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Pakistan's disaster response, you know, can continue in light of this threat. >> you mentioned the u.s. military role. the u.s. military has delivered 1.8 million pounds of relief supplies to pakistan and has rescued more than 6900 flood victims, jon. >> jon: how much of the concern here has to deal doo with the killings of those christian aide workers earlier this month. >> jon, several u.s. government officials i have spoken with made specific reference to that attack, killing 10 aide workers, christian aid workers who were trying to bring medical care to people in remote afghan villages. th...

Air. aide workers calling for more choppers to help get supplies to these people in desperate need. this as pakistan tries to prepare for more health ends. more than 3.5 million children said to be at risk of water born diseases. many also face malnutrition and we're told infections have been spreading in those flooded areas. according to the reporting of the united nations, the crisis has affected now more than 17 million people. the top republican in the house of representatives who, by the way, very much would like to be the speaker of the house calling for president obama to lay down the l...

And get a pantech messaging phone free after mail-in rebate. topping the headlines on "andrea mitchell reports," the bodies of four american aide workers executed in afghanistan last week are on their way now toward dover air base aboard a military aircraft. the u.s. embassy in kabul says that the bodies of two other americans killed in that taliban ambush will be buried in afghanistan according to the wishes of their families. food prices in pakistan have now quadrupled after floods have devastated that nation, killing more than 1,300 people, leaving millions more homeless. the united nat...

Petraeus hopes his time and efforts with the media will have that effect. americans are war weary and now they want to hear from the commander on the ground. >> they are war weary and, yet, "the new york times" is reporting that the general will cite initial progress and say things won't get better until 30,000 more troops get to afghanistan in a month. so, i think the question a lot of americans have is, you know, given what we've seen over the last several months, in particular, the deadliest months we've had since the war began nine years ago, the killing of six american aide workers and fo...

With fresh and deadly violence in afghanistan today on the heels of the ten relief workers killed just trying to do their jobs, selling the war in afghanistan to a skeptical american public may be mission impossible. but over the next week, general david petraeus will try to do just that. he's launching an all-out media blitz to drum up support for the war. lieutenant general william boykin joins me now. welcome, general. >> thank you very much, chris. >> this media blitz was planned before the murder of those aide workers and from the very beginning we said that general petraeus had two jobs....