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combat veteran of afghanistan, wes moore and retired army general barry mccaffrey and a look back in our "meet the press" minute when president truman clashed with his top general. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> 311 soldiers have died this year in afghanistan. the latest just yesterday by an improvised explosive device in the south of the country. june is the deadliest month since the war began in late 2001. the g-8 summit in toronto, president obama and david cameron and other war leaders decided to set a timetable of five years for withdraw of military forces from...

withdraw timetable and all of it with you. i want to talk to you about general mcchrystal. the president fired him this week. he spoke to the nation about it. this is in part what he said. >> the conduct in the recent published article does not mean the standard that should be set by a commanding general. it undermines the civilian control of the military that is at the core of our democratic system. and it erodes the trust that is necessary for our team to work together to achieve our objectives in afghanistan. >> did the president do the right thing? >> yes, he did. he took the app...

author of "war." tom ricks, author of the bestseller "gamble" about the war in iraq and author and combat veteran of afghanistan, wes moore and retired army general barry mccaffrey and a look back in our "meet the press" minute when president truman clashed with his top general. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> 311 soldiers have died this year in afghanistan. the latest just yesterday by an improvised explosive device in the south of the country. june is the deadliest month since the war began in late 2001. the g-8 summit in toronto, president obama and david cameron ...

a good thursday morning to you. we are going to add one other phone line, active duty military personnel, for your reaction to the top command position change in afghanistan. that number for active duty, if you would love to get your perspective, 628-0184. we will get to your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets in just a couple of minutes. an interesting ticktock story, those of like the back channel of washington. a piece in "the new york times," short, intense deliberation. he tells us the drama began monday afternoon when vice president joe biden flying home from illinois to andrews ...

not addressing treatment. >> many of them do. many of them have cut deals with the white house and congressional democrats to make sure their cost controls are in the neighborhood of what they can afford. the pharmaceutical industries have cut a deal with $100 billion. that is in the neighborhood of something well there may be concerns that costs continue to rise, they do not feel they can go any further to increase those costs. >> how will this affect the public on how this is shaping up? >> we did not know whether it is going to pass. since the summit, i think chances have increase...