>> i welcome segar. i requested inspectors to come over to look at projects. take stewardship seriously. i realize my responsibility is to make sure that every dollar spent in afghanistan results in the advance of our interests. we take that seriously. what i am interested is the to tellators' ability me how i can save money, as opposed to my what might have happened in terms of lessons learned. i'm not dismissing lessons learned. for me today, as a commander, i'm much more interested in decisions by making today and decisions i will make tomorrow to make sure those are goods to seizures and reflect the stewardship. that is where i think investigators can help me the most. >> do you think the headlines are all accurate? >> i think in most cases, in many cases >>, they are sensationalized. i think they are, too. does that make your job easier >> that makes it more difficult. the narrative is very important, and if there is a narrative of pessimism, a narrative of abuse, a narrative that we are not in good stewardship, that affects our message. -- our mission. m

our important session with special t inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, also known as segar john sopko -- sigar as we all know, the political and military transition has begun inas we afghanistan. this is going to be a verybegun critical year. to be the issue of afghanistan the issue of cost, the issue of the u.s. taxpayers money has been alive in this town and in other capitals around the world, that have contributed to the actionss in iraq and then in afghanistanun and there are many calculations out there on the number of dollars that are being spent simply by the u.s. there's one particular site thatat are b haseing these meters that run regularly, every second updatingese the cost, and that estimates thegularl cost at about $10 million an that hour for the war in afghanistan. of course, different figures out there. there's the famous brown university study that calculate the cost of three to 4 billion roughly. has been updated overall costillion estimate looking at opportunity costs as well as complementary costs in the u.s. of these wars which is as high as 6 trillion.