will the president go into specifics in terms of funding, keeping 10,000 u.s. troops next year, 5,000 the year after, that's not cheap. it's going to cost several billion dollars. is the president going to explain to the american public when he goes out there and makes this announcement how much taxpayers will have to shell out to keep those troops in afghanistan? do we have any clue on that? >> i don't think we're going to hear dollar figures from the president at 2:45 this afternoon. i think he wants to lay out this case that the u.s. needs to continue this presence in afghanistan and, keep in mind, this is a presence the president is reluctant to have there. he campaigned in 2008 that he wanted to bring the wars in iraq and afghanistan to conclusion. what he is doing here, as you look at this plan, wolf, is this war in afghanistan is coming to a full stop by the end of his administration. because the next president will have already been elected by the end of 2016 and will be taking