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With a cell phone. yes. on and on and on. it's all sort of hollywood fantasy. but when you're you said fire, a running gun battle and throwing explosives out of a car, lighting them with a cigarette lighter, with i don't know how they lit them. and these things go off, it just doesn't happen. unless you've had some sort of experience, or you've been in a combat area. the special forces will tell you that most people freeze when shooting starts. these people didn't. they ran, they moved. they evaded. they held back a police pursuit. they had some sort of either ice water running through their b...

Level. we had to put all of that on fast forward. jenna: we were hering from the air force chief of staff tracking about future conflict but we're very much in a war right now and the military has to deal with budgets all the time when you're in a combat area like afghanistan. in your experience, nearly 40 years in the army, what happens during a time like this when there is some sort of budgetary crisis or concern in washington but you're on the battlefield? >> well, what they will try to do with the forces on the battlefield is continue to provide them with the priorities they need in terms ...

and there's that clock that we speak of. just under two days away from a time when we're told by the treasury, this country will not be able to pay all of its bills. so let me give you the rundown of what's happening today. the house gets to work around noontime today. that's just about two hours from now. after some debate, they'll vote on a proposal from senate majority leader, harry reid. that proposal is expected to fail. then on the senate side, they open debate on that same reid bill at 1:00 eastern time this afternoon. the debate there could go on for some 12 hours. now, it ma...

Canals. they report their troops have discovered several -- away from the combat area, three american servicemen were reported killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle. >> with regard to this particular strategy and this military push, no kuz yulties is excellent, but they have other ways of measuring success. have they gotten that word out? >> they have. this is a four-phase battle. phase one is to shape the battlefield. phase two, which we're seeing now is to attack and clear the battlefield. phase three is to hold it and phase four is is to rebuild the infrastructure of the area and...

You this morning rnths hi, good morning. >> you know what critics said about president bush, they said he didn't have an exit strategy in iraq and now people are starting to get the sense that president obama doesn't necessarily know how to define success and move forward. do you agree with that? >> yeah, it's the appearance of both. i think it's very accurate. both statements. we've got eight years of war going on and the problems after 9/11, to kill bin laden and let him go away and omar and the rest and we stayed and fumbled around with a thing called nation building which we have never don...