mr. karzai did say? >> well, mr. karzai admitted that contact had been made with the taliban in the presence of the americans, which is something that he's never said before. but we also understand from senior officials close to the president that, in the last few weeks, face to face talks, telephone conversations, as well as a variety of messages were being passed between senior afghan government officials and senior taliban officials. >> i don't suppose there's any great surprise that there are back channels open. but coming public on it does raise the question what sort of level these talks are taking place. do we have any idea yet? upe according to the president, this is a very senior level talk. senior members of the insurgency, but bear in mind that kabul is hoping islamabad would allow direct access, perhaps to someone like his deputy and facilitate talks. that itself mr. karzai is wish on his truck to is lad abam. >> has it made his announcement on the back of the trip that he's just about to embark on, in fac

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mr. karzai has acknowledged in the past few days there are, apparently, involving the three parties, the taliban, united states and afghanistan? >> yes, sir, there have been. i don't think either general burgess or i are the authorities on the negotiations with the taliban. i'm sure the special representative for afghanistan and pakistan, mike grossman, is far better informed of that, but i'm sure there have been dialogue. i know -- i'm sure president karzai, these directly through intermediaries has been discussing reconciliation issues with the taliban. >> but you're aware that such talks are ongoing? >> yes, sir, i believe they are. >> what would be the need, then, for releasing these currently incarcerated taliban insurgents if those talks are ongoing at the moment? >> sir, this is a part of confidence building, i think that started as kind of a separate track, and there are some reciprocity considerations which i prefer to talk about in closed session. >> i appreciate that. i would just say i would see no need for that kind of release if, in fact, the talks are ongoing, and if, in f

mr. karzai's government describing it as a regime. he's talking to pakistani leaders and president ahmadinejad of iran. the key question with the trilateral meeting with the isrealies, the pakistanis in pakist pakistan, is pakistan willing and able to deliver the taliban to the table? is it in their power to do so? >> well, in terms of what it's able to do, it probably is. it has considerable sway over not just elements of it in the taliban in terms of the hakani network, for example, who have bases within pakistan, but also has senior leadership on the taliban as a whole, more likely to be present here in pakistan. so they probably do have that capability. that's why hamid karzai seized them as key in this process and this process will fail without pakistan onboard. but whether they have the willingness of pakistan to put pressure on the taliban, up until now, it's been uncertain. but the mood here appears to be they are starting to ask those senior leaders here in pakistan that perhaps participating in this process might be a good i

mr. karzai has made a statement. we've been expecting him to make a statement for some time now. and he's ordered an investigation into what happened at bagram. so it doesn't look like he has moved to take away the heat out of these protests yet. and it seems that they could well continue. although it's late in the afternoon and today's protests might be waning, there's fierce that it might continue tomorrow and everyone has their eye on friday and friday prepares. >> ben farmer, thank you for that. that is distressing news. that the president of the country has condemned the burning of the koran and not the violence that has ensued. that doesn't speak well to how this unfortunately. >>> still ahead on "early start," reliving the lewinsky affair in a new documentary. does it focus too much on monica, however? soledad o'brien is talking to a friend of the clintons. she's going to talk about the details of that. in the works package, we change the oil we change the filter... tire rotation, suspension, we make suspension checks... what we have here is the multi-point inspection. eve

mr. karzai could i expressed my cautions on the requests, outlined the credit default swaps market, alonglitical uncertainty in developing countries. while mr. core design and i had a difference -- while mr. had a difference i of views. during this time, i expressed increasing concerns with regard to potential capital risk associated with growing positions and began to express caution on the growing liquidity risks. additionally, around this time, it was given a profitability of the transactions and the importance of generating earnings. at this point, i indicated to that we needed toorzine consult the board's risk appetite. the decision was made to consult the board to discuss risk and sovereign limits were presented to and approved by the board. in late october, recalled positions were approaching $3.5 billion to $4 billion. i was then presented another request from the board to increase the total sovereign limit to $4.75 billion appeared at this point, not only was i concerned with the capital risks, but given the size, was concerned with liquidity risks relative to the risk appetite a

mr. karzai to be there and maybe a few other members of the exit of management but at least those individuals. >> just speculation though of course. >> ms. bader swa? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. it's clear to me what was taking place at ns capital, and i think that this information has come out in a previous hearing or previous hearings. mr. koret -- mr. corzine was the chairman and ceo and threatened to the board when they got in the way of the sovereign trading. he was glad when mr. roseman left. he hired his own people. he did his thing. and so, i think there is no question that mr. corzine violated the rules of the day in terms of being the chief that emerges out of all of this information. mauney concern is what happened to the customer asset. at a loss of the 1.2 billion in the customer funds mr. stockman, what do you know about the decision that was made to utilize these customer funds despite the fact they were supposed to be segregated and protected? >> in my opening statement, i noted that i have no specific knowledge of the client on or segregated fund, and as far as my j

mr. karzai expressed condolences. did he ever apologized to the united states for the killing of americans? >> i would refer you to the afghan government for statements from the afghan president. i pointed out that president karzai has made very clear and birds to try to ask for calm, which is helpful, as have other senior leaders of the afghan government. the defense minister expressed condolences and apologized to secretary panetta for these this evidence of an involving the two officers at the interior ministry. i am not sure what you mean by the taliban getting off scot- free. what our policy is is to defeat al qaeda come disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al qaeda. to the extent that the taliban is -- we are fighting the taliban, in our effort to disrupt and defeat, and dismantle al qaeda, we're doing it to get the afghan government that it needs to build up its security forces and stabilize its control over the country so that we can transfer security lead over two afghan security forces. it is also the case that mo

mr. karzai has acknowledged in the past few days there are apparently, involving the three parties, the taliban, the united states and afghanistan? >> yes, sir, there have been. i don't think either general burgess and i are are kind of the authorities on negotiations with the taliban. i'm sure a special representative for afghanistan, pakistan, mark grossman is far better informed than that. i'm sure there has been dialogue. i'm sure president karzai is through either directly or intermediaries has been discussing reconciliation issues with the taliban. >> you're aware that such talks are ongoing? >> oh, yes, sir. i believe they are. >> what would be the need, then, for releasing these currently incarcerated taliban insurgents if those talks are ongoing at the moment? >> this, sir this is part of confidence-building. i think that started as a kind of a separate track and there are some reciprocity considerations which i prefer to talk about in closed session. >> well, i appreciate that. i would just say, i would see no need for that kind of release, if in fact, the talks are ongoing and if in

mr. karzai has acknowledged in the past few days there are apparently involving the three parties, talentcome united states in afghanistan? >> yes, sir, there have been. i don't think either general burgess are kind of the authorities on the negotiations with the taliban. i am sure the special representative for afghanistan, pakistan and marc grossman is far better informed about. but i'm sure there have been dialogue. i'm sure president karzai is through directly or intermediaries has been discussing reconciliation issues with the taliban. >> you are aware that such talks are ongoing? >> yes, sir. i believe they are. >> what is the need down for releasing these currently incarcerated taliban insurgents if those talks are ongoing at the moment? the maxtor, this is part of confidence building. i think that started as kind of a separate track and there are some reciprocity consideration which are preferred to talk about in closed sesion. >> i appreciate that. i just say i would see no need for that kind of release if in fact they are ongoing and inside the adversary have an interest, a self

the letter expresses deep regret to karzai and afghan people. mr.bama also writes that the mishandling of the religious materials was an error and not intentional. he promises a full investigation and says those responsible will be held accountable. >>> at least 50 people are dead and another 225 injured from multiple coordinated bombings and shootings across iraq. the worst attack was a car bomb near a security checkpoint in baghdad. killing nine and injuring at least 26 more. at least eight more bombings happened after that spread across baghdad and no group claimed responsibility but officials believe that al qaeda was behind the attacks. >>> today the man accused of helping release classified information will be in court. private first class bradley manning will be court-martialed at ft. meade in maryland. it will happen this afternoon. manning accused of passing confidential military information to wikileaks. he was charged with aiding the enemy, transmitting defense information, and fraud. manning faces life if he's convicted. >>> new version

when i joined live by investigative journalist historian gareth porter mr porter thank you so much indeed for time so president karzai has launched an investigation into the nato bombings but incidents like this seem to keep happening so can we expect more than just condemnation from the have got to stand president this time. no i don't think anything's changed and this is a story that of course is just about as regular as you know washing your clothes every week or two this is this is the price that afghanistan pays for having foreign troops on its soil troops which carry out operations that are based on at best imperfect intelligence and it worse simply lack of fundamental knowledge of of local situations and mistakes that are that are often made. which really result in innocent people being killed completely unnecessarily and i would simply make one observation about the. the civilian casualty problem in afghanistan you mentioned the united nations report on the problem of civilian casualties in two thousand and eleven. and mentioned that. that many most of the casualties are attributed to the taliban and most of

the letter expresses deep regret to karzai and to the afghan people. mr. obama also wrote the mishandling of the koran was an error and not intentional. he promised a full investigation and said anyone responsible would be held accountable. in the meantime the violent anti-american protests across afghanistan have now claimed the lives of two american soldiers. it happened as u.s. and afghan forces were trying to control a crowd attacking a u.s. base in eastern afghanistan. there are conflicting accounts of exactly what happened but it appears a man wearing an afghan army uniform shot six americans, killing two. >>> the price of gas is on the way up again, way up. it's already grabbed the attention and the anger of some drivers and today president obama took notice. jay gray has our report. >> reporter: there was a rude wakeup call this morning for commuters across the country. >> that's ridiculous. that is ridiculous. >> reporter: the price of gas jumped dramatically overnight. >> we're seeing gas prices right now that are 9 cents higher than they were a

mr. secretary, on afghanistan, what significance do you see in the statement by president karzai that u.s. and afghan officials are now -- or have very recently held peace talks with the taliban in a three-way setting? is this an indication that the process of pursuing a political settlement is now finally advancing? >> it's always been important for us to make clear that reconciliation has to be afghan-led. and what president karzai's statement confirmed is that afghanistan is now very much involved in the process of reconciliation. and that's extremely helpful and important to determining whether or not we are ultimately going to be able to succeed with reconciliation or not. >> three-way talks planned, do you know? >> i don't know. i'm not directly involved with rarts regards to that effort. but the in us that afghan has joined those reconciliation discussions is important. >> may i -- just one sentence. these talks will be better the less we talk on them. >> james clapper testified today that al qaeda in iraq has infiltrated the opposition in syria. what does that mean for u.s. option

karzai. why is president obama apologizing. ambassador john bolton is here. but first, newt gingrich. >>> mr. speaker i know from on the wires today and coming up in your campaign you are very distressed about the president's apology to president karzai having to do with the burning of occur ran in afghanistan. tell me how you think he should have handled this? >> there is one side continuing effort by president obama to appease whoever it is that seems to be unhappy. churches get burned in nigeria, there are no apologies. churches get burned in egypt, there are no apologies. fact it was one thing to have had the persons in the region and president karzai and we're working together. clearly it was not done deliberately, but what you 1 a situation where an afghan soldier, somebody we probably paid and probably armed kills two americans and wounds four others. i don't hear any apologies coming from the afghan government for the killing of americans by one of their soldiers. i frankly think one-sided process of apologizing for america has gone too far. commander in chief ought to stand up for his

mr. obama's apology to surrender. he says karzaie that ought to be apologizing for the deaths of uss troops. at least four have been killed. dozens of afghans have been killed, hundreds more wounded. the ongoing violence is why hillary clinton believes the president's right to try to calm the situation, quote, it's out of hand and needs to stop. clichblten adds the ongoing criticism is inflaming the situation in. >>> should is the president apologize. go to cnn.com/caffertyfile, post a comment on our blog, or go and post a comment on "the situation room's" facebook page. >>> other news we're watching right now, the two u.s. military officers killed by an afghan inside afghanistan ace ministry of interior were shot in the back of their heads. that, according to a united states official. the bodies of air force lieutenant kernel john loft is, and arm major marshanti arrived yesterday. he was a teacher for 17 years before becoming a full-time active duty sdr senator mcculls can i grilled the secretary of state about their deaths. >> i

karzai. so there must be of cooperation is a tangible problem in afghanistan and you know that and i think there aren't any control mechanisms for how monies invested inside the country. by mr i want them to understand how the money that they give to their governments is used. while money that they expect to be used in the right way without question washington can literally money it arrives and then passes through the government manages the reconstruction work. and the work of the local nongovernmental organizations so it is clear that if the majority of the government is made up of the corrupted wool or it's where the money will end up in their pockets on or about the international community has encouraged the corruption that affect our country today. hard to believe. that after spending you know. hundred billion dollars in afghanistan. afghanistan is the warst and the award for the rights of the children afghanistan is. the second country from the down put there for the poverty afghanistan is the highest. and the war of maternal mortality that each fifteen minutes one woman dies from in my turn maternity because of lack of access to the clinic quite a lot of money has arr

going to continue to borrow more money from china to send $10 billion a month to karzai, $120 billion a year, that to me, mr. speaker, is a sin, quite frankly. we need to make wake up in this country and -- we need to wake up in this country and we fix our problems, we need to stay here in america and fix our problems before we worry about other problems. and 72 of our service people have been killed by the trainees in afghanistan that they were trying to freezing rain to be policemen or soldiers -- trying to train to be policemen or soldiers. 72 were shot and killed by the people they were training. where in the world does that make any sense? mr. speaker, it doesn't make any sense. it's time for america wake up and demand that congress get our troops out now, not in 2014. and, mr. speaker, before i close, as i always do, i ask god to please bress our men and women in uniform. i ask god to please bless the family of our men and women in uniform. i ask god in his loving arms to hold the families who have given a child dying for freedom in iraq and afghanistan. i ask god to bless the congress and senate that

karzai called for calm but insisted the u.s. must prosecute those responsible for burning the muslim holy book. joining from me kabul, ryan crocker. mr. ambassador, let me ask you, first, the u.s. over more than ten years has spent half a trillion dollars in afghanistan, almost 2,000 american lives have been lost, and the american people wake up this morning to find that two high military officers sitting inside a secured afghan government building were murdered basically by someone who was, you know, freely walked into na building and the burning of the u.s. flags, two soldiers killed in trying to combat protests. why in the world shouldn't americans be waking up saying we've got to get out of there? >> well, candy, a terrible event, strongly condemned by secretary panetta and others. general allen and i are just back from the ramp ceremony for the two fallen heros in which we saw them off on their last journey home, so we all feel it out here. that said, and as president obama said yesterday, we remain committed to a partnership with the afghan government and people as we seek to achieve our shared goal of disrupting, dismantling a

karzai is a crook. afghanistan's history said no great nation will ever conquer afghanistan. so as i close, mr. speaker, as always, i ask god to please bless our men and women in uniform. i ask god to please bless the families of our men and women in uniform. i ask god in his loving arms to hold the families who have given a child dying for freedom in afghanistan and iraq. i ask god to bless the house and senate we will do what is right in the eyes of god for american people. and i ask god to please bless the president that he will do what is right in the eyes of god for the american people. i close by asking three times, god please, god please, god please continue to bless america. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. towns, for five minutes. mr. towns: thank you, mr. speaker. recently i met jill wood, from my district in brooklyn. i was very moved by this meeting as she described the struggles of her son who is diagnosed with a rare genetic disease. before we met, i was not familiar with this particular disease. but she touched my heart

mr. carney, there's a big difference in that particular case. no u.s. service personnel were killed. >> yeah. >> so why apologize? where's the apology from karzai?'ll continue to discuss this story throughout the morning. in the meantime, president obama yesterday during a radio interview basically said that the election was over. well, that's news to mitt romney, ron paul, newt gingrich, and rick santorum. well, he said that he won because he needed five more years to get done. i think they were talking about immigration specifically. we needed five more years to get it done. here he is. >> my presidency is not over. i've got another five years coming up. we're going to get this done. >> he's talking about immigration reform in that case but it's a lot different from his tone a few months ago when he said of course i'm the underdog. you know, to run for re-election. now he calls himself favored. to me, this is very much within president obama's make-up because he's an athlete. he feels like i'm getting into this game. and i'm going to be successful, it reminds me of something that you cover on a daily basis. it's just in the political realm, it