." >>> joining us this morning for more perspective is david nakamura.tching the president's move when it comes to the growing tension in iraq, so could the chaos there influence president obama on afghanistan and whether his plan to keep a small military presence until 2016 can prevent sill lar violence there. >> the president wound down the war, brought the troops home. i think what's interesting now for the president, if he makes his decision about afghanistan, he talked about leaving just under 10,000 troops there for counterterrorism missions and sort of help train troops. the question is, in two years, will that have been enough and will afghan forces be strong enough? you see the sectarian violence that divided the country and its leadership. elections are just ending here in afghanistan. as they go forward, to bridge their government and bring different parts of their country together and take over the leadership of the military operations in afghanistan. will that country be string enough to defend its own borders? those are the situations going

i'm joined now by "washington post" reporter david nakamura. good morning.st off, the president and what is expected to be announced today when it comes to dealing with those unaccompanied children coming across the u.s./mexico border here. what do you hear in washington, d.c., in terms of details of what this announcement might be? >> so far, richard, we haven't seen the formal letter from the white house which will come out today. but the white house has said they want more than $2 billion. that will go to probably more patrol agents, lawyers and judges to represent these women and children that are coming. they're trying to -- more detention space to handle them and probably more care. the administration obviously is a bit overwhelmed by this influx, but they want to find ways to process these cases more quickly. those who apply for a sigh lum wi asylum will get a hearing. if not, they'll be put into deportation proceedings. >> it's a tough deal for both the president and congressmen when looking at rushing out needy children, or the perception thereof, b

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