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in afghanistan and the white house have sort of been saying for some period of time that, you know, this is not going to mark some huge change in strategy. they used the word "diagnostic" in a briefing i attended today with senior administration officials, meaning that this is a status report, somebody in the meeting described it as an annual report, this is not, you know, a change of direction, more of an assessment of where we are. i don't think there are any big surprises in the report, but in the briefing, there's some -- some of the things that came out which i think are important, tony, a recognition that the pakistanis have done little to go after the haqqani network that's housing the taliban. they have done nothing to go after the group which has killed 200 approximately sillance in mumbai back in '08. they have done little against the afghan fall ban, which is head quartered in pakistan.
shooting, investigators now say the gunman planned the attack. you have certainly by now seen the video. but it's the spectators inside that room that make this remarkable. >> you could tell by the look in his eyes that there was going to be some killing going on. >> reporter: even with a gun pointed right at him, school superintendent bill husfelt tries to engage a man who had disrupted a florida school board meeting with spray paint, hiss grievances and his 9 millimeter gun. >> i said we need a half cent sales tax in the very beginning. i campaigned on that. another board member tries to address the gunman's other complaints, his wife had been fired, he said. >> please, talk to us, if i can help get your wife a job somewhere else, i'll be glad to do that. >> reporter: the superintendent tells the gunman, i'm the only
committed to progress and to peace, and we will continue to do everything in our power to ensure the security and the safety of the american people. so with that, vice president biden and myself will depart, and i'm going to turn it over to secretaries clinton, gates as well as vice chairman cartwright and they'll be able to answer your question and give you a more detailed briefing. thank you very much. >> good morning. i appreciate very much the president's words about ambassador holbrook. it was a week ago this morning that he and i, members of our team were meeting about this review and the conclusions to be drawn. as many have observed, he was certainly a giant of diplomacy,
the agenda, they were doing some remodeling , i was going to move to a different building, i still want to go there, i want to go to the pre-k playground, they play rough here, i don't want to be here anymore. i called my immediate supervise dr. haley to see if he needed me at the meeting. he said no. and then the secretary called me and they said no, i said you know? i'm just going to go by there, because i've just got a feeling they need me in the board memro to answer those questions and it wasn't two minutes until i was in a gun battle. >> one of my people called me on my cell phone and said there's a man in the building with a gun. i done a peekaboo into the room the first time. just wanted to get an assessment, see what was going on. drew the guy's attention to me. i was hoping to get him to come to me, to come out of the
>> right now sergeant shorter, you can see that's frank wharton right there, are about to head outside the wire for their first time on foot patrol. so we'll be going along with them. >> if you haven't done so, lock and load. it's gametime now. >> right up here. >> there's some guys that way. >> reporter: our first stop outside the wire is a meeting with the village elders but secure is such that you really have to have troops surrounding you in order just to get to the location. >> i need shooters on this side, you need eyes on every possible direction. >> reporter: inside, shorter's superior officers are trying to build bridges with afghan elders. some are taliban sympathizers, demanding the release of afghan prisoners. >> we have six prisoners. >> i know you guys are all vouching that they are innocent.
bomb a detroit-bound plane last may. a woman who shot up a florida school board meeting said that her husband had lost all hope. duke's wife says he was in despair because she lost her teaching job. >> as close as he was, if he really wanted to shoot somebody, they would have already been dead. he was wanting them all to be underneath that counter so that if stray bullets were flying that they would be underneath that counter. >> the man who brought down the gunman, security guard mike jones will talk to us in about 20 minutes. >