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Summoned and fired general stanley mcchrystal as commander in afghanistan and replaced him, of course with david petraeus. it's been 67 days since oil started leaking into the gulf so many now wondering why it's taking so long to fix that spill. former speaker of the house, newt gingrich joins us from washington with his thoughts. good morning to you, speaker. >> good morning. good to be with you. >> do you see any correlation between the two? is it fair to draw a correlation between the two? >> no, the oil spill is more like the entire afghan campaign. general mcchrystal sadly for great leade...

And lindsey graham and others who were key supporters of the general and not rushing to his defense. he does not have support here among those who would expect to rush to defend him publicly. everyone is giving the president right now the space to make this decision. >> richard, to the point of we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, we don't know he is gone, he could come back to the white house. you talk about the fact that you have all these people in key positions who stayed simply because of stanley mcchrystal. in a very real sense, if there is a changeover for people who don't understan...

[ cellphone dings ] [ tires screech ] ♪ we are now just about an hour away from the meeting of the top people in this country, the entire national security team that follows the meeting by this man, general stanley mcchrystal. you see him there getting into the suv after a half hour meeting with the president of the united states. a decision we believe coming within hours about whether or not stanley mcchrystal will continue to be in charge of the war in afghanistan. difficult to overstate the implications of this decision. the meeting that is coming up, critical question again. is he goin...

Dynamic and you see olby and more strict timelines of withdrawal of troops from afghanistan coming out and slamming mcchrystal for his comments. sure, whoever follows mcchrystal certainly his job won't be any easier from a political or military perspective, but if you look at this, the political easy way out for the president would be for him to appear to be standing tough against this perceived insubordination and let him go. >> i want to talk more about that. our whole panel is staying here. who is helping him make this decision and who is he listening to right now? it is d-day for general s...

I don't think we can really overstate the importance of what is going on right now at the white house in terms of afghanistan, our war strategy. general stanley mcchrystal is in there right now, he's with president obama and they're talking about whether or not he's going to keep his job. we're making the assumption he's offered his resignation and we don't know that. what we really don't know is whether the president would accept that resignation. is he going to fire him outright? we're following all the breaking details. coming up, we'll talk to barry mccaffrey who will weigh in. but right...