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Flad t ed that the war could not afford a change of command, but then -- >> it was the president who first raised petraeus' name, and immediately to me answered a lot of the concerns that i had. >> do you know what -- >> reporter: general david petraeus was on capitol hill thursday to talk to senators in advance to the confirmation hearing. he says there is no change in the overall war strategy, but the new commander could decide to ease rules on combat that were put in place by mcchrystal that some troops believe put their lives at risk. >> general petraeus can look at the campaign plan and t...

Shattered of chain of command. no captain or sergeant could have been expected to shut up and salute when his superior officer gave an order. the guy at the top didn't respect his commander, why should he? the culture of accountability so built up by bob gates for his years at the pentagon gone. the long commission of civilian control of the military wrecked. if there were two decisions the president had to make today, whether or not to remove general mcchrystal from his position in afghanistan, the first one was the more straight forward of the two. the more important decision was that genera...

Mcchrystal a chance to explain himself, put this away. but clearly, the president's decided that the general's explanation was not good enough. it's an instant repudiation of this decorated war veteran and a man in which the president invested so much trust in just a sort time ago, giving him more than 30,000 new troops in the face of such sharp criticism, in the face of opposition from his own vice president. president obamain invested in general mcchrystal. and democrats who reluctantly supported their president because he is a democrat, were starting to question this war strategy. so the in...

Hanging. it's been i think a successful foreign policy team but on afghanistan it has been fractious. i guarantee you every one of them is thinking holy smokes this guy could fire my butt next. i better get on the team. >> but every one of us is type a personalities. we all have elbows and there are no fences. there are no people without strong opinions. particularly in a war strategy like this there are lots of varied opinions as you know and certainly you and i could debate all day about it. but at the end of the day the president has to make the decision. >> but there will be loads to cross...

If you notice, i was late for your show. sorry, i was on the phone with him. i asked for his reaction to all of this controversy. is he happy, is he upset. and he told me that the goal that he had with writing this was to bring attention to the war. and he thinks it was a successful article and that it certainly brought a lot of attention to the war. i asked him further, well, are you happy, do you think it was a success that the general had to resign? and he said the general knew what he was doing, these are the consequences. war is bigger than any one individual. he said that he sympathizes ...