captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m meredith vieira. all eyes are on the white house this morning and that face-to-face meeting between president obama and general stanley mcchrystal. what seems to be ironic, general mcchrystal was put in charge in afghanistan in part because he wasn t afraid to speak his mind. but now it s his words that could come back to haunt him. the controversy is over disparaging remarks about president obama and top administration officials made by general mcchrystal and his staff in a rolling stone article. this is all playing out at a very critical time, just a year before the president wants to start pulling troops out of afghanistan. so how big of a disruption would it be to fire the general right now? just ahead, we ll talk about that with retired general barry mccaffrey who is now an nbc news military analyst. also ahead, a new jailhouse inte