here is more from today's white house q&a with tom donilon, national security adviser. >> can you give me a broad definition of what sort of afghanistan you hope to leave behind in 2014 and then separately on iraq, nicolas sarkozy was -- has long been considered to be one of the toughest voices for the western sanctions policy on iran. are you concerned at all that with the change in government in france that you may lose sort of the strong support you've been having from france on the sanctions regime? >> i'd be glad to take those questions. but i need to write down the second one or i'll forget what it is. >> i can repeat it. >> with respect to afghanistan, the goal is to have an afghanistan again that has a degree of stability such that forces like al qaeda and associated groups cannot have safe haven unimpeded which could threaten the region and threaten u.s. and other interests in the world, number one. number two, an afghanistan that has a set of security assets that allow it to provide for that modicum of stability and to be able to protect itself against groups like that. and a

issues of national security that tom donilon just spoke about. thanks. >> thank you. >> okay. i just promised andre and then april -- yeah. >> the question, the russian president reports there will about meeting between the president and the russian prime minister. it will be slightly outreached. my question is, there will be -- prove you are saving some for the later meeting with putin? >> well, i think ben rhodes said as he was on his way out, we don't have the announcements about other bilateral meetings that may take place but may have more information for you between now and the beginning of the g-8 and nato summit. and i don't have a schedule for the agenda in mexico. we're focused on the upcoming meetings. april? >> jay, i want to -- [ inaudible ] what jake asked you. since this president came into the oval office he has worked hard to deal with policies and looking at issues of race. the issue of race is raising its head again with some of the words, metro sexual, black abe league. how does this white house thwart those type of attacks as you try not to bring race into

which is why i will immediately introduce and turn over the briefing to tom donilon, the president's national security adviser, as you know, the united states is hosting the g-8 and nato summits. the g-8 and camp david. napt oh in chica nato in chicago and tom is here to give a preview of those summits as we've done in the past with visitors to the briefing, if you -- he'll make comments to open. he'll take your questions on related subjects, and then tom will depart and i'll remain to take questions on other matters. with that, i give you tom donilon. >> thank you, jay. appreciate the opportunity to come by. i wanted to take a few minutes today, and i'll give a couple of comments at the top and then take a few minutes to give you all perspective on yupt coming summits. g-8 at camp david and nato summit in chicago and be glad to take questions. good to see you all this afternoon. thanks for coming out. the first thing i wanted to say is that i've been reflecting on where we've come the last 3.5 years. the initial summits that the president attended in 2009 saw the global economy in fr

eastern, with national security adviser tom donilon. we're planning to bring that to you live. we'll we wait a sdrudiscussion the republicans in congress from today's "washington journal." >> joining us, representative steve king a republican from iowa. mr. king, if we could start with the speaker boehner, president obama meeting at the white house yesterday. do you agree with speaker boehner's comments that any new debt reduction or any new debt ceiling talk has to be accompanied by debt reduction? spending cuts? >> i absolutely agree with that and i think we need have drawn the line. we need to hold it strongly that this country is watching as america spends money, spends money and we're going into deeper and deeper debt. we've got to draw a bright line. we look at greece and if we go through another term of barack obama and the kind of spending we've had with his proposed $1.33 trillion deficit, add that up year by year, our little granddaughter born a year and a half ago, share of the debt $44,000. today it's $51,000 if she become as taxpayer. she better. double that. only

without a qb tom donilon. >> thank you jay. appreciate the opportunity to come by. i want to take a few minutes and not give you a couple comments at the top and then a few minutes to give you perspective on the upcoming summit and the nato summit in chicago. i'll be glad to take questions. it's good to see all this afternoon. thanks for coming out. the first thing i wanted to say is that then reflect to where we've come the last three and a half years and the initial summit the president attended in 2009 saw the local economy in freefall in afghanistan has shifted to the taliban. al qaeda was entrenched in the safe haven in the american alliances had freed. today i think it is fair to say and we can discuss this in any detail you want that we've made significant progress on each issue and the u.s. economy's current's leadership is devastated and we put in place a responsible plan to win on the war in afghanistan and this has been a top priority from the outset. the alliance has never been strong enough talk about that. over the next several days come with the aim i

chief of staff bill daley, national security adviser tom donilon, his deputy, denis mcdonough, and counterterrorism chief, john brennan. they were that morning the four most important irishmen on this side of the atlantic. so judging by this photo, we are all approximately in our positions, if i play the part of bill daley, the president the not here, it is 8:20 a.m. how is it you knew to be here with the president that morning? >> we had arranged to meet with him here prior to his going to tuscaloosa, alabama, to get his final decision. >> and he was touring storm damage, so he's in casual clothing. his ride is idling out the back door. he comes to you, stands in this grouping and says what to the best of your recollection? >> my recollection is that he said, it's a go. we're going to do the assault, we're going to do the raid, complete the orders, and let's go. >> i recall being here that morning, working up some briefing points for him, and i think tom started in and the president said, it's a go. and we looked at him and he said, it's a go, let's get it going. >> i think this was just the last

with that i give you tom donilon. >> thank you, jay. appreciate the opportunity to come by. i want to take a few minutes today and not give a couple comments at the top and then take a few minutes to give your perspective on the upcoming summit. the g8 summit on camp david and then i'd be glad to take questions. thanks for coming out. the first thing i wanted to say is that i've been reflect team on where we have come the last three and half years. the initial summit that the president attended in 2009, i saw the global economy in freefall, the momentum in afghanistan has shifted to the telegram. al qaeda was entrenched in a safe haven and america's alliance with the free. today i think it is fair to say and we can discuss this in any detail as you want to be made significant progress on each of these issues. the u.s. economy is growing. al qaeda's leadership is devastatingly put in place a responsible way to wind down the war in afghanistan. meanwhile this has been a top priority from the other side. our alliance has never been stronger and we'll talk about at any second. o

tom donilon yesterday said we are making progress with the pakistanis and the lines may reopen soon.rnment group is in islamabad have instructed their negotiators to move to conclude these negotiations. we have our necessity negotiators out there as well. >> reporter: the "wall street journal" notes president obama's political advisers didn't want to give mitt romney ammo by issuing another apology. martha: we'll have more on this coming up. bill: greensboro, north carolina. the jury getting the case in the john edwards case. it was thought edwards might testify. he did not in the end it was thought his daughter kate would take the stand. that did not happen either. but now this jury has the case and we'll await what happens there. president obama speaking at an aim at alleviating hunger in the continent of africa. bono also speaking on a topic that's near and dear to him. i hear bono has $750 million worth of facebook stock that just went public. martha: a lot of inside investors sold some of their stock. there is breaking news on the war on terror. house lawmakers just wrapped up a