this is malachi. >> hi, malachi. how are you? >> hi. >> reporter: laurie grew up among the pumpkins here on her family farm in great falls where they harvested some prize winners this year. laurie's dad larry was waiting to take us to one of the pumpkin fields. malachi loved hearing about the nine kids that grew up on this beautiful farm. at 10 years old he's been waiting a long time to be a part of a family, too. >> malachi is very sweet, loving, caring child. he has excellent manners, very polite. he's a little shy at first but once you get to know him he warms up really quickly. >> reporter: in the pumpkin field he searched for the perfect pumpkin and found one he liked. >> because it's really round and i'm going to draw on it. it has enough room for a face and a nose and a mouth. >> reporter: what do you think you want to be when you grow up? >> a cop. >> reporter: really. how did you decide that? >> reporter: because i want to chase down people that are criminals. >> reporter: malachi is good at making decisions. he knows wh

everybody thought malachi was a sectarian prime minister. the country wasn't governing itself. the security environment became terrible. the one thing i can tell you, if we don't add more troops, you're going to see more of what happened yesterday. the security situation's going to get worse. and any hope of better governance is lost and the taliban will re-emerge. if you send troops in, we'll have a second chance at governance. you need to put karzai's feet to the fire or the next government's feet to the fire to do a better job. but it's impossible to bring about better than governance without security. what we have in place now is not going to work. general mcchrystal tells us that. he needs reinforcements. i hope t president will send them and let us all work together for better governance, because the taliban are going to win if we don't change course soon. >> senator casey, wednesday the president met in the -- with his national security team in the situation room with all the major players about this decision. here's what the "washington post" wrote about that meeting. v