opinion? it is incredible. i don t know how you separate fact from opinion. but this is what rudy guiliani obviously thinks is working. it is true. quite telling in that tape. guiliani said nowadays facts are in the eye of the beholder, and i think that s true, but the key thing to understand is that rudy guiliani is not a lawyer in the traditional sense of the term protecting his client from criminal charges. guiliani knows that ultimately he will have to protect trump from impeachment, which is a political matter that plays out in congress. his audience is the broader american public. i think in setting deadlines, he is trying to build in the eyes of the american public the sense that the probe is dragging on far too long. he sets these deadlines, then
an agreement had been reached with steve ballmer and the nba advisory finance committee met via conference call to discuss the developments. we await the submission of necessary documentation from mrs. sterling. in the meantime, the june 3rd special meeting of the nba board of governors remains as scheduled. from the executive vice president of communications for the nba. that s a pretty specific they re going ahead with this meeting ujs they have the paper work that a deal is done, proved by all the owners and buyers. that s the only way this thing is going to be resolved, by setting deadlines. the nba has set a deadline. and they will either throw him out on june 3rd or simply approve the sale on june 3rd. but the key point is donald sterling is out on june 3rd. lz and don, don first, they sell the team for $2 billion. they paid $12 million 33 years ago. that s a nice profit. they may have to pay 25% capital
decade and a half in afghanistan. that should be plenty of time for us. how long would you leave troops in there, in perpetuity? because i think if you leave afghanistan it s go to be a safe place. how long, if you had your dream scenario, would you leave troops there? the answer is, as long as it makes sense. we ve had troop in korea for 60 years. and in japan. you make a decision when you basically say, how much will it cost me to keep these troops there, what are they accomplishing for it. if it turns out that 10,000 troops in afghanistan, as mike said, i agree, in iraq would help dampen the fighting. carry out counterterrorism. especially make a place that still matters to us, more stable and acceptable costs why wouldn t we keep 10,000 troops there in an open-ended way? that s a smart way for national security. what makes me uncomfortable with this. we re setting deadlines and
bill: charles krauthammer claiming the president is putting his legacy ahead of our troops. president obama wants us to leave afghanistan by the end of 2014. virtually all u.s. troops will be out by the end of 2016. pete, what do you think of the reaction of charles krauthammer. i think he s on to something. this president has been all about withdrawal deadlines, setting deadlines ending these wars no matter what. it s always seemed to be around elect years. in 2008 it was deseeing the success of the surge. in 2012 it was all about getting out of iraq as quickly as possible and not sign aggrastat us of forces agreement. today we see civil war. in 2016 we are hearing a
surge, he was concluding privately that he can t change afghanistan and he began setting deadlines to pull out and a big debate about whether publicly setting deadline was a good idea. in fact, i describe in here one day when henry kissinger comes in to the state department and sits down with people doing negotiations for the taliban and says be careful about thinking that you can negotiate with people when have you already told them you are leaving. he try thad with vietnam and it didn t work out so well. but the second big transition that president obama went through, the discovery that the military saw afghanistan as the last big game in town. the last place to play out the counterinsurgency effort. and he s still fighting that, as recently as the end of last year, the military came to him with a proposal for 100,000 troops for stability operations. the white house said we aren t