weight to order the more -- to order them around. >> and there was a lot of infighting, too, between the director of national intelligence and the cia over how exactly intelligence matters were going to be handled around the world, who was going to install the station chiefs. then there was a back and forth with the white house, and we saw his comments, blair's comments on capitol hill about the politization of intelligence around the christmas day bombing investigation. it's a job that is not that attractive to many folks, and perhaps you're seeing the result of that and the politics surrounding it with this vacuum that is being created by all these retirements. jon: talk about politics, there's going to be a lot on display come monday when elena kagan begins confirmation hearings for that u.s. supreme court position. >> reporter: yeah, it will be really interesting to see how these hearings develop. a lot of conventional wisdom going in was that this is a