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Simultaneously announced the withdrawal of troops and gave a specific timetable. was he's enly saying to the terrorists, hey, take a vacation and wait us out and you will win? >> i think so. if you look at robert gates' new book, gates a lot of times tries to have a v it both ways. he shows the president that it is essentially -- in his objections to the military doing their jobs. the military coming in and saying we want to implement the strategy that you have ordered. counter-insurgency strategy but we need this amount of forces to do it. by the way, let's not telegraph our departure date to...

>> many mike rogers, who knows a lot because he has all of the confidential top secret information, he calls president obama's changed strategy on the target strikes as, quote, an utter and complete failureg ame. is he right? >> i think so. even the strategy of relying on drones, which we are now about to lose, but even shifting from that, from a more pervasive approach of gathering intelligence on the ground, operating on the ground, a higher risk strategy that pays higher rewards, that was better because you can't read people's intentions from 30,000 feet. you can't get tips from 30,000 feet...

>> i'm well. let's talk about a couple of individual cases here. let's start in colorado where obamacare is very unpopular. i want to pull up a quinnipiac poll that found 60% opposed it and 37% support it. when you look closely, those that oppose obamacare in colorado include 68% independents, 61% of young adults under the age of 30. so i ask you, how does this impact democratic senator mark udall there of colorado. he's looking to retain his seat. >> these are devastating poll numbers, i think, for obamacare, for president obama and for mark udall. think of colorado as a swing state. it's vot...

On antiobamacare campaigns alone? >> well, if you look at mary landry in louisiana or mark prior in arkansas, a lot of lower income americans who weren't covered. that's the tactic they'll say. they'll say, look, this law isn't perfect, it didn't work, but we voted for something that's going to give you access to health care insurance. that's pretty much all they can say in a state like that. they have a hard time going forward with just an antibe obamacare message. that's changing. you saw tom coburn and mark -- and excuse me warren hatch from utah had their own plan and sort of an obama care...