objects on the senate floor, it could send the vote up to 60 votes to require passage so that could be trouble. three high profile republicans said they are a no. john cornyn from, senator imhave, and senator marco rubio. another likely no is john mccain who tried to talk to hagel about the troop surge in iraq. please an the question. were you correct or incorrect when you said that the surge would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam? were you correct or incorrect? yes or no. my reference to the are you going to answer the question, senator? the question is, were you right or wrong? that s a pretty straightforward question. the hearings started at 90:00 this morning. they re in a break now but more questioning ahead. shepard: to important matters
though. me and one of my buddies, mike, went over there to talk to him. went and talked to him, and it s about 15-foot by 15-foot hole, and about 12-foot deep, and it s lined with red bricks in it. he s got steps made out of cinderblocks going down to it, and at the time he had doors made out of plywood, two sheets of replywood. i said what howing it for? he said it s going to be me storm shelter because where i used to live the storms came through a lot. and then i noticed the bypass and i asked him what was that for and he said if some comes in and i don t hear them. shepard: did you get the sense he might be on something or is this how he rolls? he has always seemed like a weird person.
knocking off payton and tom brady on the road. and then collin kaepernick can break a run or pass for 70 yards shepard: brother versus brother nice, a little bit each other. yes, and they re dad is soaking up the spotlight, as you can imagine and as the mannings have down in the past and as you should in this situation. beach coaches are very disciplined and won t get lost in the moment. shepard: the team who doesn t turn the ball over will win. that would watch for? watch for the big plays. flacco going deep, their bread and butter. they bead peyton manning and tom brady with that. and look at the big plays from kaepernick. he did it on the road against green bay and on the road against atlanta. a game where you may see four yard runs, four yard pats, and then then 0-yard bomb and it s going to go down to the fourth quarter and which team makes the big are plays.
in syria are actually getting closer and closer to some of the major weapons caches in the region. so that would ring alarm bells for the iranians, syrians, and hezbollah themselves. so it would appear if these are being moved in any sort of numbers, according to all the expects, they believe the weapons cache are under serious threat and decided to move them. that was a red line for israel. shepard: israel said that was a red loan. mike barrett is currently the ceo at a consulting firm. what do you make of this? i think that jonathan is exactly right. the fear is the retaliation could be globally against israeli and with most people they re talking about. they don t make a distinction between israeli and u.s.s sment from the israeli point of view, it s like the case for preemptive action that the u.s. used after 9/11 in terms of
iran. you have critics out there who maintain that your record on iran is in question and that you are anti-israel. these are serious charges. senator hagel has expressed views in meeting with senate colleagues, i ve been informed, and through the press, that are at glaring odds of his positions. i m on the record on many issues, but no one individual vote, no one individual quote, no one individual statement defines me. my beliefs or my record. my overall world view has never changed. shepard: but the former republican lawmaker faces a lot of pushback from this own party. mike, the knock the took a lot of heat over his positions here. absolutely. senator hagel tried to reassure his form egg colleagues on iran that all optionses are on the table and he shares the president s goal of not allowing