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Main combat role in the middle of next year, in the summer of 2013, and then they'll move into a sort of support role, training and partnering with the afghan troops. the idea is to test the basic core idea of this policy, which is that you can transition at the afghan leadership and then u.s. troops will leave in 2014. they did roll that out. and they're going to roll it out again in chicago. but that's the basic policy. >> the harsh rhetoric -- gaifd, good morning, harold ford -- the harsh posture of president karzai the last six months over the accidental mistaken killing of afghan citizens...

To believe that missile defense can be an area in cooperation with russia. second, we're not unified behind a plan to responsibly wind down the war in afghanistan, a plan that trains afghan security forces, transitions to the afghans and builds a partnership that can endure after our combat mission in afghanistan ends. since last year, we've been transitioning parts of afghanistan to the afghan national security forces, and that has enabled our troops to start coming home. indeed, we are in the process of drawing down 30,000 u.s. troops by the end of this summer. here in chicago we reached agr...

Getting out of afghanistan a political winner for the president? the president and his campaign are hoping so. he addressed troop withdrawal in that press conference. >> we're now unified behind a plan to wind down the war in afganistan. a plan that trains afghanistan security forces, transitions, and builds a partnership that can endure after our combat mission in afghanistan ends. we have transitioned, and that enabled our troops to start coming home. indeed we're in the process of drawing down 33,000 troops by the end of this summer. we agreed that afghan forces will take the lead next year...

days in jail for spying on his gay roommate with a webcam. that roommate committed suicide. was it a fair sentence? we begin with evening with president obama's most personal and most direct critique of his republican challenger, mitt romney. speaking in chicago at the conclusion of the nato summit and brush ago side criticism from a prominent democratic ally the president took aim at governor romney's tun you're at the head of the private equity firm bain capital. >> this issue is, quote, not a distraction. this is part of a debate we'll be having in this election campaign about h...

Propaganda is the u.s. is gone, they are washing their hands of this, we'll have our way with afghanistan again much as we did in the past. so the afghans wanted this have much. in the summer of last year they had a council of all the political leaders in stance * come together in one place. the major proposal that came out of that, is that they should agree in writing for a long-term relationship. you can understand how critical this is for the people in afghanistan, it's critical to the taliban, pakistan and iran that we still mean business. megyn: how does that work in light of the presiden...