the secretary of state, the secretary of defense had no idea, the vice president contradicted his policy earlier in the day, tells you there is not really a strategy here. so there is a lot of problem with chaos and lack of progress and process, i should say, and that is a determinant of whether to be successful. as a former state department spokesperson, did you break out in hives when you saw the secretary of state was so incredibly out of the loop on this? i did. frankly, because that s a pivotal person and there has been the fact that the state department has been gutted, that there is no ambassador so south korea, no person who had run point as a negotiator is a problem. and that s, you know, that s going to be reflected and how challenging in the months ahead. great to have you here with us. thank you. i appreciate it. president jump and kim jong-un face to face. what does capitol hill think about all of this? stay around.
this press conference saying that he had to run over to the brief on donald trump on whatever he had found and we found out that he actually got that information from the white house. it was very easy to unmask, to use a phrase that nunes likes to use a lot. if the idea was to help donald trump and sort of run point for him and interfere for him on his behalf, it really hasn t worked. and it seems like there s a coverup here and now they have no credibility. he did just meet with schiff, the ranking member. schiff expressed hope that they can get back on trap. when you have stories like this coming out and democratic members see that, the hope fades. and we re going to get
they possibly could, including shutting down the united states government. so it was not an ideal atmosphere. the lookback is, would more testing have helped? you bet. secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius today, talking about the rollout disaster, and also today the washington insider brought into kind of run point on all of this promised the vast majority of users will be able to access the site by the end of november, and also in the news, chewbacca in star wars, because he is one of the characters in the java script file still active on the site according to the washington examiner. you don t often see that on special report and thought we would bring it in. let s bring in our panel. we call this the go t panel,
whole process. let s talk about how he handled those questions so far today, and it s going to be a long day for him in the hot seat. i think he expected a long day, and i think that as we were speaking earlier, i think john mccain came into run point on the surge. i think it matters so much to mccain. he is so personally invested in that, and that was the rip with the party. that was the rip with mccain for senator hagel, and i think that s what they want to exact a pound of flesh for, and i think chuck hagel went in to do what he wanted to do, which was not to give a yes-no answer to that. he didn t want to embarrass or offend mccain. i don t think he succeeded in that. he did want to say that 1,200 soldiers died in that surge, and that thousands of people were wounded and that we need to consider things not in an emotional and reckless way, but need to look at the costs and the returns. he said history will judge whether that was a good move by the united states or a poor surge. a