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Troops. on the other hand, you have people like vice president joe biden, secretary gates saying, it's not going to be a huge number, and it will be conditions-based. so the report you just mentioned highlights this tension that exists, and of course the military saying, we need more time. general petraeus just starting within the last month, in the middle would argue, we've only really been doing things right for a short time. you've got to give us an opportunity to succeed. politically at home, more and more people curious, wondering whether or not this is really going to be worth it for u.s...

Surprised if it doesn't come up in some way, shape or form, obviously. bill burton, the deputy press secretary, got a lot of questions, making for some walkward moments for him since he's talking about his boss. at one point, some reporter asked, do you think robert gibbs' job is safe, which is kind of surreal for somebody subordinate to robert gibbs. but that being aside, gibbs comes back today and i think it would be pretty likely that some people will ask what he meant by those comments and whether he wishes to retract them in a significant way. >> i would expect knowing robert gibbs, he's ...

National security advisers. secretary of state, general ray odierno joining from iraq. this was one of the primary issues on the table today, this formation of the government as well as how things are going with this drawdown of force. >> meanwhile, just posted to the web, in a "new york times" article on the efforts by the u.s. military to try to prolong or minimize the withdrawal, the july 2011 date of withdrawal from afghanistan, savannah, the argument being that they're just beginning to make progress. it's been slower than they expected. that this is too quick a deadline, but at the same ...

Burris, who isn't running for re-election. but that's kind of the backstory on this seat. for it to be so tightly contested, as we understand it is. he's running against mark kirk. this is one of the seats they're watching closely. >> we're still waiting on that jury that's been deliberating in the blagojevich case. thank you so much, savannah. and of course, join savannah and chuck todd weekday mornings at 9:00 eastern every day on nbc. the daily rundown. and democratic senator, jim webb, a member of the armed services and foreign relations committee joins us now live from capitol hill. sen...

The next vote will be very interesting. the house puts in add-ones in there regarding education and border defense. there's a possibility he could lose a significant amount of democrats on the next war funding bill. remember secretary gates says they need this legislation passed before august or else the military will have to start taking financials out of its day-to-day operations and put it toward the war effort. at the end of the day, i will say if you talk to democrats privately, the patience is wearing thing in regards to the afghanistan war. a throat of folks thought that president obama...