serious m serious businessman, if he s really trying to create a campaign for the president or looking to use this part of a maybe campaign as a publicity stunt because many of the things he has said, including on the birth certificate issue, simply are not anywhere close to reality. john, i want to bring back in our own dan lothian at the white house. dan, is there any concern at all, now that donald trump is claiming that he has credit for this, taking credit for all this and now bringing up additional questions about president obama s academic background, whether or not he got good enough grades to get into the ivy league school which we know patently is false. is there a worry at the white house that they have played into trump s hands here? i mean, can he ever really satisfy him or his critics? well, i think, you know, first of all, i don t think they feel concerned about playing into any sort of thing that donald trump may have been trying to spin. but the president admitted
one of the key issues there, how they can both get along with hamid karzai and improve that relationship over where it s been in the last year. all this shuffling taking place, is it going to impact our policy or even change our policy, when we would see a significant pullout for instance in afghanistan? if you started to see this change perhaps as early as this summer, i think president obama will want to get some of these nominations before congress in the next couple months. he s already said that he wants to start drawing down some of the troops in july. but that is one of the criticisms you re going to hear from some analysts in that buy choosing people from sort of within his administration already, that there s some unwillingness to really rethink american foreign policy, and whether general david petraeus who s been focussed on improving
squeezed under the bridge. the water is so high, authorities may blow up a leave to ease the pressure. a shooter opened fire at kabul airport today, killing nine people, six of them u.s. troops. now officials say an afghan military pilot started shooting after he got into an argument with the troops. the taliban claimed that the shooter was an insurgent who infiltrated the afghan military, but nato says that is not the case. new assignment now for key players inside the obama administration. president obama is expected to announce tomorrow that he is moving cia director leon panetta to the pentagon as defense secretary. general david petreaus will replace panetta. americans need to think long and hard for taking a trip to mexico. the state department has now