and so i think what s incumbent on leaders no matter where they come from or what political party, they are working together, and that s what you ve seen. and it will take a long time to recover. but that s what the american people expect from their leaders is at moments of real challenge and crisis to put other things aside and just focus on doing the right job for the american people. i know you re focused on storm recovery as part of the administration, but you do focus on politics. we re two days out. is hurricane sandy and the response have a political impact on this race? well, david, first of all, the political impact of sandy is sort of irrelevant. what s important is the impact we re seeing in new jersey and new york, connecticut, and west virginia. we have to make sure we stand by we believe this race is very stable. you know, all through the fall. and i think that we re headed to a very close race where the president has an edge in enough battleground states to be re-ele
providing enough documentation and accuses the republicans. this is one of increasing testy showdowns who say the republicans are conducting tough oversight investigations and the white house seeing witch hunts, not legitimate inquiries. jess, any sign the white house will give? you were here when they first got the request and they said no, we ve given you enough. any threat a subpoena will say, here, more dock plns? reporter: no signs it will. the white house has maintains they through their agencies turns over more than 70,000 pages of documents and that the white house itself has turned over 900 pages and as you have said, they have made it clear there s an important precedent to be protects, the president s advice from his advisers in the white house has to be protected. early on the white house said that the republicans were exaggerating this, this one lone gun bad, a pretty good program. now the chief of staff is having an independent review inside the white house.
nato command center were targeted. you re going to see rooftop to rooftop fighting, today in kabul. these are u.s. security forces that are returning fire from what we re told was a well-organized taliban attack ugz rocket-propelled grenades, also machine guns. street fighting lasted several hours. it is over now, and there were casualties. want to go straight to the capital of kabul where our own suzanne malveaux has been there for a better part of a week and a half. she has now details there. suzanne, just begin with, can you confirm what we re being told, that all of the asill aai are either dead or captured? reporter: actually, a spokesman for the ministry of defense just tweeted, there might be one or two more terrorists still alive. he also says the building has not yet been cleared. we know for sure there were four insurgents involved in this attack. they ve been going floor by floor in this abandoned building, the building that s been under construction for some t
we will draw down our troops over a period of time. but, we have every intention of being hack tiff and aggressively involved. chris: secretary of defense robert gates explaining this week the u.s. will be fighting the taliban in afghanistan for at least four more years. we re back with our panel. it didn t get much attention between all the focus on politics and the president s trip to asia, but secretary gates, secretary of state clinton and the chairman of the joint chiefs, mike mullen attended a security conference in trail where they say 2014 is the key date for handing over the war to the afghans, bill kristol how big a shift is that. a big shift, the president foolishly announced july, 2011, for the date to with draw and
we will draw down our troops over a period of time but we have every intention of being active and aggressively involved. chris: secretary of defense robert gates explaining the u.s. will be fighting the taliban in afghanistan for at least four more years. back with our panel. it didn t get much attention this week between all of the focus on politics and the president s trip to asia but secretary gates, secretary of state clinton and the chairman of the joint chiefs mike mullen attended a security conference in australia where are 20141 now the key date for hand gd over the war to the much fans. how big a shift is that? a pretty big shift. july 2011 dates withdrawing for