armed services committee, senators jack reed and jim webb. it's up next after this brief commercial. >>> we are back, joined by two military veterans and members from the democrat armed services committee, jack reed and democrat from virginia, jack webb. this is what the president announced this week in his speech. i'll put it on our screen so our viewers can see in terms of the drawdown. due to be withdrawn by the end of this year is 10,000. the surge groups in total will be out by the end of next summer. public opinions on the side of a faster withdraw, the latest pew poll shows that clearly, 56% say remove troops as soon as possible. did the president make a political decision here and say it's time to get out? >> no, i don't think so. it was a difficult decision in 2009, a speech at west point about a strategy taking down al qaeda, building up the afghan army and beginning to reduce our forces in july of this year. he's falling through on that strategy. the pace is appropriate. it recognizes that we do have to maintain a presence. that pre

they came after the american senator jim webb and called for multilateral negotiations. washington drew criticism from china last year by asserting that the u.s. had in national security interest in the region. you're watching newsday on the bbc, live from singapore and london. still to come -- the name of the east. formountry's clamoring to a new middle lines. >> much under-used a red carpet has been rolled out in puerto rico as barack obama became the first u.s. president to visit the territory in 50 years. while residents listened to him caylee m.i.a. it is the key hispanic vote in the united states -- listen to him keenly, it is the key hispanic vote in the and it states that he is after . >> he had pledged to return to pr as a sitting president. u.s. presidents don't come here very often appeared >> the residents of the island can determine their own future. and when the people of puerto rico make a clear decision, my administration will stand by you. >> that endorsement was music to the years of the porter ricans who sometimes feel ignored by washington. >> everybo

. >>> virginia's mark warner and jim webb are two of six senators calling for stricter driving standards in the bus industry. they sent a message to ray lahood. this less than a week after the bus crash in virginia. that letter comes on a day with two more bus crashes. the first early this morning on interstate 10 in alabama. more than 20 people were injured when a bus there hit a tractor trailer around 12:30 a.m. and more than three dozen people injured when a bus carrying members of a youth marching band crashed in western iowa this morning. that bus blew a tire along i-80 just before 8:00 a.m. >>> well let's take a look at our own evening rush hour. monica with your time saving traffic. the yellow light is still there. >> we have some incidents to show you. first of all, start off south of town on the eisenhower connector. an accident with the center lane getting thru. you can see the slow traffic because of it. let's take you over to the west side of town. on the outer loop of the beltway, you'll have to trust me on this one. things are looking good at river road. it's a little bit s

virginia democrat jim webb: >> how much do people want to achieve that may be above what we need to? and we're getting into... into this area of nation building. how much can we achieve? it should only be done if we can articulate a vital national interest because we... we quite frankly need to be doing... doing a lot more of that here. >> woodruff: similar skepticism came from indiana senator richard lugar, the committee's ranking republican. >> despite ten years of investment and attempts to better understand the culture and the region's actors, we remain in a cycle that produces relative progress but fails to deliver a secure political or military resolution. in afghanistan, measuring success according to relative progress has very little meaning. >> woodruff: the doubts were fed by a report from the committee's democratic staff. after a two-year review, it concluded that: the report suggested, in fact, that u.s. aid is only encouraging afghan dependency and corruption. the renewed discussion over progress in afghanistan comes at the same time as the debate over how quickly to beg

this morning a view from outside the beltway from new jersey governor chris christie and jim webb andin us. it's all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >>> that will do it for us on this sunday morning. thomas roberts, thank you so much. >>> our continuing coverage of the casey anthony trial. i'll see you back here later tonight for nbc "nightly news." until then, so long. enjoy the rest of your sunday, everybody.

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when you've got jim webb out there, who would be a national security democrat, spend a little time with him, explain him the mission. dick lugar, republican, spend a little time with him, explain the mission. he's not done the personal politics of this. joe biden, it's usually outsourced to joe biden, the way this white house works. he's been in the middle of the debt negotiations in this whole debt commission. so, i think yes, you have congress all over the place, yes, there's all these issues with the republican party inside congress right now, and yes, i do think there's some opportunism. the president hasn't made a good faith effort at just good, old-fashioned back-slapping -- >> not only within congress, but to the american public. i mean, he doesn't want to talk about afghanistan or libya, because i think they feel that in the white house, he needs to focus only on domestic issues. there's only down side on foreign policy, but if you're going to send american forces into battle, you have to make the sale. >> all right. i'm going to take a break here. couple things i want to do whe

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the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3 of the standing rules of the senate i appoint the honorable jim webbrom the commonwealth of virginia signed daniel k. inouye, president is >> we'll return now to live coverage of the faith and freedom coalition conference. more remarks from congressman tom wright. >> they said that we may not allow you, government, we may not allow you to move one of our manufacturing facilities from the state of washington to the state of south carolina because it might make it so that union activity would be compromised. can you believe that? and you talk about a federal government agency that's out of control. you can name all sorts of them but the epa, the environmental protection agency, is out of control. these are politicians picking winners and losers and making it stick and obamacare -- as a physician, i can tell you the obamacare is the furthest reach of oppression that this society has ever seen and that's why it's wrong. [applause] >> and then you all well know that the spending -- the spending that has gone on has been immoral. not just wrong. it is immora

world war two, and i thought it was time did we did that, and with after what i learned in iraq, and jim webb and i worked hard to get that established, but we are a long way from where we need to be. i want the department of defense to take this seriously, and i want a.i.d. to take this seriously, because the american people are going to turn off the spigot, if we do not do this right. and they have the right to turn off the spigot, if we do not do this right there is so much work to be done if all of you would study the works that has been done. we could make huge progress, but somehow it never happens. it is painful how long it's taking to get the accountability that we need, and even get the accurate information turned i will continue to follow will put the new secretary of defense on this. he and i have discussed it. i have had many conversations with commanders on the subject matter, and everybody now as their head, and says they get it, but it is not getting done right, unused to improve care if thank you very much for being here today. -- and it needs to improve. thank you for being h