the mayor of chicago and assistant mayor in new york have a right to say to gun companies, hey, we re not going to do business with you unless you change some of your policies. heather: we have to wrap it up. and personal security, if it is good enough for us, it is good enough for them. heather: thank you for joining us. gregg: angry young men, it s all my fault. chuck hagel is under fire for members of his own party. facing a barrage of tough questions to be the next secretary of defense. how many senators will vote to confirm. our political insiders are here to weigh in. look what mommy is having. mommy s having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could ve had a v8. 100% vegetable juice,
message, no. feelings that several people had said the church needs to be making greater effort to ensure abuse cases on this scale don t happen again and if the cases do, the church needs to be much more transparent. heather: thank you, dominic, from los angeles. gregg: chuck hagel getting grilled during the confirmation hearings to be our next secretary of defense. some of the most intense questions coming from fellow republicans who didn t exactly treat him with kid gloves. listen to this exchange with senator john mccain. will you answer the question, please. were you correct or incorrect when you said that the surge blunder in thist dangerous country since vietnam. correct or incorrect? yes-or-no answer. my reference to .
recommendations. thef been agreed to by hillary clinton, by the president, by a number of people. we re not really at this point getting a lot new information. what is being lost in the context lindsay graham s request to have another hearing with will have papa. it s supposed leon panetta. there is a lot of questions we can ask hagel. we can ask him about the upcoming military budget cuts or the drawdown in afghanistan. it seems as though that republicans are focused on embarrassing the president and making an example out of the benghazi attack. heather: do you agree with that. do you think it will go differently? look, fortifying our embassies and protecting our personnel in clearly hostile areas does not require a political decision. it requires a decision based on reason.
spoke with our own megyn kelly and had this to say. this industry is got a hold of this situation. i m saying that the parent, too. my child walks the street of new york city. we can t have weapons available on the open market that could do such horrible damage and as public officials if we didn t use tools at our disposal there would be something wrong with us. heather: joining us is ellen ratnor and mary walter, talk show host. so this the right direction to go. i ll start with you? it s the only direction to go. you know in the 1960s when there was so much apart tied going on, students protested and they had companies getting rid of their stock holdings in south africa. that is the only thing that can sometimes work. she is equating the second
younger workers and having them as a resource is the best thing for the economy. it depends, though, when the trend will reverse on the economy itself. at this point, there are some things that are looking month positive but there are a lot of negatives. we saw in the 4th quarter, g.d.p. which is the broad of the measure of the economy is in decline. we could be in another recession if that happens. heather: the employment numbers released on friday, 156,000 new jobs which was under the 160,000 threshhold we thought we would get. and unemployment is still high. people are dropping out of the workforce. we will below 365,000 a month for the next three years to get close to 6 percent unemployment. that used to be what we thought was fair employment. heather: any area or industry that is best for