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getting a grip on a come pli indicated on u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and former director of intelligence dennis player. then, the push to november. anita dunn and former republican committee chairman ed gilespi. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. rick santorum has a sharper edge to him. he understands he needs to change the dynamic. the problem is, the republicans in this country are thinking about putting somebody with the same positions as president up. if this is about tweedle dee and dweedl dumb, we will lose. santorum s real weakness is his plan economic illiteracy, inexcusable, the worst idea of any gop candidate. joining me now, former senator rick santorum. thanks so much for being with us. i want to start out by asking about the new ad that mitt romney has up and running in illinois where you will next meet in puerto rico. he said, listen, you ve never run a business and you ve never run a state. and so how can you possibly be an ex ....
neighbors are saying. he was super fun to hang around with, kind of the life of the party kind of guy. and later in the hour, we ll talk to general spider marx about why he thinks obama s fate hangs in afghan president karzai s hands. plus, what is hollywood hunk george clooney doing in hand cuffs? hello. we ll tell you. this morning a soldier accused of killing 16 gachb civilians in a house-to-house ram pain is back in the u.s. plane carrying army staff sergeant robert bales arrived in kansas. he s now being held in a private prison krelg at fort leavenworth. neighbors say he s much different from the decorated combat veteran they know. the shooting rampage has sparked a lot of anger. hundreds of protester s marchin, demanding that he be put on trial according to islamic law. they chanted death to america. she s live in kabul, afghanistan, for us. sarah, is it likely that bales will be returned to afghanistan? reporter: not likely at all. how anyone accused i ....
Still being felt. yesterday, president karzai gave that somewhat surprising announcement. he made a statement calling on u.s. forces to be confined to major bases, not to be operating in villages. we ve been told by u.s. officials that the military, however, has not accepted those terms and that the u.s. forces will not be confined to their bases, but will continue operations as normal. richard, it s willie. it s good to see you this morning. i want to ask you about the scene on the ground there in afghanistan. i think a lot of people here in the united states expected protests, rioting, the kind of thing we saw after the koran burning. but looks like we haven t seen that. what s the difference in the distinction there? reporter: we haven t seen that. today is friday, of course, the holy day throughout the muslim world. and there had been concerns that today there could be protests after friday prayers. the friday prayers here have ....
Agers? guest: well, we have seen that in the aftermath of the koran burning. as tragic as this situation was and as you see the turmoil on the ground in afghanistan, it could have been far worse, and what is critically important is the spiral going on and we need to find a way to full back the throttle and see how we can adjust our schedule, as you said, to try to make the move as fast as we can and get to a situation that is more sustainable. shepard: so we can prop up a military we are trying to sustain under a corrupt government that the people don t trust. that sounds like . guest: but we have a shared interest, we have to protect us. shepard: thanks, p.j. a massive clean up is underway ....
Answer than it was even after the koran burning. which it seems was explained reasonably well. about how that happened. and but this is a different thing. our troops are this is a story of the overwhelming burden. and there s this crazy number going around that it s something like one-third of them have had traumatic brain injury. and how do you get sent back into combat with any kind of brain injury? why would we need to do that with anyone who has had any form of brain injury? and so that question that i m asking goes to the question of how long can we continue to do this? and is this what happens when you just stay at war for ten years? is that your sense, quickly, tavis, this changes the sense we look at war? it is. as counterintuitive as it might seem, i hope out of this horrible incident comes a greater appreciation, ....