Congress. And the republican ruckus over karl roves conservative counterstrategy is reaching a bit of a fever pitch. But is the core of this fight really about the messengers or the message itself . Good morning from washington and happy valentines day. Its thursday, february 14th, 2013. This is the daily rundown. Im chuck todd. Lets get right to my first reads of the morning. It may be valentines day, but not a lot of love for chuck hagel. Next week a nato meeting of defense ministers is scheduled in brussels. But given the way chuck hagels nomination is going, its possible the u. S. May not have a new defense secretary there or leon panetta may be forced to go there steed. Yesterday, the senate began the odd procedural dance that is required for cloture, the process for ending senate debate. Nomination, department of defense, Charles Timothy hagel of nebraska, to be secretary of defense. Mr. President , i sent a cloture motion to the desk and ask the clerk to report. This is the firs
And doubts than confidence. Hagel, the former will you be pick an senator declined for appear to struggle in explaining decisions. Were right . I would defer in your judgment to sort that out. The committee deserves your judgment. Republicans have sought to link confirmation to continued questions over the benghazi attack. White house responded to questions in a letter today while democrats tried to be opponents. We got a car going on in afghanistan. We need to have a secretary of defense in place. We need to get on and approve the nomination so he can get on with his duties as secretary of defense. But with the vote complete Senate Majority leader harry reed has announced a final vote a week from tuesday setting up an event show case with republicans if they decide to try and block it. We went on to blast republicans on hagels nomination. A move he described as president s pick. Only five republican votes to secure the 60 needed. Usually get a lot on the house. Dont hear in the senate
And watching on your big screen, how big on your goldstream, how big is the hdtv . 40 inches or so . This joke has been running for five years. I think its time to debunk it. It never gets old. It doesnt get old to you . Funny thing is, youre the elitist. Thats what ive learned today. Whatd you learn . Zing youre pretty good at calling out people. I learned that i learned that, lets see, Wayne Lapierre is extreme on guns and paul krugman is extreme on debt. They sort of occupy their own alternative universeses and the question is whether the republicans are going to have the guts to stand up to lapierre and whether democrats will be Strong Enough to walk away from krugman. But well see what happens. If its way too early, what time is it . Its time for morning joe. Tell us. Its time for morning joe, but now its time for the daily rundown with chuck todd. Have a great day. Happy valentines day the posturing around chuck hagels nomination for a defense secretary, well, its getting murkier
That meteor shower is not the only thing thats being watched in the sky today. Thats right. Scientists are tracking an asteroid that will come closer to earth than any other asteroid ever recorded. It will only be 17,000 miles away from our planet. Well talk about that coming up throughout the Morning Hours. For tucker well cover that at 6 45. Its amazing when you see those pictures, i dont remember hearing a lot of talk, a lot of chatter about that in the days leading up to that. What happened in russia . Yeah. Thats because nobody saw it coming. That explains it. Thats incredible. We got questions for greg later on. It happens occasionally. Greg will talk about it. Lets talk weather. A lot going on here. This morning were fine, its quiet and cold, 37 at Reagan National, and bwi marshall has dipped below the freezing mark at 31. There might be some frost on your windshield this morning. Hi it on mine, so be ready for that. You might need an extra minute to scrape. Otherwise all the ro
That. Ive started to notice what love really means. [ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. It is thursday, february 14. Here we are on the full court press on current tv. Coming to you all the way across this great land of ours and thursday, february 14. You know what that means. It is valentines day. You have to admit republicans sure have strange ways of showing their love. Theyre showing their love for chuck hagel by filibustering his nomination. Now theyre showing their love for americas children by refusing to endorse universal preschool. Their showing their love for workers by refusing to raise the minimum wage. Theyre showing their love for all americans by refusing to accept a reasonable compromise to avoid the sequester. In other words they dont love any of us. They hate us all thats their valentines day message. All right. Well expand on that and a whole lot more on todays full court press. But today, we get the latest, the current news update from Lisa Ferguson out in l