to prevent a revival of the taliban and the kind of collapse of central authority that we re seeing in iraq. they d rather see a 20,000-person force. buck mckeon says the troops should stay until the job is done. in a written statement he said, quote, holding the mission to an arbitrary egg timer doesn t make sense strategically. the president s plans depend upon afghanistan s new president agreeing to the deal, which outgoing president hamid karzai backed away from. both of the candidates in a june 14th run-off election said they will sign it. wendell goler live at the white house. we ve learned the president did speak to ckarzai in afghanistan this morning. that could have had a lot to do with what his comments will be later on, in about 43 minutes from now, the president is going to announce the troop drawdowns and his plans moving forward with troops in afghanistan. keep it right here.
afghanistan now because his identity is well-known? well, you ll understand that i can t comment on the details but you can rest assured that the security of this person is foremost in our minds, will be taken care of. can you tell us who made the mistake? where the blunder occurred? the chief of staff, dennis mcdonough asked our white house counsel, neil to look into this, to figure out what happened, and to make sure it doesn t happen again. tony blinken at the white house. interviewed a short time ago on cnn about this outing of the cia s station chief. essentially the top man in afghanistan. the story came out because it was in a release put out by two of to the white house press pool and released after several checks to thousands of journalists on that email list, i was one of them. he we are back with our panel. steve, how big a deal is this? well, taps very big deal, but i m not sure why you need an investigation there are two questions here. who did it and why didn t