well after mcchrystal was relieved of his command he was hired by yele university to teach a graduate course and mcchrystal transparency issues didn't end there you see a two thousand and ten documentary about pat tillman the professional football player turned soldier who was killed reignited interest in the crystals role in the pentagon covering up at the pentagon cover up surrounding his death now instead of pressuring the re crystal to be more open about the tillman case and the role that he played with torture squads in iraq while he was commander of j. fox yalla savage in oregon sat on their hands the yale college democrats with through their sponsorship of the tillman story screening what emerged and the general would join the school's faculty and staff and go then the president of the college democrats made a statement with make any hack blush he said quote the yale college democrats do not attack war heroes who do not attack members of the yale faculty so good thing to one of america's most revered universities is incredibly bold when it comes to thinking critically and chall

tell us about stanley mcchrystal.t obama fired him and then he got a gig teaching at yale. we have a picture of professor mcchrystal giving a seminar. so he's teaching at yale and teaching an off-the-record class. "the new york times" did a big story on it. and it's interesting to see what general mcchrystal has said since leaving his job. he has gone on to say things that have been critical about the policy in afghanistan as well. he told tom brokaw. we have a clip where he says we should stay in afghanistan ten years longer than we are now. >> ten years later on a percentage basis, are we 50% of the way home? >> i think we're probably--i think we're a little better than 50%. but the last parts that need to be done in terms of creating a legitimate government that the afghan people believe in, and of this providing a counterweight to the taliban idea as well as the taliban forces, i think that's going to be a hard last percentage to close. >> now remember this is the white house who is going on to say we are done--we

the case that was made to me by general mcchrystal i found compelling. he said the size of our footprint is not as important as what we do with it and as long as the afghans believe that we're their friends and allies and there to help them and that we believe when they have developed an army. we're not there to try and impose a system on them as the soviets did. we're not there to try to conquer them. people forget the soviets killed millions of afghans. you talk about civilian casualties and the efforts we take to prevent civilian casualties but the russians forced five million afghans into exile and probably killed another couple of million. that's what the afghan experience with foreign invaders has been. we're there under different circumstances. we... the government in kabul is a government that basically we helped them have elections and... >> rose: is that because the tribal system is a... it has certain limits in its power because of tribal nature of the country. >> there's never been in the whole history of afghanistan a strong central governme

our interests and then you have matured in who over use military force kill too many civilians mcchrystal which i think frankly was on the right path to get you know kind of pulled out and obviously dropped a truce had a preconceived notion of what he wanted to do frankly i think he was left he left early because it wasn't going to accomplish but it wasn't worth it well i mean it wasn't worth it to mention any of these people because because no one's been successful i guess you could say we have not had a general patton or an eisenhower in this war regarding afghanistan and the reason is this and i think mcchrystal so the best we still have a superficial understanding of the culture of which we're dealing with within afghanistan arguably i think most policies we make. we want to bring you prosperity possible we can't bring someone prosperity that there has to be as in iraq a sunni uprising has to be. a pashtoon uprising saying we want this if they don't want to we can't give it to him and frankly that's what we're faced with right now we're trying to give them something they may not want

it's the command ethic of people like mcchrystal where if something goes wrong under them or there's an impression that they're not correct in their behavior toward their civilian commanders that they have to take the fall and frankly i was very concerned that losing mcrystal would have huge consequees, negative consequences in afghanistan and it was actually president who suggested petraeus. and the irony is the second he said it i realized he had put his finger on the one guy that i had the confidence we wouldn't drop the ball with a change of commanders i didn't know anybody else who could move in there and pick up the rein it is way petraeus cld but it was the president's suggest and, frankly, that's when i said okay. >> you have also said looking at general petraeus and what happened in iraq that that perhaps the surge in iraq was if not the, one of the most important achievements for you as a public official. >> well, my approach was in talking with general petraeus basically i told him i'll get you as many troops as i can for as long as i can and i basically said your battle s

[applause] >> hello, i am mcchrystal -- crystal java, and i work for seiu 1021. i am also the daughter of a homeless man. when nonprofits are cut, it impacts not just the folks that work there, but also the people they care for. for the last five years, san francisco city funded nonprofits have not gotten an increase from the city. during that same time, health care costs have gone up an average of 10% to 20% for these organizations, workers' comp costs have gone up, workers are under more pressure. flat funding is a cut. along with the budget justice, we are asking for an increase this year for nonprofits. we would like your support in getting that. thank you. [applause] >> my name is darnell boyd and i am a tenant organizer. i am also a tenant representative at the mission hotel. when i got here two years ago, i used to run from the emergency shelter to the hospitality house, in the rain. the hospitality house helped me a lot. i used to have to run past people huddled over in doorways, in the rain, sleeping in wheelchairs'. i used to think, how can a city -- a

set is no looms william there's nothing you know there's things that have mcchrystal in the regulatory. well over such a big. the back is overseen by bank regulators but under dodd frank the market regulators as mark are always we will stand up and oversee swap dealing activity in a back or an affiliate of a bank or securities spacewalk dealing activity but you're right currently the american public is not protected in that way and currently he says they have completed about house of the rules so far that they have been tasked with completing let's bring back william k. black he is breaking this all down for us and all of the problems with these rules and regulations still he's associate professor of economics and law at the university of missouri kansas city also played a major role in seeing that bad actors in the savings and loan crisis went to prison so really he's someone who has gone after some of these bad actors unlike any of the officials seem to today so we have this derivatives hearing today professor black but could you break down to what for us in your view how big of an i

military wanted to say they wanted more than the thirty thousand troops i believe but i believe mcchrystal wanted upwards of eighty thousand troops so i think it was right for the president not to not to agree with that or not to do that but it's also problematic that he tripled the number of troops and this isn't a partisan attack we also have to remember that president bush was the one who plunged into afghanistan and dwelt for years we ignored the conflict and that was what set a supreme mission creep and so this is a bipartisan failure both the republican party and the democratic party really quickly to before we go in terms of nato right since the end of the cold war rather than asking if there is even a reason for the alliance to exist anymore but this is the last big thing that they've done together is this ten year long war now that it's over what's the point it's you know it's a constant attempt a desperate attempt to establish nader's relevance in fact what i found shocking was that libya didn't really come up because as we've seen on the ground it's an utter chaos you know. elem

probably would have surge would have done whatever petraeus had to his chared in charge of centcom and mcchrystalthe very beginning wanted to do well what about you know this this recent raid this footage from the raid they said initially that you know the raid they couldn't show us for national security reasons there's really been no evidence put forward because of national security reasons and now they're saying that there was a blackout during the actual raid i mean hillary clinton found there and if we were of course you that would be said you were leading the witness. but hillary clinton said you know this raid there's been thousands like it that you just don't hear about i mean your comment on that. yes coursers. j. saki and he's been conducting a series of direct action raids since two thousand and two in villages across the the border of afghanistan and pakistan and the cia along with covert operatives particularly purchased by the cia have waged a proxy war inside of pakistan since two thousand and two as well and i think what you're telling me that we didn't know this on the bottom is i

i think what we've seen starting with general stanley mcchrystal in 2009 and leading to petraeus in afghanistan was the use of special operations forced to train afghan national and local police forces, including tribal subtribe clan elements. it turns out you can do a lot of counterinsurgency with a smaller number of forces. >> i can't get my hands around the idea of how well the afghan troops are being trained and how much of the load they're prepared to take. certainly with the date of 2014 in mind. general allen here said it's coming along much better than we think. >> well, i think we've got to look at different kinds of units the afghan special units, the commandos, afghan national army special forces are very well trained, very competent units. the ones working with our joint special operations command doing night raids now that the afghans have the lead are very competent forces. the national army forces vary. they're better than they were five years ago. we're still having problems with national police forces on the ground which are sometimes corrupt which don't often get out of distri

mcchrystal used the experience as a teachable moment. >> he is a great guy. we had him on, brilliant guy. >> dan senor could learn a thing or two from him. that would be a teachable moment, dan seenor. >>> a record number of democratic women are running for senate seats this year. the 11 include six incumbents and at least five challengers. among the most watched races, elizabeth warren's challenge to republican senator scott brown in massachusetts. boy, that's going to be a big one, willie. big one. willie, did you see yesterday barack obama finally came out and barack obama is in support of gay marriage, right? >> do you want to start there with mr. vandy high? >> well, he is for gay marriage. oh, wait. no, he's not. >> he's implicitly in support of that. >> you want to start with that? >> this president has not flip flopped. he has always been against gay marriage. and he still is against gay marriage. unlike dick cheney. he is actually as we were saying here he is actually not as progressive as dick cheney on the issue of gay marriage. >> let's play the c

mcchrystal and dave petraeus. he has calm that works well with interactions with president karzai.or all his strengths is not an easy guy to get along with to put it mildly t will be a big loss to see general allen go. we have great people in the american military. i wouldn't be surprised if there is somebody almost as good waiting in the wings. jenna: now to bed, maybe get rest now, michael after long trip and television interview and all this. i hope you have a good rest of your day. we look forward to having you back to talk more about that. >> thank you, jenna, very much. jon: the perjury trial of baseball legend roger clemens resuming today with one less juror. the judge dismissed one of them for sleeping during the trial. clemens is charged with lying to congress about using steroids during his professional career. his former trainer brian mcnamee back on the stand today. yesterday he took jurors through claims he injected clemens with steroids beginning in 1998. some of his evidence includes syringes and cotton balls he says contained clemens's dna. joining us now, doug burn

host: general mcchrystal wrote a piece yesterday in "the wall street journal." are we going to have funding to continue to fund the g.i. bill for all these folks getting ready to exit? guest: yes. it is in part of the budget called mandatory funding. if yout be paid for, i fyo will. the health-care budget is paid through annual appropriations. we will have thousands of men and women returning over the next few years and it is important we retain the health- care system over that time. host: scott from atlanta, georgia. caller: good morning. i am 59. i served and i'm wondering if you can clarify -- is there a basic distinction between veterans who served in peacetime as opposed to those who served in wartime in terms of entitlement to benefits? guest: there is a distinction in terms of some benefits. but a veteran is a veteran is a veteran. that is so we feel about it. there may be unique benefits that are available as a result of an injury or disability which occurred in the line of duty. that can occur either in a peacetime training setting or it could occur in

we needed better persistent i.s.r., he said, as did general petraeus, general mcchrystal, general austin, general allen. we worked hard to deliver capabilities like stats with wide area lenses, and more u.a.d.'s that could be operated by a patrol on their line of march. we needed to protect our troops against improvised explosive devices. i.e.d.'s. we rapidly procured and fielded mine resistant armor protected vehicles, the mraps and police particular underwear to protect troops and better detectors of i.e.d.'s and the homemade explosives and so on. we needed to get fuel, food, and all these capabilities on to the battlefield quickly and this logistic surge was a huge part of secretary gates and my focus. since then thanks to the incredible efforts of the men and women of our armed forces, commanders, and leadership of the president and congress, we were able to end the iraq war responsibly. al qaeda's on the ropes and its leadership is decimated and we have made significant progress in afghanistan. i have been going to afghanistan for well over three years now since secretary gates and

we needed better persistent i.s.r., he said, as did general petraeus, general mcchrystal, general austin, general allen. we worked hard to deliver capabilities like stats with wide area lenses, and more u.a.d.'s that could be operated by a patrol on their line of march. we needed to protect our troops against improvised explosive devices. i.e.d.'s. we rapidly procured and fielded mine resistant armor protected vehicles, the mraps and police particular underwear to protect troops and better detectors of i.e.d.'s and the homemade explosives and so on. we needed to get fuel, food, and all these capabilities on to the battlefield quickly and this logistic surge was a huge part of secretary gates and my focus. since then thanks to the incredible efforts of the men and women of our armed forces, spresh commanders, and leadership of the president and congress, we were able to end the iraq war responsibly. al qaeda's on the ropes and its leadership is decimated and we have made significant progress in afghanistan. i have been going to afghanistan for well over three years now since secretary gat