president announced on tuesday. so far, a lot of good response verbally from nato countries to the president s request for troops. but not a lot yet in fra cal terms. britain confirmed 500 troops. italy bolstering its troops to 3,000. as well, poland is committing to 600 troops. and georgia said it will put 900 in. and slovakia said it would put in 250. hillary clinton, secretary of state, will be arriving tomorrow morning to talk to the ministers of other nato countries about increasing the force levels. as far as we know there s not going to be lot of arm twisting, but the u.s. will be putting subtle pressure on its allies, saying that afghanistan is everyone s problem, not just america s problem. richard holbrooke has been here for a couple of days. as well as other issues, he hasn t exactly been high on reconstruction civilian efforts in afghanistan. saying while military forces have been unified, it has been ununified in terms of trying to rebuild the country on a civili
back with the most news in the morning. live from outside of nato headquarters in brussels, belgium, and our special programming continues tomorrow when we will bring you an exclusive interview with the secretary of state, hillary clinton. she s testifying on the hill today. from there, she gets on a plane and flies here to nato headquarters, where she ll be meeting with her counterparts, trying to urge them to contribute more troops to the american mission and the nato mission in afghanistan. all of that heading your way. continue the conversation, by the way. go to our show blog and leave your comments about anything that s on your mind. www.cnn.com/amfix. that ll wrap it up from here in brussels, belgium, at nato headquarters. we ll see you back here again bright and early tomorrow morning. kiran? that s right. we look forward to it. meanwhile, the news continues. here s cnn newsroom with heidi collins. that s right. good morning, john. good morning, kiran. good mo
s breaking it s breaking when there are clouds in the sky you ll get by that s the time you must keep on trying smile, what s the use of crying? you ll find that life is still worthwhile if you just smile you ll find that life is still worthwhile if you just smile. smile. captioning sponsored by 20th century fox and toyota. moving forward. . we have breaking news right off the top tonight, about that northern virginia couple accused of crashing a white house state dinner. a publicist for michaele and tareq salahi says the couple will not testify at a hearing on capitol hill tomorrow. the white house says its social secretary won t be there, either. now to a story about the salahis you first saw on fox. the couple s charity also facing troubles tonight. land rover, the ritz carlton, the st. regis hotel alden nying they were ever sponsors of the charity and demand the couple remove their los from the website. tonight there is more fallou
that i think most of us here anticipated that he would say. but i m very supportive of it. i think it sounds like a solid plan. i think it s consistent with the wishes and hopes of most of the people here. i definitely think that the more forces, more u.s. forces coming to afghanistan, will end up helping us out in the long run. and allow us to come home sooner. the first marines in the next wave of deployment should be in place in afghanistan by christmas. later this half hour, more insight on the president s address on afghanistan and why pakistan is not being overlooked in all of this. and then look for continuing coverage and reaction on america this morning and later on good morning america. iran has released five british sailors detained after their yacht entered iranian waters last week. the iranian government said it had determined the men on board made a mistake. britain had maintained all along that the racing yacht had accidentally strayed toward iran whi
you know that. bill: no, but they re simpatico with hurting the west there s a difference. a counterterrorism strategy can work. currency is doomed to fail because the occupation fuels more insurgents and it has people fighting us who on another day might be for us. bill: what do you want, special forces in there? is that what you want to do? there are special forces there. bill: i know but the special forces are helping to pay off the people in the perimeter of kabul trying to get them to buy, trying to buy friends for us. that never works. bill: why do you think, if obama say liberal guy, and he is by whose assessment? why do you keep going back to liberal-conservative? it means nothing in these analysises. analyses. bill: ok. but if obama say liberal thinker, and he is, why the divide between you and him? well, he s the president and i m in congress. he has the responsibility under the constitution to make the decision. bill: why isn t he on your side? li