okay. jonathan, what do you think? chuck hagel, does he get nominated? and if he does, is all the political capital that the president may have to use to get this done, is it worth it? absolutely worth it. this is an outrage what s going on now. it used to be until very recently unless there was a corruption issue or an issue of gross personal malfeasance, a character issue, the president was assumed to get the team that he wanted. there used to be before this hyperpartisan atmosphere you had to have real reasons to oppose, much less filibuster the president s choice, whoever the president was. so when the congressman says we re in uncharted territory, he s right. we re in a materiality where you have people who ve never served in combat, who don t have any idea what it s like to actually be in a war, telling the country that they know better than a highly decorated vietnam veteran who also has a lot of experience
i usually wear one ifb earpiece. this is double fisting. double earring if you were. you put it behind you. but in both ears. that way you won t hear you only hear brian williams in here and your producer, don t hear these guys. i have not had it. it just arrived yesterday. so the next time you see me at one of those. talk about your wife. a newlywed you are because you were just married less than a year ago, so you re technically a newlywed. can i show you a little picture? of course. you can brag. allison. she s beautiful. she s a sweetie. i love her. we parallel parked our wedding between two of the primaries during the romney campaign. this is a picture on the back of us with this is funny. the obamas. the first time i d ever met the president. and she said hey, mr. president, s in my husband, he s the new white house correspondent for nbc. i was like baby, you don t need to it s okay, you don t need to do this. and we wrote just met the neighbors. it s al
parliamentary. it s a difficult fit. and it s got to the president has got to sit down and try to resolve this. it works both sides. i don t know which side started this, but it seems to be getting worse every congress. jonathan, isn t the point of a cabinet pick to work with the president to help further his agenda? i mean, that s what it is. you may have differences with that but you may take up those differences while working with that person, that cabinet member on the hill or elsewhere. i mean, isn t that what a cabinet member is? yes. and we just had an election. and elections have consequences, alex. and i think the congressman is absolutely right that we are now drifting toward a parliamentary system. but we don t have a parliamentary system. we have a different system. and in our system the results of the election are meaningful. and the results of this election should suggest to democrats and republicans that the president,
approval in advance. it s usually been the rule, if the president s going to be in charge of the government we have to give him the people he wants to run it. but republicans seem to be against every single person that he has nominated. can you be for senator hagel? i mean, in some ways he was the chairman of your co-chair of your campaign in 2000. he would seem to be your kind of guy. a veteran. a guy who s been shot at he s a veteran. he s a friend. and by the way, in this process usually with previous presidents, both republican and democrat, when they re considering nominations they call in the other side and say the key members on the other party and say i m thinking about nominating mr. x, what do you think about it? there s been none of that with this administration. the gop opposition to these cabinet nominations also comes amid some calls for filibuster reform to make it more difficult
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