And he was on the job less than two years. It waged a difficult war and we learned just this past weekend an administration rethinking that drawdown. We have live updates from the pentagon and the white house. We will also speak to a Defense Department former insider rosa brooks who has a firsthand take on one of the names topping that list for secretary hagel. Lets start with jim miklaszewski. Jim, defense and told you that the white house lot of confidence in hagel. Tell us about that. This didnt come as a shock to many here in the pentagon. Many thought it was only a matter of timing. Because they felt that it was an uneasy fit from the time that secretary hagel came here into the pentagon. Many thought he was way too compliant and did not challenge the white house strongly enough on many Foreign Policy issues. They thought it was inevitable that at sometime, the white house would replace hagel. Some believed that the timing after the midterm elections was to avoid any political fallout during the elections as if that made any kind of difference. I can tell you that at the same time there many who speak of the way the white house has micromanaged the pentagon from the very beginning of the Obama Administration. Just a couple of weekends ago, we heard from the former secretary of defense gates and panetta. Both complaining about the micromanagement. Hagel was more compliant to that kind of micromanagement. Now some believe he may be the scapegoat for what some see as a flailing white house Foreign Policy. Who are you hearing being bandaid about for replacing hagel . The top two are the former under secretary of defense considered a frontrunner, but form deputy secretary of defense ashton carter. They cant afford someone brandnew to the building or the military, so they bring the experience that would kind of be a continuation of Obama Administration policies, but it will be interesting to see if either one of them, whoever is selected would push back on the Foreign Policy. Thing that is not in question is how difficult this rule is. From the pentagon, thanks for the update. The white house is confirming that it comes after a series of tense meetings between the president and the defense secretary. Hagel spoke about his future in an interview last week. I serve at the pleasure of the president. I am immensely grateful for the opportunity i had to work every day for the country and the men and women who serve this country. I dont get up in the morning worried about my job. Its not unusual, by the way to change teams at different times. Lets go over to the white house and nbcs luke russert who is tracking the story. How did we get to this point . Well, ronan, you saw right there chuck hagel saying that you do not worry about his job. That was on the heels of long discussions as you mentioned about whether or not he was the best fit for the white house moving forward. We learned here that the white house wanted a strong commitment from folks in their cabinet to finish out and he gave them that commitment. That was not what he wanted in the position there at the pentagon. The thing with him is he has always been the outsider. Obamas cabinet has been at the top of the insiders. They are hesitant. Hagel had never been able to breech that and make his opinion heard. There frustrations with his performance at the pent gon. A lot of that rests at the confirmation hearings on the hill. He was adrift and stumbling and bumbling and didnt have a clear direction. The white house has all the respect in the world for him because he is the first combat veteran to serve in the role. Someone who president obama said has been in the dirt and knows what the role entails and putting himself in harms way. They were not necessarily wed to his viewpoints. At one point when chuck hagel said isis could be one of the most significant threats in the world, he said its the jv team. You saw that daylight throughout the last two years and that came to fruition here. A sense that they may have been out of step with one another. Luke russert at the white house. Thanks for the update. Drilling down on the possible successors. One long Time Military leader saying that the top two candidates are in order. Michelle flornoy and ashton carter. The president needs a nonpolitical choice after uh ousting one of the republican advisers. The buzz for flournoy goes back to the confirmation. Listing the reasons the president should ditch chuck for michelle. He was under secretary of defense for policy and founded the office for rule of law and International Humanitarian policy and joins me now. Thank you so much, rosa. Good to be here. You called her a skilled translator, saying she understands the military and the culture, but understands the different assumptions and pressures that motivate white house officials. The civilian military gap is often at the widest in washington and flour noy has the ability to bridge it. It depends what they were looking for. They were looking for someone who would be a policy nonentity who is easy for them to control. They got what they wanted. But then they decided that didnt fit the bill in the middle of a war. Rosa, you have this bureaucracy. You know this setting firsthand. How was the secretary playing in the halls of power at the department. My sense is that he has been a bit of sigh offer to people. He has been more visible and out there not only in terms of the media and my sense from insiders. It has been general dempsey who has been the outspoken person. He began as a mystery to people in the pent gon and he is leaving as a bit of a mystery as well. To what do you ascribe that . I think he thought he was doing what the administration wanted and its a little bit unfair for him to be a fall guy for the unpopularity of policy decisions that were driven by the white house itself. The sense was that the white house did not want another gates. They did not want another Hillary Clinton and they wanted their guy who they could control who would not be a strong independent voice. He fit the bill and now in a sense he is being punished for not having been a Strong Enough voice if thats what they in fact now want. I think to me what the interesting question is, whether this is just a symbolic move on the part of the white house or signals a real change over the next two years. It could be that this is just lets throw somebody off the bus and signal a fresh start and not do anything different. I hope this is whats going on. Just as in george w. Bushs final two years, he did change course significantly in the Foreign Policy. That maybe the folks in the white house have looked in the mirror and said we need somebody who is strong there. This is not the time for somebody who is a door mat. This is a time for somebody who is principaled and who will argue and be loyal, but will argue and has a vision. I hope its that. Rosa brooks, thats an incredibly helpful narration of what they were looking for then and maybe now. Appreciate your insights. A lot of news up ahead. We will update you on the rest of the news of the day including this deadline hitting right now. Negotiators have failed to meet that fateful deadline in iran talks. What some are calling the culture of silence around sex assaults at the university of virginia. 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The Student Council president speaking with allegations about a 2012 gang rape committed by fraternity on that campus this. Troubling story in a Rolling Stone piece. My colleague spoke with that reporter. Its no wonder they treat it as being a party foul that you can brush off when the administration itself is treating it that way too. We will be watching that story. Uva suspended all activities until january. All due to the bombshell report. They need to do souling about the way it behaviored. What theure is going to be. Peter alexander join us from that campus in charlottesville, virginia. The article turned things upside down on the campus of yesterday of virginia. This is one of the universities in this country. The graphic article detailing the gang rape of a First Year Student in 2012 by seven men while her date and another man watched on, encouraging them. It outraged so many people and nationwide. The statistics are staggering. In five young women is said to be assaulted in their time in college. The university is trying to crack down and they suspended all fraternities and sororities through january 9th, but many say its insufficient saying most people will be away from samp campus. The house said the acts depict said are beyond unacceptable. They are vile and intolerable. The board of visitors as it is described will be holding a meeting. It will be open. Students and media will be invited. Part of the meeting will take place behind closed doors. They will address the underlying issue and its the insufficient assault cases on campus. There is a title nine investigation into 88 universities. Among them, the university of virginia for their handling and assault. Ronan . Peter alexander in virginia. We are following two weather stories that could impact millions. Buffalo with massive flooding. As temperatures quickly rise. It could hit 60 degrees and that means a rapid large scale melt of up to seven feet of snow in spots. The governor spoke about the double whammy earlier today. The fear is seven feet of snow melts quickly. Thats a lot of run off and a lot of water going into the creeks. Potential flooding. We have a fear of heavy snow on roof tops. Its snow that gets wet and increases the weight and possible building collapses. So far, so good. Crews spent the weekend rushing to clear the snow away and the red cross has begun. Flying and driving. The busiest travel day of the year. A high impact storm there is going to bring snow, ice, and wind across the east coast today. That can spell trouble for snoopy, Charlie Brown and kermit the frog. I wouldnt put them as my favorite quotes. They will be floating down broadway and we will keep you posted on whether that is interrupted. Here are the other stories spiking right now on social media. If its the week before thanksgiving. 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It was a larger protest in the shaw neighborhood in the city of st. Louis near st. Louis university. No arrests last night with that particular protest. The nightly protest that happens just about every night in front of the police department. Much smaller, about 15 people. Largely peaceful and no arrests there as well. As you indicated, everyone in this community waiting, waiting for the grand jury to make a decision or announce the decision. Craig melvin a really tense setting. Thank you very much for the update. We will stay in touch with you. Sure. I want to bring in the st. Louis Community Organizer who has been involved in a lot of the issues locally. Thank you for taking the time. Why do you think the grand jury is taking so long . Is that a sign of worry . Is that standard procedure . The prosecutor strung this thing along. I dont trust the process and the people i have spoken with and the leaders do not trust that process. We have called for a special prosecutor and the governor had an opportunity to do that and it appears he was asleep at the wheel when he had an opportunity to do that. I believe when the grand jury met friday, there was a very good possibility that they are saying this is a high profile case. There is a lot at stake. The world is watching if Darren Wilson will be indicted. They have an opportunity to send a message and restore justice. This is echoing a lot larger than inside ferguson. Look at the meet the press between the former mayor and michael eric dyson. It sums up the tensions. We are talking about the significant exception. 93 of blacks are killed let me respond to that. I would like to see the attention paid to that that you are paying to this. Most black people who commit crimes against other black people go to jail. They are not sworn as an agent of the state to uphold the law. Both cases, thats a false equivalency that exacerbates attentions that are deeply embedded. Black people who kill black people go to jail. White people who kill white people do not go to jail. If the jury can indict. Its significant. This is a trust issue. Its hardly insignificant. Trust issues. What does ferguson reveal about tensions nationwide . That same discussion i saw with the mayor and dr. Michael eric dyson is the same discussion being had in the workplace here in st. Louis. Those are discussions that had been hidden here in what i will call one of the most racist cities in america for decades. Those conversations are finally being brought to light in the local schools here and within the workplace. People ever beginning to have the discussion about the elephant in the room how africanamericans are treated within this community. You asked what i think the community needs. I think the government here, the leadership here needs to take an institutional approach. If you take a look at the kind of money and resources and time that we have put into gearing up for what people are thinking, maybe a riot or a race war here in the community and a School District that doesnt have buses which is right down the road. If we spend the same time and resources and dollars and put that money where it needs to be so we dont have these institutional disadvantages and problems, i think we would be having a completely different discussion here today. Thats a message a lot of people are echoing in that community there. Always appreciate your insights. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Still ahead, take a look at this live picture of the white house briefing. All questions about the resignation of chuck hagel. We will bring you any news that comes out of it. Reaction to secretary hagels unexpected resignation is pouring in from capitol hill as well. I will talk to a number of the House Armed Services committee about what comes next. Dont go away. 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Secretary hagels priorities were wide ranging going from winding down in afghanistan to ramping up a new war against isis. Msnbc analyst and medal of honor recipient. I wanted to ask about the parallels between yourself and sec tear hagel. You served honorably in vietnam and you know the pressures placed on people with that kind of a track record in the past. When you hear the white house say he was not up to the job, what do you read in the tea leaves . They didnt like him. He was not up to the job. They were concerned that whatever they were trying to do, assuming they knew what they were trying to do was not getting executed. The secretary of defense in a very difficult position. He has to run interference for the officers and the services below him and he has to run interference with the white house and the National Security establishment. He has to have contact and talk with them all the time. Im sure that this didnt happen and do a great job with the congress. She is in the middle and he is the Operations Officer for the pentagon. The secretary has to run interference for all these people. He didnt do a good job for that. He wasnt part of the inner circle in the white house. He did a terrible job at the confirmation hearing and he lot of respect with his old colleagues in the senate and they were sitting there waiting for guidance and they have got budgets they have to put together. Lets talk about that because its something people are not talking about. What was his relationship like with particularly the officers on the military end . The people at the top of the food chain liked him. They had a lot of conversations with him in the past when he was in the senate. They have known him for many years. They liked him. He was wellliked. I dont think they had a great deal of respect for the leadership that. Weighed heavily on the president s decision. What are does it signal for the military policy . Nothing good, quite frankly. A lot of people say we are at sea. There is little guidance. We are making tactical decisions which are important by all means, but at the end of the day, there is a complaint that there is insufficient guidance for a strategy. Are we starting at the end . There is a widespread dissatisfaction with that. We can do tactics, but not strategy. Is one of the changes that we now require a leader in the pentagon who is skilled with winding up rather than winding down warfare. We have military advisers in iraq and looking at an administration stepping away from the commitment to drawdown in afghanistan. You need good leadership whether you are in a situation like this or not. If you take a look at previous secretaries of defense, whatever else you can say about whether or not you like their importants and were they good guys or nice to their pets. Whatever you can say about that, you cant complain much about panettas leadership. You cant complain much about gatess leadership. They knew what they had to do and what they wanted to do and exercised their authority and responsibility yard to get it done. You may not like the result, but they did it. This is not something that this current secretary was able to muster and whoever is going to take the job next better be able to do that. I dont know who is going to. There a lot of names being banded about, who is at the top of the list. I would show up thea the president s disk assuming i could get to it, having been summoned, saying i can do it, but heres the ten things i would have to have before. They will have their work cut out for them. Always a pleasure. Up next, another big deadline today for an iran nuclear deal. It has come and gone. We will take you live to the high stakes talks in vienna. After this break. Earning your diploma. Providing for your family. Real associates, using walmarts benefits to build better lives for their families. Opportunity. Thats the real walmart. Ah, h it. Push it. P. 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The speed of lifting sanctions on iran and the duration of any deal. We are looking at almost everything being a point of difficulty here. One european official saying that the possibility of a final agreement seems physically impossible, at least right now. In vienna live. I know you have to report on this more, but a quick update. What progress has been made . Koofrgd to all sides, this announcement of the extension of the deadline of Iran Nuclear Talks was unexpected. The u. S. Has consistently said, they denied that negotiators were considering an extension when we asked them. The state Department Said that the focus was a final comprehensive deal. All sides acknowledged that there were tremendous difficulties. They had been making significant progress. Some negotiators said they were getting close. Overnight the story changed. We dont know what happened. Who initially proposed or at what point they agreed to the extension. A short time ago, secretary kerry explained that the failure to reach a deal was because it was still significant points of disagreement. He said we dont want just any agreement, we want the right agreement. At the same time he acknowledged this extension is not going to make negotiations any easier. That actually may be an under statement. As the Congress Moves into position, there will be potentially new sanctions imposed and that will make things tougher in terms of reaching a Nuclear Agreement and ending what is more than a 30year cold war between the United States and iran. Huge stakes. What is the plan from here . The plan is to potentially talk in december to have them ton meet. There targets that there would be an agreement in four months. The secretary of state said something that was interesting. He said that at that point they would consider to see where they are. It sounds like they have targets to meet before july 1st, its its uncertain as to what will happen. You should know that the iranian president just a short time ago spoke in a nationally televised address to the iranian people where there were many who are very disappointed there has not been an agreement here in this round of talks. Ann curry, its so valuable to get your opinion on this story. Live from vienna. Domestic pressure also playing into these talks in a big day. We are erroring from marco rubio. Iran was only brought to the negotiating table through tough sanctions and we need to increase the pressure in the weeks and months ahead. I hope they will come to see the rizdom of leaving us the equilibrium for a few months to proceed without sending messages that might be misinterpreted and cause miscalculations. A complex position having done messaging that is quite the opposite. They look forward to opening up iran. For more on this debate, we turn to following these talks. David sanger from the new york times. We just heard from ann curry that talks are likely to resume. Until they resume, what is being done to hold iran accountable . They come through the main sitesdaly in some cases. This is the sdrim agreement and it does not in the end drinking or shorten the amount of time to produce one full war for nuclear fuel. It doesnt work over the longterm, but for six or seven months, you would have to say that the United States and the europeans were in better shape than a year ago. Lets talk about this. You quoted Prime Minister netanyahu in a piece he wrote saying no deal is better than a bad deal. The right deal is needed to dismantle irans capacity to make atomic bombs. This result is better, a lot better. What is it that israel would hope for right now . What they will settle for and what they hope for. They are two Different Things. Iran wont give up the capacity. Can they have a narrative and a victory and the right to enrich and as soon as an agreement is done with, they could enrich and fall. The three dig issues that are up there right now are how much capacity are they left be and how long would it be . They wanted to double that. What would the inspections look like to make sure they did not go after a covert pathway. We talked about the argue that iran should be opened up more. How big of a factor do you see them as being in these talks . I think the longer the talks go on, the greater they will be. They can be funneled in two ways. That would blow up the process. If iran pruzs uranium and if they violate the terms. The min station could live with that. Appreciate it. Up next, how did secretary hagels exit impact the war on isis and who does Congress Want to see in his place . We will talk to the armted Services Committee on just that in a couple of minutes. Stay with us. Music the Volkswagen Golf was just named motor trends 2015 car of the year. So was the 100 electric egolf, and the 45 highway mpg tdi clean diesel. And last but not least, the High Performance gti. 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President obama earlier today and issuing that forcible goodbye to chuck hagel. Former combat veteran was the first enlisted man to serve as defense secretary and the only republican on president obamas National Security team. The white house officials told nbc news hagel was not up to the job. Rhode island congressman is a Senior Member of the House Armed Services committee and he knows that side of the discussion. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you. Right off the bad, whats your reaction to him being apparently forced out . First of all, i want to change him for his service. He is a viet yam. Veteran and distinguished member of the form er he also deals with the threats of sequestration and clearly challenges issues that have changed and he will need someone with a different skill set. Are we now a nation fully at war again . Circumstances demand that we are going to need to be aggressive in the mideast. I share the president s commitment that that does not mean a large u. S. Footprint. We will not send hundreds of thousands of u. S. Soldiers to the mideast and i would oppose that if that were the case at this point. It does mean that the strategy needs to be more aggressive and we are dealing with the melt down of the Syrian Government and the rise of isil which in mean ways caught a lot of folks in the administration off guard. Now you are dealing with ukraine and ebola. There is a number of Different Things that were not present when secretary hagel was brought on as secretary of defense. The strategy is going to have to be more aggressive and i think that means not only do the president s current strategy of training the foreign fighters in syria going after isil so they can degrade their capability and potential for further air strikes, but it means working more aggressively with allies and especially nations in the mideast and getting them to step up more and quite frankly perhaps have them put their boots on the ground since in many ways this affects nations in the mideast more directly than it does the United States. We have to be more aggressive. Certainly being more aggressive, more so than many of the players in this conversation would like. You yourselfill be a player in the conversation about a potential replacement as a Senior Member of the House Armed Services committee. What is the committee looking for in that replacement . Well, someone thats going to be able to adapted to the new strategy thats needed and come up with a cohesive plan and being able to advise the president and his National Security team about how best to combat isil, how best to deal with the syria situation, making sure that our interests are protected and that were working closely with our allies. So, i know theres a couple of names that have been mentioned. Former deputy secretary of defense, michelle florinoy and former secretary of defense, ash carter, both of whom bring important skill sets to the table and would be fine choices. Do you want to make a little news on this program and pick one of those names . Would you support a michelle florinoy . Certainly with the years of dedication and service shes brought to the table. I think she would be a good choice and be well received, i think, by both sides of the aisle in congress. But i know that the president has a tough job to consider the right person for that job. Its one of the most important in government, particularly as were looking out for our men and women in uniform. And making sure that they have all the tools and the resources they need to do their job and do it effectively. We have to continue, obviously, to work against sequestration. And so thats going those will be challenges for the next secretary of defense. Congressman, those are challenges you and your committee face as well. Appreciate your time. And i wanted to bring everyone in the audience a quick update we have been following closely. Nbc news just this moment getting confirmation there will be an announcement later today from the grand jury investigating that shooting death of ferguson, month moshgs teenager, michael brown. Again, we were expecting an announcement today. Ferguson and surrounding cities have been on edge, waiting to see whether or not that jury will decide to charge Darren Wilson in browns shooting. 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