the last comment of karzai s is an insult that goes yont the pale. in the meantime the most important part of the travel in a secretary hagel has undertaken is to go and visit our droops and to see what took place. a major attack upon the ministry of defense and we have the green on blue attacks, once again, taking place. this is something that s going to require a great deal of more careful vetting of those we are training. those afghan police and soldiers that we are training to make sure that we re training the right people. not simply taliban who are wearing the uniform to them launch a machine gun attack or suicide bombings against our troops and those of the afghan people. so it s, those two stories about the bombing and the suicide attack have been overshadowed by the president carsi s statements and it s unfortunate. i think it s an important trip for secretary hagen and i m sure he will come back and report to the president and members of
i m really glad that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they re looking for. one traveler at a time. expedia. find yours. defense secretary chuck hagel s first trip to afghanistan as pentagon chief has been headline-grabbing for all the wrong reasons, including accusations by hamid karzai that the u.s. is in collusion with the taliban to extend the war. former defense secretary bill cohen from the clinton administration joins us from new york. thanks very much, bill, good to see you. let s talk about this, the initiation rites for any pentagon chief, or foreign cabinet secretary, to deal with hamid karzai, i know he s doing it for local consumption. but at some point, isn t enough enough? at some point he s going to
back in the fall that jeep was taking american jobs to china. that came straight out of places in the right wing media and really hurt him in ohio. rand paul picked up this hoax story that senator hagel had ties to a group called friends of hamas that didn t exist. so there s a real embarrassment here. thank you both for being here tonight. thank you very much. as wall street booms, the american people are calling for fairness today. that s next. first kid
chris, you know, it s interesting. carrie said is it enough? that question after the chuck hagel situation where it turns in to a loss for republicans, because after all the time spent that could have perhaps been focused on other issues, the nomination went through, when is it ever going to be enough with benghazi for these three senators? i don t think it s ever going to be enough. the part i would say that s perplexing is so senator kerry when he was confirmed as secretary of state did not face these kind of questions. exactly. when he was going to be secretary of state. they hit, you know, senator hagel very hard on benghazi and then they confirmed him and now it s you know, john brennan s turn. now it s kind of a you cannot forget then secretary of state hillary clinton as well testified. there s been a laundry list of people and i think fairly put, there have been and are legitimate questions here but this ongoing threat of holding up nominations for individuals,
out that at least representative shelly moore of west virginia says that it s shameful the president puts the extreme partisan agenda ahead of jobs, so were you grabbing for the headline? tell me what s going on here. i don t think she s a chuck hagel but page two of the article it s insulting language. fair enough. absolutely. again, epa is a lightning rod. you know? they re going to have the kind of critics. it s very emotional issue, frankly. these major rule makings hit people s messaging really hard and epa is obviously been a messaging point for a lot of republicans. it was a point on the campaign trail. still is. gina mccarthy was in the middle of a lot of major rules and the first term. she ll continue to be in the middle of a lot of major rules in the second term. absolutely. i guess my only point is that you re going to have those that