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Didn't know about mcchrystal's background. that's it. >> and intimidated by the military establishment that he was meeting for the first time. and there was also a line about vice president, who is that? >> that is directly attributed to mcchrystal. >> bill: it's attributed to him but they are joshing around and it's set up like mcchrystal has one view of afghanistan and biden has another. we'll understand that. that's on the record. when biden name is mention mcchrystal just who is that? come on. >> bill, the important thing here is from the white house perspective is not only the facts on th...

President seemed unprepared. didn't know about mcchrystal's background. that's it. >> and intimidated by the military establishment that he was meeting for the first time. and there was also a line about vice president, who is that? >> that is directly attributed to mcchrystal. >> bill: it's attributed to him but they are joshing around and it's set up like mcchrystal has one view of afghanistan and biden has another. we'll understand that. that's on the record. when biden name is mention mcchrystal just who is that? come on. >> bill, the important thing here is from the white house perspectiv...

Background. that's it. >> and intimidated by the military establishment that he was meeting for the first time. and there was also a line about vice president, who is that? >> that is directly attributed to mcchrystal. >> bill: it's attributed to him but they are joshing around and it's set up like mcchrystal has one view of afghanistan and biden has another. we'll understand that. that's on the record. when biden name is mention mcchrystal just who is that? come on. >> bill, the important thing here is from the white house perspective is not only the facts on the ground, which are less than e...

Military. >> the president is not interested in reigniting the debate about afghanistan. he is invested in this strategy. this is the strategy they are not going to do another review at this point until the end of the year. they want to see how kandahar goes. they're not -- yes, they have delayed this offensive, and it is not in what they had planned on early on. yes, marjah, as general mcchrystal called it, a bleeding ulcer in that article, which is probably the two most important words as far as the war in afghanistan is going that were written in that piece when you think about that aspect ...

Record? were they comfortable voicing those things knowing you were a reporter? >> -- before i began the profile. and it was my understanding that it was all on the record. and that's why i continued to report on them for the following number of weeks. >> michael, i know that in the piece -- i mean general mcchrystal comes across as incredibly impolitic but not in an unflattering light. you definitely portray him as a true believer in counterinsurgency. but counterinsurgency means military force combined with a lot of non-military force. and he and his inner circle talked complete smack about ...