CNN CNN Newsroom December 1, 2009
in just nine hours the president will explain how he plans to finish the job in afghanistan. let's get straight to white house correspondent suzanne malveaux. i would imagine at this time the president is putting the finishing touches on tonight's big speech. >> reporter: he's practicing that speech obviously. this is going to be a very important moment for the president to sell the war to the american people. we do know -- i spoke with robert gibbs earlier this morning -- this is going to be an accelerated timetable for deploying troops. robert gibbs said earlier this morning the fa...