some time period. here is general james matis last week telling congress what he thinks. what about the residual force? the post 2014 force, senator, that decision, i know, has not been made yet. it s still under consideration. i have made my recommendation. which is? that recommendation is for 13,600 forces, sir. now, i asked jay carney about that today. he would not commit to a figure. important because when you look at what happened in iraq, there were a lot of the critics of the president wondering why he didn t leave any kind of a force behind in iraq. bottom line here it s not just about troops it s about u.s. aid. despite all of our budget problems we are giving afghanistan nearly $10 billion in u.s. taxpayer aid. that is going to be under the microscope as well, shep. shepard: i m sure it will. ed henry at the white house tonight. ed, thank you. should the government get to decide what size soda you buy? how big your coke is? new york city mayor argued
attention on how much obama care costs and how it was financed. one reason, perhaps. is several polls show a majority want to repeal all or part of the president s plan shep? jim angle live in washington. jim, thanks very much. justin bieber now finally, his run of bad fortune apparently has not stopped. promoters in portugal say they have cancelled the second of two bieber concerts in the capital city of lisbon and multiple reports suggest it had nothing to do with his health but bad sales it was a bad week in london last week where the beebs fainted on stage his birthday was his worst yet and freaked out with a series of bieber bleeps on a photographer. meantime, tiger woods is back in familiar territory closing in on golf s top spot yet again. he just won his 17th world golf championships yesterday and now sits at number 2 in the world rory mcilroy. the exports say it if tiger wins his next tournament he
robots. it s called indigo for independence and go. i want this to that i think lives. be accessible to the populations that can be taken and fit into a user s life and enable them to enjoy freedoms that they previously experienced before their accident independence is what it gives michael gore. it will climb stairs. not quite abled body but not as disabled as he was before. a sense of power? yes, it gives me the power to be normal again. it really is amazing to see a person who is paralyzed actually stand up right in front of you. one potential hangup here. device at least in a clinical setting could likely be subject to the obama care s new tax on medical devices. the 2kw07er, the manufacturer told me they can t figure out why the government would want to throw any road block in front of the device that shows the promise that this one does, shep? shepard: john roberts live tonight in atlanta.
are abusing our people. the taliban are in daily talks with the americans but detonating bombs in kabul and coast. they claim they are showing strength to america but they are not. that s categorically false and nobody believes it. and our men and women for going on 12 years have sacrificed enormously on tan. going on 12 years. over 2,000 americans who have lost their lives. clearly doesn t seem like president karzai is grateful for all of that sacrifice. that s where the frustration is here at the white house tonight, shep. shepard: yeah, he has never really seemed grateful, ed. the fact remains that there is drawdown that s coming in 2014. we don t know how many exactly. negotiations have to happen. how are you going to negotiate with this man after this. that is the problem for this administration, obviously. how do you end the war in the u.s. combat role is supposed to end at the end of 2014. there is supposed to be a residual force possibly there on the ground for
italian prosecutors and international financial institutions for not revealing the names of its account holders and generally not being sufficiently transparent. when you think of benedict s papacy, john paul s papacy, the vatican bank has cropped up time and time again embarrassing the holly sea. the next pope coming in has to think to himself, you know, it s time to finally reign this in. clean it up. the vatican, shep, has taken some steps recently to answer some regulators questions. one of pope benedict the xvith s last move in office was to fire the head of the bank and put in someone new. a german banker. still, this will be a big file in the inbox of the next pope, shep? shepard: yeah, it would have to be. watching how all of this goes down tomorrow and for the next whatever days, some the rituals involved here are centuries old,