in quite sometime. and what we're seeing is not only meetings with military officials, political officials, advisers, to try and come up with a unified strategy so that when karzai goes home, he goes home feeling connected to washington and that he doesn't do anything surprising. there is a big question mark. when karzai leaves now he is going back to hold this peace conference, this holding some sort of negotiations with the tnl. the u.s. wants to make sure when he goes back and does that with the tnl thaliban that he doesn'e any agreements, since the u.s. has so much commitment in afghanistan, wants to make sure before he goes into these crucial talks that they know what to expect. >> nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel, thank you very much. new photos out that allegedly show a new iphone