if we will not incorporate them sooner, we should be able to toss in riyadh -- reevaluate what we have asked them to do. i'm going to let you all -- >> i do not have a question to ask. i think you, commissioner. i have focused on what i am focused on it. i will just tell you. i could not support -- and i realize, general, you offered a discussion on the dcma and i will come at you on that. i understand the totals are do. they do not do them at the last minute. -- i understand the totals are due. we're talking about life support. charles, the professor may be corrected. it may be the incumbent that is low in cost and highest quality. there have an 11:00 p.m. executions. it is impossible. i apologize for not seeing this earlier -- >> what can you support? >> i cannot support suddenly having a decision on the side without looking at the proposals on logcap four and saying that miss and -- mission essentials dictate this. we would like to look at those essentials in a very short period of time. it was not the way we were told this would happen. it must be one heck of a compelling reason in

as a western in riyadh, i had to wear the full coverage abaya. it was not a negotiable thing.hat's interesting is a lot of women i spoke to seem to think and you'll hear them today, it's just a piece of cloth. don't let that get in the way. i am able to work and achieve things. so the nuance of it was more than i expected to be honest with you. >> we'll look forward to that. erin burnett, thank you very much. very good work. keep letting me know what happens with cuomo and those investigations. i'd like to snow. >> we'll keep calling. >> maybe we'll have him on and ask. >> do you think he would come on? >> call dropping. >> cuomo, there was a great piece of times, cuomo takes lots of calls and shapes his press conference. so he does a lot of off the record shaping. >> he will not do that with me. maybe it's me. maybe i smell. >> don't do that. don't do ta. it's not you, believe me. coming up, an exclusive first look inside the politico playbook including the white house correspondents dinner. why it's becoming the super bowl of nerdy washington events. that would explain it ri

i asked a friend who met a contact who brought me to a house on the edge of riyadh next to a mosque where the members of that suicide commando that hit the united states in the camps in zpaafghanistan. >> willie geist? >> you've been critical of the american involvement in the middle east. what's your specific criticism, and what's your feeling toward the president, the new president, sending 30,000 more troops into afghanistan? >> i think if there is a criticism it's a general one about engagement. as someone who lived there for 30 year, i feel that the middle east is an unusual place and an extraordinary situation but with normal people weather normal reactions. and i think that some empathy and engagement is what's needed and interest. obviously, things have changed a great deal from ten years ago when i was appointed "the wall street journal's" correspondent in the middle east and i was given sole responsibility for a huge area of 30 countries. and i didn't even have an assistant. now the situation is completely different. for instance, back then, no one wanted to hear about -- partic