Hello and welcome to another episode of Best of the Left Podcast.

Today we have clips from Ring of Fire, The Daily Show, The Young Turks, Sam Seater,

Eisenhower Speech, Bill Marr, and Rachel Maddo.

Next week, the House of Representatives will be interviewing General David Petraeus once again

to evaluate just how successful Bush's troop search has really been.

Joining me now to talk about this is Congressman Adam Smith from Washington.

He serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

He's also the chair on Armed Services of the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities Subcommittee.

Congressman Adam Smith, welcome to Ring of Fire.

Thanks for having me on, I appreciate it.

I know which Washington you prefer.

The one on the better coast.

The better weather, mountains, water, all kinds of cool stuff.

The process, you know, it's where I grew up.

Well, you are back to work this week and a lot of things are happening after this recess.

First among them that people are focusing on is General David Petraeus returning to make another report

about the progress in Iraq.

What do you expect him to say and what's your view of where we are today?

Well, I expect him to say, you know, things not terribly different than what he said last September.

You know, the search is working. It needs more time.

We can't draw down now because if we did disaster would strike.

I think that's a pretty good summary of what he's going to say.

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