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How did he get here . Denis mcdonough is one of 11 kids and qualification enough in a small town in minnesota. He was a High School Football star. He cut his teeth in politics and working in the house for congressman lee hamilton and in the senate for majority leader tom daschle and later for barack obama. When he decided to make a run for the white house in 2008 he tapped mcdonough to be his Foreign Policy adviser to the campaign. The president announced him as his pick, mcdonough involved in every major Foreign Policy decision, including the call to get osama bin laden. I actually begun to think that denis likes pulling allnighters. The truth is nobody outworks denis mcdonough. Here he is. Mr. Mcdonough, welcome to meet the press. Thanks so much for having me, david. This is a tough job. Youre the fourth one to h ....
Denis mcdonough grew up one of 11 kids in a small town. He worked in the house for congressman lee hamilton and in the senate for majority leader tom daschle and later for barack obama. When the freshman senator decided to make a run for the white house in 2008 he tapped mcdonough to be his Foreign Policy adviser for the campaign and once president , obama appointed him. The president noted when he announced him as his pick, mcdonough has been involved in every major Foreign Policy decision including the call to get osama bin laden. I thought denis decided to like pull allnighters. The truth is nobody outworks denis mcdonough. Here he is. Mr. Mcdonough, welcome to meet the press. Thanks for having me. What is your key part of your goal for this job . How do you approach it . My approach is focus on something that jim baker told me the other day. Reach out to several of the ot ....
A lot of back and forth with our science adviser about this over the last several days. The fact is that we are going to keep working on this and Everything Else to make sure we are on top of it. Lets talk about some of these agenda items. First of all, chuck hagels nomination, it is being held up, the expectation, he will ultimately be confirmed. But bill cullen, former defense secretary, this week said something to politico that caught my attention that underlines the problem hagel has, that will put him in a a difficult position once he gets there. Those resentments will weigh around. I think its tragic what is happening and i think its shameful. If he is confirmed, is he a weaker defense secretary and is that something that weighs on the president s mind . No, he is not going to be a weaker defense secretary. He will be a great defense secretary. He is a leading republican senator. He has always done the hard stuff and made i ....
And talking points and what not. Has the president finished on the ben ghazi matter or is there anything else he has concluded should have been done that was not done . Just the other day, our council sent an extensive letter to capitol hill in response to the latest on ben ghazi. Letter. 10,000 pages of documents we provided. But here is the question, david. The president is not done with ben ghazi because here is why. He is demanded of us since that night to find out exactly what happened and then to make every reform needed to ensure it does not happen again. The president of the United States sends these diplomats, our military overseas to these tough spots and not send them and have them be exposed and hes made darn certain that we are doing everything we can to enassure this doesnt happen again. Lets talk about the spending fight. The reality is the debt is a huge issue that the president faces. This is the fact about it. Whe ....
Graham investigation will soon face a judge. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news, u. S. Air strikes are slowly slowing down the brutal isis onslaught in kobani but now guess what . A Major New Development on the ground. Reinforcements are finally on the way to the besieged border town. Kurdish troops from iraq are bringing heavy weapons to their fellow kurds who battled for weeks to hold on against the terrorists. There are signs that isis may have a deadly new weapon of its own. Poison gas. Our correspondents and analysts and guests are standing by. Lets begin with our chief National Correspondent jim sciutto. There have been four alleged uses of chlorine gas by isis militants in the last several weeks. Twice in iraq and twice in syria. The u. S. Has not confirmed those reports but u. S. Officials including secretary of state john kerry ....