we just never get to talk to tom donahue. they put out statements and all sorts of things.e a beef you have here. >> no, no, it's an invitation. open invitation to talk to me. ed, the president is in portugal. >> he is. and i think largely we're going to see a nato summit, and our colleague, chris lawrence, is reporting that basically the president and the administration in general, what they're thinking about in private is the notion of trying to get maybe two or three provinces in afghanistan to be secure enough to be handed over back to the afghans as early as next summer. we'll see th. that might be ambitious. this is going to be about afghanistan and the nation ahead there. >> good to see you, my friend. i will se see you. i'm off next week. thanksgiving, you know. >> have a great thanksgiving you and your family. look forward to seeing you on the other side. new time next week. 1:00. >> always a pleasure, ed. have a good weekend. >>> time for a political update. cnn congressional correspondent brianna keilar joins me from capitol hill with new developments involving c

chamber of commerce, tom donahue. under tom's leadership, the chamber succumbs the most effective and influence on what to get for the american business community. and since tom has been at the chamber he has created several programs and initiatives to address the unique challenges facing the business community, not the least of which is the institute for legal reform. and in the last year he spearheaded one of the chamber's most important initiatives, the american free enterprise dream big campaign to publicly advocate for policies that will support the free enterprise, and entrepreneurship and economic growth, because after all it is about jobs, jobs, and more jobs, so please join me in welcoming tom donahue. [applause] >> thank you very much, lisa. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. we are going to invoke the family world, and that is we will do what our mothers told us long ago and that is eat quietly. [laughter] i very much appreciate the opportunity to be here today. i want to cogratulate lisa and her staff fo

you have the chamber of commerce preftz tom donahue battling with the president on health care and othering to give the president some rare support. something he doesn't do often. because he believe the business community more probably believes this will mean a lot of jobs back home if you bring a lot more u.s. products into this market. what i finds interesting is the president all of a sudden is talking up trade in india and down here in south korea. he hasn't done that a lot for 22 months. why? he had a democratic-run house with nancy pelosi that probably wouldn't move trade deals with south korea, colombia and pan a panama, three pending from the bush administration. now all of a sudden the president is talking them up more. if he gets the deal on south korea free trade agreement, for example, that could maybe open the door to john boehner in the months ahead and might mean jobs back home and might open the doors to these guys working together on other things. pay attention to where this free trade agreement goes. it might signal he can do business with john boehner. >> the with the