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and it should not have been done. >> and can the tea party deliver on this bold promise? >> look, we are going to choose the next republican nominee. >> right. >> we are not going to accept what the republican party hands us. >> but up first tonight, stunning evidence of why the stakes of that republican civil war are so consequential. new lows for president obama on just about all of the tests you use when an incumbent asks for four more years. the president's overall approval rating, at a new low. his grades on leadership, worst ever. and nearly 6 in 10 americans now doubt the pres...

welcome, everybody. it is friday, july 15th. i'm soledad o'brien. you are watching snoonk kiran is off, christine is off, welcome soledad. good to see you. >> thank you. we have a lot to do today. let's get right to it. serious new pressure on rupert murdock and his global media empire. the justice department says it's now investigating the claims that one of its tabloids tried to hack 9/11 victims' phones. a report in another british tabloid, "the mirror" quoting a source who says "news of the world," the newspaper which folded under the pressure of the hacking scandal, hired an inv...

America. >> politically the pressure for the president to engage in a speedier withdrawal has never been greater. 56% of americans want the u.s. troops to come home from afghanistan as soon as possible. political realty defense serve robert gates acknowledged yesterday, played a role in the president's decision. >> there are a lot of reservations in the congress about the war in afghanistan and our level of commitment. there are concerns among the american people who are tired of a decade of war. so the president obviously has to take those matters into consideration as well as the conditions ...

Images are getting the most clicks. all of that next on "news nation." and topping the headlines on "andrea mitchell reports," general david petraeus is testifying before congress for the first time since taking over at the commander of the war in afghanistan. he outlined fragile but significant progress. >> while the security progress achieved over the past year is significant, it is also fragile and reversible. the achievements of the past year are important as i prepare to provide options to president obama for commencement of the drawdown of the u.s. surge forces in july. >> in a new "wa...

Than a year after -- less than a year after president bush announced the surge policy. overall we are talking about 18-month surge here and general petreaus is pretty clear yesterday. i think that's now our policy. we're going to be trying to set conditions, july is the start of a process and the slope -- it's not a waterfall, it is a slope to begin to pull out some of those surge forces. but we'll have to see how steep the slope is. >> barbara, this is a nine-year conflict now. you got close to 100,000 troops in afghanistan. june, unfortunately, has been the deadliest month for nato forces in...