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Meeting right now? >> i'm sure they are debating the strategy, how well it will have to work in order to achieve what we wanted to. without a question, the president made a decision, i thi think, in letting them know, one, we have a general that broke the military code. where you go into someone's room and senior to you and you might let them know that you don't like the cut of their jib. when you step outside, you -- you don't talk about him and demand the same of your troops. general mcchrystal broke that. at the same time, this president has to make a decision. that a man who was very integ...

Pivotal moment there. u.s. and nato forces gearing up for a major offensive against the ta the taliban. president obama is meeting with his national security team at the white house. nbc's mike viqueira is at the white house. jim miklaszewski is at the pentagon. nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell working her sources for the latest. also, joining us, military panel. general barry mccaffrey, colonel jack jacobs. let me start with you, mike. now that we heard this meeting is under way, who is there and maybe more importantly, who is not there. >> that's the question. we do no...

Administration. and his allies. and the -- his ability to coordinate policy. it is a problem. >> coordinate policy. yet, you have the leaders in pakistan and -- apparently who are talking to special envoy holbrook. you have hamid karzai. how much of a concern is that to you that you have someone here on stanley mcchrystal, somebody that's developed a day-to-day relationship with these folks? if -- the goal here is to get a stable government in afghanistan, how much of a concern is that? >> well, it is a bug concern. i mean, there's no question about mcchrystal not only an unbelieverably effect...

That's the larger question of the dysfunction on this foreign policy team regarding the afghanistan strategy. and in -- you know, robert gates, secretary gates, secretary clinton have been strong supporters of general mcchrystal. that said, there is a lot of, you know, dysfunction on the teams, the people in the field, holbrook, who is not always that easy to -- in terms of his relationship was other in the field. that's been one of the continuing problems. if nothing else, this could be an opportunity to try to sort through some of those problem because we have more than 90,000 troops in the ...

We are back live here at msnbc headquarters waiting for word on the state of general stanley mcchrystal. will he be able to keep his job? right now a key meeting going on at the white house. the national security team. it followed two other key meetings. general stanley mcchrystal's first this morning going to the pentagon. and talking to the defense secretary. and then heading to the white house for a meeting in a half hour with the president. we are back with general mccaffrey, and from washington, mark whitaker. our washington bureau chief. and general mccaffrey, when everything is disstill...