house lawyers to prepare for her big moment in the political spotlight. every aspect of her academic career and government service skrut nilesed for clues about the kind of justice she would become. the president who nominated her last month thinks he knows. that understanding of law not as an intellectual exercise or words on a page but as it affects the lives of ordinary people, has animated every step of elena s career. reporter: republicans promise a fair but tough questioning. possible areas of concern her resistance to allowing military recruiters on campus when she was dean of harvard s law school, this because of the don t ask, don t tell policy on gays in the military. kagan called the policy a profound wrong. also her often politically focused views as a top aide in the clinton white house on a range of hot button issues like abortion, gun rights and
he s gone too far i think in an exit strategy. july 2011, i was over in afghanistan over memorial weekend and that pressure bearing down of having only one year left to fix afghanistan really weighs heavily on all the military commanders over there so i think we ve done enough when it comes to setting deadlines, we ought to be talking about achieving victory, that should be the exit strategy. you mentioned that deadline. dana bash caught up with general petraeus and put that question to im. reporter: do you see yourself doing anything to change the 2011 deadline to begin troop withdrawal? no, as i said, i support the president s policy a and i will also provide my best professional military advice as we conduct assessments. so am i right here, congressman mcgovern, you want a sooner date and a firmer date and congress man human hunter, . i want a mission including an exit strategy. the president talked about seven