just went all in. joining us now is senior political analyst david gergen and national security analyst peter bergen. david did the president have any other choice today? you thought he might. although he was in his rights to fire him, you thought he might let it pass. i thought he might. and this was a surprise. i think, anderson, it was a home run, naming david petraeus. there s always a fear when you fire your commanding general in the middle of a war that you ll have a real setback in the conduct of that war. and there will be some, natur naturally a short-term setback. long term, it s going to be very positive. he is he can bring momentum to it. he is the author of the counterinsurgency strategy in place there. he has been general mccrystal s boss. he has been to afghanistan several times. i ve been to central command in tampa to talk to general petraeus about all of this earlier. and he s very familiar with everything that s happening on the ground. the dysfunctional team we
the way they want us to move and we ll replace every bit of dirt we borrowed within weeks. bobby jindal says in the five to seven days it will take to build a pipeline, thengd also build another mile of sand berm. that oil is supposed to be here friday. there s mass of oil coming. absolutely. we know this works. this isn t theatrical. this oil will cause real damage. environmental groups have raised doubts about the effectiveness of this berm project. federal officials have approved it. they just have a problem of where the current sediment is coming from. do you think folks watching don t get this? i think there s a lot of rhetoric going around. they say we re fighting the war. we are doing everything. does it look like we re doing everything? does this look like we re doing everything? this isn t doing everything. this is bureaucratic bull. it s not even a good reason. we got locals who say these guys