The establishment and prevent the next insurgent, rand paul, say, in 2016 . Good morning from washington. Its thursday, january 24th, 2013. This is the daily rundown. Im chuck todd. Apologies for the gravelly voice. I have beyonces lip syncer standing by, shall i need her. Anyway, lets get right to my first reads of the morning. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton will be back on the hill today for what is likely to be her last appearance before congress as americas top diplomat. Shell introduce her likely successor, senator john kerry, whose confirmation begins just about an hour from now. Three weeks after her release from a New York Hospital after a concussion and a blood clot, clinton jousted with republicans and basked in the praise from most democrats. In more than five hours of grueling testimony at times, yesterday on both sides of capitol hill, on her handling of the benghazi attack. The testimony wasnt just the last impression clinton will leave with the public as secretary of
Open layup. It is thursday, january 24th, and this is now. Joining me today assistant managing editor of Fortune Magazine lee gallagher, and New York Times columnist frank brunhy. This morning senator john kerry spent an hour on the other side of the panel he chairs. The Senate Foreign relations committee. In his confirmation hearing for swuf state, kerry sat in the same room where a day before the committee grilled secretary of state Hillary Clinton about benghazi. Kerry didnt exactly face the same firepower. I look at you in being nominated for this as someone who has almost lived their entire life, if you will, for this moment of being able to serve in this capacity. Xhind his nomination to you without reservation. Ill have some questions later on policies and your views, including how you explain to World Leaders how you could have been rooting for the Boston Red Sox instead of what the world knows as the yankees as the team of the world. I dont want this to affect your questions,
Take office as secretary proud that the senate is in my blood. But equally proud that so, too, is the foreign service. This comes less than 24 hours after Hillary Clinton spent five and a half hours testifying before the senate in the morning and the house in the afternoon. Wow. From the start, shortly after 9 00 in the morning, to the end at 5 00 in the afternoon, the benghazi testimony rain the gamut from the emotional for me its not just a policy matter but personal. I stood next to president obama as the marines took those flagdraped caskets at andrews. I put my arms around the fathers and mothers, sisters and daughters and the wives left alone to raise their children. To the confrontational. We were misled that there was supposedly protests and then something sprang out of that. And that was easily ascertained that was not the fact and the American People could have known that within days. With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead americans. Was it because of a protest or
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To me. I was responding to a question soledad. I probably speculated and i shouldnt have. The doosydoo. We begin with a state of transition for American Foreign policy as senator john kerry faces a highstakes Job Interview to be the secretary of state. Kerrys confirmation hearings were rather cordial hosted by the Foreign Relations committee which hes led for the past four years. But it was an unexpected moment when the hearings were interrupted by a protester that offered perhaps the most telling revelation about the man and the moment. Im tired of my friends dying. I dont know if theyre going to be alive the next day. When i first came to washington and testified, i obviously was testifying as part of a group of people who came here to have their voices heard, and that is, above all, what this place is about. People measure what we do. Kerrys confirmation hearing today comes a day after secretary Hillary Clinton stood her ground offering a robust defense of her handling of those atta