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Operations sometime next year and in washington, catherine herridge on efforts to broker a peace deal with the taliban by moving some of their leaders held at gitmo somewhere else. we'll begin with plans to wind down the combat operation. obviously the stories are not mutually exclusive. that's why we wanted to bring jennifer and catherine on together. jennifer, what are you hearing in the halls of pentagon? >> reporter: there is no good explanation from the pentagon why defense secretary leon panetta decided to make proannouncement on route to brussels, about the end of nato's combat role in ...

a new front in the battle for the republican presidential nomination, nevada, which holds its caucuses this coming saturday. mitt romney is there along with newt gingrich and ron paul. instead of relishing his victory, a huge victory in the florida primary last night, romney and his team are now in full damage control mode after something romney said right here on cnn. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is in las vegas with us. she's watching what's going on. what's going on with mitt romney, dana? >> reporter: well, wolf, i think we've auld had something like this happ...

Care about as far as its impact on our society. >> wes, you and i have talked about this an awful lot. we hear about cuts of the defense, we hope that doesn't go after benefits for our veterans. but we know that the government's not enough, we need organizations like this one to help take care of these guys. >> that's right. taking care of veterans is not a 2012 issue. taking care of veterans is something we're going to deal with decades to come. we've had over 2 million people serve in iraq or afghanistan, any time you put them in harm's way, understand these are also some of the things that ...

>> one thing i'm concerned about you talked about the president going to the department of defense in the pentagon. we're not talking about a coherent national security strategy. what the president laid out is very dangerous and it really does show incompetence in understanding the national security strategy. he did not talk about how we go forward on the 21st century battlefield. the ability to engage, deter and strike the enemy when necessary. we cannot sit around and say we won't fight a second combat operation. because the enemy has a vote in this. what we need to be able to do is sit down...

>> one thing i'm concerned about you talked about the president going to the department of defense in the pentagon. we're not talking about a coherent national security strategy. what the president laid out is very dangerous and it really does show incompetence in understanding the national security strategy. he did not talk about how we go forward on the 21st century battlefield. the ability to engage, deter and strike the enemy when necessary. we cannot sit around and say we won't fight a second combat operation. because the enemy has a vote in this. what we need to be able to do is sit down...