half earlier. the other problem is it s the same one that so many democrats and others had about iraq. they always wanted to set a date when we re going to leave and announce to the enemies and to al-qaeda and the taliban in afghanistan when we re going to leave. all they have o do is sit around and wait for that to happen. bret: rick, jennifer griffin reported according to one senior official that the announce am was supposed to be made in may at the nato ministerial actually in chicago and that it happened on the flight. grand pronouncement don t happen on a flight overseas on the way to something. i think this was more of an offhand comment that ended up revealing a lot about where the administration is headed. i think a policy hasn t been set yet, hasn t been agreed on even internally and there is going to be a lot of hashing out. it raises questions. what exactly we were talking about with the troops presence til the end of 2014 if this is no fighting going on in the middle
future. nuclear experts held three days of talks with iranians this week. also today, iran s parliament was present add new budget that reduces dependence on oil revenue, which are being threatened by a u.s. led boycott. syrian troops continue to pound away at resistants from antigovernment forces. leeland vitter shows us how dissidents are fighting against both the military and long odds. rebel gunners blazed away with a russian made armor personnel carrier as they tried to take out a army checkpoint. it s unclear if they captured the weaponry or if defecting soldiers brought it with them. for the first time in 11 months, fighters had something to hide behind as they took on president assad s forces. on mission is to protect homes, neighborhoods and response to the massacres by bashar s
to iran is planned for the near future. nuclear experts held three days of talks with iranians this week. also today, iran s parliament was present add new budget that reduces dependence on oil revenue, which are being threatened by a u.s. led boycott. syrian troops continue to pound away at resistants from antigovernment forces. leeland vitter shows us how dissidents are fighting against both the military and long odds. rebel gunners blazed away with a russian made armor personnel carrier as they tried to take out a army checkpoint. it s unclear if they captured the weaponry or if defecting soldiers brought it with them. for the first time in 11 months, fighters had something to hide behind as they took on president assad s forces. on mission is to protect homes, neighborhoods and response to the massacres by bashar s
conservative media as well. rush limbaugh. and people i know very well in this town and like who are criticizing him. you didn t have quite all of the statement. he not only said one, i m not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net and he went to say if it needs repair i will fix it. he went on to say what that includes in the safety net. food stamps and rent supplements. i think he said medicaid and mentioned several other programs. he said something that was just obvious. it may not have been the most artful way to say it. but to pretend that he said, i don t care about the poor, i m heartless, that s not at all what he said. but i ll say one thing, the media is quite capable of interpreting it that way even though that would be dishonest. look, i don t interpret it in that way. he wasn t saying i have no concern at all about poor people. but he spoke about them in terms which implies a kind of static
explaining away. bret: that s key point. this is a victory lap in the morning. it turned out to be a clean-up job in the afternoon. this was a down day for him for sure. and charles is right. romney just doesn t know how to he doesn t know the language, he doesn t know the tone to appeal to conservatives. i m talking about real conservatives, the majority of whom voted for newt gingrich overwhelmingly in south carolina, but in florida as well. romney has to appeal to them. these are the ground troops for any successful republican presidential campaign. they re the people who show up. they re the volunteers. they re several million volunteers who showed up for george w. bush in 2004 which allowed him to win. romney has to appeal to them. look, the truth is his statement was utterly defensible. he said something that s quite obvious, that s being overinterpreted by the main stream media, which doesn t like him, and then a lot of the