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Afghanistan as we drawdown forces? did his continued imprisonment create a heightened security threat to our men and women in uniform? >> well, in a sense, congresswoman, as i answered in a previous question about putting at risk american lives to capture, not to capture but to get him back, and to do that if it would have taken another course of action or if we would have taken another option. that would have put our men and women at risk. our men and women are at risk carrying out this one mission but it was done the right way. i don't think again that effort has gotten enough attention. thi...

Demographics of the military, and he is going to look culturally and demographically quite differently, but also, will he leave behind a strategic way of for good or better or leaner or smaller and a different warfare? >> yes, he is. it is not his own doing, but it is the trajectory of the foreign national security and we are gining to see the end of land mass wars as we drawdown in iraq and afghanistan, and for the peace and justice community and those who are citizens, we have to think of engaging with the new warfare which is going to involve aerial drones and special ops, and what that mea...

President hamid karzai at the white house as we speak. the two leaders are discussing a range of issues, including the future role for u.s. troops in afghanistan after the war formally ends in 2014. u.s. commanders have proposed keeping anywhere from a few thousand troops to upwards of 20,000 after that date. but the president is reportedly also considering a so-called zero option, leaving no troops. michael hanlon is a senior fellow and foreign policy studies at the brookings insurance taoufplgts he's traveled to afghanistan nine times has met several times with hamid karzai. michael if you y...

jury's hand. what they tell us about the deliberations. we begin this evening with what you might call the facebook hangover. after the hype and buildup after the initial offering of stock, trading started late, price didn't sky rock and facebook closed essentially flat, just $0.23 higher than the opening. at least facebook was up. dow industrials, nasdaq, s&p 500 closed out their worst week of the year. discuss with business correspondent ali velshi. let's start with facebook. what happened? >> generally you set a price for a stock, $38 in this case that is posed to create enough ...

Shape or form. the agreement itself is actually a very sort of broad sweeping document. there isn't much specific detail in. what it does address are these key irissues. security, politics and democracy and the economic os spebgts, how much money effectively the united states will give to afghanistan to support the security mission here. how many troops will actually stay on. those specificee tails actually haven't been hammered out in terms much the money amount and the amount of troops, that will come in under separate memorandums of understands. the agreement as it currently stands allows t...