Petraeus In News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Think what is important today is we have 100,000 american troops and another 40,000 nato troops. we've just put petraeus in. let petraeus give an assessment. this is not just a foreign policy diplomatic thing. this is a can we do something in the next two years to basically stabilize this place for long term? it's not going to be iraq. it didn't begin with the foundation that iraq had. but can we at least stabilize it, build a military that can hold some of this taliban from coming back? if we can do that it's worth while but you are going to find republicans starting to join a lot of democrat...

A huge topic. and now, general petraeus needs to be confirmed, right? >> his confirmation is not in question at this point, but what is interesting is with mcchrystal out and petraeus in, it has cast a new spotlight on afghanistan as a whole. people are looking and saying what is happening there? you saw the president over and over again saying this is a personnel change, not a policy change, but there are a lot of people that think the policy ought to change, and afghanistan is looking more and more like something that cannot be won. we will talk about that with centers jack reid. increasingl...

To use the church's name on the banner. >> what did i think? hell no. and i was angry, angry, and how dare you? for me, the blank banner stands for we have been silenced, you know, or silenced. this year we are silenced. we have been stripped of our identity. >> reporter: how will the gay parishioners handle the parade. and what does it say about ministering to gay catholics? we will let you know what happened during the live coverage of the march today. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. it's tough to keep up. you need a scorecard out these days to keep up with the political players shifting a...

Lindsey graham. welcome back. >> thank you. >> chris: let's start with afghanistan. at the end of this week with mccrystal out and petraeus in, senator feinstein what, do we need to do differently to win the war? >> well, i don't pretend to be a general. i would say this, 40% of the territory is either taliban controlled or contested. in kandahar, it's probably 50% of the area. the taliban, in my view, is one part terrorist group, one part narco cartel today. afghanistan is still producing 90% of the opium/heroin in the world. it is a big problem. and i think that the surge really has to be br...

Jindal's responsibility? >> ultimately it's bp's responsibility, the federal government and the president has said, he's the one in charge, but as we saw with hurricane katrina, there are kind of mixed responsibilities here. in a case though like the sand berms where bobby jindal wanted the sand berms built, but had to go to the federal government for environmental okay, for permission, you'd have to say that the responsibility in that case for any delay rests with the federal government not with the state government. >> chris, who do you have on your show? >> well, we're going to be talking, ...