About negotiations with iran. they turned up some uncomfortable votes about sanctions, and that s largely seemed to do little to actually slow down the nomination or the confirmation process. i think in the end there could be something that trips it up, but i think we re also understating the war weariness of this country. what hagel represents for a lot of people, a lot of lawmakers, as well, is a real turn of the page in terms of how we conceive of using armed forces overseas. i think a lot more people are on his side of that philosophical side of the debate you re so smart. that s the sweeping change, the 180 from where we were. after 9/11. here is senator bob corker raising an issue that s very subjective. he s a reasonable republican from tennessee. he s talking about hagel s suitability to be defense secretary. listen to the kind of words he uses here. i think another thing, george, that s going to come up is just his overall temperament, and is he suited to run a departmen
Uses here. i think another thing, george, that s going to come up is just his overall temperament, and is he suited to run a department or a big agency or a big entity like the pentagon. well, there you go. this is the kind of thing that will drive hagel, and i don t know the guy, i met him a few times, crazy. somebody will say to him in the middle of a hearing, i hear you re always on the defensive. you have a defensive personality. then you defend yourself, and you re being defensive. i hear you have a bad temper. what do you mean i have a bad temper? this is getting rough because all politicians have bad tempers. i think in a hearing when people are looking not all. it s a low bar, it s not that hard to maintain what do you do when a guy says i hear you yell at people in the office? maybe you say, look, i m tough and demanding of my
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landing today at the big apple. if you re flying into jfk today, you could get an interesting look. i just gave it away. you can watch those pictures over and over again. a piggybacking 747 and a shuttle? sweet stuff. let s get started off the top of the hour here. up first, a six-figure shocker in the trayvon martin case. legal experts say it s something that could land trayvon martin s killer george zimmerman back in jail. zimmerman s attorney mark o mara told anderson cooper that he just found out his client has over $200,000 in online donations, but the judge was told zimmerman had very little money when the bail was set this wee week. he asked me what do with his paypal accounts. i asked him what he was talking about. and he said those are the accounts that had the money from the website he had and that there was about $200,000, $204,000 that had come in to date. i don t think judge lester will believe i misled him. i told him what i knew at the time which is exact