he was reluctant to do that, or even the iranian revolutionary guard or his comments about israel which i found quite disturbing. when he goes on to say that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people and in the case of brennan, he s got issues involving the holyland case where one of these hamas guys actually got into our national security center. when you read those things, nothing your background and knowing our enemy, what do you think? well, i think that, first, i don t judge the president s cabinet selections in quite the same way some people do by policy. i really think the most important thing, does the president trust them. s got to form a team. the president s ultimately going to be responsible for the direction in which the administration goes. the cabinet has got to be a cohesive team that operates together. i think it s extraordinarily important that they have bonds
or even the iranian revolutionary guard or his comments about israel which i found quite disturbing. when he goes on to say that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people and in the case of brennan, he s got issues involving the holyland case where one of these hamas guys actually got into our national security center. when you read those things, nothing your background and knowing our enemy, what do you think? well, i think that, first, i do president s cabinet selections in quite the same way some people do by policy. i really think the most important thing, does the president trust them. s got to form a team. the president s ultimately going to be responsible for the direction in which the administration goes. the cabinet has got to be a cohesive team that operates together. i think it s extraordinarily important that they have bonds
and also, being held up by all this is cabinet selections. the president the white house has just done something they did not do really very effectively for susan rice, at least. they ve jay carney at the briefing came to the defense of chuck hagel who has not been nominated, but is under fierce attack from opponents of his policies, his past votes on the iraq surge, on iran sanctions, on support for israel. he very close to the president, member of the president s foreign intelligence advisory board, a possible contender for secretary of defense. yeah. this is remarkable, and it s going to be at least a while. i would think at least december 27th until they name someone for the pentagon. this is going to continue for a little while longer. this is amazing. jay carney on camera this morning and politico playbook, the administration saying to me that chuck hagel could walk into the pentagon, have instabt credibility, saying the attack on him for being anti-israel are patently un
since you re two of the smartest people i know in washington, where do we stand on cabinet selections and, you know, the foreign policy team. we saw this joking moment, let me replay it, a news conference to push the u.n. treaty on disabilities which which is going to may fail. which is unbelievable since america has been very surprising. way out front since the days of bush 41 and tom harken was the big bob dole. and john mccain today made a plea for bob dole who is in walter reed he wants to see this great moment, a worldwide standard, it would be good for business, but as you pointed out on the daily rundown today, the chamber of commerce supports this, selling wheelchairs around the world. and here, it s stalemate. it needs two-thirds, more than 60. this is a treaty. because it has u.n. attached to it going to say it s brand, it s about brand. at that moment with mccain and john kerry because of foreign relations issue and this
your mind about it? sure. she can i give everyone the benefit of explaining their position and the actions that they took. and i ll be glad to have the opportunity to discuss these issues with her. she could conceivably get your vote for secretary of state? i think she deserves the ability and the opportunity to explain herself and her position. the white house says no decisions have been made as far as cabinet selections for the president s second term. and john heilemann, part of what you wrote about this, the bottom line is, you can t see a reality in which they would fight susan rice s nomination. i just don t. every indication every piece of available evidence suggests that the president wants her in this job. and every piece of available evidence increasingly is that republicans recognize that there is plenty of substance to criticize in terms of what happened in benghazi. there are a lot of unanswered questions. we ve said this on the show for the last week. but th