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still with us. this has been part of their strategy all along but especially today. from the top down, every top member of the president s war counsel, national security team saying it s coming. secretary blinken going to the united nations to just essentially almost say vladimir putin, we re watching you. we know what you re thinking. this latest phase of the ukraine conflict going on for years. you could argue even decades. this latest phase has already begun. we were seeing fighting between the united states and russia and what is concommonly called the administration phase. we know what you re doing. we know what you re thinking. we have visibility into your strategy here in ukraine. there s an argument. the russians made fun of it for saying the invasion would come yesterday on the 16th. the argument is, right, but when you tell them that you know when they re coming, that shapes their decision-making. it s not that it wasn t ever going to happen. it s that we think we dissuaded
is this a time to review what we can actually get done in afghanistan before we leave? because we re going to leave. no republican that i know of says stay there permanently. i think you re right, chris. i think the accident of the rolling stone article and the replacement of mcchrystal with petraeus, which is an ethical guy, is going to lead to, if not a war counsel by name, it s going to be an ongoing review of everything we re doing there over the next weeks and months. let me ask you this question i put to senator webb. who is running the show in this country and how is he doing? the president of the united states. let s use the business formula. he s ceo. he s the boss. with every organization you get a sense of how it works in the chain of command. you read the paper, you watch television, you get a sense of how he commands what s going on. okay, afghanistan. what s between the president and afghanistan? i didn t see jim jones there yesterday. he was called a clown in this ar
tod today. where that could leave tens of thousands of troops is still a mystery this morning. we re all over this developing story. barbara starr is standing by at the pentagon. first though suzanne malveaux live at the white house. oh, to be a fly on the wall at that meeting today, suzanne. well, john, kiran, there are two meetings we ll keep a very close eye on. one at 11:35 in the situation room involving the president, the vice president, obviously general mcchrystal who is going to go before secretaries clinton, gates, just a host of national security advisors, a team of war counsel that is going to be in that room and they ll be listening to what general mcchrystal has to say and explaining himself and criticism that came their way through his colleagues. the other meeting, the one-on-one with the president himself in the oval office. we have heard some very damning comments from various white house officials, including a spokesman for the president, robert gibbs, saying all