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Tactical directive. they should know that i will look very hard at this issue >> reporter: reassuring military families and our troops in the field he will take a closer look at the rule of engagement there in afghanistan, patti an. -- patti ann. >> senator ben nelson is questioning the general. any signs of conflict so far? >> not so much so far. he was put in an awkward spot by senator mccain when he talked about the july 2011 date that president obama set, when he wants to start withdrawing surge forces from afghanistan. he said did you, general petraeus, or any other military officer recom...

This your dispute over policy. this was just a lapse of judgment on the part of the four-star commander and his immediate staff. the problem is going to be going forward. we've got a core rupt inadequate afghan government spending $4.5 billion a month, we've got 7,000 killed and wounded and we're 600 miles from the sea with some pretty shaky allies. that's the problem. and the president, when he so-called surge forces in afghanistan, laid down a marker and said we're going to start out one year from july. it's hard to imagine why we're going to turn around 28 million afghans in a 14th century ...

Influence is spreading from southern afghanistan to the west and to the north. here is the chairman of the joint chiefs on that. >> the taliban have a growing influence in most of afghanistan's provinces and the border area between that country and pakistan remains the epicenter of global terrorism. >> the epicenter of global terrorism, a stark warning from the chairman of the joint chiefs, trace. >> mike, what more do we know about the time table to end u.s. troops to afghanistan? >> well, admiral mullen said that 400 of the additional troops are there right now on the ground in afghanistan. ...

His lack of knowledge of afghanistan in the first meeting days after the president was sworn in office. they met months later face-to-face while the president agonized over the afghanistan strategy. mcchrystal scoffed at vice president biden who opposed mcchrystal's successful push for surge forces in afghanistan asking at one point, "who's that?" mcchrystal is portrayed as exacerbated with holbrook, and john ikenberry, the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan. mcchrystal aide called jim jones, national security advisor, a "clown." >> the magnitude and the greatness of the mistake here are profound....