to be exposed to the kinds of questions about can she be a credible candidate, should she -- is she fg to represent the party in the way it wants to be represented. and i think there's a reason why the handlers in the mccain campaign were so terrified about putting her out there unvarnished. this is her moment. let's see what she's made of. i suspect that at this rate she's not going to make 2010, never mind 2012. >> richard wolffe of msnbc, author of "renegade." also with public strategies. thanks as always. we appreciate it. >>> governor palin, the birthers and lest we forget the tea partiers the more conservative part of the republican party and the democratic chairman believes that could be a very good thing for the party, his party, not the gop. during a speech at the american democracy conference this week, virginia governor tim keenee, now the head of the campaign said the gop will be torn apart and powerless by the conservative wing. he singled out the tea party movement as the poison that will kill the republicans, including the party's chances in next year's midterm elections

the nfl and nbc were look fg an automated solution to remove nbc's nfl games from the site and any gamehat play appear on justin.tv. so when we ran a test this past sunday, we were actually able to automatically identify and remove the majority of nfl games that had appeared on the site during that time period. >> you don't have an agreement with the nfl to put the games on your website. they're on there and if they say take them down, they take them down. >> as to all of the content sites, it is the same issue. when a user is putting someone else's content on your site and using your site to district someone else's content, how do you work with copyright holders to address that and remove that content and remove that user from the site. so we approach it like every other type. >> i have a question. >> we do have to vote. >> very quickly. you mentioned with regard to -- to maybe precluding these things even getting on a site before and you talked about what we could do as a congress to actively do that rather than just reacting. how could we be proactive and i think that you mentioned,

flg fg belongs to afghans.afghanistan must be built and secured by afghans and i would say that they have got to make the decision to do the kinds of things that help that process along. it is difficult. it does put people in hard decisions. i go back to our revolution where our leadership put an awful lot on the line, and an awful lot of people in afghanistan are in the position of doing the same thing. >> thank you. finally, general mcchrystal, there has been some acknowledgement, i think, through the years that the women in the military, your women troops, perform very, very well and this is a different kind of war than some of the legislative restrictions we've had on the assignment of women. do you see any reason that the congress shouldn't consider as time goes by giving more flexibility to the military for the assignment of women so you don't feel like you have your hands tied when assigning units or posting women? is there anything out there you see that would restrict that? >> sir, to be honest i haven

telling the american people there will come a day when we don't need to have any troops in afghanistan fg. if the strategy works we'll have a functioning government in afghanistan sometime after the middle of 2011. and that will prevent the talib taliban's return. what is our b-- but the achievement of that strategy is outside of control of the united states. relies in large part on the afghan people and the karzai government, which may be as bad as the detractors indicate. secretary clinton, are we prepared to go to the american people and say, counter -- we tried counter insurgency, it didn't work. not at fault of the u.s. military. and that we're returning to counterterrorism, or are we promising the american people that by 2012, 2013, we will be out of afghanistan? >> congressman, i think it's important to draw the contrast between combat troops and between support troops, the kind that would be continuing to train and provide logisticses, perhaps intelligence, air lift. the support the afghans might need going forward. we have certainly dedetermined that we have to stand up the afgha