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the president s plan calls for an end to combat operations in afghanistan next year and a withdraw by the end of the 2014. the president says afghanistan s president hamid karzai is onboard. both oof us recognize that we still have a lot of work to do and there will be great challenges ahead. the loss of life continues in afghanistan. there will be hard days ahead, but we re confident that we re on the right track and what this summit reflects is the world is behind this strategy that we ve laid out. the big hurdle now to cross is the cost. the country doesn t have all the cash it needs. nato secretary general is optimistic that other countries will pitch in to help meet the roughly $4 billion price tag. the obama campaign headquarters, just outside the nato summit in chicago. look at this. protesters on one side, police on the other, pushing back and forth. this was on sunday. several officers were injured. today, the superintendent of police defends his officers action
the watch dog groups citizens against government waste. what are those dirty spots? something about them is endearing but not endearing about lawmakers. we got the numbers for fiscal year 2012 so we brought some of these friends along from the farm. probably better than a lot of things they usually eat. the good news first, pork is down. since the big push to ban ear marks we have seen a big improvement on capitol hill. some good news. earmark spending down 80% from two years ago. that year there were more than 9,000 earmarks which cost $16. billion. the buffet tax would have raised only $4.7 billion a year. the taxpayers that means you are shoveling out $255 million to upgrade these tanks. the pentagon doesn t want the upgrades and the pentagon is upset about the cuts they are facing. if they say they don t need this they probably don t need it. lawmakers from both parties thought otherwise. pork is bipartisan. $48.5 million for the national domestic preparedness consortium.
from the pig i mean, they ll eat anything. the watch dog groups citizens against government waste. what are those dirty spots? something about them is endearing but not endearing about lawmakers. we got the numbers for fiscal year 2012 so we brought some of these friends along from the farm. probably better than a lot of things they usually eat. the good news first, pork is down. since the big push to ban ear marks we have seen a big improvement on capitol hill. some good news. earmark spending down 80% from two years ago. that year there were more than 9,000 earmarks which cost $16.5 milli milli billion. the buffet tax would have raised only $4.7 billion a year. the taxpayers that means you are shoveling out $255 million to upgrade these tanks. the pentagon doesn t want the upgrades and the pentagon is upset about the cuts they are facing. if they say they don t need this they probably don t need it. lawmakers from both parties thought otherwise. pork is bipartisan. $48.5
international journalists. russian s foreign minister is in syria trying to keep it from being the latest arab government to fall. many world leaders say moscow is ignoring the slaughter of civilians. ivan watson is in istanbul, turkey, covering this for us. is there any optimism that russia can rein in this violence? reporter: that s a big question. the russian foreign minister definitely got a hero s welcome as he arrived in damascus. he seemed to be one of the biggest allies and friends of president bashar al-assad right now. the russian line has been that the western governments have not been putting enough pressure on the opposition groups to stop violence as well. if you want to know how wide the differentiation is between the two sides in syria, just about 100 miles away the artillery shells continue to rain on the opposition held city of homs where hundreds of civilians are believed to have died in just the past couple of days, kyra. now you re also seeing a growi