flaring and deadly political upheaval. we re learning more about who these young men are and why their families are so frightened. i m wolf blitzer ayou re in th situation room. we re coming to you from washington s historic constitution hall, the scene of tonight s cnn republican presidential debate in which we ll focus on national security and foreign policy. in just under four hours, the candidates will walk on stage. it s been ten days since their last face-off an in that time, there have been some dramatic changes in the race. newt gingrich is now at the front of the pack according to our new poll. in this statistical dead heat with mitt romney. and while his new top tier status puts gingrich in the spotlight, romney is always getting a lot of attention for his first television campaign commercial. an ad that s misleading at best. democrats are calling it quote, dishonest. and deceitful. cnn s joe johns is working the story for us. what is this all about? this is a
we took the fight to them and attacks actually on our troops and friendly. kimberly: good afternoon troops are down by over a quarter year-over-year. even though people expected an increase in attacks since we have been on the offensive with the surge troops. the president took a risk by drawing down the surge troops too quickly. the disaster would be if he took another risk in 2012 and show that we are drawing down more in 2013, i think that could be the tipping point and difference between success and defeat. chris: and literally in 20 second hass about the karzai government? difficult to work with. we spent some time with ambassador prosser. he works with the karzai government in afghanistan. he deserves an extremely lavish retirement package when comes back here. thank you all. see you next week. check out panel plus where our group picks right up with the discussion on our website foxnewssunday.com. we will post the video before noon eastern time. up next, our power player
we took the fight to them and attacks actually on our troops and friendly. kimberly: good afternoon troops are down by over a quarter year-over-year. even though people expected an increase in attacks since we have been on the offensive with the surge troops. the president took a risk by drawing down the surge troops too quickly. the disaster would be if he took another risk in 2012 and show that we are drawing down more in 2013, i think that could be the tipping point and difference between success and defeat. chris: and literally in 20 second hass about the karzai government? difficult to work with. we spent some time with ambassador prosser. he works with the karzai government in afghanistan. he deserves an extremely lavish retirement package when comes back here. thank you all. see you next week. check out panel plus where our group picks right up with the discussion on our website foxnewssunday.com. we will post the video before noon eastern time. up next, our power player
we took the fight to them and attacks actually on our troops and friendly. kimberly: good afternoon troops are down by over a quarter year-over-year. even though people expected an increase in attacks since we have been on the offensive with the surge troops. the president took a risk by drawing down the surge troops too quickly. the disaster would be if he took another risk in 2012 and show that we are drawing down more in 2013, i think that could be the tipping point and difference between success and defeat. chris: and literally in 20 second hass about the karzai government? difficult to work with. we spent some time with ambassador prosser. he works with the karzai government in afghanistan. he deserves an extremely lavish retirement package when comes back here. thank you all. see you next week. check out panel plus where our group picks right up with the discussion on our website foxnewssunday.com. we will post the video before noon eastern time. up next, our power player
public. take a listen to ben rhodes, the national security advisor who was in cannes with the president today. if there is any specific timeline beyond what the president has already laid out which is we are going to bring 10,000 troops out of afghanistan by the end of this year. we re going to bring 33,000, the full west point surge in afghanistan by the end of next summer. reporter: the bottom line is that these recommendations are not coming from the pentagon. they are not coming from field commanders. they are not working their way through the normal system going through centcom and the pentagon over to the white house. the recommendations are being requested from the white house and the white house is pleased because don t forget they still feel a bit stung from 2009 when they felt like president obama was backed into a corner and had no option but to approve the surge, the surge troops. this is what you re seeing is the beginning of the campaign season and the white house pus