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Rethinking afghanistan. we're not winning. it's not worth it. i'll read a bit from it, richard. the war in the united states is now fighting in afghanistan is not succeeding and is not worth waging in this way. the time has come to scale back u.s. objectives and sharply reduce u.s. involvement on the ground. afghanistan is claiming too many american lives, requiring too much attention, and absorbing too much resources, the sooner we accept that afghanistan is less a problem to be fixed than a situation to be managed, the better. you start out this piece talking about michael steele's comments ...

Refused. we have come back again and asked him again. career people from the justice department have contacted me. so i agree. i want to see it looked at, but, yet, we have the inspector general, glenn fine, refusing to take a look at it. >> i think that is completely fair. look at it. i think, you know, the charge by the guy adams was, you know, who is a disgruntled employee and has his own set of issues. the charge is that it is a systemic problem that they are systemically not prosecuting cases where blacks are the aggressors, if you want to use that word. if that is the case, if he wants t...

So to an extend, this isn't like something that nobody knows about, that this is a huge organization with many tentacles across the globe and across our country. and isn't that not surprising in light of 9/11? >> it's exactly right. after 9/11, essentially we threw money at this problem. we threw people at this problem and we threw buildings at this problem but it was done without a plan. it just happened and happened and happened. this is the new national security state. we had one national security state for the cold war and things after 1947 the post-9/11 national security state is what "th...

A lot of things on is his list, education stuff and maybe immigration can only be done with more republicans and trade as well. that is more likely to be done with republicans and the majority. you know, i and others here are sometimes suggested that maybe the president doesn't want to keep the majority. he does for a variety of reons he doesn't want subpoena power to the house republicans. again, he is going to say he is proud of these two years and no mistakes were made that he would -- major mistakes were made. the problem he has is these house republicans, they are going into what congress...

Mark halpern? >> i think we knew this is a big operation but the scale of it is amazing. the number of people involved and number of facilities. >> it's fascinating. not surprising but unbelievable fascinating. >> i think the federal government ought to overspend. that's it. >> that, you could make that argument as well. this is part one of three parts and we're going to talk to dana coming up, but she talks to -- and the reporter who co-wrote this with her they talk to people who are tasked with how massive the situation and operation has become. and so it appears they are also reporting on a...