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Their country. after today's ceremony when they hand it over the lead security role they are in the driving seat right now and they will depends their country. they will have u.s. and nato troops as back up for the 18 months to come but they are in the driver's seat. >> thanks so much. you look back we're going to be pulling out next year and leaving the afghans with an army. the soviets left the afghans with a good army, armor. took three years and it crumbled . >> they also talk about they need money. coming up, flash floods, buckled roads and entire buildings swept away. monsoon season no...

We have two questions each i think from u.s. and afghan press. we'll start with scott wilson of "the washington post." >> thank you, mr. president, president karzai. mr. president, does moving up the deadline for the transition to an afghan security role in the spring mean you're winding down u.s. troops faster than you expected this year? and specifically, as possible, how many troops do you expect to leave in afghanistan beyond 2014 for the two missions you outlined and would you consider leaving any troops in afghanistan beyond that kate without an immunity agreement for their actions? and ...

>> i just spoke to the head of security in sinai and he is very positive the situation will be resolved shortly. i also spoke to the kidnappers a couple hours ago and they confirmed that the hostages are saved. unhard. >> we'll have full details on that when we go live to cairo in a few minutes. also in egypt, secretary of state hillary clinton meeting with the country's newly elected president mohammed morsi. egypt is nowhere near settled politically. there is no cabinet, no parliament and the new president is at odds with military office here's controlled egypt after hosni mubarak ...

which appears to hope that syria's president assad will negotiate his own departure, seems utterly doomed. instead, america, the western world, indeed, the civilized world should attempt to dislodge the assad regime. but is there a smart way to do it? for a number of reasons military intervention is unlikely to work well in syria. unlike in, say, libya, syria is not a vast country with huge stretches of land where rebels can retreat, hide, and be resupplied. syria is roughly one-tenth the size of libya, but with three times as many people. perhaps for this reason the syrian rebels ha...

morning. ets it's going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. >> thank you. >> lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we learned that he apparently was trying to run over a group of marines who had assembled to meet the def...