senator john kerry sums up the also calling the leaks unacceptable and illegal that after nearly nine years of war more than a thousand american casualties billions of u.s. taxpayer dollars. the taliban. appear to be strong as they have a stronger enemy means experts on policy in the middle east are calling for a stronger strategy asking for more time i think the first and we ought to do is just is to stop talking about twenty eleven and start talking about twenty four tane and more resources the second they want it is a big tactical hit on the taliban dr david kilcullen a counterinsurgency expert says in other words you have to do a lot of damage on the taliban before they'll be willing to talk a strategy that may sound familiar more money more troops and more time and if you do well there's no guarantee anything will change is it possible that this war is just unwinnable but certainly possible the thing is we want to know until we get to the point where we begin to pull out and we see if the afghan government is sustainable it looks rather do that significantly break from the one pr

too familiar with as the longest military campaign in american history committee chairman senator john kerry brought up the failed u.s. war of decades ago at a crucial time in america's current one this is a difficult moment in the afghan conflict a moment when questions about strategy and progress abound at a hearing on governance and the u.s. civilian strategy in the region the man in charge of it all a vietnam veteran himself tries to make a lesson of that history a fundamental difference between those two wars since you mentioned it mr chairman and this war our national security interests are at stake with the safety of the u.s. at stake as richard holbrooke claims you might think congress would have crossed their t.'s and dotted their i's by now and fighting their longest battle as they're supposed to be united states constitution requires that before the united states goes to war that there be an act of congress but just as in the vietnam war we've never followed that procedure with respect to a war in afghanistan and we centrally drifted into a war in a long term commitment a long ter

that's sort of the john kerry question.the man to be the last man to die for a mistake? >> larry: was the president right to fire mcchrystal? >> as i said, you know, i think here is a guy who is trying his hardest to implement the policy that may not be his. i hate to see a guy taken down for gossip. i think the way to fight this is not the way they're doing it. i look at all these terrorists that we have -- these terrorist plots we've stopped in recent years. they're kind of home grown. obama's policy is really not that different than bush's policy. bush used to say we're fighting them over here, fighting them over here. okay, red neck idiot. really, obama is just the tanner of two evils. it's the same policy. he may enunciate it better but it's the same thing. but memo to you guys, they're already here. you don't have to fight them over there. they're here. the times square bomb er. >> larry: you think something else big is going to happen? >> i'm just saying they're already here and they're incited to violence. >> larry:

it sounds a lot more like john kerry than the john mccain that i used to work with. >> senator mccain, are you the most conservative? >> j.d. mention that these organizations the arizona right to life endorsed a. the citizens for taxation endorsed me. these are independent, objective observers. he came back and was a paid lobbyist. he was a late-night star on infomercials'. i am proud to have the sheriff's support me in the 30 mayors in this state and know that i can be most effective for them in washington, including the farm bureau and the chamber of commerce and all of these organizations that judge as independently as opposed to a rather subjective view that you just heard. i am very proud to be a conservative. the difference between me and congressman hayworth comes down to spending. he defended it pork-barrel spending. those of us that stood up against this pork barrel spending, they are proud of our record for doing so. >> let's do some rebuttals. congressman hayworth, we will give you 45 seconds and we will give mr. mccain 45 seconds, and mr. deegan will get 30 seconds. >> we

. >> reporter: tonight senate foreign relations chairman john kerry said that however illegally these documents came to light, they raise serious questions about the reality of america's policy toward pakistan and afghanistan. hearings on the war tomorrow say the documents make it more urgent to get the policy right. brian? >> andrea mitchell in washington. andrea, thanks. >>> we turn our coverage now to the oil disaster in the gulf of mexico and word that the man who was the public face of bp is on his way out. tony hayward will reportedly exit the job of bp ceo in october with a hefty pension and another job offer. maria bartiromo covering the story in london for us tonight. maria, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. thanks very much. sources at bp are telling us not to expect an official announcement tonight on hayward's successor. it is widely expected that robert dudley will get the job. he is his american colleague. he's been running the gulf response in the gulf since june. this would make him the first american to lead this british iconic firm. cameras surrounded t

essentially they're sort of trying to downplay it as well i want to point out one other thing senator john kerry this is a long time senator from massachusetts here in the u.s. senate one time presidential candidate he is not taking the same view as the white house he's saying however illegally these documents were obtained or put off this should essentially be a wake up call he says this should teach us that we need to sort of up our ante up the effort to get the policy right and also make it more urgent. well to discuss the wiki leaks story joined by the stop the war coalition. is the information on wiki leaks. yes i said hoping you could hear because i don't think we've actually got the sun connection through to him more time mr brand can you hear me it's kevin out in moscow. oh you can great lovely stuff i'm glad we got liam food we got the line through to you i don't think you called a question just now of what i was asking you we've just seen the background to this story today i'm asking you how credible do you think this information is on wiki leaks. well i think it's very credible i thin

that sounds more like john kerry than the john mccain i used to work with. >> senator mccain, are you the most conservative in this race? >> i am a proud reagan republican. judy mentioned these organizations -- the citizens against waste, the arizona right-to-life endorsed me. the citizens for american tax reform. the national rifle association. these are outside, independent objective observers. we'll hear a lot of attacks like you just heard from j.d. hayworth. he was rejected by these voters. he came back as a paid lobbyist and talk-show host, and then was a late-night star on infomercials. i do not think that you can call that being really conservative. i am proud of my conservative record. i'm proud to have the support of these organizations. including our sheriffs. including over 30 mares in the state, who know that can be most effective for them in washington, including the farm bureau, the chamber of commerce, all of these organizations that judge us independently, as opposed to a rather subjective view that you just heard. i am very proud to be a conservative. the difference

. >>> massachusetts senator, john kerry, says he is not trying to avoid paying taxes by dock his new yacht in rhode island. if the $7 billion "isabel" was tied up at his summer home in nantucket, kerry would owe about $500,000 in massachusetts sales tax. he says renovations are under way in rhode island, where the vessel is under warranty. he says he always pays his taxes. >>> president obama visits with lady on "the view" on thursday. it will be the first time a sitting president is on a daytime talk show. it won't be his first faceoff with the all-female cast. candidate obama stopped by on his way to the white house in 2008. on the show, barbara walters, returning for the first time since undergoing open-heart surgery in may. >>> wyclef jean is considering to run for president of haiti. but the family released a statement, saying he has not made a final decision. he was born in haiti. and grew up here in new york. he's been raising money for humanitarian aid for haitians, even before this year's devastating earthquake there. >>> a major accomplishment in baseball is becoming almost

of trying to downplay it as well i want to point out one other thing too kevin is that senator john kerry this is a long time senator from massachusetts here in the u.s. senate one time presidential candidate he is not taking the same view as the white house he's saying however illegally these documents were obtained or put up this should essentially be a wake up call he says this should teach us that we need to sort of up our ante up the effort to get the policy right and also make it more urgent. one other thing here a lot of people here in the united states both media and officials unnamed and named are comparing the release of these documents to the pentagon papers now this is of course the study done by the department of defense on the vietnam war and relations between the united states and vietnam back in the sixty's and seventy's it was top secret it was not meant to be published but once it was published there on the front page of the new york times back in one nine hundred seventy one while it painted a grim reality of both of what was going on on the ground in the war brought to

war policy the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee john kerry issued a statement saying that the leak raises serious questions about the reality of america's policy towards pakistan and afghanistan it will take weeks if not months to go through all of the information to piece together the on the ground details of the afghan war for now the leak one of the largest in military history leaves all too many questions unanswered you seek out from the washington. well this is actually here in the studio with me now to discuss this a little further now we see it like you are saying it's going to take weeks perhaps months to pore over all the information that's in these ninety thousand pages there but what i really want to talk about is about the man that really is at the head of all of this who you know we i've interviewed him here on the show you yourself have corresponded with him extensively i mean what do you make of him what who do you think doing the songes well he's a lot harder to get in touch with now i'll tell you that he's a really interesting guy and you know you sor

the majority leader is joined at this of went by energy sponsored senator john kerry and carol browner, the head of the white house committee on climate change. >> we have responsibilities not only to our constituents and our children and grandchildren to take on the energy challenge we have in america. not once, not twice, but very often. many of us want to do a thorough and comprehensive bill that creates jobs break their addiction to foreign oil and curbs pollution. unfortunately, we don't have a single republican to work with in achieving this goal. for me, that is terribly disappointing and is also very dangerous. the president, senator kerry, and i and others, large numbers of my caucus will continue to reach out to republicans and work with environmental and energy committees and communities to garner the support needed to get a much larger and more comprehensive bill and i will outline in a few minutes. this does not change our obligation to lay the foundation of a safer and stronger future. in the next few days, i will introduce a four-part bill. we will hold bp accountable to

. >> reporter: meanwhile, john kerry, chairman of the senate foreign relations hearing, cautioned against overreacting to wikileaks. >> i think it's important not to overhype or get excessively excited about the documents. these documents appear to be primarily raw intelligence reports from the field. and as such, anybody who's dealt with those kinds of reports knows some of them are completely dismissable, some of them are completely unreliable, some of them are very reliable. but raw intelligence needs to be processed properly. >> reporter: that was a step back from kerry's initial statement that the documents raised serious questions about the u.s. policy. but congress confronts the rising u.s. casualties in the war, and growing unease among democrats about the u.s. role in afghanistan. and coincidentally, the house faced a vote today an a new war funding bill. that $60 billion bill needed a two thirds majority under house rule, and the wikileaks controversy colored the debate. dennis kucinich of ohio said now is the time for the strategy to change. >> our troops are being placed in mo

we are grateful to senator john kerry of massachusetts and senator richard lugar of indiana and howarderman for bringing about the kerry-lugar-berman bill which promises $1.5 billion in unconditional economic assistance of pakistan over the next five years. five years is as long a commitment as the united states makes at any time to one country and that will help pakistanis start getting a level of comfort with the united states. once that level of comfort is restored, the trust deficit is addressed, we can get back to being friends, allies and stop sort of worrying about what the other is doing. there are people in pakistan -- and i'm not one of them, but there are people in pakistan who are suspicious about what america's long-term intentions are in relation to afghanistan, and for that matter even in relation to pakistan. the pakistani government is working very hard at bringing about normalcy in relations with india, but there are outstanding issues that keep cropping up there as well. so what we are trying to do is deal with several of these issues at a time when we have severe ec