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An agreement had been reached with steve ballmer and the nba advisory finance committee met via conference call to discuss the developments. we await the submission of necessary documentation from mrs. sterling. in the meantime, the june 3rd special meeting of the nba board of governors remains as scheduled. from the executive vice president of communications for the nba. that's a pretty specific -- they're going ahead with this meeting ujs they have the paper work that a deal is done, proved by all the owners and buyers. >> that's the only way this thing is going to be resolved, by setting de...

Decade and a half in afghanistan. that should be plenty of time for us. how long would you leave troops in there, in perpetuity? because i think if you leave afghanistan it's go to be a safe place. how long, if you had your dream scenario, would you leave troops there? >> the answer is, as long as it makes sense. we've had troop in korea for 60 years. and in japan. you make a decision when you basically say, how much will it cost me to keep these troops there, what are they accomplishing for it. if it turns out that 10,000 troops in afghanistan, as mike said, i agree, in iraq would help dampen...

Bill: charles krauthammer claiming the president is putting his legacy ahead of our troops. president obama wants us to leave afghanistan by the end of 2014. virtually all u.s. troops will be out by the end of 2016. pete, what do you think of the reaction of charles krauthammer. >> i think he's on to something. this president has been all about withdrawal deadlines, setting deadlines ending these wars no matter what. it's always seemed to be around elect years. in 2008 it was deseeing the success of the surge. in 2012 it was all about getting out of iraq as quickly as possible and not sign agg...

Surge, he was concluding privately that he can't change afghanistan and he began setting deadlines to pull out and a big debate about whether publicly setting deadline was a good idea. in fact, i describe in here one day when henry kissinger comes in to the state department and sits down with people doing negotiations for the taliban and says be careful about thinking that you can negotiate with people when have you already told them you are leaving. he try thad with vietnam and it didn't work out so well. but the second big transition that president obama went through, the discovery that the ...

He's gone too far i think in an exit strategy. july 2011, i was over in afghanistan over memorial weekend and that pressure bearing down of having only one year left to fix afghanistan really weighs heavily on all the military commanders over there so i think we've done enough when it comes to setting deadlines, we ought to be talking about achieving victory, that should be the exit strategy. >> you mentioned that deadline. dana bash caught up with general petraeus and put that question to im. >> reporter: do you see yourself doing anything to change the 2011 deadline to begin troop withdrawal...