Liz going for them and going for a great show. Welcome to the evening edit. Im Elizabeth Macdonald. House oversight chairman james comer. Congressman, okay, this story, its good to have you on and see you again. President biden blocking weapons shipment to israel and Associated Press report the president wanted to delay letting voters know about this till after biden gave a speech on Holocaust Remembrance Day and this is all about politics for biden is have you heard of any president doing anything like this with the u. S. Ally. Hamas is Holding Americans hostage. Joe biden doing everything with respect to israel is now political. Hes basing the whole israel policy and trying to please a few voters in detroit, michigan, to carry that by the swing state and all the history we have with israel and the israel is the closest ally and hamas still has five american hostages and the pact that congress appropriated in a bipartisan manner the weaponry that he has withheld and everything joe bid
And when people say, well that doesnt necessarily make him a good candidate for secretary of defense, i will tell you who thinks that makes him a good candidate for secretary of defense, the men and women in the armed forces of the United States and their parents who know that this is a guy who will be very careful about putting their lives at risk, cause he put his life at risk. He know what is war is and he will fight a wars if thes necessary but a guy that will do it with great deliberation and care. Beyond that he went back to nebraska, ran for senate. Became a senator. Said he would only serve two terms. Only served two terms. And when he was elected the second time, he was elected with 83 of the vote. This is a guy respected by his fellow citizens of nebraska. Served here for a total of 12 years. And what did he do when he left the senate . He came became an ac testimony knick georgetown, school of foreign service, teaching the new leaders. He also has been cochairman of the pres
Negotiation. We have been ready to negotiate under the right set of circumstances with iran for the last several years with our friends and allies so, force is the table but im glad we have people like the president and like chuck hagel who will be very careful when you start throwing around the terms he says its not feasible. Do you agree it is not feasible. What is the not feasible . Military option . Military option is always feasible, you tell me what the option is. Are we going to blow up tehran or go after facilities that might be well protoerktd hidden . And i think bob gates, the previous secretary of defense, who pointed out the difficulty of striking these places is a real one. So any military option is feasible in terms of dropping bombs but what is the result of that military attack . With respect to the revolutionary guard, he has reasons for why he didnt go along with that resolution at the time and that will be explored in the confirmation hearings. The last three weeks,
Good sunday morning. The president s nominee to lead the Defense Department, former senator chuck haigle is under intense scrutiny and he as the white house try to push back against Critic Office his Foreign Policy views. This morning, someone who supports the hagel nomination, the former secretary of state, general colin powell, here to speak exclusively to us. General powell, good morning, welcome back to the program. Good morning, david. Welcome to be here. I want to start on chuck hagel. Why do you think he should be confirmed . I think there are a number of reasons. First, i think he has had a very, very distinguished Public Service record that he can stand on. There are a lot of comments about Different Things he said over the years and i think he will have a chance to respond to all those comments as the confirmation hearings. But it might be useful just to stand back and take a look at this man overall a young man who volunteered to go to vietnam. They wanted to send him to eur