liberal war critics used the leaked documents as a weapon. wake up, america. wikileaks release of secret war documents gave us 92,000 reasons to end the wars. pick one. we should use this money to bring them home. reporter: the president found himself in the unusual position of relying on republicans to pass his bill. cutting off their funding in the middle of that fight is tantamount to abandonment. reporter: today press secretary robert gibbs said it s hard to wage war without the support of the american people. i think obviously public opinion matters quite a bit when you have your forces in harm s way. reporter: if fact only in the early years did americans believe the war in afghanistan was going well. between 2003 and 2008 when the focus was on iraq support plummeted. after some minor ups and downs today stands at a mere 31%. even if the president s right that there isn t much new in the leaked documents, they still threaten to turn public opinion against
frankly, it s not the 92,000 that s out there that we have to worry about, it s the others that both wickileaks has admitted they have and secretary of defense said they probably do, and the problem is you can put a this is four giga bites of a hard drive. you can put a ton of stuff there. so the technology is there that anybody with a secret clearance can essentially become an insider threat and this is something that people have to take very seriously and clearly, and the question is how do we deal with this. jon: thank you, tony. thank you jon. jenna: a sobering situation really in afghanistan, but there are also stories of heroism as well, including this one, a soldier reuniting with the unlikely heroes who saved his life. rufus and target, the two stray dogs, were befriended by soldiers in afghanistan, the pooches returned the favor by stopping a homicide bomber from entering a barrack there. sergeant chris duke said he and he and other american