clear all options are on the table as far as deploying and keeping a u.s. military presence in afghanistan following the supposed complete withdrawal at the end of this year. he did outline some additional steps, the u.s. military, nato allies and north american console are getting ready to take to assure friendly countries, nato allies, that the u.s. is there, that nato is there to help them in the face of what you just heard, general dempsey call, russian aggression in the ukraine. we are going to get back to that story. a lot more coming up. major developments and we are getting ready to hear from the secretary of state, john kerry, himself. we just -- i just wanted to quickly update you on what happened, an important moment up on capitol hill. a real bitter exchange between republicans and democrats involving an irs official, lois lerner, who appeared before the