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President Obama Delivers His Weekly Address

Washington, DC
Saturday, January 12, 2013

President Obama delivers his weekly address, focusing this week on ending the war in Afghanistan and turning attention to infrastructure improvements in the United States.

The President met with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Friday to discuss the drawdown of the war, and to lay the foundation for an American-Afghan relationship in the post-war years. No announcement on troop levels following the 2014 withdrawal is expected from this meeting.

Updated: Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 10:56am (ET)

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