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Infrastructure you would normally use to conduct the security and background checks. >>trace: but that is the point. do we let this continue? or stop the whole thing and revet all the americans working side-by-side with afghans and make sure we get this right before we go on? >>guest: in an ideal world we would but that is not practical. we are in a difficult point right here at this stage. we are facing a potential hand over in the next couple of years of the security and stability of afghanistan, a place we have been for the past 10 years, and countless resources and lives have been expended...

And stability approaching what we hope to be withdrawal. >>trace: and on top of that there is political tension grow, between afghanistan and pakistan, and i want your thoughts on pakistan quickly. the reports that pakistan is playing both sides of the fence here, what do you make of them? >>guest: well, that is the most dysfunctional relationship we have. but it is a little disheartening to see the frustration and outrage we are getting because of the relationship with pakistan when, in reality, this is the way it had been ever since we had a history in afghanistan. you can go back to the lat...

Reasonable. i would ask harry reid to take it, it funds disasters. >>reporter: what the senator is referring to is the idea of paying for some of the disaster relief money about $1.6 trillion of the $3.7 trillion of disaster relief money paying for it by taking money from green energy programs, democrats don't like that so that is the center of the dispute. >>trace: here we are, two hours away from a vote in the senate. what are the democrats saying? >>reporter: just moments ago senate majority leader harry reid took to the senate floor and he brought a couple of aides with him to highlight th...

Listen. >> syria exercises its responsibility to protect its citizens. it has acted to guarantee the safety and stability and vigilance against the danger of foreign intervention that assumed a different form with every passing day and challenging it does not mean underestimating popular. >>jonathan: the united nations have said that syrian security forces have killed some 2,700 citizens in the last few months. trace? >>trace: thank you, jonathan from new york. vanderbilt university threatening to shut down some religious groups on campus if they don't follow the school's nondiscrimination pol...

Now, the doctor, we have been told, has left the courtroom as a former chief medical examiner is on the witness stand. she is the one who performed the autopsy of the oldest daughter. and we're getting this from the producer, that daughter had a tremendous amount of soot in her body. other family members remain in the courtroom for the second week of trial, and it is noted that today is the mother's birthday. she would have been 53 years old. >>trace: it keeps getting more horrifying. >> preen back on the road where he is, once again michiganing the jobs bill but he also is looking to secure h...