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Are we in a situation where expectations were set too high? >> that's a good question. i think on either one of these things the time frame -- the time frame on a war in afghanistan, we've been in afghanistan for almost ten years. the president has obviously added a number of new troops both at the beginning of 2009 and certainly last winter and those troops are coming in. this is always going to take some time. we knew it would take some time. sometimes the time for afghanistan or time for financial recovery may not perfectly lineup with the 2010 elections and we understand that. people are f...

>> on a lot of the issues you face right now from the oil spill to the economy to the war in afghanistan, is the president and his team falling short or are we in a situation where expectations were set too high? >> that's a good question. i think on either one of these things the time frame -- the time frame on a war in afghanistan, we've been in afghanistan for almost ten years. the president has obviously added a number of new troops both at the beginning of 2009 and certainly last winter and those troops are coming in. this is always going to take some time. we knew it would take some time...

The president is frustrated that we haven't seen greater recovery efforts, but that doesn't stop us from doing what we know is right, instituting the policies that we know will bring this country back and put it on a pathway forward that lets our economy grow or creates stronger security for our country. >> a few quick ones on the economy. will you let the bush tax cuts expire creating in effect a tax hike on americans? >> the president is not going to in a time of economic crisis raise taxes on the middle class. >> he will not let them expire for the middle class but for wealthier americans? ...

Reached. >> my goodness, the president has gone from 2.25 trillion down to $1 trillion. the republicans have come up quite a bit from where they started. we'll talk to senator capito after those meetings, we'll talk to the white house and we think we can find a pathway forward, we're not that far apart. griff: transportation secretary pete buttigieg also optimistic. >> we've seen a lot of republicans state their interest in doing something real on infrastructure. we've got to see if we can actually get it into enough of an overlapping consensus that we can get a bill done together. the preside...

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