he doesn t. we let photographers in because he knows he doesn t need to. we let photographers in because we ve had an ongoing discussion about access for photographer. we have an ongoing discussion you re leaving out we ve had an. word for word, minute for minute, this president has answered more questions from the free and independent press or at least as many as his immediate predecessors. why not today? i don t know of any president in history who is taking questions every day. he hasn t taken any questions since december 20. that was tense because in the gates book, what bob gates former defense secretary says regarding joe biden is they say that mr. biden was wrong on nearly every major policy and national security issue for the last 40 years. according to somebody inside the white house, the quotation is this is very, very bad. jay carney is spinning everyone,
but that s his job. the american troops were put in harm s way. a captain was talking to elisabeth an hour ago about what this book does to the troops. listen to this. to see the political nature of decisions being made in the white house when we have warriors losing their lives on the battlefield, they confirmed the suspicions that we had. it was never about finishing the war in afghanistan properly. it was about ending it and getting out as quickly as possible. if you want to be a politician or pundit and walk around and say i was for the troops but not for the mission, now the commander in chief. your job is support them and give them a job to be successful. by the way, he s current captain. yeah. he s still active in the reserves. here is what he s responding to, the fact that according to the secretary of defense, who has a chance to compare two presidents back to back, he said the
well, it s disconcerting. definitely heart breaking to see a place where so much blood was shed by american service members and know that was all for naught right now, i, along with many of my fellow veterans are disheartened and are standing with the tribal leaders who are fighting very hard to try and repel those individuals from their homeland. you know them. they re not just people on video. these are people you got a chance to know and won them over. according to the book, the president no intention of keeping any force there to begin with. there was no legitimate negotiation going on to keep troops there to preserve what you guys have accomplished after the surge. how does that make you feel? that also is very disappointing. when we go into an impending mission, we hope for absolute success. our goal was to establish security and provide the necessary infrastructure for those tribal leaders and for the government to provide security for the population. and with no support w
look for the administration to have a full offensive, as they are just now reading it. one person is reading it and now they re going to decide how to go out against it. apparently jay carney got the book on tuesday night, they handed it to somebody. they read it overnight. yesterday morning when people walked into work at the white house, there were excerpts and certain people got complete chapters so that they would know what was going on even though jay carney said, no, i haven t really read it yet. they re throwing it at biden, maybe this is part of the strategy. focus on that and he ll take the hit perhaps in the mind of many. coming up, a principal said she was fired for protecting kids from humiliation. she fought against a policy requiring kids to get their hands stamped if they don t have the money for school lunch. we have both sides of this very controversial story coming up. and looking to buy a home this year? the rules are changing. but don t worry. bob massi is o
so devastating. president obama s first call to nouri maliki the year left was to say we re leaving. joe biden was supposed to handle t. it was september before we left in november. we re seeing the same pattern in afghanistan. we find out from the secretary of defense the president never believed in the strategy, felt like he boxed himself in. you factor all these things together, we re about to see possibly an announcement saying we would liked to have stayed in afghanistan and worked it out and make sure all the blood and money spent in that country wouldn t be turned over to the taliban but we couldn t work with their crazy president. there has been pressure to get this bilateral agreement done. carney said days ago this needs to speed up. to have this conversation again almost in a way that seems chronic as depicted from the gates book. to not have that communication in place