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All three newscasts kicked off with highlights from the Capitol Hill hearings into the President's Afghanistan policy. NBC used its Congressional correspondent Kelly O'Donnell. ABC and CBS both covered the hearings from the White House, with Jake Tapper and Chip Reid respectively. NBC's O'Donnell decided that the crucial angle was not the extra deployment but its eventual termination. The big question at the hearings was: "When can they come home?" She noted that Secretary Gates "seemed to contradict himself," answering that the US military will begin its pullout in July 2001 and at other times that he would evaluate whether such a transition was possible this time next year.
Unidentified sources at the White House told ABC's Tapper that there was no maybe about it: "The surge will create the conditions where 170,000 Afghan troops can be trained by July 2011, a point at which US troops can begin to withdraw." Unnamed critics of the troop reinforcement--identified by CBS' Reid as "anti-war Democrats"--scoffed: "With or without a timeline some troops will be there longer than anyone in the administration has admitted," they predicted.
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