a withdrawal timetable and the strategy to end the longest running war in our country s history. joining us now, john kerry. senator kerry, good to have you. welcome back to meet the press. thank you, david. good to be here. when you see news like this, when you hear of the loss of life among our soldiers, is your reaction what are we still doing here or is it are we doing everything we need to do to beat al qaeda, not the taliban? my first reaction, david, and i m sure john mccain is at an extraordinary sense of loss and sense of gratitude for their quality of sacrifice and service. our hearts go out to their families. i think john and i join every american as if we have lost a member of our family. the first thought is sadness and
40,000 troop level, and the need that he felt for an exit strategy led him to proclaim according to this book to lindsay fwra ham i can t lose the whole democratic party and that s one of the criticisms they re getting at the white house, there was too much politics involved in the decision-making process. exactly and to that point, thank you so much, mike viqueira. the book grapples with how the president was trying to walk the tight rope between the military s demands for more troops and growing opposition from the democratic base to the war in afghanistan and setting a withdrawal timetable as mike pointed out said to senator graham i can t let this be a war without end and i can t lose the whole democratic party. joining now a man with political experience writing tell-alls, the coauthor of game change john heileman. there are more details from the point where game change ends, when they went into this afghan