word. i think it s really unfortunate for her. i don t think senators are crazy in my experience, so i ve been theorizing this is about opening up the secretary of state job for john kerry, so if they then reopen a massachusetts senate seat r for scott brown. is that your sense of the game that s being played? i have no idea. you are much more mcvalue yan thinking than am. coming up, we ll find out about ari melber and guess who s coming to dinner? mitt romney s last chance to get into the white house is coming up.
we want someone of independence. okay, ari, that s bob corker lying about these mythical standards of secretary of state. said she campaigned for george w. bush. this is crazy stuff they re talking and. condoleezza rice after stanford was a political adviser to w. bush an it s not a problem as long as you take the role seriously. the expectation about what you do once in office. i think it s sad, also, a misunderstanding of the senate s role what some of these republican senators are saying. they have a role to they don t have a role to block and filibuster endlessly. when they have tried to block nominee, it has boom ranged on them. that s why now in the senate because they played so many games thwarting the nomination. she knocked one of their colleagues out. i don t think that is the same situation here.
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today, republican senators continued to try to open up the massachusetts senate seat that scott brown could run for. i think john kerry would be an excellent appointment and would be easily confirmed by his colleagues. if the president wants an easy confirmation hearing and process, nominate john kerry, who is imminently qualified to be secretary of state and i believe he would sail through in the nominating process. joining me now, ari mel ber. ari, you re coming to us tonight from kerry country, boston and i ve got to think this is a horrible moment for senator kerry. you don t want to be the guy who gets praise from the mindless attackers of susan rice. yeah, i don t think he wants any part of this very weird boomerang play the republicans are trying to practice. he knows her well because as
and of course, this decision about my successor is up to the president. today, republican senators continued to try to open up the massachusetts senate seat that scott brown could run for. i think john kerry would be an excellent appointment and would be easily confirmed by his colleagues. if the president wants an easy confirmation hearing and process, nominate john kerry, who is imminently qualified to be secretary of state and i believe he would sail through in the nominating process. joining me now, ari mel ber. ari, you re coming to us tonight from kerry country, boston and i ve got to think this is a horrible moment for senator kerry. you don t want to be the guy who gets praise from the mindless attackers of susan rice. yeah, i don t think he wants