the future to tell us what happened and what's the mood at the white house this morning? how mad is the president? >> the president was told of this late yesterday, we understand, and they summoned general mcchrystal here at the white house. it's important to note, chris, as general mcchrystal arrived here about 25 minutes ago for a meeting that began at 9:45, that's 20 minutes ago in the oval office with the president the president himself has a lot invested in the afghan strategy. a lot invested in general mcchrystal himself, after firing his predecessor to take over the war in afghanistan. you recall it was last fall, chris, that the president led a series of closed door meetings in the white house and nine of them lasting hours apiece revamping, restudying the situation, the strategy, the approach in afghanistan tasking general mcchrystal to come up with that new approach and implement it and giving him 30,000 more troops with which to do so.