Jon writing obamas biggest challenge is active test is whether he can revitalize the foreignpolicy team we can make the most of these opportunities. White house Officials Say obama knows these new blood, wider bandwidth, more intellectual capital, choose your metaphor. Joining us now, chief White House Correspondent for the new york times. Is it a surprise to you chuck hagel is out . Yeah, little bit of a surprise it happened this way. It has been known for a long time he was not suited for the job, the white house had recently headed on the chairman of joint chiefs, the secretary felt like an odd man out in a lot of these decisions that were made especially as they sent more troops over to iraq trying to fight the war in syria. His supporters answer the charge that he was quiet at Staff Meetings and so forth. He wanted to express his opinions privately with the president oneonone to avoid the prospect. Is that possible . That could be. But the only one that the president was listening
Listen to the president last month. What sands out to me, that the American People sent a the American People sent a one they sent for several elections now. They expect the people that they elect to work as hard as they do. They expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours. They want us to get the job done. All of us in both parties have a responsibility to address that sentiment. Still, as president i have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work. So to everyone who voted, i want you to know that hear you. Eric well lets see what he says later on today. Were waiting of course for many questions on variety of issues. One topic sure to come up of course, the sony cyberattack. In fact the fbi blames the attack on north korea which caused sony to cancel the Christmas Day release of the movie the interview. The white house has acknowledged that publicly. Some republicans think it is time for the president to respond more forcefully to the rogue north korean regime. Wit
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