on behalf of their kids. reporter: the republican billionaire has long argued for making education better through vouchers. more charter schools, more private schools, more local innovation and less federal involvement. government really sucks. and it doesn t matter which party is in power. reporter: she s even hinted she d be fine with the department of education going away. telling an online publication, it would be fine with me to have myself worked out of a job. and this is one of the few things that she and her foes may agree on. at least in part. only two weeks into her tenure, many of them would also like to see her out of a job. erin? all right. thank you, tom. we ll be right back. with this level of engineering. it s a performance machine. with this degree of intelligence. .it s a supercomputer. with this grade of protection. .it s a fortress. and with this standard of luxury.
this thing got kicked in other words, if they didn t agree to this, it wouldn t have basically stripped out all the things they objected to. th they d get it put in next year when the republicans control the house and senate. other things would be at risk. this was not the push-pull you idealing could say i ll strip out all the things i object to and then i ll get my way. it could have been much worse had this not gotten the approval of the house. it then got over to the senate. we don t think of elizabeth warren and ted cruz going off for coffee but they were both opposed for a lot of different reasons. at a lot of no votes before getting to the final yes. the entire system is broken. it almost doesn t matter which party is in control anymore. you have democrats against democrats, republicans against republicans. then democrats and republicans against each other. real people don t function like this. i just got back from indiana.
and you re going to do it with a team of people, if you don t trust them at the outset, you re going to have to develop trust very quickly. and he never chose you in this case. do you think that s the issue? i think he was involved. i was chosen by secretary gates, and clearly approved by the president. so i wases his commander. i replaced general mckiran in june of 2010. i think, though, there are a number of things. i think people underestimate the difference between the cultures of the civilian culture and military culture. it s not an opposition. they are just different. so they use different words, different backgrounds. they have a different understanding sometimes of history. plus a new administration comes in, any new administration, doesn t matter which party. and they ve got to form a team and they re trying to internally form a team and also trying to form a team with people like dod. i want to ask you about the pat tillman affair. i know that you ve said that you don t
militants but helicopters ended up opening fire on the kidnappers and hostages, killing as many as 35. at the same time, an algerian security force says around 20 foreign hostages actually escaped. total number of hostages is unclear. militants initially claim they had seized 41 foreigners, including americans and were holding them at a gas plant in the sahara desert. kidnapping was conducted in protest of french air strikes against rebels in the neighboring nation of mali. we ll bring the latest on this story as it develops. turning now to foreign affairs, if you will. the war in afghanistan. where the war against al qaeda began 11 years ago. the drawdown of u.s. troops there is now expected to begin within months. general stanley mcchrystal, the man once in charge of the war in afghanistan says the divide between politicians and the commanders on the ground are creating a large deficit of trust. after rolling stone interview in which mcchrystal slammed obama and members of the ad