i know. missing the good stuff! c-span cameramen are usually so quick! exactly. other big news you were just in california. one day after the california judge overturned the state s ban on same-sex marriage, supporters of the voter approved law have now filed their appeal. yesterday s action did not surprise, of course, legal experts since lawyers on both sides vowed to carry the fight over prop 8 all the way to the supreme court. according to a briefing schedule, that appeal to the ninth circuit court will likely not be held until early next year. the obama administration is speaking out against prop 8. yesterday on msnbc daily rundown after joe said we have to get this question asked, david axelrod clarified president obama s position. the president opposed proposition 8 at the time. he felt it was divisive and mean spirited. the president does oppose same-sex marriage but he supports equality for gay and lesbian couples and benefits and
slinging match with tehran now if you read the statements about the two capitals coming out with each other. i do detect somewhat more nervousness on iran s part that they are becoming more isolated, that this is worse than i thought it would be. so what are they going to do? that s what we will find out. obama was saying in this moment of pressure the door is still open to you. if you want to get out of this pressure cooker, here is a way. i think that s pretty sensible. david, let s not step on the sublead here. you just mentioned iran s possible role in afghanistan or a larger role in afghanistan. what would that role encompass some. well, there s some people in the state department think i buried the lead. the most important thing the president said was this the president said that he thought, in addition to the discussions about the nuclear issue and the iranians have signaled they are likely they want to begin those again in september, in addition
back on the taliban and all of this while this corruption is rampant in the car guy government, it s a real source of concern this week in the administration what karzai has done on this anti-corruption probe and a lot of people are looking at this week and this summer to see whether this is, in fact, the turning point of whether karzai can be trusted to clean up the government or not. it goes back to pakistan, sebastian. and there s a moment in this movie and also several in your book where they are not talking about routing out al qaeda terrorists that want to blow up buildings in new york city. at one point, they are walking down paths to talk to elders and a guy the captain is saying we got to figure out a way to get them to help us. you have americans just dropped into this land that has been invaded since alexander the great, and get them to fight. he is quiet for a second and he goes, against their family. we are dropping into afghanistan thinking we can go into these
you re completely self-defining. if you want to have courage, you could be 5 2 or 6 5 . it doesn t matter. it s up to you to decide. that s so different from high school or college where the way people see you reflects a lot of things about how you were born and what you looked like, et cetera. so these guys, once they experience the reality of combat, going back to the civilian world where things are sort of where your identity is sort of imposed on you is kind of mortifying. let s go to norah o donnell in washington. sebastian, let me say thank you for your brilliant reporting and writing and telling the story of our american men and women who, of course, get sent on these very difficult missions. you said something at the very top that i wrote down. you said this could have been an easy victory in 2001. what do you mean? well, the taliban were toppled in a few weeks. not one american soldier was killed retaking kabul from them. more journalists were killed
is horrific! we like coach pitino. he watches the show. i love coach pitino. how is your career going some. mine? by the way, we are going to spin this for the coach right now because we love the coach. we do. how do we spin this? the ladies want to hear! because if you if you you had to admit in open court with your wife sitting in a row behind you. there you go. that you had sex, you don t want to say, well, you know, the thing is this was amazing. we went through the night. i went out to get like. you think your wife is more likely to be tolerant if you were bad in bed with the girl you were i think if rick pitino had told the truth and said this thing lasted for six, seven, eight hours, yeah, i think the wife would be upset so he s spinning it for her and i think that is nice of him. give him some credit. noble. it was a mistake!