i'm vago muradian.any military members believe in smart power. will arepublicann house agree. a top consultant on how companies can weather a leaner defense spending future. first the national debt reduction commission chaired by alan symptom and erskine bowles issued bombshell draft recommend sayings to save $400 billion annually starting in 2015, a quarter of which would come from defense spending by applying secretary gates planned efficiency savings to debt reduction instead of new weapons freezing military pay for three years, cutting weapons procurement by 15% and research and development by 10%. terminating programs like the v 22 off spray tilt rotor, marine fighting vehicle, army ground combat vehicle and fighting the joint stryker program. here is todd harrison for the renne ser for budgetary assessment and gordon adams from the simpson center. todd, what is the significance. >> what the commission did, the two cochairs came out with a draft report where they make a number of recommendations. t

i'm vago muradian. some have labeled president obama's recent asia tour a failure but we'll talk to one analyst who says it was a strategic suck sus. >>> plus an update on the brigade team modernization program from the top person in the effort. but first karzai told the washington post it was time to end special op reagan nationals raids that have killed or captured talibans in recent months. his comments were criticized by leaders, including general david pet rayous. what should we expect from the administration's review of afghanistan war give us some si somein sitting is surgeon power. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> so let's start. last week president karzai made the statement regarding u.s. and allied raids in the country. he said afghanistan is better off without this operation and afghanistans should do it. why is he making this case now when we have the taliban on the run? >> i think he makes a different case to different audiences without perhaps seeing that it's now a seamless hole and