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But look, iraq is not over. i appreciate that cover but it's two steps forward and one step back. these elections coming up are pornlts. afghanistan it's two steps forward and one step back. it's a long hard process. >> can it be achieved in the 18-month time frame? >> the thing that worries me the most is the president's statement about leaving in the middle of 2011. i would appreciate it if the president told these, all the way down to afghan tribal leaders who questioned me about it, to say we're going to do what's necessary to succeed, period. i would love to see that. that's a great conce...

Step aside and then they stepped aside. >> the bottom line when it comes to ethics reform is we got the -- democrats got the ethics committee moving again. it's an effective process that was totally neutered under the republicans. now we have an ethics committee that is fully functioning and making sure that we take care of the ethics problems when they're there. >> we are going to leave it there. thanks to all of you. we will talk more with mark morial about the national urban league's century of service to american's community. it's up this afternoon.

And so, what they ended up with is in order to buy votes, they did these unsavory deals. they are unsavory. to say that 800,000 people in florida will be carved out from any reduction in a medicare advantage program, 330,000 of my citizens in arizona are medicare advantage enrollees, to say that you're going to put $100 million in for a hospital in connecticut? look, these are unsavory deals. they were done behind closed doors, and it has been -- i'd have town hall meetings all over the place in my state of arizona. people object to the process as much as they do to the problems and policy can...

Bipartisan support. and so, what they ended up with is in order to buy votes, they did these unsavory deals. they are unsavory. to say that 800,000 people in florida will be carved out from any reduction in a medicare advantage program, 330,000 of my citizens in arizona are medicare advantage enrollees, to say that you're going to put $100 million in for a hospital in connecticut? look, these are unsavory deals. they were done behind closed doors, and it has been -- i'd have town hall meetings all over the place in my state of arizona. people object to the process as much as they do to the pro...

Aside. >> the bottom line when it comes to ethics reform is we got the -- democrats got the ethics committee moving again. it's an effective process that was totally neutered under the republicans. now we have an ethics committee that is fully functioning and making sure that we take care of the ethics problems when they're there. >> we are going to leave it there. thanks to all of you. we will talk more with mark morial about the national urban league's century of service to american's community. [ male announcer ] mix it.