election year and a way to try to get folks on the left back on his side when it comes to foreign policy. martha: we ll see what he says this morning. chris, thank you very much. reporter: the head of the house armed services committee buck mckeen, one of the many critics of the plan saying quote holding this mission to an arbitrary egg timer doesn t make a lick of sense strategically. buck mckeon is with us next. . this is his view of the world and his view of how he sees america s view in the world. martha: a scathing editorial in the post saying you took the troops to zero in iraq and look what happened. you said we wouldn t allow the red line to be crossed in syria
an investigation into itself. the issue, how a cia top agent in afghanistan was exposed during the president s surprise trip to the country. now the agent s top secret and dangerous mission could be in jeopardy. cnn s my zell kosinski is at the white house more. how can the white house investigate itself and what does it think it can find? hi, chris. at first the white house didn t have comment about this incident but now it s announced the chief of staff has asked white house council to thoroughly look at how this happened and look at the processes involved and then make recommendations so that it doesn t happen again. what we do know about how it happened was that a pool reporter who was covering the president s trip to afghanistan had asked a white house staffer for a list of people who would be briefing the president. standard practice. that staffer asked the military for a full list. and somehow on that list was the name and title of the top cia officer in afghanistan. it was th
you re going to continue to hear. i think to paul s point, also, i think many of the wes from folks up on capitol hill not only on the national security side but the intelligence side, is that enough of an infrastructure to support intelligence operations related to our national security objectives there with al qaeda and other terrorist organizations around the globe. so again, this is it is i think it is a welcome step, i think, paul would as paul would argue, by a very war weary nation but does it achieve objectives. what does the president say, paul, to the criticism of the kind of arbitrary timeline? the suggestion that the president is basing the timeline for withdrawal on politics rather than conditions on the ground? buck mckeenan to the new york times saying holding this mission to an arbitrary egg timer doesn t make a lick of sense. kevin talk about senators mccain, graham, saying that his withdrawal of u.s. troops in afghanistan is a monumental
this morning, i did ask him about edward snowden and now he how he s changed the way the u.s. intelligence community does business. do you believe weed be having the discussion we re having about privacy, a public debate that we re having now without the edward snowden disclosures? i m confident we would be having it because the president of the united states personally made a commitment to try to deal with the issue of privacy, has felt very concerned about america s posture with respect to not just privacy but also secrecy and has undertaken to try to address it. you don t think edward snowden deserves any credit for this? would it have risen to quite the level, chuck? no, obviously he s put on the table a greater degree of insight than would have existed, but that doesn t mean the debate wouldn t have taken place. but more importantly, much more importantly, what he s done is hurt his country. what he s done is expose for
incident is being investigated the president s speech is expected to counter the unrelenting criticism of his foreign policy that s taking place in congress. senators graham, mccain and ayotte called it a triumph of politics over policy. house armed services chairman buck mckeon who is retiring this year said holding this mission to an egg timer doesn t make a lick of sense strategically. the war on terror will not be won on the defensive we must take the battle to the enemy, confront his plans and thwart