cnn's nick peyton walsh is in the country. he joins us live from bagram air base. nick? >> reporter: absolutely. what we're about to see is a report from a remote part of the border with pakistan, an area called newer stan. this is a small village surrounded by valleys. nato used to have a fairly strong presence here, outposts securing the area. a few years ago pulled back. that left the afghans in control. since late march of this year, the talibans have moved in and taken over this village. the report you're about to see is sinister for some people because it shows their flag flying above the local administration there and them suggesting they are the law in that part of afghanistan, potentially shocking for the future of this country. in this quiet village near the pakistani border, one of nato's fears is realized, the local

some of the names were misspelled but brown says the donations came from brown's son peyton also called michael, la tonya livingston who brown says is peyton's girlfriend and andrea naylor said to be a relative of howard books. this is not what is of interest to mary cheh. >> i wanted him to come forward because he said one. his claims was that, if he stayed in the race and bashed mayor fenty, that he was promised a job. >> reporter: cheh says she is no prosecutor. she just wants to change procedures where someone can get on a fast track to high- paying government jobs for suspicious, inappropriate reasons. >> fox 5 tried to reach brooks and the friends and relative who allegedly donated to sulaimon brown. >>> there is a promise to look into councilman harry thomas this morning. he is under investigation to find out where he got the money to buy an audi suv. he says he used his own money to buy the suv. there are questions about whether the company where he got the money got a sizable payment from the campaign committee or whether he should have reported the suv as a gift or as income.

nick peyton walsh is in kabul covering reaction there. nick, welcome. we're hearing the president plans to draw down 10,000 troops this year, 20,000 next year. does the size and timing of draw down make sense, nick? >> reporter: i think domestically, yes, it does. he is keeping his promises. also it helps the military out to a certain extent, gives them a pretty long time to keep working with those surge troops of 30,000, two-thirds of whom will be here another 18 months or so. that's enough time really for the military frankly to fulfill the agenda they have. 10,000 this year helps explain the narrative to the american public that they are succeeding here, bringing the troops home, getting that transition story told ahead of the november, 2012 re-election. so yeah, it makes sense domestically. i think in terms of afghans here, how they will perceive it, it is very much restructuring the nato preps here, and giving them the simple idea that there's a new fiscal landscape in which they have to come to some common with the insurgency. >> are forces ready

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dozen less than a dozen of our i was the first real president of the articles of confederation was peyton randolph and i you're an advocate of the superiority of the articles of confederation over the constitution why is that. well let me put a county out in there if i may and that's this i like the articles of confederation because basically what it does is it gives the federal government no power whatsoever to push the states around under the you have a complete confederation the states are truly sovereign unlike the lip service sovereignty that we see in the constitution and what i liked about it was the inefficiency of the system you know effectiveness of the system because they could never get together to get anything done collectively and i think that anything that is done collectively for the most part usually has a negative impact on the individual as opposed to now or we see our government our federal government is able to come together very effectively to oppress the rest of us and spend our money for us and put us in some more collective that but what lessons do we have to lear

brown says the don't aces r indications came from brown's son peyton, also called michael, la tonya livingstonrea naylor, said to be a relative of howard books. >> i wanted him to come for word because he said one of his claims was that, if he stayed in the race and bashed mayor fenty, that he was promised a job. >> reporter: cheh says she is no professor. she just wants to change procedures where someone can get on a fast track to high- paying government jobs for suspicious inappropriate reasons. now, sulaimon brown is expected to testify later this afternoon and we will see he is supposed to bring some of that new information to the d.c. council. reporting live, i'm stacy cohan. back to you. >> thank you. >>> developments are expected today in another city hall controversy. d.c.'s attorney general is expected to make an announcement about the investigation into exactly how d.c. councilman harry thomas paid if his personal suv. thomas says he used his own money to buy the audi suv from a company he owned before he became a councilmember. however, there are questions about whether that company

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nick peyton walsh embedded with u.s.s when a military outpost came under attack by the taliban. u.s. troops were forced to take cover until reinforcements could arrive. at least five insurgents were killed in this battle. >>> let's talk about money. christine romans, i saw you covering it yesterday. president obama is made about reaction over the debt ceiling. >> the debt ceiling debate as it ticks closer and closer to august 2nd, very important, ali. this is say money and personal finance story. the world is watching to see if the u.s. can get its long-term fiscal issues under control and short term can pay the bills. the president said it yesterday, we already spent this money. congress already spent this money. the world is watching to make sure the u.s. isn't at some point deciding what bills it's going to pay and what bills it's not going to pay. this is incredibly important to confidence overall. stocks have been up for three days. stocks and bonds and the markets have been pro session the fact that the u.s. econom

peyton wall whose father was killed on 9/11, met justin bieber, one of my favorite singers, on thursday. thanks to the intervention of the president. the 14-year-old had asked president obama to arrange a meeting at a wreath laying last month at ground zero. wall told the new york post she was more nervous about meeting bieber than the president. >>> finally, check this out. a face only a mother can love. even that is in doubt. this thing is actually a 14-year-old female chinese crested and chihuahua mix named yoda. who has just been named the world's ugliest dog in a california state fair. the hair, protruding tongue and outset snout won over the judges. the owner said when she found yoda abandoned, she thought yoda was a rat. >> and she took it in. >> she still took it in. >> the off center snout -- ron, can i just bring it back to something? are you saying you don't like justin bieber? >> i like justin bieber's music, technically. >> there's a lot of jealousy. >> sorry. a little bit of sarcasm. >> jackie meretsky, you're a justin bieber fan, aren't you? >> more of a boss fan. you lik

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we have some video taken from our colleague nick peyton walsh who's been reporting throughout afghanistan recently. an example of one town that apparently is where the taliban has regained control. here it is. this is one of these towns. might this, nic, might this be the beginning of more things to come once americans leave? >> sure. the taliban are waiting there to take control in places that they haven't controlled since 2001. and they were beaten out of the country. they have provincial sort of parallel governors, district counselors, parallel to the central government. they have people to put in place and take over control of parts of the country. there's no doubt if you look at the south and the east of the country where the taliban are traditionally strongest, that's where the sort of ethnic kinsman are, people share those very conservative cultural views. it's a very sort of country side mentality, if you will, that they're not as sort of urbanized as the sort of cities are. in these places the taliban are going to be able to take and assume control again. but they've got a politi

nick peyton walsh explains why. >> reporter: a generous state-of-the-gift from the american people tognificent in design. and cost, $300 million before anyone had even switched it on. but american planners forgot one thing. could afghanistan afford the fuel to keep it going? you can listen to the answer here. much of the time, the plant stays silent. that's because the diesel fuel that it runs on is so expensive that to run it at even half capacity could cost the afghan government up to $100 million a year. it's high-tech turbines run at about 7% the amount planned. and why some say, its sponsors say it's occasional back uppower is vital. >> what i think the person on the street will probably tell you is that he or she is satisfied with the fact that power which is available two hours a day is largely available 24 hours a day. >> reporter: but today, it's a symbol of the billions that americans spent here without asking itself will afghans be able to pay for this once we're gone? the same question about this. a huge network of highways built for over $2.5 billion. it's a project runni

here's cnn's nick peyton walsh. >> reporter: a generous state-of-the-art gift, a power plant magnificent in design and in cost, $300 million before anyone had even switched it on. but american planners forgot one thing, could afghanistan afford the fuel to keep it going? you can listen to the answer here. much of the time the plant stays sight because the diesel fuel that it runs on is so expensive, that to run it at even half capacity could cost the afghan government up to $100 million a year. its high-tech turbines are on about 7% the amount planned. but its sponsors say its occasional backup power is vital. >> what i think the person on the street would probably tell you is that he or she is pretty satisfied by the fact that power, which was available two to four hours a day in 2009 is now largely available 24 hours a day. >> reporter: but to many, it's a symbol of the billions that america spent here without asking itself will afghans be able to pay for this once we're gone? the same question about this, a huge network of highways built for over $2.5 billion. it's a vast project, mon