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Clintons memoir. Were going to hear some of her thoughts on president obama, on marriage and on the times in her life where shes, quote, followed her heart. Hello, im whoolf blitzer reporting from washington. We start with president obama ready to set troop levels for afghanistan. The president was in the country over the weekend, talking with american troops. Today, in just over 90 minutes or so, hell announce a major step. Joining us from the pentagon is our correspondent barbara starr, from the white house, our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, to you first. Are you getting indication of precisely what the president will announce . Well, we wont have an advance preview of his remarks, wolf, but we do expect, from hearing from a Senior Administration official, that the president will lay out basically the plan for u. S. Forces in afghanistan, post2014. The president is going to come out and say that the u. S. Combat mission in afghanistan is coming to an end by the close of 2014. Weve heard him say that before. He said that over the weekend. And on memorial day that he wants to bring that war to a reasonable end. But what happens after 2014, the administration, frankly, has been very reluctant to say exactly how many troops they want to keep in that country. But now the president is going to lay that out. 9,800 u. S. Forces, armed forces, personnel, in afghanistan, for 2015. That number would be reduced by half by the end of 2015. By 2016, the plan, according to an administration official, is to have the u. S. Force presence in afghanistan reduced to embassy personnel, security personnel only at the embassy in kabul, a very similar situation, a very similar drawdown to what took place in iraq and what the administration is saying at this point, wolf, is that those forces who will remain in afghanistan, and barbara will be able to lay this out better than me, but those forces will be there for Counterterrorism Operations and to train the Afghan Security forces. All of this hinges on the next afghan president. Hamid karzai is getting ready to leave. The next afghan s s in, signing Security Agreement. Absent that signature from the upcoming afghan president , the u. S. Has said there will be no u. S. Forces at the end of 2016. Thats the threat hanging over afghanistan. The two men who will likely be the president of afghanistan have both said publicly theyre willing to sign that Security Agreement just as soon as they take office. The administration is taking some comfort in that. That is giving the president the ability to come out and lay out this plan were going to hear at the white house. Stand by, because i have some other questions for you, jim, but lets bring barbara into this conversation. The military mission for these nearly 10,000 u. S. Troops, 9,800 u. S. Strotroops, backed up by a thousand nato forces, there will still be a very dangerous environment there. The combat mission may be other, but these u. S. Troops will be in a combat zone, presumably very endangered at the same time, barbara. Absolutely, wolf. Nobody thinks peace is coming to afghanistan any time soon. When you have 10,000 troops there. Plus, as you just pointed out, a few thousand additional nato troops. One of the big jobs is how to keep them safe. So some number of those troops are going to be devoted simply to security. The forces will be on just a couple of bases in afghanistan. Those will have to be kept secure from the taliban, which still have plenty of capability to fire shoulder fired weapons, grenades, lay ieds out on the road, that sort of thing. The u. S. Troops, it remains to be seen how much they will go out and about. Their job will be to train, assist, advise afghan forces. Youll recall, in the final months of iraq, u. S. Forces went out less and less. They stayed in their bases. Stayed inside the wire, so to speak, in an increasing amount. And at the end simply packed up and went. This proposal may begin to follow some of those lines. Some of that precedent. Here at the pentagon, no one is really surprised by whats been laid out. This is the option that u. S. Military commanders tell us they wanted. Wolf. Barbara, just to be precise, the reason the u. S. , the Administration Says the reason the u. S. Troops all evacuated from iraq was because the iraei government refused to profit immunity to those u. S. Troops as a continued military presence in iraq. This bilateral Security Agreement with afghanistan, i assume, gives u. S. Troops immunity from afghan prosecution, if you will. I think that was the major Sticking Point with iraq. Absolutely. And this, clearly, if they get this agreement signed in the afghanistan case, they hope it will solve that problem and that they can keep some troops. Perhaps the Bigger Picture to look at, at the same type, as youve pointed out, wolf, what difference will it make . In iraq, u. S. Troops left and the country has fallen into a good deal of violence in iraq. If afghanistan, if you have 10,000 u. S. Troops stay for maybe the next two years, what happens after that . Are the taliban just going to wait for everybody to go . Its going to be a real question whether Afghan Military forces can maintain security around the country and perhaps even more important Afghan Police forces. The Afghan Police in individual towns and cities across that country. They have huge issues with corruption, theres no question about it. That is the basis for security on a local level in many remote areas where the taliban would very much like to get back in. Wolf. Let me bring jim acosta back. Will the president go into specifics in terms of funding, keeping 10,000 u. S. Troops next year, 5,000 the year after, thats not cheap. Its going to cost several billion dollars. Is the president going to explain to the American Public when he goes out there and makes this announcement how much taxpayers will have to shell out to keep those troops in afghanistan . Do we have any clue on that . I dont think were going to hear dollar figures from the president at 2 45 this afternoon. I think he wants to lay out this case that the u. S. Needs to continue this presence in afghanistan and, keep in mind, this is a presence the president is reluctant to have there. He campaigned in 2008 that he wanted to bring the wars in iraq and afghanistan to conclusion. What he is doing here, as you look at this plan, wolf, is this war in afghanistan is coming to a full stop by the end of his administration. Because the next president will have already been elected by the end of 2016 and will be taking the oath of office in 2017. President obamas plan ends the war in afghanistan at the end of 2016. And, i mean, if you want to talk about dollar figures, we do know from independent studies, congressional budget office, its about 200 billion in the last couple of years in afghanistan, albeit at larger force levels. Youre right, this is not going to come cheap. There are about 30,000 now. You can sort of, you know, divide by three and get to a dollar figure perhaps. But certainly this is going to cost them money. And the other thing we should point out is this announcement from the president comes one day before his big Foreign Policy speech at west point. He was supposed to address a lot of issues in his Foreign Policy speech at west point by getting this out today, getting this news out today, it does give him some more space to talk about some of these other issues. Hes come under a lot of criticism, as you know, wolf, as his critics say, for being too soft on syria, for not going far enough in dealing with the russians and ukraine, and so by moving this off the table somewhat, hell talk about afghanistan somewhat tomorrow, hell have more space to talk about other big items on the Foreign Policy agenda. At the commencement ceremonies. Well have special coverage of that. Also, stay with us, later today, 2 45 p. M. Eastern for at president s announcement on troops staying in afghanistan, 2 45 p. M. Eastern. Ill anchor our special coverage around that. Other news were following, its the reason searchers have been focusing in on the indian ocean, the southern part of the indian ocean, looking for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Today the malaysian government released data from communications between the missing plane and private Satellite Company inmarsat. Critics say the 47page document is missing some key elements needed to verify inmarsat conclusions. So what do the numbers really show . What dont they show . Tom foreman has been studying the data for us. Is it accurate to say, tom, that the information includes a lot of Technical Information but leave, out plenty of stuff . Thats right, wolf. Heres what you have to remember about this set of documents released today from inmarsat more than anything else. Remember the number 14. Because out of these 47 pages, the only numbers you really care about are 14 of them. And those are these, right here, right here. Its what people have wanted to see all along. They dont really tell us a whole lot. These are the readings of the frequency of this exchange between the ground station, the satellite and the missing plane and then back to the ground station. These are the numbers recorded in this critical period of time when the plane seemed to be gone. The frequency numbers here help give them some idea of whether it was going north or south. Thats where they got the direction. And the burst time offset. Not going to explain all about what this is because that would take a half hour. Its really difficult to get through all of this. But look at the numbers themselves. 11500. 11740. You see the pattern. This, as you went through time, was all getting greater, until you have this final tiny little burst at the end, which is much bigger. That is what convinced them that this plane was steadily moving away from the satellite. So the satellites somewhere over in here. And with every one of those bursts, they knew that it was moving further along these rings out here. Now, how did they know that it was headed this way, which is what they believe in, instead of up this way or out this way . Because you could make the times work elsewhere. Thats when you have that second set of numbers i was talking about. The first ones over here. That indicates what direction its going. But yes, wolf, what this is some raw data people have very much wanted. What it is not, from inmarsat, is a clear explanation of how they worked that raw data. The Australian Government released another pact of information which helps explain it in greater detail. But still not to a point where independent analysts can simply pull all the numbers in themselves and say do we reach the same conclusion . All of that information and free access to the algorithms they used to create that arc, i think youre still going to have critic, out there who are unsatisfied. Wolf. Its an important step. They released this information, but the families of those aboard that malaysia airliner, they want more information released, so outside Third Party Experts can take a closer look. Tom, were going to have more analysis on this later this hour, thanks very much. The u. S. Supreme court was busy today. A couple of new rulings, including one that involved a highspeed police chase. She formed an Unexpected Partnership with president obama. Now Hillary Clinton talking about that. A nsneak peek of her book. Were following some new developments out of the u. S. Skour Supreme Court today. The first has to do with this highspeed chase that ended with a Police Shooting and killing both the driver and the passenger of the car they were chasing. The family of the driver wanted to sue the police over the death. With us now is our senior White House Correspondent joe johns whos heard the argument. What did the court say about the use of deadly force in this speed chase . This was a case that is essentially closely watched. Because it was expected to clarify the rights of Police Officers making snap judgments involving force when theres a highspeed chase and a passenger in the car. Theres video of the tragic circumstances that put this case in the courts. West memphis, arkansas, 2004. The court ruled unanimously that officers in arkansas were within their rights when they fired 15 shots at point blank range into a car on a rampage, killing both the driver and passenger. Its a victory for Law Enforcement because the court ruled that officers acted reasonably. It was a good day for u. S. Secret service as well. The Supreme Court siding with the secret service involving the president s detail. Another interesting case. Another unanimous decision for Law Enforcement here. This is a First Amendment freedom of expression case dating back to the administration of george w. Bush. On a Reelection Campaign stop in oregon and went to dinner where there were protesters on one side and supporters of the president on the other side of the street. The secret service moved the protesters out but let the supporters stay put. The question was whether they did it to keep the protesters viewpoints from being expressed. The court held the secret Service Officials had qualified i munt from being sued because there did appear to be a potential Security Risk to the president. There was another major decision on i. Q. S being a factor in executions. As far as intellectually disabled people are concerned. Right, a very tough case. The courts been struggling with how to measure the point when a person is so intellectually disabled they dont know what theyre doing when they murder someone. This was a tough case for the court. A 54 decision that says its not okay to apply a rigid i. Q. Cutoff in determining who gets the Death Penalty and who doesnt. The law in florida took a persons 70 i. Q. Score. The Court Essentially said there needs to be wriggle room there. Give them flexibility. Joe johns, thanks very much. Theres more fallout from the outing of the cia top intelligence chief in afghanistan. The mistake could put the life of the spy and family members at least potentially in danger. Its also raising the question of whether he can even continue working in afghanistan. A white house media report sent to about 6,000 journalists inadvertently included the Intelligence Officers name. So far the white house and cia officials have declined to comment publicly on the story. Well have a lot more on this story coming up later today in the situation room. Still ahead, she says she didnt write her book for the followers of washingtons longrunning soap opera. So why did hillary write her new book, whats it all about, well talk about that. The day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day. He was a matted mess in a small cage. So that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. Without angies list, i dont know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. From contractors and doctors to dog sitters and landscapers, you can find it all on angies list. We found riley at the shelter, and found everything he needed at angies list. Join today at angieslist. 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Switch now and add voice and tv for 34. 90. Comcast business built for business. Hillary clinton says when she made decisions, she, quote, listened to both her heart and her head. The former secretary of state reflecting on her long life in politics in her brandnew book thats soon to be released, hard choices. Thats the title. Some excerpts of her upcoming memoir were released today. These years were also a personal journey for me. Both literally, i ended up visiting 112 countries and traveling nearly 1 million miles, and figuratively. From the painful end of the 2008 campaign to an Unexpected Partnership and friendship with my former rival barack obama. Ive served our country in one way or another for decades. Yet during my years as secretary of state, i learned even more about our exceptional strengths and what it will take for us to compete and thrive at home and abroad. Our senior Political Correspondent Brianna Keilar is here. Our chief political analyst Gloria Borger is here. Some are already suggesting this book, for all practical purposes, politically speaking, is an introduction of her 2016 campaign. Certainly i think one of the coming at it from that perspective, its sort of an opportunity for her to cleanse in a way, right, because the last a lot people arent familiar with her state department tenure. Weve heard republicans saying a lot about it. Her 2008 campaign went terribly. This is kind of her highlighting her state Department Years so she can kind of slough off some of the bad stuff from 2008. I want to play another audio clip. Theyve released this, the Book Publishers and Hillary Clinton, talking about her life not so much as a diplomat but as a wife and mother. Listen to this. All of us face hard choices in our lives. Some face more than their share. We have to decide how to balance the demands of work and family, caring for a sick child or an aging parent. Figuring out how to pay for college. Finding a good job. And what to do if you lose it. Whether to get married or stay married. How to give our kids the opportunities they dream about and deserve. Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become. You know, everybodys going to focus on the words whether to get married or stay married. Thats Hillary Clintons bow to the lewinsky mess. Republicans have already talked about it. But in a larger sense, wolf, that paragraph was about women. Its about women voters. Women take care of their parents. Women take care of their children. Women make decisions like she made about staying married, in her particular case, to the president of the united states. I think its her way of saying i understand what women go through. Its very clear when she runs this time, she is going to talk about the hard choices women face. When she ran in 2008, she didnt campaign as much as a woman. She talked about her experience. Clearly, as brianna says, this book is about her experience as secretary of state, but shes also going to talk an awful lot about women because theyre going to make the difference in the election. Its fascinating how the publisher and hillary, theyre rolling out the book isnt even out yet. I dont remember a time where a publisher has released audio excerpts of a book before the book is out there to get advance sales. I assume this is going to be a huge bestseller. This is something pretty extraordinary. This new technique theyre using to get sales of this book. Yeah, and this isnt this is done obviously closely in coordination with those close to her. This isnt even the excerpt that weve heard. Theres one we had around mothers day, and it was about Hillary Clintons mother, talking about that. These are really sort of i think friendly topics. Their very soft. They paint her in a more humanizing light, which has been something she has struggled with. So i think thats part of it. I also think that soon well be reading the excerpts from the book, which frequently do define a book. Then well see her going on a book tour where shes going to be talking about what she wants to talk about and not just benghazi, which so many reports will focus on. But shell do a whole bunch of news interviews and shell be asked a lot of those serious questions as well. When you do though rollout, dont forget, shes making money here. This is not a not for profit enterprise. This a president ial rollout. They know what theyre doing, okay. Even the way theyre rolling out the book, i would argue, is in could concert with a president ial campaign. As brianna says, this is kind of the rollout that gets people to say, oh, maybe well learn more about Hillary Clinton, the person. What i guarantee will be in this book also is a very fullthroated defense of hard nosed policy and things like benghazi. About her four years shes already made a ton of money in speaking engagements and this book. Shes made many millions. We havent heard a lot about benghazi at this point. No, and when i said tons of interviews, i really meant tons of speeches. She has made a lot of money. She left the state department and really sort of took a break but also has gone very much on the speaking circuit, as so many folks do when they leave a position like that. The estimation we think for a speech, for her speaking fee, about 200,000. Thats been reported. Those in the no say thats about right to cnn. Hes done many more speeches. When you look at how much shes done probably since leaving, shes made several Million Dollars on the speaking circuit. Remember, her as vance for living history was 8 million. I suspect this was more. Shes not really hurting for that, sure. Guys, thanks very much. Up next, malaysia releases data from Satellite Communications with the missing jetliner. Critiitritics say its not enou. 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And to draw down all the way to the end 4, by the end of 2016. All this comes after he met with top officials in afghanistan over the weekend. Cnn will bring the announcement live from the white house 2 45 p. M. Eastern, later today. Malaysia today released satellite data from the missing jetliner mh370. The data from the private company inmarsat led to the conclusion the plane is in the indian ocean. The 47page document includes communication logs between the plane and inmarsat satellites. Authorities say its not the complete picture but a readable summary. Critics say the report does not provide enough information for independent outside experts to test and verify inmarsats conclusions. The company says its willing to provide the model and the procedures it used to analyze the data but the ceo says its up to the malaysian government whether or not to release that information. Lets bring in our panel of experts. Peter goelz is a cnn analyst, former ntsb managing director. Tom fuentes is a law analyst, former assistant director of the fbi. Whats your take on the release today . Its basic data. The investigators will also tell you theyve already brought in outside experts. This was done not just in inmarsat, the brits, the american investigators and the malaysians. They brought in outside Satellite Experts who confirmed independently their conclusions. Id say theyre pretty comfortable with there this data drove them. What the family members want, they want that other information, how everyone looked at this raw data, which has now been released so they can have a better appreciation. I want you to hear what the ceo of inmarsat told our own chris cuomo on new day. Earlier this morning. We have absolutely no problem putting our model in the public domain. That is a decision for the leading country to put out there. Its clearly information, materials and workings that weve contributed into the investigation. So the proper Decision Making around that lies with the malaysian government. You buy that, its up to mallish sha to release everything so the family members will get peace in mind if the conclusions are accurate . It is up to the malaysian government. Why dont they release it . Thats a good question. I think they could. I just have the feeling they could release more volumes than the Warren Commission and it wouldnt satisfy everybody. I think at this point, theres just about nothing they can do. Any legitimate reason why malaysia would not release that information . Only that it would contribute to confusion. I can see them releasing the information, having a panel of experts sit there for four or five hours, answering every question. That might satisfy 90 what sense of information could there be why wouldnt they transparentally release it all . Its not sensitive information. Its how socalled experts analyze data. Theyll cherry pick information. People are still trying to sell the idea that twa 800 was shot down by missiles. And the idea is, this data is hard to analyze. They brought in outside experts. They came to the same conclusions. Now, should they defend it publicly . They should. You agree . Yes. What about the search, because now australias suggesting, you know what, the actual search in the southern indian ocean, not necessarily going to go forward with government assistance, private companies are going to get involved. It looked like the search situation in the area where they thought they heard some pings from the black box, that might be going away at least for now. I think the australians were a little enthusiastic at the beginning. Where they said they woulder in end that search, they would go forever . Also about their optimism about the pings. This is very hard work. Its going to take a very long time. And the bluefin did not have the capabilities to get the job done in all aspects of this search. They still havent found just to be precise, remember, 239 people are still missing. A u. S. Made boeing 777 that cost about 250 million, disappeared. There are about 1,200 of them flying around the world right now. We dont know if it was an individual or terrorism. We dont know if it was a catastrophic or mechanical failure. We dont know anything right now, do we . No, but what we do know is they had a location that had over two hours of pings and that location has yet to be searched because they dont have the right equipment, did not have the right equipment on the search. That bluefin cant do everything. It cannot go deep enough to do the one location that had the strongest pings and the best information. They havent found a tiny piece of wreckage. They arent searching in that area until two or three weeks later after the disappearance. They had typhoons, all kinds of bad weather. All right, guys, thank you. A top nigerian official claims to know the location of the missing schoolgirls kidnapped by boko haram. He said there are limits to what can be done to get those girls back. Arwa damon is in abuja. The was a truly amazing day. Without angies list, i dont know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. For over 18 years weve helped people take care of the things that matter most. Join today at angieslist. Com trwith secure wifie for your business. It also comes with public wifi for your customers. Not so with internet from the phone company. I would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. But that would require wifi. Switch to comcast Business Internet and get two Wifi Networks included. Comcast business built for business. For more than six weeks, the parents of the kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls have been waiting for word on the children. This is what they got from the government. The good news for the girls is we okay, we cannot tell you military secrets. Leave us alone. We are working. We gill get the girls back. Our Senior Correspondent arwa damon is joining us from the capital abuja. You just heard it, they say they know where the girls are but they cant rescue them. Whats going on . Well, weve been trying to figure that out ever since that comment was made about 24 hours ago, trying to reap out to various nigerian authorities unsuccessfully. Some sources telling us they dont know where the girls are but they do have credible leads theyre following. The u. S. For its part saying it does not have information as to the specific location of the girls, specific evidence as to where they may be, but they do have information as well. The defense taking the military option off the table. Launching the kind of military operation it would require to bring them home safely would be incredibly challenging, if not impossible, for even the best of armies, given the terrain that boko haram is keeping the girls in, and that they are most likely not in one group. Theyve been spread out over various cells. Negotiating with boko haram is something the Nigerian Government at this stage says it is unwilling to do. Even that would pose great challenges. This is not necessarily a topdown organization. The different cells presumably holding the groups of girls all have different kinds of leadership. So while those comments do seem to create an aura of optimism that perhaps the girls may be located, once they are located, getting them back home safely, that is going to potentially be the even bigger challenge, wolf. As you know, a lot of nigerians have criticized their own government for the slow response to the kidnappings. How have they responded to the latest statement . Whats the mood over there . Well, theres been quite a lot of skepticism because they heard their government waffle when it comes to what happened to the girls, how many of them were missing, exactly what kind of military operations were under way. People want to see that concrete evidence that the military is actually doing something. Especially those that are living in the three states in the northeastern part of the country that are most affected by boko haram. Because since this kidnapping has taken place and boko haram has been thrown into the spotlight, even though theyve been terrorizing that part of the country for years, weve seen them launch even more brazen, even more numerous attacks with that sense of insecurity growing, despite the fact the government says it has put all this military into place to try to hunt down the girls. People at this stage really wanting to see the government do more, really wanting to see the military do more, and also looking towards the International Community for that critical support that the Nigerian Government and military may be needing, wolf. Arwa damon in abuja for us, watching this important story. Lets hope they find these girls and bring them home to their parents soon. Up next, ukrainian troops squaring off against separatist forces, but what role is ukraines new president playing in the continuing crackdown . Well go there live for a closer look. [ man ] look how beautiful it is. Honey, we need to talk. We do . I took the trash out. I know. And thank you so much for that. I think we should get a Medicare Supplement insurance plan. Right now . [ male announcer ] whether youre new to medicare or not, you may know it only covers about 80 of your part b medical expenses. Its up to you to pay the difference. 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Payton walsh is on the scene for us. First of all, who controls the airport right now . Reporter its pretty clear, i think the majority of it is held by Ukrainian Military personnel at this point. The separatists seem to be moving around, trying to block some roads. We heard earlier occasional heavy exchanges. I think now they went back and forth, it seems to be settling into the ukraine militarys favor here. We saw this morning, the extent of the violence yesterday, going to the more dignified pile of bodies simply brought in, bullet wounds, some unrecognizable through the damage caused by heavy weaponry. Two trucks were torn to pieces by heavy weapons. The Ukrainian Military resorting to the heaviest firepower they have in taking the airport. There was always a red line for them in many ways. The numbers of dead, according to the mayor here, 40 dead, 2 civilians. One womans head was basically blown clean off, in the morgue as well. This city really waking up today to assess the level of violence yesterday, the damage, and also brace itself for what it appears as a war. Is the newly elected president of ukraine calling the shots now in the crackdown in Eastern Ukraine . Reporter well, its curious timing, that the most consistent and forceful move by the Ukrainian Military occurred the first day in power of pachenko. He gave a speech suggesting he would like some reconciliation. It was strange to see this level of military might so shortly after. The airport has always been a red line here, the governor saying they wouldnt let it fall in the separatists hands. Are tle negotiating or more fighting ahead. Nick payton walsh on the ground for us in the ukraine. Stay safe, my friend. Earlier today president obama called the newly elected president offering congratulations, extending an offer of assistance and cooperation. 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