This is sofia s second or third month here from washington, dc. this is all new to you. what are you thinking, how are you dealing with this? the water, the waves were getting really rough. they were telling us to evacuate because this is going to be deadly. reporter: is it scary? yes. i ve been through a tornado and earthquakes. i don t know, there s no words to describe what you go through, because you re here i mean, it is, it s mother nature and you re right there, on the beach, the water, and you see the waves pounding in. it s scary. reporter: we re about six miles inland. mike mccain, a 20-year veteran from florida, he understands what it s like to go through hurricanes. tell me, when you hear category 4, 140-mile-per-hour winds, there was no question you were going to leave the evacuation areas.
exactly. who put mike mccain in charge of determining chuck hagel s fate. minority leader mitch mcconnell has deputized senator john mccain as the weather vane by which to judge when republicans should yield on the filibuster. that might be a confounding decision since john mccain seems to drift from one position to another. sometimes in a matter of hours. on sunday mccain had this to say about the prospect of a filibuster against hagel. let s watch. we ve never filibustered a presidential cabinet appointee, and i don t think we should start here. well, on monday, which is a day later of course, mccain was urging his colleagues on the armed services committee to vote on hagel s nomination saying, i believe he has fulfilled the rigorous requirements that the committee demands, and by the next day, tuesday, he rebuked ted cruz for his harsh critique of hagel, which i agree with. mr. hagel is an honorable man. he has served his country, and no one on this committee at any time s
0 dwight eisenhower wasn t a republican either because he wasn t a hawk, and he kept us out of indochina and the middle east, and he took the heat for that because he was a guy who knew what was going on in the world. right. and didn t believe in frivolous wars. you re not sufficiently republican if you don t want to bomb iran. it was ironic when john mccain put it out there and said basically, you know what? chuck hagel was mean to president bush, he relentlessly criticized the iraq war. his fellow members of the senate thought he was not a sufficiently loyal republican. that s pretty rich coming from john mccain who basically made it his life s work to oppose george w. bush. oh, i m sorry, was it chuck hagel who said he had an illegitimate child with an african-american and that somehow produced a south asian young woman. that stuff about his wife being a drug addict. that was w s people. that was karl rove and that crowd. i don t know which of them did it, but one of them di
Towards senator hagel because when he was a republican, he attacked president bush mercilessly. at one point said he was the worst president since herbert hoover, said that the surge was the worst blunder since the vietnam war, which is nonsense, and was very anti his own party and people. people don t forget that. you should have forgot the fact because he never did say he was the worst president since herbert hoover. wait until they start with you. exactly. who put mike mccain in charge of determining chuck hagel s fate. minority leader mitch mcconnell has deputized senator john mccain as the weather vain by which to judge when republicans should yield on the filibuster. that might be a confounding decision since john mccain seems to drift from one position to another. sometimes in matter of hours. on sunday mccain had this to say about the prospect of a filibuster against hagel. let s watch.
0 television advertisements pressuring democrats to drop their support for him. michael steele, it used to be a president got his cabinet. yep. now when you want your own defense chief, you get the entire opposition party to the last man and woman voting against it in what i don t even get is one reason. i mean, if you ask all those republicans what do they do to filibuster this, they won t give you one answer. each one will come up with his own or her own little number. right. because there is no real reason to filibuster this nomination. i mean, the president has made his choice. he s coming off a very, very strong election, and, you know, as much as, you know, i may have an issue here or there with something that hagel said or did in the past, this is the president s choice. he s ultimately going to be accountable to the president, not to the republicans in the congress. and i think quite honestly mccain put it out there in the real. this is personal. it s not even political a