iraq now because the u.s. and iraq couldn t reach an agreement on immunity for the united states. how is the u.s./afghanistan relationship right now? solid. solid? yeah. foreign minister, thank you for joining us. good luck to you and all the people of afghanistan. thank you. i asked the foreign minister, by the way, if he might run for president. hamid karzai, his term is over with next year. he said he s not running again, can t run again. the foreign minister told me he would make up his mind by the deadline, october 7th, but a lot of people think this foreign minister will run to be the next president of afghanistan. we ll see what happens. by the way, as u.s. troops are on the ground now in afghanistan, 60,000 american troops. it s costing american taxpayers billions and billions of dollars. roughly about $2 billion a week to maintain that troop level between now and the end of 2014. the u.s. will probably spend at least another $100 billion
human folly of the assad regime and say we re going to meet it with our own and that s what this looks like and i agree totally with joe, this is ad hoc. you can t run something like this, can t run anything like this. well, andy card was talking about looking for a way out, the chances of avoiding military action may be possible thanks to the people, of all people vladimir putin. russian leadership has embraced a plan that s been floated rhetorically by secretary john kerry yesterday. he can turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. turn it over. all of it. without delay. and allow a full and total accounting for that but he isn t about to do that and can t to be
how it will look. will we run tv ads? of course, we will. we ll build a grassroots mobilization effort to say to washington it s time to move on things like immigration, gun safety and an economy built to last. all things that there s consensus on. washington just needs to act. the president, of course, can t run again. what happens to this group in four years? does it have another re-incarnation post-presidency? well, we ll see. we re on day two of this. i know what is true is that our supporters are really excited to work in the second term to pass meaningful change that everyone knows we need. we re really excited to get right back on the doors and have those same discussions and our folks are getting pretty good at that time after two campaigns and we re excited to turn that into legislation and try to get some things done. we know it won t be easy and we know it s harder than a
rest of the government are having to balance all the time how to do their jobs and not stay behind high walls but to do it as safely as possible and that s an ongoing, daily calculation around the world. martha: so there you have it. senator john mccain believes that the white house should still be held accountable in this matter. he sent a letter of his own. he joins us now, former presidential candidate, senator from arizona, john mccain. good morning, sir. welcome. good to have you with us. thank you. thank you, martha. martha: let s start with hillary clinton. why now and why is she falling on this sword do you think? well, i think it s an act of loyalty. there are many people at that believe secretary clinton may have further political ambitions and this could obviously harm that in one way but also bring in some additional support, possibly from president obama, who can t run again.
exceptions to prisoners and on death row. you have an i.r.s. who can t run its own business. forgod s sake. you know what, johnathon, i will say this, though, many companies do use tax breaks and tax code does have positive parts of it. but it is a mass of words, millions was word and that s why we have more accountants than police and fire. it is the current form and many say a plattax. it is not only practical. but moral as well. and we treat everybody the same. we have complete mess. and i have to say . we are not britain. and i mean, it is more complicated there. i am not in britain. fundmentally the last form is 1996 .