memorial day. on this national holiday, a heavy rush of politics. sarah palin s mystery tour rolled into town. we don t know when she will appear because her aides will not tell us. her stops included ft. mchenry and she s being cagey on the subject of whether it s a rolling civic lesson or a 2012 campaign. i believe there are many more people out there to add. competition breeds success. i would hope that there is going to be debate. also this day, president obama leads the traditional wreath laying at arlington national cemetery and announces a major change in his national security team. with america fighting three wars, we ll explain whether the new war council signals a new approach. i m announcing my choice for the successors today because it transition must be seamless and we stay focused on the security challenges before us. but, first up, like it or not, she s back. sarah palin is on a bus tour that mixes landmarks of america s past and battlegrounds of her po
yet with respect to anybody else. my supposition is somebody knew. chris: defense secretary gates today in his first news conference since the bin laden raid expressing his thoughts about pakistani protection over the years for the al-qaeda leader. we re back now with the panel. a.b. while gates expressed some suspicion about the pakistanis, he does not support the idea of cutting off aid to that government. saying they have already paid a high price. let s watch. if i where are in pakistani s shoes, i would say i already paid a price. i have been humiliated. i ve been shown that the americans can come in here and do this with impunity. we have to be i think we have to recognize that they see a cost in that. price that has been paid.
today. mr. bush declined though he s expected to return to ground zero, for the ten-year remembrance, and mr. clinton had a scheduling conflict, back here in washington, and we know vice president joe biden, defense secretary gates and former defense secretary donald rumsfeld will have a similar quiet remembrance, at the ground zero rather the pentagon, memorial as well. back to you. alisyn: mike emanuel, thank you so much for that information and we ll let our viewers know, that you can see the president lay the wreath at ground zero, live, right here, of course on fox news, set for 1:25, p.m., eastern. and we re also getting new reactions from afghanistan, hundreds gathering in kabul and around this country e country tr top leaders speak about that. conor powell is streaming live from kabul, afghanistan. reporter: afghans long feared america s commitment to rebuilding afghanistan is not as firm as u.s. officials have said. afghans are keenly aware
team is a known quantity. they have worked together and it s interesting because i think leon panetta was the choice of the outgoing defense secretary gates. so, they are both known as being more pragmatic than ideological. all of these people are very easily confirmable. i think with the administration was looking for was more continuity than anything else. bring in some new blood because not everything is going that well on the national security front now, why not bring in some new thing? it is clear, need decision to make and they decided to go with the people they know because they want some continuity because they want people there at the beginning of certain decisions to decide what happens at the other end. no doubt leon panetta s major challenge will be to take that, what 6 or $700 billion a year pog budget and start chopping tens and tense and tens of billions of dollars. as you know, this is a man with one of the most extensive
and will continue to climb with commodity prices and that could derail the economy and send it back into potential double dip recession. shepard: thank you, peter, from the fox business network. great to see you. two big stories from the white house, one big story and one big load of mess. from word that major changes in store for the country s national security team. that is news. we have been reported the c.i.a. director will replace the retiring defense secretary gates and general petraeus will give up command of the war in afghanistan and take over as the c.i.a. that plus this morning, the president came to the microphone and released another version of the birth certificate proving . which he had done . he is a natural born american citizen. it is wednesday, and now to the fox news political analyst for wednesday s with juan. well, i hope everyone is happy,