protesters and the military yesterday. they are trying to pave a new way to democracy. reporter: jake, there doesn t seem to be an end in sight to this conflict where on one side you have the liberals, the moderates and even supporters of the military who seem to be winning and gaining momentum, pushing forth to establish a new transitional government. then you have the side that seems increasingly cornered, the muslim brotherhood, crying out for their president to be reinstated and crying out for deadly clashes that killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds. it s still not clear what happened in these clashes yesterday, who started it. security forces saying it was an armed group of terrorist who is opened fire on the troops. protesters saying, no, it was the security forces who opened
disagreements between president obama and hamid karzai that have to do with the break down in talks over the security negotiations. this seems to be the airing of this so-called zero option, leaving zero troops in afghanistan, may be one way to put pressure on karzai, push him back into line and see if he won t work with the taliban on some sort of peace discussions and also get back in line to object to continue the security discussions with the u.s., jake. last year when president obama went to afghanistan in may, i believe, and signed a document about the strategic partnership, he made it very clear that counterterrorism and equipping afghan security forces were going to continue to be important imperatives for the u.s., even after 2014. strategically does it make any sense if counterterrorism is a priority the way that the obama administration has been waging it with drones, with special forces, does it make any sense to pull out of afghanistan