start in michael brown s office. his staff is in mourning. we have a love and family is grieving this evening. a loving mother lost her only son. 8 d.c. city councilman s admired in turn. intern. he was an all-a. she waited with her heart full of sickening fear. do not let this be my son. do not let this be my son. the family said that she has not heard from them since saturday. they started looking for them themselves. they learned that there had been gunshots the day before. he got picked up yesterday. he was in the hospital. on mother s day. officers came to the same area for the the day before for a report of gunshots. at least one witness told police that he sought him and shoot at sutton and chase him in the woods. the police were just getting around. they did not look in the woods. his body was found off of a steep incline in the ravine. he had been shot several times. sources tell abc 7 news that he refused to give a person associated with the suspec
it s an afghan government problem that needs to happen. shepard: we just got an urgent from the associated press saying the united states warned the afghan president s half brother he could be targeted if found to be provided arms to insurgents. that s the brother there on the screen. the quote here, i d like him out of there, u.s. fails say, this man, ahmed karzai, we d rather not have a guy like that there because he s divisive but there s nothing we can do until we link him to the insurgencecy and put him on the target list and capture or kill him. sounds like they re sure he s a bad guy. there s concern he s been involved in the drug trade. if you re involved in the drug trade in afghanistan, you re automatically involved in helping finance the taliban efforts. u.s. intelligence had its eyes
number could rise as the pentagon finished deploying additional soldiers. gerald seib is the washington executive editor of the wall street journal, owned by the parent company of this network. this visit sounds like the beginning of a push, push, push, as he rides a wave. a little bit. that s right. you know, one of the things that happened in the wake of healthcare, you saw last week, a shift back to national security policy. good politics for president obama because he s getting good grades on that and it s less contentious. but in afghanistan in particular, there s tending needed. the message to karzai was you have to take care of the self yen business better. clean up corruption and get services into the field and convince people it will happen. the afghan government needs to be behind us convincing people the problems will be taken care
healthcare bill and reaching a nuclear arms deal with russia the president focuses on afghanistan. he made a trip to afghanistan, first as commander at chief. he showed up at bagram airbase before leading with karzai, pressing them to do more to reign in corruption. a short time later he addressed soldiers, stressing how much the fight really matters. fy thought for a minute that america s vital interests were not served, were not at stake here in afghanistan, i would order all of you home right away. the president s visit comes as new figures from the pentagon show the number of servicemen and women has roughly doubled the first two months of this year. 57 deaths compared to 28 in the same period last year. military officials warn the
on this guy for a while. i would be stunned if it didn t come up with president karzai yesterday. how will the republicans go against this? i m not sure they will. this is the one area this year in which there s been a reasonable amount of bipartisan support. president obama last year decided i m going to send 30,000 additional troops to afghanistan. they re still getting there. that s one reason you saw the offensive. there was nor more republican than democrats support. the only complaint, is after having sent troops, president obama didn t maybe pay enough attention to what was happen or show he was focused on t part of the trip yesterday on the military side was to say i haven t governor forgotten you guys. it was important to them and to the political system here. gerald seib, thank you.