officials. most importantly about president hamid karzai of afghanistan. much to talk about there. of course the u.s. has a huge human and monetary investment in that country, something that the president really, as we like to say in the news business, owns at this point because he has sent tens of thousands of troops to afghanistan and the campaign he said continually that afghanistan is the real place where the war on terror is taking place. so he now owning that war and now for the first time as president visiting afghanistan to talk with officials there. i want to bring back in both our correspondents, beginning with kate baldwin who is here with me in washington. kate, we were talking about some of these new numbers that we've been seeing in our polls, very recent polls, as a matter of fact. interesting to me, as you cited, that the number of people who now favor the war in afghanistan at 48%, opposed 49%. clearly a country that's very split, but that's a big