pakistanis. need more help. we need some help. the isi is working against us and as long as we re allowed to cross back into the border, this report goes on to say and have their safe havens and regroup, rearm and refuel and send people over the border we re not going to get anywhere. here s good news. we re forcing the insurgents to the outskirts of populated areas and beginning to root out corruption but steve, you can t use that word surge. you do not. the president of the united states does not want to use that word surge because david petraeus used it and he kept bringing it up during the iraqi discussions. that s when he was at cent com. now that he took over for mcchrystal and is now in charge of this, it s called disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-qaida in afghanistan and pakistan. they re not going to say anything definitive, i don t think, today because they re going to say something like there have been advances in this war but challenges remain and we ll have to see how t
bit of speculation. but it is looking like andruw puzder may not last the afternoon here as nominee for secretary of labor. now then to, the next appointment. national security adviser. we understand robert harward, navy seal, former deputy commander at cent com with plenty of action in iraq and afghanistan will likely be the next national security adviser. i am told he has been offered the job. he s just checking with family to make sure that it s okay to give up what they have got and move here to washington for what will be one of the most intense jobs here in d.c. i remember talking to sandy berger who was national security adviser under bill clinton and his wife finally told him after he cancelled a family vacation for the fourth time in a row, why don t we just take a vacation four years from now. likely that he will be named national security adviser. senior staff here at the white house wanted to get him in place by this friday. so it s a possibility we could