most of the once routine joint patrols between coalition forces and afghan units except in certain cases. the deputy chiefs of nato s operations says the insider attacks, quote strike right at the heart of our resolves. it s one thing to be killed in action by the insurgents,. it s quite another to be shot in the back of the head at night by your friends. defense secretary panetta has said the u.s. has quote turned the corner in afghanistan and says the u.s. commander in afghanistan, general john allen says he has the number of troops he needs to accomplish the mission of turning security over to the afghans by the end of 2014. martha: thank you very much. molly hennin tkerg in washington. gregghenneberg in washington. gregg: iran is flexing its muscles, displaying its newest defense system and issuing a warning. martha: new video coming in this
were burned, that started some of it. an afghan soldier can t be insulted or in tim dated. oftentimes the afghan doesn t have the conflict resolution ability defined being in a tribal environment. the smallest thing can fester with an afghan and end up deadly. 26 nato members have been killed in the so-called green on blue incidents, killed by afghans they were there to train. half of them were americans. this is a rise from just 11 of those incidents last year, 11 people killed, and four people killed in green on blue incidents in 2007. the treupbsd upward and very worry so many as u.s. and nato forces prepare to pull out in 2014. martha: that is a trend that should not be happening. very, very troubling. jennifer thank you very much. bill: a chilly reception for hillary clinton in egypt.
actually does this send a message that we in this to really, literally, until 2024 to back them up and will that give them the support they need to keep going? that s another great question. that remains to be seen. what really is going to determine it is what kind of political leadership they have that can lead shall. lead this. the afghan military can do it, but we have to realize the culture that we are operating in, in which the counterinsurgency, winning hearts and minds, failed, and so how the counterterrorism i fbl we work the pakistani issue that we can do this, but there are so many open spots there that remain to be nild on how we ll execute after 2014. martha: not a lot of political will among many people out there. i asked folks to send me a tweet, do you think we should get in or out, i got to tell you, most of them said out. yes, that s one of our problems. that s why i think as we go to this reduced footprint we
bill: sad story here, a young champion and trailblazer in winter sports has tkaoeufpltd sarah burke died nine days after a training accident. she is a four-time x games winner. she crashed in utah. doctors put her into a coma trying to save her life. as a result of a nasty fall she suffered devastating damage to her brain. she was the favorite to win a gold medal in the upcoming winter olympics in the year 2014. martha: let s go back to election politics now for a moment. we re awaiting a jobs speech from presidential candidate mitt romney in south carolina right now. his rivals have been hammering him for saying that he will not release his tax returns, or he ll release some years, and they probably will come in april. now he says that he does not want to give president obama
bonuss are still being paid, even as taxpayer money bailed them out. twelve executives at fannie and freddie received $35 million in total salary and bonuses in 2009 and 2010 and so far taxpayers have paid out about $170 billion to rescue those two firms, that s the most expensive bailout of the financial crisis, and it s not over. the government estimates that the bailout could reach up to $220 billion through the year 2014. martha: that bailout is ongoing, and the ceos of both fannie and freddie are expected to testify at today s hearing. a lot of reasons being given for why these people deserve this money and jim angle is on this story from washington in morning. what is the deal here, jim? reporter: martha, as you noted, congress is already unhappy about that $170 billion so bail out fannie mae and freddie mac, the quasi federal agency that is own or guarantee about half of the nation s mortgages. when they learned that the overseeing agency had approved salary and bonuses