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Congressman mcgovern on the hill? >> i don't believe it is. i don't believe a majority of democrats are. we had 60% of the democratic caucus vote with me on an amendment calling for the formulation of an exit strategy in afghanistan. the speaker of the house who traditionally doesn't vote actually voted with us. so the majority of the democratic party wants us to figure out a way to get out of this thing. we've been there almost ten years. we have lost thousands of brave men and women. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a corrupt government and nation building over in afg...

Hill? >> i don't believe it is. i don't believe a majority of democrats are. we had 60% of the democratic caucus vote with me on an amendment calling for the formulation of an exit strategy in afghanistan. the speaker of the house actually voted with us. so the majority of the democratic priority wants us to figure out a way to get out of this thing. we've been there almost ten years. we have lost thousands of brave men and women. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a corrupt government and nation building in afghanistan when we should be doing it here in the united states...

Already there should be allowed to fight nor aggressively. i spoke a short time ago wiaski them about the president's assessment. >> short answer is that what we saw yesterday was a change in personnel but not a change in policy. >> congressman mcgovern, is that good enough for you? >> it isn't. i have great admiration for general petraeus and president obama but i think our policy is flawed. all of the things we were told seven months ago were going to happen today haven't turned out the way the administration told us they would. here we are to consider another supplemental. we're in a war th...

Particular on targeting wasteful spending? >> yeah, oklahoma senator tom coburn introduced an amendment calling for hundreds of dupe cat it didn't go as far as he want, but commission the gao, department of the office, to research that. and said that the gao has already done some of that writing quote. in 2000 the gao published a report that found 69 early education programs were being administered by nine agencies and warned that such duplication would lead to ineffectiveness of the program's origin tent. this time they were administered by ten agencies instead of nine. mccluskey says that co...

Congressman mcgovern on the hill? >> i don't believe it is. i don't believe a majority of democrats are. we had 60% of the democratic caucus vote with me on an amendment calling for the formulation of an exit strategy in afghanistan. the speaker of the house who traditionally doesn't vote actually voted with us. so the majority of the democratic party wants to us figure out a way to get out of this thing. we've been there almost ten years. we have lost thousands of brave men and women. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a corrupt government and nation building over in afg...