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. >> couric: >> brown: before you get to the alternatives, i want to hit what the impact is.here do you see the impact that we do see? are they in particular states? are they in particular types of school districts? >> sure. generally, unfortunately, teacher layoffs do tend to affect lower-income schools a little more. a lot of that has to do with the fact that low-income schools tend to have more inexperienced teachers. and as you've discussed here on this program before, there's something called last hired; first fired. so the least experienced teachers are the teachers who most recently started working at that school or in that school district. they're going to lose their jobs first because of teacher seniority laws. contracts, i should say. and because those inexperienced teachers tend to work in low-income schools, because they don't have the seniority to work in the more desirable, generally, higher-income schools, those are the schools that are hurt first. so across the country if a lot of these teacher layoffs end up happening, we'll see that happening in the lower-in

. >> couric: pulling... >> woodruff: pulling it together? >> pulling it together, synthesizing it and seeing to it that securing the people is but one element of a larger strategy to see to it that the afghan government gets built in a way that endures over time rather than collapsing again and again into civil war. >> woodruff: colonel peter mansoor, ely elaborate on that. you did work closely with him in iraq. >> well, what i would too old what greg had to say, besides a relationship that i'm injury general petraeus will attempt to forge with president karzai is he will attempt to forge a better relationship with ambassador eikenberry. he had a very successful team relationship with ambassador crocker in iraq and it was one of the reasons why we had unity of effort during the surge in 2007, 2008. so far we haven't had that kind of unity in afghanistan and i think that will be a job number one when he gets there, to form the team both with ambassador eikenberry and with president karzai. and one of the things he did in iraq, for instance, w