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Article. number one. according to sources, you write, familiar with the meeting, mcchrystal thought obama looked uncomfortable and intimidated by the room full of military brass. that was -- without specifics, who told you that? >> without specifics, who told me that? >> larry: that's a cute way -- >> -- mcchrystal -- people very close to general mcchrystal and confirmed with a number of people very close to him. so i am very confident in my sourcing there. >> larry: on the first one-on-one meeting, you say it was a ten-minute photo op. obama clearly didn't know anything about him who he was. ...

Looming deadline that's sort of hanging around the necks of our troops of july 2011, but whether or not this policy can succeed when we're telling our enemy when we're going to leave the battlefield. basically, mcchrystal had to wait four months to meet with the president. when he did, it was a scolding session in europe on air force one. as the author said, it had been -- obama has only visited iraq once sinces the war started. is he paying the kind of attention that our generals crave for something as important as afghanistan? i think that's the frustration mcchrystal expressed that needs to...

Serious problems with it. one of the main ones being the relationship between the military and civilian side. but i think if you read the article, it's not so much about general mcchrystal, it's about using general mcchrystal to look at some of the wider policy problems. and as the gentleman mentioned, the sort of inflammatory comments that were said, get at these very real and very serious tensions between the civilian side and military side. >> larry: we'll get the thoughts of peter barnhart and john saltz when we come back. don't go away one word turns innovative design

>> larry: good evening. michael hastings is a contributor to "rolling stone" magazine. he's author of the article the runaway general. that article will be out on the magazine stands friday. it led to general mcchrystal's resignation. he's also written "i lost my love in baghdad." this is his first on-camera interview about the uproar that his piece has caused. president obama has nominated us, the u.s. central command general, david petraeus, to replace general stanley mcchrystal as the top commander in afghanistan. let's take a look at the president's remarks earlier today. then we'll talk w...

But i think if you read the article, it's not so much about general mcchrystal, it's about using general mcchrystal to look at some of the wider policy problems. and as the gentleman mentioned, the sort of inflammatory comments that were said, get at these very real and very serious tensions between the civilian side and military side. >> larry: we'll get the thoughts of peter beinart and when we come back. don't go away. a car that keeps going, when others might quit. a car that stands strong... when you need it most. and expects to handle the unexpected. at chevrolet, we created a team of re...