host: now joining us is mike conaway.e is a member of the armed services and intelligence committee. here -- he is here to talk about u.s.-afghanistan's strategy. what did you take away from his testimony? guest: is exactly the people's committee on the house of representatives. john allen is a very competent, outstanding military leader. i met with him first last october. in kabul. i have great confidence in his ability to decide how we move forward and whether or not the plans we are putting in place and putting our kids at risk will be successful at what we are trying to accomplish. host: if you had to put in 20 words or so on your personal view of how we should move forward in afghanistan, what would that be? guest: i think the path in front of us will work. general allan thinks it will work. the president thinks it will work. it calls for the rest of the surge trips to be out of harm's way by the end of september. at that point time, general after this us that fighting season is accomplished, and received we have acc

we will also talk about the budget with mike conaway and ellison schwartz, and our weekly series on aagazine. liza mundy will be joining us. that is all tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. earlier tonight, the victory speech by mitt romney. he won by 12 percentage points in illinois today. [applause] [applause] >> wow. thank you, at illinois. thank you so much. [applause] tomorrow is our anniversary. we will have been married 43 years. happy anniversary, sweetheart. [applause] a very big special for the man just out here. we appreciate him. he has been a great chairman for our effort here. he was as well four years ago. we appreciate him. the senate there, he is not doing well. we love him and think about him. we all send our prayers. congressman aron shock, congresswoman judy biggert, the former speaker, we are appreciative. i forgot congressman donald -- bob dole. house speaker tom cross. our entire state of illinois delegates, another thank you. you know what i have to do. i did not get a chance to do this properly. i have to thank our friends in pr. -- puerto rico. [applau