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Reconstruction and development assistance efforts. but now afghan president hamid karzai says the security contractors, american and those from other countries have four months and then they need to get out. >> we don't want to see a decision like this, you know, shut down our operations. when you look at the volume of security contractors in afghanistan, and there are a lot of them, they more or less equal the other side of the military surge. if we have to pull back military personnel to do security work that's currently doing, being done by contractors. that can have an impact, but only on ...

Experts say security contractors have not been well regulated. >> we probably depended too much on certain private firms to carry guns and use force, on behalf of the united states or other governments in recent wars. and perhaps karzai is pushing back against that. >> nato officials say the international coalition fully supports karzai's object of reducing private security with afghan eventually taking over. but the military emphasizes the scale and scope of the reduction will require time to fully implement which could be all part of karzai's negotiation with u.s. officials. >> i am not goin...

Won that level of prestige of an award, i don't see any problem with criminalizing that as a misdemeanor. rick: saying it doesn't hurt anybody, i think there are a lot of u.s. service members who legitimately won this honor who would disagree. >> well, that's the thing, there's a lot of visceral emotion with military awards. rick: always good to talk to you, doug. >> my pleasure. jenna: returning, now, to a big development in afghanistan. president karzai now demanding that all private security contractors leave his country in the next four months, but with more than 45,000 contractors in afgh...

The pentagon is denying any direct contact with the people behind the website wikileaks who say they will soon post more classified documents about the afghanistan war. the founder of that site says pentagon lawyers are willing to help him review the files, to help him delete information that could hurt civilians. pentagon said that's misrepresentation. they said the general counsel set up conference call with an attorney claiming to represent wikileaks. the lawyer did not call in. the clock is now ticking in afghanistan for private security firms to leave. u.s. officials said the upcoming b...

Jenna: a good reminder about texting and driving. courtney friel for us. rick: president karzai's demand that all private security contractors leave his country, leave afghanistan and leave soon, but his challenge may not even be possible. we'll tell you why when we come right back. , the original sporting sail in our grandfather's attic. all right. let her rip! we knew we were onto something. just throw that thing over your back and you could just shoot down any hill. and you get the sky, and you get the sun and the trees... taking your product and making it a reality is really what it's all ...