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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101216:14:47:00

But when you see president obama s strategy originally implemented by then nato commander general stanley mcchrystal, this counterinsurgency strategy, the strategy to go with the people of afghanistan to try to win their support, there have been bits of improvement, and this year in particular, 2010, the focus has been on kandahar province. this time last year i went inside the city of kandahar. it was a pretty scary experience. had you to be on guard everywhere you went have security with you. from what i m hearing on the ground in kandahar city, at least, the security situation has improved. the surrounding areas, bit by bit, day by day, there are still attacks going on in the province. there are still ieds laid out by the insurgency killing american soldiers, but at the same time it s better than it was earlier this summer. but that being said, and i think we re going to hear from president obama in his ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101216:14:46:00

Being made, vice president joe biden tells andrea mitchell. two overarching goals, defeat and derail central al qaeda located in afghanistan and pakistan in those mountains that, where they adjoin as well as protecting and making sure that nuclear security of pakistan is assured. they are overwhelmingly in the naked self-interests of the american people. the president is not going to continue a policy that he doesn t think in fact is going to accomplish both of those goals. jim miklaszewski is nbc news chief pernt correspondent and live in kabul, and i want to start in kabul, tia, give us, you ve been there for months now. do you see a better security situation today than when you got there this last time in your assignment? reporter: chuck, i ve been here two years now, and i have to tell you, there have been changes. some for the better. 13 some for the worse. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101216:14:13:00

Improving and starting to reinstate some employee benefits. a good picture for the american worker as well. back to you. becky thank you. well, coming up, with the clock running down on congress busy agenda, what are the ish issues the american people care most about? we ll dig deeper in the nbc news/ wall street journal poll with our pollsters. in a year where bipartisanship seems like a four-letter word, the worst moment from congress in 2010? get excited. the chuvannah awards for capitol hill low lives coming up. a lot of nominees here. first a look ahead at the president s schedule. 12:05 eastern, the 11:45 statement from the president, also secretary of state hillary clinton, defense secretary robert gates and general cartwright and robert gibbs, all there. a good time in the briefing room talking about the afghanistan strategy. you re watching the daily ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101216:14:22:00

Afghanistan rises up pretty, to a high level, and you know, we ve just went through one campaign where foreign policy was not part of the conversation as all, but that may not be the case in 2012. people forget it was foreign policy that actually got barack obama in this nomination. if i were a liberal democrat and said the president, still in afghanistan did not close guantanamo, made a deal on taxes. it s not hard to run a primary pap primer that wins? i don t know. from my party, looking at the democrat side, that s a 30%, 35% votes in the primary as a protest vote. it could be a real pain for the president. a real issue to watch. great to have our pollsters here to break doin the numbers. thank you. still ahead, what s the bottom line from the white house s big strategy review on afghanistan? saying anything about troops leaving this upcoming summer. and the chuvannah continues. cue the music. capitol hill, you made this category easy. we will honor the worst moment ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20101216:14:34:00

Thursday. the house will vote today on the obama tax compromise after the measure sailed try the senate yesterday by an 81-19 vote. republicans and democrats agreed to extend the bush era tax rates where all americans and passed an extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed goes to the house now. and the war in afghanistan concluding the u.s. is on track too begin withdrawing surged forces in july but the scope and pace of that withdrawal still uncertain. we re going to have more on the afghanistan report just ahead this half hour. the legal fight over health care reform shifts to a florida courtroom today days after a judge in virginia ruled parts of the new law unsons touche. attorneys from 20 states and the justice department will present arguments. at issue, whether be exceeds the law of federal power. and new details about the plan who opened fire at a florida school board meeting this week before turning the gun on himself. police say clay duke was an ex-con ....

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