then we'll bring in the chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers to help us sort out whether pakistan, where we've pour billions of dollars, is a friend or secretly working against us. it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. and welcome to "face the nation." the republican leader mitch mcconnell joins us this morning from louisville, kentucky. senator, you've seen by now the pictures of the speaker of the house and the president playing golf yesterday. do you think anything will come out of that? is that... do you think it will help break this gridlock we've got here in washington? >> well, it couldn't do any harm. i assume they let the president win.

congressman mike rogers is the chairman of the house intelligence committee.s in our chicago bureau this morning. he is from michigan, of course. congressman, you just heard what a very influential democrat in the house chuck schumer said. he says that things are in good enough shape right now in afghanistan that we can make a major withdrawal of our forces from there. where do you come down on that? >> i don't know what he's looking at. i must have missed that particular brief. we are in a very, very precarious place in afghanistan right now. what it seems to me is is there's a political solution that is trying to find a military component to it versus the other way around. we need to apply a military solution to our problem there and then talk about it to the american public. and i think this administration's weakness is they want to have those successes. i think they truly do want to keep america safe but they want to do it politically first and then find the military component. we need to flip that around. they need to be able the come to the american peop

with house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers and house minority leader nancy pelosi. >> i don't see any reason why our troops couldn't come home sinner. >> then jim demint on his 2012 lit mus candidate. >> can't say we have to balance our budget should not be bite. >> and then former bush speechwriter, michael gerson. i am candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." >>> citing gains on the grounds against the taliban, president obama said he will bring 10,000 surge troops home by the end of this year, another 23,000 by accept 2012. almost 70,000 u.s. troops will remain in afghanistan, twice as many as when the president took office. still the drawdown decision was seen as defeat for military commanders. >> the ultimate decision was a more aggressive formulation, if you will, in terms of the time line, than what we had recommended. >> it was more aggressive, and it has more risk than i was originally prepared to -- than i recommended. >> joining me now, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, republican congressman mike rogers. thanks for being here. >> thanks for

that, according to the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers. >> this morning, when are over your breakfast cereal, there is somebody in al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, planning an attack against the united states. >> reporter: that group is headed by anwar al awlaki. carried out by people who are flying under the radar. >> he is really reaching out to english speakers, to people, again, as we said, hold the right kind of paperwork or passports, that can get into the country. >> reporter: he was in direct contact with the ft. hood shooter before the november massacre. next month, his group sent the underwear bomber. ten months later the group tried to blow up u.s. planes with printer bombs. >> they are getting very innovative about how they try to defeat our countermeasures and carry out a successful attack. and that makes them incredibly dangerous. >> reporter: it's that danger that has america's top cops sweating what could be a long, hot summer. for "nightline," i'm pierre hot summer. for "nightline," i'm pierre thomas in washington.the story . a team with prid

>> reporter: michigan congressman mike rogers agrees. he applaud the senate action and expects to see similar legislation brought up soon in the house. >> i believe ethanol is a viable fuel source but it can't continue at the way we're doing it. it may be, in fact, bankrupting the country. we can't allow for that. >> reporter: one alternative that could save billions is to reduce the subsidy and paul taylor says farmers could live with that. >> the short answer is yes we're willing to play ball. we want to be at the table. we want to be players. we want to talk about where the ethanol industry is going from here. >> reporter: for now farmers are watching this year's crop and worrying about next. cynthia bowers, cbs news, illinois. >> mitchell: next up, inner city kids learning skills and getting a bike in the bargain. that story is next. if you've been to the hospital with heart-related chest pain or a heart attack known as acs, you may not want to face the fact that you're at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke. plavix helps protec

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us from capitol hill, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, republican congressman mike rogersmichigan. thanks for coming in. >> wolf, thanks for having me. >> you support what the president announced last night? >> i don't. i have a lot of concerns about how he's laid out his plan. you know, the last of the troops of the surge got here january of this year, so this was the first full fighting season. remember, it's about late april through october is the fighting season for the taliban in afghanistan. so this was the first full fighting season that we've had with all of those troop surge -- all of the troops from the surge on the ground. i supported the president in this. i thought it was port that we break the momentum of the taliban, that we try to break their back. you never will eliminate them, but i want them so week that the afghan services, the army and the police, can defend afghanistan itself when we leave. i think this puts at risk all the gains that we've made and the possibility for the afghans to take over and fight back against what would be a weakened taliban if

this is congressman mike rogers.tics who is suspicious of this when it comes to whether or not this is a good idea, the obama administration and the paves withdrawing troops. take a listen. >> at the end of the day, if we leave afghanistan with a safe haven, we have done nothing except accept a pre9/11 mentality. the time line is just too darn close. i'm a former fbi guy. coincidences are one thing, but the fact that it lines up to have those troops out before the first debate of 2012 is concerning to me, mainly because the conditions on the ground have not changed. >> i assume you take exception to that, but what needs to happen? what do the conditions on the ground, what do they need to be in order to withdraw perhaps more troops out quickly? >> well, again, i've been on the ground now for almost 20 months continuously. what i'll tell you, the conditions on the ground today are far different than november 2009. you see a troop better trained and who want to take a lead for their country, which perhaps you would not

house intelligence committee mike rogers won't comment on the report, but believes elements assistedn laden at some point. >> what are level of help do you believe they gave? >> think there was logistical support that had to happen by former members of the military or current members. there was logistical assistance >> we couldn't get officials to comment on the times report. contacted by cnn, a counter terrorism official could not confirm he was assisting bin laden at the compound a member of the group denied the cell phone linked his group to bin laden. the discovery doesn't mean bin laden had contacts with isi officials >> bin laden is a paranoid and disciplined guy when he was alive. he wouldn't let people except in his immediate circle know where he was. >> house intelligence chairman reiterated he does not think top pakistani leaders knew bin laden was at the compound. rogue elements within services or former members may well have >> this militant group with ties to pakistan intelligence and at one point, they were even sharing training camps with al qaeda. >> when the u.s. lau

mike: another classic french open. seems like the same two guys eave year. roger federer and rafa nadal with another epic battle. highlights and we hear from the winner next in sports. >> mike: it's become one of the best rivalries in men's tennis, roger federer and rafa nadal. roger looking for his second french open title. rafa his sixth. nadal puts federerway at the federer away at the net. second set, look at this 'winner. federer would action rallies on set point. nadal owned the fourth. match point, federer goes long and nadal wins the seat and equals borg's record of his tenth major championship. >> very important for my career, just keep working hard, trying to improve my tennis. of this victory with at bit of pressure. >> mike: giants and rockies trying to boat -- beat the rain. this man has a mixture of panda and bieber fever. this one left the building. colorado up 1-0. put that would be the only mistake. in the sixth, gets gonzalez swinging. giants were held hitless in the first five in the sixth, freddie san chef -- sanchez ties the game. and then in the eighth, torres, a single of his own. the giant

presidential campaigns and the politics involved in planning debates with politico chief columnist roger simon and mike mccurry now on the debates commission. the event is hosted by the washington center for knips and academic seminars and attended by political science professors from around the country. this is about an hour. >> the washington center sponsors this event as you know and roger in this room we have some professors from around the country. i'm going to have them introduce themselves, what we're trying to do is, in fact, the program is called road to the white house sponsored by the washington center. and what we're trying to do is become better teachers. and what we've been learning this week in washington, d.c. with a variety of guests is how to make things more relevant, interest our students, and so forth. if you could help us with that, we would appreciate that. let me have our participating and our fellows introduce themselves. michael please. >> michael rodriguez, political science. >> thank you. >> craig gifford, i teach leadership at the university of florida. >> kevin, i teach at

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