flynn is right with them. he leads this team in assist department. he has a variety of ways he can hurt you. he has to cut down on the turnovers. that's been a problem. again he is one of these guys that can hurt new a variety of ways. he has help. al jefferson leads the team in kevin love has been setting the league on fire. he has been averaging over 14 rebounds a league. he would be leading the league for rebounds if he qualified for it. the wizards looking for their welcome home, man. >> steve: christmastime in minute. very familiar surrounding fourth new washington coach. that is the topic we have coming up for you. >> flip saunders returns to the place where he began his nba coaching career. a span that reached 13 years and had them winning almost 50% of his games. he was a high school all american in cleveland, ohio. he was ohio's player of the year. he played with great nba stars. he has spent nine years coaching with the timberwolves. his record as nba coach ranks near the top. our four have a higher

flynn is fouled by butler. on caron that's his third personal. >> phil: watch him keep the ball on his right side and gets contact. he nearly got the basket. >> steve: timberwolves average about 15.5 points fast break points in the game. it's the second chance points that have hurt, 10 for minnesota and two for the wizards. large effort lead of the game for minnesota. eight points. arenas from 15, good. 11 points for gilbert. 5-11 from the field p5 rebounds, six assists, but four turnovers. >> phil: gilbert pulled up for the wide open short jumper. >> steve: jefferson guarded closely by lay. two seconds to shoot. way short. brendan has his rebound. that's his 9th of the game. gilbert again and he hits another. 6-12 from the field and 13 points for arenas. eight-point lead cut in half. brewer is called for traveling. >> phil: he saw something, he wasn't watching the footwork of brewer. but no doubt in his mind. >> steve: sixth turnover for minnesota. they had five in the first half. gilbert again, now he is hot.

i've got one of my two aides, and then my executive officer, colonel charlie flynn. >> general, thank you. >> general mcchrystal, when you answered some questions from representative mckeon, you talked about your force planning and assessment of criteria, continually doing so. when president obama as commander in chief stated in march that our real goal here was al qaeda in pakistan, and then one of his three objectives was our partnership with pakistan, as you came up with your forces, was that part of the benchmarks for determining the proper number of troops? >> most of our assessment was -- for forces was what we recommended for inside afghanistan to create conditions that would be complementary to progress inside pakistan. so i think i'm answering your question here, we did not shape our forces for anything inside pakistan. >> so the 35,000 taliban that are in pakistan were not part of your assess the of how many troops you might need to take care of those key population centers, even though the border is not recognized? >> not for operations inside pakistan. the forces we need i

this is part of my personal staff, of course i've got colonel charlie flynn, who's a u.s. army officer, cristof my german aide. i have two aids, one american, one german. bill raferty is a planner a british officer, another allied officer from the u.s. navy greg smith runs our communications jake mcfaren is our political adviser in the headquarters, casey welsh is my other aide, american aide. hi 27 months in iraq before he came to afghanistan with only five months off between those two deployments and then dave silverman works in my personal staff obviously another naval officer. >> great. thank you very much. we'll begin our questioning now and i'm first going to recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. green, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you for continuing the hearing and i want to thank both ambassador eikenberry and general mcchrystal for what you do and your leadership you're doing for our young men and women not only serving in the in military but obviously in the civilian side, having been the embassy in afghanistan a couple times and been

this is part of my personal staff, of course i've got colonel charlie flynn, who's a u.s. army officer, cristof my german aide. i have two aids, one american, one german. bill raferty is a planner a british officer, another allied officer from the u.s. navy greg smith runs our communications jake mcfaren is our political adviser in the headquarters, casey welsh is my other aide, american aide. hi 27 months in iraq before he came to afghanistan with only five months off between those two deployments and then dave silverman works in my personal staff obviously another naval officer. >> great. thank you very much. we'll begin our questioning now and i'm first going to recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. green, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you for continuing the hearing and i want to thank both ambassador eikenberry and general mcchrystal for what you do and your leadership you're doing for our young men and women not only serving in the in military but obviously in the civilian side, having been the embassy in afghanistan a couple times and been