then you d better convince the americans and bring them with you. you can t do this alone. mike rogers chair of the house intelligence committee. thank you very much. thanks. i m develop manager the john edwards saga, we are getting our first look at the former vice presidential candidate s mug shots taken my marshals when edwards was charged with conspiracy, violating finance laws and issues fault statements. still got that smile. we ll be right back. [ doctor ] here s some health information for people over 50.
who had worked with the cia in the weeks moontds before the bin laden raid. including one of them who apparently was taking down license plates of cars going in and out of the compound. as you said, it s another sort of sign of a fractured relationship where pakistanis intelligence service seems to be rolling up some of the informants who were part of this operation. and sort of another sign and greater evidence of the bad blood between the two. as you first reported as we ve now confirmed for nbc with the u.s. official telling us that american officials have shown the pakistanis evidence of bomb making facilities on the pakistani side of the border with afghanistan. pakistani action was requested. the targets seem to be tipped off. there s some indications that some senior pakistani officials are not happy about that.
committee congressional congressman mike rogers join us us. thanks very much. first of all, the arrest of these informants, pay back for the raid. how does this happen? americans are spending billions of dollars on pakistan. here in the united states, the raid on osama bin laden is viewed as a victory. instead of the pakistani side they view it as a humiliation. i have to tell you, andrea, i was in pakistan last week and met with the general, the leader of the military there and the general who heads up the intelligence service. i ve been traveling there for six years on a whole host of issues in the tribal areas and all over that country, i came away as pessimistic as i have ever been about where our relationship is and where it s going. we had some very, very candid conversations about a whole host of issues. some of which you talked about and some have not been mentioned about how we need to work out some very difficult problems.
stay in afghanistan at the cost of $250 billion a year. some of us tried to make some reasonable reductions in the military budget and they rejected that. i m afraid that the unreality that s in control of the republicans, look at tim pawlenty, a main stret conservative, to win the republican nomination she just came out with a tax reduction program, a substantial tax reduction program that would greatly exacerbate the program. do you think there is some, on defense, do you think there is some opening now where you re beginning to see conservative republicans talking about tax cuts and a draw down from afghanistan. in fact, ron paum, john campbell from california and i along with other democrats have talked about that. i worked with the catto institute. i believe by the way if you
essentially what the pentagon wants. he does not want to run the risk of losing afghanistan. that it gets lost on a shift. a democratic shift. because they remember at the white house, they talk to you about this. what happened when richard nixon in 1949 turned to harry truman and said who lost china? and the republicans did very well with that for a long time. obama does not want to run that risk now. the shadow of vietnam simply is there and haunting him. of course, the shadow of vietnam led to the war powers act. the relationship between the white house and congress and even today we re having the speaker of the house asking, demanding answers from the president that time has run out. you have to either extend, come back, get some sort of congressional action or pull the american support out of the nato operation. in libya. obama knows very well he is