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Administration official has said the words to that effect. but tonight there is some question about what exactly defense secretary panetta actually meant. let's get to jennifer griffin at the pentagon, why don't we. jennifer, specifically, what are you hearing tonight? >> well, this announcement, we're told, was supposed to be made in may at a nato ministerial meeting in chicago. so it seems that defense secretary leon panetta may, in fact, have gotten ahead of the administration on this, according to one senior u.s. official. it raised some eyebrows among his aides as well as pentagon officia...

Role -- advise and assist role. it's not going to be a kind of formal combat role that we are now. he did say hope, but it still had some analysts scratching their heads. >> it seems to me that our government is at odds with itself in a sense that senior commanders in afghanistan and also general are under the clear impression that 2013 is a fighting seizing for them, with full combat operations and not a training support mission only. >> bret: jack keane, we're back with the pam. what about this? >> i think general keane is exactly right and that's not the only problem with this -- when you s...

Commanders in afghanistan and also generals are under the clear impression that 2013 is a fighting season for them with full combat operations and not a training support mission only. >> on friday, french president sarkozy surprised hit nato ally, announcing an accelerated withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. on capitol hill today, a hearing to investigate the killings by afghan soldiers of their nato trainers. rudy was 19 years old and six weeks away from coming home from afghanistan when he was killed last march by an armed afghan guard trusted to watch over a u.s. base in kandahar near th...

Role -- advise and assist role. it's not going to be a kind of formal combat role that we are now. he did say hope, but it still had some analysts scratching their heads. >> it seems to me that our government is at odds with itself in a sense that senior commanders in afghanistan and also general are under the clear impression that 2013 is a fighting seizing for them, with full combat operations and not a training support mission only. >> bret: jack keane, we're back with the pam. what about this? >> i think general keane is exactly right and that's not the only problem with this -- when you s...

Commanders in afghanistan and also generals are under the clear impression that 2013 is a fighting season for them with full combat operations and not a training support mission only. >> on friday, french president sarkozy surprised hit nato ally, announcing an accelerated withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. on capitol hill today, a hearing to investigate the killings by afghan soldiers of their nato trainers. rudy was 19 years old and six weeks away from coming home from afghanistan when he was killed last march by an armed afghan guard trusted to watch over a u.s. base in kandahar near th...