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Responsible afghan government that is willing to cooperate with to us make sure it's not launching pad for future attacks against the united states? we have achieved that goal. in the process of achieving that goal. >> bret: president obama meeting with hamid karzai at the white house. speeding the drawdown of u.s. troops and transfer of the responsibility for afghan troops. changing the mission by the spring to a support role for u.s. troops. asked about the number of troops on the ground after 2014, president eric karros saicaris --karzai said this. >> numbers won't make a difference to the ...

That. that should be part of the legacy of these last ten years. >> indeed. >> okay? >> thank you. >> thank you very much, everybody. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, everyone. i'm tamron hall. following breaking news. president obama and afghan president hamid karzai wrapping up the joint news conference after a series of meetings at the white house. they focused on the u.s. role in afghanistan beyond next year and one of the key announcements we just heard, afghan forces will take the lead of providing security throughout the country this spring and u.s. forces will move to what the presid...

Coalition partners, and we will continue to do so. today we agreed as president karzai announces the transition, troops will move to a support role this spring. our troops will continue to fight look side afghans when needed, but let me say it is plainly as i can. starting this spring our troops will have a different mission. training, advising, assisting afghan forces. it will be an historic moment and another step toward full afghan sovereignty, something i know that president karzai cares deeply about, as do the afghan people. this sets the stage to reduce our presence in afghanistan to rou...

The president saying that it's time to accelerate the u.s. role, shifting to a support role as a result of achievements and i guess goals reached in afghanistan. >> that's true. they did announce that today but that's something that's been discussed behind the scenes in afghanistan for sometime now with the nato commanders in kabul. they have said for sometime that by mid-2013, it does seem they brought it back a bit to spring of 2013 wanting all of afghanistan transitioned in to afghan hands, giving the americans and the international forces in the country a support role, in the background, b...

And president will be in a room trying to find the best package. i'm not going to prejudge it. >> reporter: king added that we should be taking iron-clad positions in these negotiatings. martha: and all of these people did so in terms of opening the book on tax increases saying only if they get commensurate spending cuts which may not be far from where they were before. bill: we will put all these questions to eric cantor live in new york here in studio to talk about the discussions over the fiscal cliff. we will eye talk about taxes and revenues and the entitlement programs too that are so im...