he did not pick david petraeus to be chairman.recommending to the president, slower drawdowns in afghanistan than the president wanted. he finds himself at cia. he also didn't pick admiral jim stabbritas. he's the guy who pulled together this european coalition, including the french and the british, but he also got passed over. so i think the president is looking to, in marty dempsey, and ray odierno, people with tried and true combat experience, but sort of the quiet generals who have got experience, who will advise him, but in executing the strategy that he wants and he sees going forward. >> fran townsend with excellent insights for us, it's going to be interesting going forward, from the big political decisions about afghanistan and iraq. the president could always say, this is bush's holdover defense secretary in bob gates. now he will be gone. this is the president's team completely. now, fran, thanks for coming in tonight. when we come back, we'll reflect on this somber day, memorial day at arlington national cemetery. what

using the replete george tebeau bush, barack obama or david petraeus would have used it was just describing the kind of mission of armed nation building but we are involved in that sort of been described in ways as the armed social work and i am trying to describe the phenomenon to the reader that might have this idea that when they look at the news and see what journalists call the bank and from places like iraq and afghanistan and show another picture of what goes on, as of three cups of tea side of the war which is what the military calls the non-kinetic side of things and what i wanted to get was the experience of people who were getting their hands dirty doing these kind of things, rebuilding schools, digging wells and roads, in places like iraq and afghanistan. >> so the u.s. military currently building schools, building roads, doing non-military functions? >> you'd be surprised to see the extent they've embraced an especially places like afghanistan we're doing this kind of nation building missions is a cornerstone of the exit strategy creating a capable government that's actually ca

. >>> general david petraeus and lieutenant general david rodriguez apologized for an air tri stik that landed not where it was supposed to. >>> switches geing gears. looking at the nation's weather. not quite as severe from kansas city to texas. up to a foot of mountain snow in the rockies. rain from seattle to redding, california. the heat continues in the northeast. >> 95 in baltimore. 9 on in new york. 85 in omaha. 87 in detroit. mostly 60s from seattle to salt lake city. >>> coming up, american airlines is set to leave its mark on the upcoming nba finals. that's in our business news straight ahead. >>> and a memorial day tradition at the brick yard. the 100th runs of the race. so close, yet so far away. >>> u.s. markets are closed today for the memorial day holiday. overseas markets were fairly quite. tokyo's nikkei average was down a fraction today. hong kong's hang seng gained a small amount. in london, the ftse is also closed. when wall street opens tomorrow, the dow will be at 12,441. >>> lock heheed martin says it a target of a significant hack attack this month. no critical d

why else would he step on his great story about getting david petraeus to join the administration and not military but sy. it was desperation. >> it was a crazy media day. huge personnel changes and yet the big story was donald trump can president releasing. >> handled strangely. he stepped on his own story and i thought it was strange that president himself. that should have been on the staff level and concentrated on the real. if i am jay carny, i think i messed up here. donald trump had all . networks covering him . he went live. it waited for the president to finish. >> i would have said mr. president go early and get this man off. >> and even the president mentioned the fact or white house mentioned the fact that they never get that kind of coverage. >> and what is amazing. release the conservative. it was released four years ago and release the long form. >> bad news cycle. shouldn't have done it . so, if i can finish, i think you have a point. jay carny should have done it . shouldn't have been the opening act for donald trump. >> and tait da. >> nothing is good enough for thes

t.j. >> this comes as general david petraeus is actually warning about the possibility of an increase of high-profile attacks this summer. >> that's right, t.j. really underscores this memorandum that was released by general petraeus today to nato's security assistance force in which he basically warned that we should be on the lookout for more attacks of this nature because the taliban is trying and insurgents here are trying to prove that they can carry out these kind of attacks. general petraeus called to balance their tactical needs with those of the civilian population saying these attacks may increase the risk of suivalian casualties and put forces in difficult situations. the concern here right now, the taliban, even though many forces within the government trying to get the taliban to get into these peace talks and reconcilizati reconciliation talks, we're going to continue our fight getting foreign troops out of here. they're in the midst of their spring offense and high-profile attacks against security targets and they're vowing to continue these attacks and that has the sec

general david petraeus himself pinned medals on sizemore, mott, bankston, mendez and a host of otheroldiers. awards they would gladly trade for the lives of their brothers. and then they went home. there was no sendoff. no brass band. without a word, they walked to a chartered helicopter and got the hell out of kunar and the heart of darkness. >> mike boettcher reporting. the real story of war. what we ask of those who fight for sxuls what they give. it's been 3,522 days since american troops were sent to afghanistan. thanks for watching abc news. he hope you've had a good memorial day weekend.

leon panetta at defense general david petraeus at cia. what is the decision to put a four-star geneneral who isn expert in counterinsurgency mean it for the cia, charle >> the most important counterinsurgency we are running right now is in afghanistan and pakistan, and he knows it. if you want somebody atat the center othe somewhere impoant, he is it. he is a great general and he will make an excellent cia director. >> colby? >> he is a leader, and that is what the cia needs, a lderr and a good manager who understands how it works and howow it relates to other institutions of government. >> na? >> he seems to be the right person. sometimes you watch events unfold and you don''t like what you see but therere is nhing you can do about it. we are watching the intelligence mmunity and the defense community emerge as one, and that means much less oversight from anybody outsiside but i don't know w what you can do o about it. >>? - -- mark? >> he will not be chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and one not the nato commander, and he will be a

at the top, cia chief leon panetta to defense, general david petraeus the cia. what is the decision to put a four-star general who is expert in counterinsurgency eighth in charge of the cia mean, charles? >> the most important conference indices in afghanistan and pakistan, and he knows it. if you want somebody who is at the center of something important, he is where you should be. he is a great general and he will make an excellent cia director. >> colby? >> he is a leader, and that is what the cia needs, a leader and a good manager who understands how it works and institutions of government. >> nina? >> it seems to me he is the right person. sometimes you watched eveves unfold and you like what you see but there's not much you can do about it. we are watching the intelligence community and defense community sort of emerge as one, which means less oversight from anybody outside, but i don't know what you can do about it. >> mark? >> he means he will not be chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and he will not be supreme nato commander, and he will be reporting

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. >> reporter: we received a message within 15 minutes from the spokesman for david petraeus. the international commander here in kabul. let me read that to you. isaf congratulates the u.s. special pop rations and intelligence element that conducted the operation. the operation struck a blow to al qaeda and its affiliates. the head quarters stopped the routine though watch the president's announcement and resumed the normal battle rhythm. and that normal battle rhythm right now is responding to taliban threats to begin their spring offensive. they said it began yesterday, but there hasn't been a lot of activity out there yet. it's quiet on the streets of kabul. the president of afghanistan made a speech to subgovernors about an hour and a half ago in which he said this killing of bin laden in pakistan demonstrates what he said all along, that the war against terror is not centered in afghanistan but elsewhere in the world. american troops, we have had no reaction from them yet, because we're frankly being kept away. they want to keep this low key. they do not want to inflame p

. >> i'm pleased to nominate general david petraeus. >> couric: are you disappointed things aren't asble and are you concerned they could unravel as combat forces leave the country? >> it's all over your face and it's healed. >> couric: this is the corner where an s.u.v. was parked full of explosives. nearly every street is an obstacle course of debris and the dead. breathe, breathe, breathe, squeeze my hand. >> why? why? ( screaming ) >> it's inhumane. no person would actually keep their animals in this state. >> couric: frantic preparations are under way for yet another attempt to stop this massive oil leak. it's like chocolate syrup, isn't it? it's so thick. they continue to pray for the wounded as doctors inside treat the victims, including democratic congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> they've given us permission to take her down to the launch. so i'm excited about that. >> couric: wow, i bet you are! >> couric: if president mubarak thought last night's announcement was going to restore stability, apparently it's done quite the opposite. now pro-and anti-mubarak demonstrators...

suspicion of pakistan's knowledge of bin laden's presence in the country i'm not long ago general david petraeus himself cast a shadow over the prospect of withdrawing from afghanistan while the security progress achieved over the past year is significant it is also fragile and reversible nevertheless what bin laden's death could surely do is help pave an easier way to negotiations and then out of afghanistan a way that would allow the u.s. to walk away as a victor as even iran hails the success of its operation against bin laden say now it has no excuse to stay in the region russia china for across party. alright i fiddle with our guest in islamabad first bomb is that the united states after ten years could get osama bin laden kill him without anyone knowing about it in pakistan least that's the official line how will that change the facts on the ground in afghanistan because the effectiveness of al qaeda is still relatively unknown but we know that the insurgency is quite strong one how is one affecting the other. well actually because a lot of them would we won't discuss the. alleged clue fro

there was a pause this morning during general david petraeus' regular meeting, the announcement was madet osama bin laden had been killed. then they got on with the rest of the meet being, and that's the message we are getting from military compounds and from bases across the country, that soldiers are very satisfied that this has happened, but they're still going on patrols and still getting ready to fight the taliban and look for the remaining al qaeda soldiers here in afghanistan. >> live from kabul, many thanks. >> reaction has been pouring in worldwide, and people have taken to the streets in america, in particular in new york and washington. in new york, celebrations are underway. hundreds of people made their way to ground zero, the scene of the 9/11 attacks. times square has also been a focus for jubilant new yorkers. here's a couple of them. >> it's been a long time coming, but i'm sure america and all the allies of america and family members of all the victims feel some sense of relief that, you know, justice has finally been served. you know, that will never help them with the

so you can't really get rid of an insurgency or a terrorist group by simply killing and even david petraeus the commander u.s. commander in afghanistan a said you can't kill your way out of an insurgency the same applies to terrorism you have to remove the underlying source of the grievance and in this case. the benign was trying to get the u.s. forces and u.s. . meddling out of. the muslim world and then most americans aren't aware that their government does that sort of thing and so it comes as their their response is a nationalistic one but that he's been punished for his work in night perpetration on the nine eleven incident which is true and it's cause for celebration but i think the united states in the long term has to ask itself and the people here have to face up to the fact that perhaps the u.s. government is causing terrorism as much as fighting it out of briefers to come so i was really want to ask you you know the big question was now i mean the u.s. has already issued a worldwide travel warning fearing immediate retaliating from bin laden supporters was this a whole new can of

and when general david petraeus took command last summer, he stepped them up further. petraeus has doubled the number of kill/capture missions, and issued hundreds of press releases announcing the death or detention of taliban leaders. >> the taliban had the momentum, and when you're faced with a serious, deteriorating situation, you have to do something about it. and the best way to do something about it is to use every tool available to you, and that includes everything from the very soft end of things all the way to the hardest of the hard end, which is, of course targeted raids. ( explosion ) >> go, go, go, go, go! >> narrator: the kill/capture campaign against the taliban is waged by both special operations forces and conventional troops. but leading and directing the program is a secretive counterterrorism unit within special forces known as joint special operations command, or jsoc. >> let me know when you got a target, five. coming up now. >> narrator: it was jsoc that carried out the operation that killed osama bin laden. >> the joint special operations comman

thing in the middle east but we've heard you know even some of our officials leaving her general david petraeus say that it's true that israel u.s. foreign policy towards israel does put us at more risk when it comes to you know our relationships with the arab world how come that doesn't get fed to the american public when you think about the fact that we're in a war on terror that we're in a war in afghanistan which has been the longest war in u.s. history how come none of that gets put together is it the media's fault it's very much connected to the media the lobby is is more pervasive than most people even people who know about it often don't know how pervasive it is it means that it is very influential and powerful in the media and academia in numerous institutions so what happens is we consistently as americans and this is what i have studied to a great degree degree we've been massive studies on u.s. coverage of israel palestine and we find an astounding level of israeli centrism we find the people that are writing the reports that we read in omaha nebraska. seattle are written quite ofte

increase in special operations forces targeted killings in afghanistan particularly under general david petraeus who set to take over as the director of the central intelligence agency so what we've really seen from the obama administration and i you know to respond to what secretary clinton is saying is a doubling down on these bush era policies of targeted assassination becoming just a norm in how the u.s. conducts business so far from being over either from the al qaeda side of things because we see these disparate small groups still thriving in small ways in their in their countries on the one hand and then the u.s. on the other hand engaged in this special operations form of attrition warfare where we believe we can kill our way out of the problem that was a big part of the problem with the bush era strategy so i'm very concerned about what comes next i don't see the obama administration saying let's take this as an opportunity to scale back some of this it really does seem like they're going to continue with this targeted assassination policy believing they can kill their way out of out of

of our leading strategic thinkers and one of the finest military officers of our time, general david petraeus. this is the second time in a year that i've asked general petraeus to take on a demanding assignment, and i know this carries a special sacrifice for he and his wife, holy. after 40 years in uniform leading american and coalition forces in the most challenging military missions since 9/11, he's retiring from the army that he loves to become the next cia director. effective early september pending senate confirmation. as a lifelong consumer of intelligence, he knows that intelligence must be timely, accurate, and acted upon quickly. he understands that staying a step ahead of nimble adversaries includes sharing information with my commander of national intelligence, jim clapper, and as he and the cia confront a full range of threats, david's extraordinary knowledge of the middle east and afghanistan uniquely positions him to lead the agency in its effort to defeat al-qaeda. in short, just as general petraeus changed the way our military fights and wins wars in the 21st century, i have

commanded 3,000 to 4,000 fighters in this region of afghanistan coalition forces commander general david petraeus has a very different number. he recently said he believes there are no more than 100 al qaeda fighters in the entire country. najibullah reports he was permitted to film only three to four dozen of khan's fighters during the ten days he spent with them, but he says he saw many more men during his wide travels with khan's patrols. >> they were in the hills, in the mountains. i went four madrassas, and, at this four madrassas, each madrassa, there was between 50 to 60. and also, when i went to their training camp, there was more than 100 men was training-- karate-- and also they were running on the hill with one body. and it was rough training, i saw that. and they are... out of that, i saw those people with uniform. and around maybe 400 people i saw off... off camera and... which i wasn't able to film. >> narrator: khan said he is getting ready, preparing his men for a big offensive soon, in may, against coalition and afghan forces. if najibullah would stay two months longer, khan said

you had david petraeus over there, leon pinetta over there but i'm thinking about those troops who will be truly elated. >> i want to go back to andy card. you mentioned there were times you believed osama bin laden had been captured or killed. take us inside that for a moment. this was a daily focus for president obama, for your white house. the president would get those intelligence briefings every single morning, the thing he's looking for every single morning is where is osama bin laden, had he been getting, is there any chance? take us back to those days when you believed you had him in your sights. >> well, first of all, the president -- president bush's focus was on protecting america. . the first thing he would say is, what are we doing in protecting america? yes, he was interested in getting osama bin laden and he wanted him preferably alive, but he wanted him dead or alive. we did focus on that. and there was -- we would get regular reports about the intelligence and where we thought he was or the frustration when we couldn't figure out where he was. there were a couple of tim

you had david petraeus over there, leon pinetta over there but i'm thinking about those troops who will be truly elated. >> i want to go back to andy card. you mentioned there were times you believed osama bin laden had been captured or killed. take us inside that for a moment. this was a daily focus for president obama, for your white house. the president would get those intelligence briefings every single morning, the thing he's looking for every single morning is where is osama bin laden, had he been getting, is there any chance? take us back to those days when you believed you had him in your sights. >> well, first of all, the president -- president bush's focus was on protecting america. . the first thing he would say is, what are we doing in protecting america? yes, he was interested in getting osama bin laden and he wanted him preferably alive, but he wanted him dead or alive. we did focus on that. and there was -- we would get regular reports about the intelligence and where we thought he was or the frustration when we couldn't figure out where he was. there were a couple of tim

if people say you cannot burn koran, i think david petraeus was wrong on that. host: thank you for being with us. now, to our live coverage of the house of representatives. who are working for relief. comfort those who mourn and welcome hoes who have died. bless these representatives. may all they do begin with your inspiration and find completion in your love. we ask this in your holy name. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentlelady from california, ms. sanchez. ms. sanchez: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm proud to be an american. will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain up to five one-minute requests on each side of the aisle. for what p

war effort from general mccrystal in afghanistan, general david petraeus was asked on "meet the press" last august about osama bin laden. and about the importance of the united states getting osama bin laden. and about the connection between that and the afghanistan war. >> is his capture less important today than it was? >> well, i think he remains an iconic figure. i think capturing or killing osama bin laden is still a very, very important task for all of those who are engaged in counterterrorism around the world. let's remember why we are here. we're here so that afghanistan does not once again became a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in afghanistan before they moved on to germany and then to u.s. flight schools. the fact is that it was the taliban that allowed al qaeda to establish its bases and sanctuaries in afghanistan when it controlled a good bit of the country. that gives big pause, needless to say. that is why, again, this in

the attack comes as general david petraeus warns of a summer surge in high-profile taliban attacks. >>> the obama administration is sending an envoy to north korea for the first time in two years. robert king is the u.s. state department special envoy for north korean human rights. the white house says next week king will begin a five-day tour to look into the country's need for food. the u.s. cut off food aid to north korea two years ago. >>> the water is rising. your neighbors are evacuating. what can you do? how about build your own levee. martin savidge found one family near vicksburg, mississippi, that did just that. take a look. so far it is keeping the flood waters at bay and keeping three acres and the homestead high and dry. >> when it got to 55.5, we knew we had to do something. >> it's worked. so far it's holding. >> so far it's holding. we started designing a levee to hold 105 feet. then it came it was going to be 107, and when we started we said we're going to put it high as the levee will go, at 110 feet. that's what we built, sea level. >> so far, so good. martin says t

it's the same day that a memo from david petraeus went public warning nato troops to expect an increasehigh profile attacks in the coming months. >>> the sharp spike in taliban attacks since the death of osama bin laden is no coincidence. they said they're now operating in his name. here is stan grant. >> reporter: the taliban has launched a series of attacks since osama bin laden was killed. the latest targing a convoy of vehicles from the u.s. embassy. there was a car full of explosives and it was detonated as the convoy passed by. at least 11 people were injured, two of the foreigners, all injuries were not serious, although a bystander was killed. they're vowing to continue the attacks. they're going after nato and american targets and they say they're going to finish the job that osama bin laden started. >> we love his mission which is not dependent on any one man. we loved him because he was courageously fighting against america and his allies. we have to continue his mission because we love his mission more than the man. >> the taliban also warning that pakistani targets will be

and he also named cia director leon panetta to be his next secretary of defense, and general david petraeus to be the cia director. the president offered up some eerie foreshadowing when he praised petraeus. >> as a lifelong consumer of intelligence, he knows that intelligence must be timely, accurate, and acted upon quickly. >> that's for sure. that same night, president obama managed to crack a joke about those birthers at a democratic national committee fundraiser. >> my name is barack obama. i was born in hawaii. nobody checked my i.d. on the way in. >> he gave the final order for the operation on the morning of april 29th, toured the tornado damage in alabama later that day, and that evening gave a commencement address at miami dade college, and a vote september 11. >> when bombs fell on pearl harbor, when an iron curtain fell over europe, when the threat of nuclear war loomed just 90 miles from this city, when a brilliant september morning was darkened by terror, in none of those instances did we falter. we endured. we carried the dream forward. >> well, the raid was scheduled to take

all of this again happening against a backdrop yesterday, a memo released by general david petraeus, warning nato forces that the taliban and insurgents here would probably be stepping up their attacks in the coming months to try to show how aggressive they can be. a lot of turmoil here. people questioning if afghan security forces are able to actually protect this country properly. fredricka. >> mohammed jam joom, thanks so much. >>> back in this country, it's welcome news for the family of brian stow. los angeles police have arrested a suspect in the attack on the san francisco giants' fan outside dodgers stadium. they're questioning other suspects. stow sustained a brain injury from the brutal beating back in march. >>> floodwaters along the mississippi aren't going anywhere any time soon. some places expect to be underwater until at least the middle of next month. check out this cemetery in yazu city. you can barely see the headstones. the coroner says several caskets have actually floated to the top. they're now in a refrigerated truck until the water goes down. on to vicksburg.

in afghanistan, they're so prized for their ability to work around the clock, general david petraeusbility they bring to the fight cannot be replicated by man or machine. especially for dangerous work like checking for car bombs. >> we can send a dog in there without anybody getting close to the vehicle, and jour rr not risking harm to anyone directly. the dogs can indicate to me whether there's anything there. >> to train a single dog t costs $50,000, and companies like canine storm have built a multimillion industry around outfitting them. night vision cameras, motorcycle microphones and cameras are on the dogs infiltrating the camps. flack jackets help them take down dangerous opponents without injury, and with specially made jump harnesses, dogs can parachute into any hot spot as well as a human. one dog and his soldier set a record by jumping with oxygen from more than 30,000 feet up. the military has started a breeding program to try to keep up the numbers of the combat dogs. but for now, the most advanced breeding and training facilities are overseas. that means that's right,

. >> guest: your heard general david petraeus make a part with appeal for calm because of this pastor in florida who took upon himself to burn korans. it is an incendiary thing to do and it has led to deaths in the un compound. there were seven civilians who were killed by a raging mob two days ago. this is a serious situation. it is hard to understand how this pastorate in florida can justify burning korans when we have 1,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan in harm's way. >> host: "this burning land" learning lessons from the front lines of the transformer israeli-palestinian conflict. it has pictures of victories and personal stories. thank you very much, greg myre and jennifer griffin. we appreciate it. >> that with jennifer griffin and greg myre, authors of "this burning land" who appeared on washington journal. for more information visit booktv.org. >> professor paul halliday, what is habeas corpus? >> habeas corpus is not only a writ which meant 300 years ago that it was a scrap of parchment that a judge sent to a jailer. ordering matt jailer to bring a named prisoner into his court

thousands of university graduates, highly educated in federal bureaucracy, are a services, general david petraeus is proud of his princeton ph.d.. if you look at the results in terms of policy derivatives, what we think they learned in our universities, the results are far from sublime. what is your comment? >> as a professional educator i don't want to denigrate the impact of university education. i talked at sites for a decade and some of my students are here as we speak. did you learn anything? however -- let me make this comment. i actually think that the direction of social sciences that moved in the last 20 years has not been helpful because it has been taken over by economics so actually one of my agenda is in writing this book full of history is to remind people that they can't understand the way the contemporary world is unless they know more history. you can't do things by theoretical models and aggression alone. one of the reasons a lot of contemporary american political science has not been terribly useful to policymakers is because it moved into this abstract realm where people don't

. >> now, today's attack coincides with a warning memo from general david petraeus. the commander of coalition forces in afghanistan. they should expect an uptick in high-profile attacks in afghanistan this summer. that memo is available. petraeus, you may remember, president obama nominated him to be the next director of the cia. >>> another developing story that we are following this morning. a manhunt under way in oklahoma city. these are just some of the scenes from overnight. police looking for two suspects in connection with the shooting of a sheriff deputies. his name is major john waldenville. he was expected to go into surgery just about an hour ago. he's a 25-year vet. picking up extra work as a security guard when he was shot in the head. i talked with the oklahoma city sheriff about the evidence they have so far in this investigation. >> some of the event itself has been captured on video and we believe we're going to have at least enough to make a good identification of one of the suspects or at least one of the suspects. but we, we have men and women on