general david petraeus in the promotion board. they were not given a fair shake to the more intuitive thinking types. with those heavyweights behind you you would think they would be fixed. there they large constituency in the military that is averse to making the changes. if you go into iraq and afghanistan a lot of people were not in villages, a lot of them have not bought into this idea. we will see an ongoing battle, this book will be used as fire support in this battle. thank you very much. [applause] >> can you all hear me? i am going to provide a lot of comments. i will ask mark to interrupt me. it is a pleasure to be back where i did write fiasco five years above here in 2005. lot of people say you are going to call that book what? are you sure? a year later a guy said to me fiasco, where were you when i needed you? i want to begin by saluting several friends. from here and iraq and afghanistan. would you put up your hand if you are a veteran of iraq or afghanistan? keep those hands up. put up your hand if you are a vetera

general petreaus, david petraeus, many people are familiar with him, he is now leading all u.s. military and allied military operations in the mideast region, including afghanistan, pakistan, the saudi peninsula. he visited yemen yesterday, consulting there with yemeni government officials. it is a new strong hold for an old enemy is yemen. many of the routed al qaeda terrorist operatives from afghanistan and elsewhere are now settling in yemen which has proven to be fertile ground. the president, as you know, david, has ordered these reviews to take place. he has a preliminary assessment already. he will have a meeting in the white house situation room just behind me in the basement of the west wing come tuesday. he returns from his vacation in hawaii. what will he be looking for then? john brennan, the homeland security advisor that you just saw there on "meet the press," had this to say about that meeting on tuesday. >> clearly the system didn't work on that day because abdulmutallab should never have gotten on to that plane with those explosives. every other day the system h

general david petraeus made that known saturday. according to reports, the general promised yemen's president substantial support to fight al qaeda. resources are tight. yemen is the poorest nation in the arab world. yet yemen acted this week quickly to tighten security along its coast. it's also sending additional troops to known al qaeda strongholds, a region the us speblgted christmas day bomber may have visited. it is not a new fight for the u.s. and yemen, however. the two countries are in this one together. >> reporter: it is a huge problem right now what's going on with al qaeda in yemen. yemen cheerily needs help from the u.s. a lot of people have speculated that the u.s. is giving more help than they have disclosed. >> reporter: there are numerous reports that the u.s. has september in droeps and air power, but the u.s. has not corn confirmed that. another footnote, general petraeus was in yemen in july, yet that visit got a lot less coverage. this time, though, he was bringing a message directly from the president. this me

speaking in iraq yesterday, general david petraeus said joint u.s.-yemen operations al qaeda against in december headed off planned terrorist attacks in yemen's capital. >> in one case fordisawling an attack of four suicide bombers. >> reporter: it's believed that attack was aimed at the u.s. embassy. advisers say the president has combined fun and work during his hawaiian vacation. notion family time and golf, he's spending hours every day, they say, reading reports and getting briefed on the investigation. administration officials say they're not ready to put yemen on a level with afghanistan or pakistan in the war on terror, but they clearly are upping the ante significantly. jeff. >> glor: chip reid in honolulu tonight. chip, thank you. as we noted earlier, cbs news has learned u.s. forces are playing a lead role in assaults on al qaeda norsz yemen, which is on the southern-most part of the arabian peninsula. kimberly dozier in washington has more on that part of the story. story. >> reporter: this is yemeni government video of its u.s.-trained c

government source tells cnn that general david petraeus, head of u.s. central command, met with yemen's president today in yemen. and our ed henry is traveling with president barack obama in hawaii. ed joins us now. head, what's the significance of the president tying al qaeda to this attempted attack? >> well, don, this was the fist time that the president himself really made such a direct connection. we heard this from administration officials in private previously, but hearing it from the commander in chief is a big deal and it also suggests that the u.s. has some stronger intelligence now for the president to go out there tying this to al qaeda, at least through affiliate there's in yemen. i think it's very significant and maybe an indicator of what's coming in the days ahead that as you noted, general david petraeus was in yemen today meeting with top government officials because that could be a real signal that as the president was talking about long before this terror incident on christmas day, the u.s. had been working with the yemeni government

earlier i discussed the situation in yemen and general david petraeus's presence there, and i asked if he thought that could be a precursor to the wider action in we aremen. >> i think it is. because what we have right now is really goody ploem si go-- g diplomacy, and they are trying to establish these on the streets, because they are going to happen and prevention is part of the problem. and the other half is legitimate targets which have to do with giving sanctuary to al qaeda or threatening the survival of the state of yemen, and we have to avoid collateral damage in the process. >> in the meantime, we are getting word of a possible link between the christmas day terror attack and the november massacre at ft. hood texas. a counterterrorism officials says that the would-be bomber abdulmutallab had contact with an imam who exchanged e-mails with the ft. hood gunman. >>> and pro basketball players accused of drawing guns. the off-court action, and the law enforcement officials are stepping in to take care of. >>> american airlines are popping up on the fed's radar. >>> also your comme

david petraeus met with yemen's president yesterday. a senior u.s.ent official says they discussed the latest intelligence on al qaeda in that country. >>> the man accused of trying to set off a bomb on a northwest airlines flight 253 got aboard the plane because of lapses in security. now, that's the assessment of a top counterterrorism official. umar farouk abdull mutallab boarded the plane despite the fact he might pose a threat. there was no warning sign pointing to an imminent attack. republicans continue to attack president obama's response to that attempted bombing. >> clearly the system didn't work. we had a problem in terms of why abdulmutallab got on that plane. there's no smoking gun piece of intelligence out there that said he was a terrorist, he was going to carry out an attack against the aircraft. we had bits of pieces of information that didn't give us the clarity we needed to be able to map it and atash it to abdul ma tag lab. what we need to do as an intelligence community, as a government is be able to bring those pieces of informa

general david petraeus, he is the top u.s. commander in the middle east, spent time there over the weekend, consulting with yemen's president with officials there, talking about the fight against al qaeda. we're told that yemen is devoting more resources to that fight, moving troops to troubled areas, although it must be said that many experts believe that yemen -- the government central government in yemen has very little control over great swaths of the territory there, some 95% of the territory is sort of a frontier wilderness or no man's land according to many experts. a number of developments, david. it all spells trouble and a new stronghold for an old enemy, al qaeda in yemen. >> and mike, the timing is so intriguing because it would clearly suggest since this came after the meetings with petraeus and yemen's president, either petraeus heard something from yemen's president that convinced him, okay, we need to close these embassies or he either maybe didn't get something out of yemen's president he was looking for. any

we've learned general david petraeus paid a surprise visit to yemen meeting with yemeni officials and meeting with u.s. military commanders. petraeus says the united states will double counterterrorism aid to yemen this year. >>> president obama set to return to washington tomorrow ahead of a tuesday meeting with top national security officials on the series of failures that allowed the bomb suspect to board a plane, armed with explosives. joining us now live richard wolf, an msnbc political analyst. richard, the developments in gemmen are intriguing regardless of what's fueling them. let's go through the possibilities. general petraeus meets with yemeni leaders yesterday. today they decide to announce there's an active al qaeda threat. is it possible that maybe this is because general petraeus meetings with yemeni leaders did not go as well as he had hoped? >> it's possible, but there's another piece of news as well, which is that the british government announced that it was setting up with the americans a counter terrorism police unit in yemen and, you know, if you are going to say

central command general david petraeus met with yemen's president yesterday. a senior u.s. vernment official says they discussed the latest intelligence on al qaeda in yemen. petraeus also gave yemen's president several messages from president obama. yesterday mr. obama tide al qaeda to the attempted attack on christmas day. >> this is not first time this group has targeted us. in recent years they've bombed yemeni government facilities and western hotels. restaurants and embassies, including our embassy in 2008, killing one american. so as president, i've made it a priority to strengthen our partnership with the yemeni government, training and equipping their security forces, sharing intelligence and working with them to strike al qaeda terrorists. and even before christmas day we had seen the results. training camps have been struck. leaders eliminated. plots disrupted. in all those involved in the attempted act of terrorism on christmas must know, you, too, will be held to account. >> the u.s. and yemen were hitting terrorist targets in yemen before the airline plot. now

we know that the head of centcom david petraeus was there yesterday talking to the president and talking yes, we will support more of the u.s. counter terrorism measures. but some say perhaps your -- in that group that these efforts are perhaps counterproductive. >> well, to a certain extent they are. brooke, look what the -- the u.s. provides yemen with almost $70 million a year. this year we provided yemen with $70 million today. today, yesterday announced the united states will double the secure assistance to $140 million. that's yemen today and tops pakistan which receives only $112 million a year. i think what this problem is not just a counterterrorism problem. question, there is a short-term security problem. >> what's the -- what is the rate of -- greater reaching problem? >> this is a greater political and economic and social crisis facing yemen. and the u.s. should provide the leadership and involve -- muslim state particularly arab league and saudi arabia and kuwait in constructing political vision in yemen. remember, brooke, al qaeda has been able to create a major foothold i

central command, general david petraeus met with the president of yemen today. this report coming just hours after president obama publicly linked an al qaeda affiliate based in yemen to last week's attack on flight 253. in his weekly media address today, the president promised retaliation. >> this is not the first time this group has targeted us. in recent years they bombed yemeni government facilities and western hotels, restaurants and embassies, including our embassy in 2008, killing one american. so as president, i've made it a priority to strengthen our partnership with the yemeni government, training and equipping their security forces, sharing intelligence and working with them to strike al qaeda terrorists. and even before christmas day, we had seen the results. training camps had been struck. leaders eliminated, pots disrupted. and all of those involved in the attempted act of terrorism on christmas must know that you, too, will be held to account. >> the president's remarks coming in the wake of yet another terror attack. this one in northwest pakista

government source tells cnn that general david petraeus, head of u.s. central command, met with the yemen president today in yemen. ed henry is traveling with president barack obama in hawaii. he joins us now. a lot to cover here. first, what is the significance of the president tying al qaeda to this christmas day attack? >> reporter: well, don, we have got new information this hour which is that we now know the president was briefed today by his aides about general petraeus' visit to yemen. that's significant because the president's message today was very clear that even before this christmas day terror incident, the u.s. was trying to disrupt al qaeda in yemen. now with general petraeus on the ground there, meeting with yemeni officials, the president talking tough today. it is very clear that the u.s. very quietly is reviewing their options and seeing whether or not there will be more air strikes in the days ahead against al qaeda. they're not going to tip their hand just yet, not going to get into great detail. but they are very clearly trying to d

. >> and general david petraeus is reportedly in yemen tonight, as the u.s. steps up aid to help yemen fight those al qaeda extremists. >>> meanwhile, in iraq, delays in the country's election will not keep american troops from pulling out by the end of august. the general expects to keep about 100,000 troops in iraq during the march 11th elections, then assess whether that country is on stable footing before moving u.s. forces out. >>> a million people gathered in times square this yew near -- new year's eve. and when it lit up, we could say it wouldn't have happened without two maryland women. andrea fujii explains. >> reporter: it's the moment millions of people around the world waited for. the illumination of the year 2010 in times square. >> it's a once in a lifetime experience. . >> reporter: and a magnificent sign was powered by green energy, with the help of two marylanders. pasadena resident dawn winterbottoms and megan penn. >> i'm at home in pasadena, maryland, on new year's eve, i'll be thinking about this power cell and me helping to generate all

general david petraeus visited over the weekend, announcing that the u.s. would more than double it as well as boosting intelligence. it's another sign of how security measures have escalated since the failed christmas day bomb plot. the main suspect, umar farouk abdulmutallab claimed to have carried out the attack. over the weekend, president obama directly accused an offshoot of al qaeda based in yemen to be responsible for the ally bomb plot his administration will also look at the fate of 90 or so yemeni detainees held in guantanamo prison on a case by case basis when the fall jot still resonates around washington. >> it's accepted that eight years or nine years, bomber richard reid used the exact same explosive that we still don't have a system in place to detect that kind of explosive. >> and building up, security seems to be at the forefront ever since al qaeda's attack ten years ago, highlighting just how deadly the organization has come to come. jeremy. >> thanks. abc news' martha raddatz is in yemen and will be reporting on a situation there. you

cent com commander general david petraeus informs yemen yesterday for talks with that country's president. the u.s. embassy is in the capital of sanaa and the ambassador is steven secky, a career foreign service officer who has been with the state department nearly 30 years. the embassy serves the typical duties for u.s. citizen there is and handles other diplomatic responsibilities, including visas and passports. what does this mean, stricter policies? the administration is becoming more serious about this? >> well, let me just address the swaituation in yemen and the closing of the embassy there as a general rule, closing an embassy is not pulling up stakes and leaving the country. rather, it's a tactical maneuver to reduce exposure when there is a specific threat. even when the base is closed, essential cooperation with the yemenis continue, despite that closure. >> we had the general david petraeus meeting at the base yesterday and now this appears to be an escalation that is not stopping one more step added to. this so being the former ambassador there, what does this mean, what is t

the top american commander of the region, general david petraeus, visited yemen's capital saturday to discuss ongoing cooperation. yemen has sent more forces into al qaeda target areas, but its its military is overstretched, fighting three wars against al qaeda, the arabian peninsula, a shiite rebelian in the north and a group in the south. combine that with upwards of 35% unemployment and an underaged population where half are uneducated and live on less than $2 a day, and you have what diplomats call a near failed state and a foot hold for islamic extremist movements. that's why republicans have criticized the return of guantanamo detainees to yemen. one of the problems on the ground is that the qua made any oig government ochl cuts deals with its enemies. on one of the reasons for the increased funding is to keep the pressure on the yemeni government to keep the pressure on america's enemies. kimberly dozier, cbss new, the white house. >>> those five measures suspected of plotting attacks in pakistan are due in court take. the five young muslim men are from the washington, d.c. are

now we're at afghanistan where according to general jim jones and according to general david petraeus there are fewer than 100 al-qaeda agents in afghanistan. i mean, if it's a war against al-qaeda then it couldn't have been more misspent. our resources, our time, our sacrifices and our blood, than the war in iraq. >> for the record eight americans were killed at a c.i.a. base in afghanistan this week, suicide bombing. 24 people were killed in iraq in anbar province and the governor of the provinceas wounded this week, suicide bombing. u.n. is pulling its staff out of pakistan for security reasons. so now yemen which has an unemployment rate of 40% and is running out of oil and water, do we open up a third front in yemen? >> well, i'm like -- unlike a lot of americans, i've been in yemen, the capital of yemen. it's only nine years old as a republic. at the time i was there it was a divided country. that was in north yemen. south yemen was under the control and influence of the soviet union. this is a country which was almost a feudal state. you had men who walked around with rhinoceru

general david petraeus has said that they intercepted four suicide bombers who were on their way to the capitol. and they also killed some senior al qaeda in yemen operators. so when you look at that and you remember what else happened on christmas day, namely the near-miss on the bombing of the airliner in-bound to detroit, yemen... al qaeda in yemen really was planning a christmas surprise. >> schieffer: what you're telling us here is these were u.s. aircraft flying off a u.s. carrier that carried out the strike. we heard about that they had... there had been some strikes but the credit seemed to be going to the yemeny. this was a u.s. operation? >> it was. the yem yemenis gave the green light. it was done with their permission. this was an american strike conducted with intern intelligence and designed to preempt an attack against an american target. >> schieffer: both the british embassy and the american embassy in yemen have been closed. what about this guy that was caught on this attempt on the u.s. airliner? he's been talking a lot since they took him into captivity. >> he was ar

. >> reporter: this weekend david petraeus, america's top commander in the region, was in yemen coordinating strategy and pledging to more than double the $67 million in counterterror american aid already being sent there. today a top official says american help won't stop there. >> military action is possible in yemen? >> everything is possible as far as our cooperation with the yemeni government. >> reporter: as he wraps up his time in hawaii, the president plans to meet tuesday in washington with the nation's intelligence and security leaders to review what he has called human and systemic failures that almost led to a disaster on christmas morning. and lester, john brennan, you saw him there, he's the president's top adviser on homeland security. he says that while there was no smoking gun that would have foiled that attempted bombing of the airliner on christmas morning there were enough points of information where the intelligence agencies of this country should have connected the dots. they did not. and they consider that here a failure across the board. lester? >> mike viqueira at th

general david petraeus meeting with the president.ion do we have in terms of how much the united states will be involved in working with yemen to combat terrorists? >> reporter: well, what's interesting, richard, is in the last few weeks because there have been air raids carried out by yemen's government against al qaeda targets, there's been a lot of mounting speculation that the u.s. has been involved more in these attacks than the u.s. would led on. the u.s. said they are supporting yemen with intelligence and monetary aid. certainly, you have seen general david petraeus there yesterday. many are blenl pledging aid and support in the fight against terror, but nevertheless, people are wondering what the role is of the u.s. in the last few weeks. they have not been involved in drone strikes or aerial support to the military, but a lot of people think they have. the u.s. may be planning retaliation attacks against the al qaeda targets there, but yemen's government is maintaining any atacks that happen could get intelligence from the a

central command in the region, general david petraeus, visited the country over the weekend with a promise to look at ways to enhance military and intelligen cooperation with the yemeni government. the u.s. government has been rapidly increasing those efforts in aiding yemen's own military to hit at al qaeda targets in the country. these efforts have escalated since the failed christmas day bomb plot. the main suspect, a nigerian, umar farouk abdulmutallab, claimed to have intended to carry out the attack, as well as militants based in yemen. yemen itself is coming over increasing scrutiny over the weekend. president obama directly accused an offshoot of the al qaeda base as being responsible for the airline bomb plot. his administration is growing more vocal about the country's ability to deal with extremism. the u.s. will look at case-by-case whether to repatriate the 90 or so yemeni detainees held at guantanamo bay prison camp. the fallout from the failed bomb plot is still echoing around washington. >> it is unacceptable that nine years, or eight years, after richard reid used the exac

all of this comes a day after general david petraeus travelled to yemen carrying a message from presidenting full u.s. support in the fight against al qaeda in yemen. there are new attacks against al qaeda strongholds in recent days. the yemeni government has pledged to help in looking at the christmas bomber, allegedly trained at terrorist camps in yemen. last year, the u.s. gave yemen $70 million to fight terrorism. this weekend, general petraeus announced that amount will double, more likely than not this year. >>> more than 160 people have been arrested in a cock fighting ring raid in texas. they seized drugs, cash, and more than 100 roosters. child protective services took into custody as many as 15 children, some as young as 7 years of age. >>> rick warren says that donations to his southern california megachurch total $2.4 million. he had asked for donations to meet a $900,000 shortfall. >>> in colorado, dogs can travel in style now. a pet boarding facility bought a hearse and dressed it up as a pet traveler. cheaper than a cab. now to j.c. monahan with the weather. >> we're lookin

on the timing of this, it is particularly intriguing given that general david petraeus met with yemen's president yesterday. what's the state of the relationship between the government of yemen and our government? >> the yemeni government at this point is opening its arms saying we want to help, we want money, we want equipment. the question is, is money and equipment enough? the yemeni government has a basic problem of credibility. not just among al qaeda but among its own citizenry. even with the proper amount of money, even with the proper amount of weapons, are they able to defeat the tribes, confront the tribes who are providing cover for al qaeda in certain places? that's not clear. if you look at pakistan right now where we're dumping a ton of money and a ton of support and a ton of military equipment, have you a similar situation where the question is, given all that support, is the pakistani government capable of confronting the taliban. now it is the same situation in yemen. is money, missile strikes, is that going to be enough or do we need to get into some kind of negotiatio

centcom commander general david petraeus was in yemen just yesterday for talks with that country's president. >>> the u.s. embassy is in the capital of sanaa. the ambassador is steven seche, a career foreign service officer who's been with the state department for nearly 30 years. the embassy serves the needs of u.s. citizens there including issues visas and passports. >>> so let's talk about these national security developments with mark and lynn again. mark, you know, during this investigation of this mutallab, what happened there, the obama administration, again, criticizeed very strongly. where do they stand as far as accountability here? does the ball, does it end with them here? did they drop the ball here? >> i don't think it's fair to assign responsibility to anybody about this just like going back to the bush years it wasn't fair to say all this should have been put in president bush's lap. the fact is there was a breakdown. you know, thankfully nothing did happen. i think we heard earlier today, thomas kean said that look, this was a good thing in the sense that it woke us up. so l

general david petraeus met with yemeny president.e praised last month's raids that killed 60 militants? >> indeed there has been sharing of intelligence, of information and so forth two ways. it's a two-way street because the intelligence sources of yemen are very, very good as well. >> ifill: president obama also pledged his support to drive al qaeda from yemen in his weekly radio address. for more on the al qaeda threat in yemen, we turn to richard barrett, the coordinator of the al qaeda monitoring team at the united nations. he returned from yemen in mid- december. and gregory johnsen, a yemen scholar at princeton university. he travels to the country frequently and was last there in the summer. professor johnson, what do we know, if anything, about the nature of this threat that was suspected involving the embassy closures? >> well, we don't know a great deal. it's being reported that the gem yemeny military lost about six trucks. there's a concern that al qaeda militants may have captured these trucks which held munitions and a

genel david petraeus said the iraqi elections scduled for march 7, are of "enoous importance" the country's future. britain launched an immedie review of its current rport security measureafter the failedlane bombing over detroit. prime minister gdon brown said he is considering instling new technoloes like full-body scanners to screen ssengers. we have a report from ul davies of indendent television news. >>eporter: some may feel its an invasion of priva, technology thacan see under your clothes. but the itish government appears to be the late to decide its an acceptab price to pay if stops a potential suicide bomber. this system which has been successfully trial at manchester cld soon be a fixte at all of britain's airports. in a stateme gordon brown sa, the detroit plot thankfully failed. but it has been another wakep call. he added there was now a nd to enhance airpt security systems beyond the traditional meares. full body scners have already been introduced at american airports. here a member of airport sta demonstrates how concealed apon can be spotted. in this case i a knife but e s

david petraeus made a surprise trip to yemen to talk to top officials about the fight against al qaeda. >>> now to where all this leaves air travellers. one, two or no carry on bags. can you use the bathroom before landing. papt downs or body scans? >> reporter: uncertainty in the air and now on the ground too. from secondary screenings of carry-ons to additional pat downs, holiday travellers who flew out before christmas are facing a whole new set of challenges today. >> there's longer lines. there's more security. there's a requirement to put your baggage through the x-ray machines sometimes twice. >> reporter: the christmas day terror plot aboard a northwest jet approaching detroit exposed safety officials say a hole in airport security. how did umar farouk abdulmutallab sneak explosives inside his underwear? >> we've known for some time t capability to detect explosives at the checkpoint is a vulnerability. that's what got exploited. we got to use technology to improve upon. >> reporter: umar farouk abdulmutallab smuggled the explosives through checkpoints in amsterdam and nigeria,

over the weekend, general david petraeus made a surprise visit to yemen to meet the president. he also announced the u.s. will more than double its $67 million counterterrorism aid package to this poor and heavily tribaled country which has been battling a civil war for a decade. but even an expanded aid program may not be enough to tackle the threats from al qaeda and its sympathiz sympathizers. >> it's extremely difficult to eliminate the terrorist fractions because even the yemeni government doesn't have full control over its territory. >> reporter: the government under heavy pressure to tackle mill tan city is trying, though. it ordered two missile strike mis-december on what it called al qaeda targets which is says killed at least 30 fighters. now, the growth of evidence that shows the extent of terrorism in yemen is going to complicate efforts to close down guantanamo this year. of the 198 detainees still there, 89 of them are i can't make yemeni. >>> thank you very much. joining us now, richard haass, president of the council of foreign relations. describe yemen to me. i

while he was serving with the coalition military assistance team under the command of general david petraeuso the extensive injuries to his left knee, doctors had to amputate his left leg. major polito's story of courage and sacrifice has been featured in time magazine, pga magazine, fox news, cnn, and many national and oklahoma television stations and newspapers. since his amputation major polito has been a staunch advocate for veterans with disabilities specifically focusing on advocacy for prosthetic technologies with orr though care -- visiting with amputees and developing programs to meet the needs of veterans with mental health disabilities like ptsd. during his time at brook army medical center, major polito experienced what many tragically-wounded service members experienced in war, the inner darkness of depression. ptsd and also suicide ideation. this wound crippled his positive spirit. major polito describes this inner darkness as a deep wounding of a soldier's spirit. during this time he came to understand that as a warrior he could not walk alone in his journey. in that moment he

and i think david petraeus, stan mcchrystal and i would all say that this is one of the most importantas that needs to be addressed because nobody believes that the outcome of this war will end with a complete demolishment or killing everybody who fights with the taliban. that's neither possible nor necessary. nor is it in the nature of this sort of war it's not how this war ends. it won't end on the deck of a battleship, and it won't end on a military base in dayton, ohio. this issue -- i'm spending a lot of time on this question because it's so high on our personal priority list -- this issue is one of the big things that has to emerge. why didn't it emerge last year? because the election process was so complicate canned and so -- complicated and so intense and involved the same participants that we were not able to get this program resurrected and straightened out and funded right away. but we identified this in the report that bruce and i and our colleagues did. i thank you for raising that. >> the election, though, of course -- >> oh. sorry, go ahead. >> was accompanied by massive

on hating wall street, coming to find out that the governor of new york is actually, you know, david petraeus is in love with wall street. one of the corporate thugs. definitely showing at the white house that long before this came to light, they were for the people, the middle class. it is not about republican democrat, they are just trying to get things done and the republicans are stalling. host: ronald, philadelphia. caller: why would you with the same people that got you into bankruptcy, foreclosure, back into office? seems ridiculous. here is a man trying to get things back together. they toured a civil wrong country for more. -- they took us to the wrong country for more. -- war. host: thank you. we will find out more tomorrow about what president obama's budget looks like. we have this story in "the new york times" that says "the budget for the 2010 fiscal year will identify the winners and losers on the three-year freeze by portion of the budget. the national institutes of health, the science foundation, and the energy department are in line for increases, along with the census burea

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on november 19th laid out a policy proposal and we are focused very much on this, and i think david petraeus, stan mcchrystal and i would all say that this is one of the most important areas that needs to be addressed, because nobody believes that the outcome of this war will end with a complete demolishment or killing everybody who fights with the taliban. that's neither possible nor necessary. and -- for is it in the nature of this kind of war. it won't end on the deck of a battleship, and it won't end in a military base in dayton, ohio. this is a different kind of war. and this issue, i'm spending a lot of time on this question because it's so high on our personal priority list. this issue is one of the big things that has to emerge. why didn't it emerge last year? because we were -- because the election process was so complicated and so intense and involved the same participants that it was -- that we were not able to get this program resurrected and straightened out and funded right away. and -- but we identified this in the report, that bruce and i and our colleagues did. and i thank y

on november 19th laid out a policy proposal and we are focused very much on this, and i think david petraeus, stan mcchrystal and i would all say that this is one of the most important areas that needs to be addressed, because nobody believes that the outcome of this war will end with a complete demolishment or killing everybody who fights with the taliban. that's neither possible nor necessary. and -- for is it in the nature of this kind of war. it won't end on the deck of a battleship, and it won't end in a military base in dayton, ohio. this is a different kind of war. and this issue, i'm spending a lot of time on this question because it's so high on our personal priority list. this issue is one of the big things that has to emerge. why didn't it emerge last year? because we were -- because the election process was so complicated and so intense and involved the same participants that it was -- that we were not able to get this program resurrected and straightened out and funded right away. and -- but we identified this in the report, that bruce and i and our colleagues did. and i thank y