see whether its possible to engage with a democratically elected muslim brotherhood president whose ideology is antithetical to the united states but whose pragmatism, his need to...

Attacked us on 9/11. its a presidential election year. its a year when one of the wars we launched after 9/11, the one that actually had a connection to 9/11, is a war thats still going on, but the other long war we launched after 9/11 has been ended in iraq. and all of those variables factor into decisions about how we mark this day as americans. but also how our leaders or our would be leaders mark it. how we commemorate 9/11 is a work in progress. we saw today a decision by the white house an...

Attacked us on 9/11. its a presidential election year. its a year when one of the wars we launched after 9/11, the one that actually had a connection to 9/11, is a war thats still going on, but the other long war we launched after 9/11 has been ended in iraq. and all of those variables factor into decisions about how we mark this day as americans. but also how our leaders or our would be leaders mark it. how we commemorate 9/11 is a work in progress. we saw today a decision by the white house an...

To commemorate the 11th anniversary of this. it has been over a year now since the united states killed osama bin laden. the head of the group that attacked us on 9/11. its a presidential election year. its a year when one of the wars we launched after 9/11, the one that actually had a connection to 9/11, is a war thats still going on, but the other long war we launched after 9/11 has been ended in iraq. and all of those variables factor into decisions about how we mark this day as americans. bu...