nick paton walsh, cnn, kabul. >>> in about an hour and a half we'll talk with a member of the military judge advocate general's office or jag to find out what charges these men could face. >>> former mississippi governor hailey barbour is defending his decision to pardon more than 200 convicted criminals. he says he's surprised at the reaction. a judge has halted the prison releases and the legislature is considering changing mississippi's constitution to take pardon powers away from the governor. barbour insists he didn't do anything wrong. >> the historic power of gubernatorial clemency by the governor to pardon felons is rooted in the christian idea of giving second chances. i'm not saying i'll be perfect, that nobody who received clemency will ever do nothing wrong. i'm not infallible and nobody else is. but i am very comfortable and totally at peace with these pardons including those at the mansion. >> i have absolute confidence, so how much confidence that i've let my grandchildren play with these fine men. i've let them ride their tricycles out on the driveway with them watching

nick paton walsh standing by in kabul, afghanistan. nick, how is this affecting the taliban's willingness to restart peace talks with the u.s.? >> well, these peace talks which almost beginning to get under way at a very, very preliminary stage still talks about talks i'm told are really some degrees of separation from the spokesman hon have been issuing is statements on behalf of the taliban trying to get political capital from that. it's important to realize the taliban aren't like a corporate shareholder structure. they won't go away and have a board meeting and decide to withdraw from talks. it will take a long time for it to percolate through and for them to realize what they have to gain from this. they referred to this as a barb bearic video saying no religion that follows a holy text would accept such conduct. this act reveals their real face to the world. clearly they believe a lot to gain from harnessing afghan opinion against nato forces here after a decade of their presence here. many afghans disillusions and fatigued at the

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we have nick paton walsh and barbara starr live at the pentagon and also joined by retired army generalder marks. it's nice to see all of you. nick, why don't you start for us. what is the reaction there in afghanistan? >> well, point out what we see in this video, first of all. it appears to show u.s. marines, according to the posting on the internet, a company in northern heldman but the details are still being investigated by nato. lots of caveats and disclaimers although one u.s. official said it was a reasonable conclusion to suggest that it had occurred in afghanistan. har midkarzai's people putting out a statement saying that the government of afghanistan is deeply disturbed that shows american soldiers desecrating dead bodies of three afghans. this act by american soldiers is simply inhuman and condemnable by possible terms. really strong rhetoric here from an afghan government. the taliban, as you say, coming out and calling it barbaric and calling it inhuman and also saying they want to see the incident investigated and saying it apparently happened by a unit that may have alr