are we being conned again by the obama administration? in china, president obama has announced that the u.s.a. and the chinese will work together work toke to cut carbon emission thought by many to provoke global warming. some say it's historic, others say it's a huge con. conservative blog red state.com. are are you a nonbeliever in global warming mr. erickson. >> i think the world has been warming and cooling for several billion years. i would put myself in the natural phenomenon camp. >> you feel it's a cycle of nature. carbon emissions have nothing to do with it. >> if they have something to do with it, minuscule. >> okay. now you know that runs counter to most scientific opinion and you know it is an opinion. as i always say foolish to get upset about it and say definitively one way or the other. but i think you and-and everybody else would agree that it's better to have a cleaner planet. the less fossil fuel in the air the less gook in the air the better for everyone. you would agree with a that. >> i think so. everyone supports a c

obama most transparent administration. now he has the architect bragging about it. that doesn't look good. >> none of it looks good. the problem is this law has caused so much problem for the american people. people that are maybe even have the insurance that the president has promised them but he focused on the word coverage instead of the word care. so people are facing higher premiums, higher co-pays, higher deductible its, can't keep their doctors, can't go to their hospitals. those are the problems and that's the pain that the american people are are are suffering as a part of this deception. >> all right. two things. one is senator tom coburn says that there are not the votes to repeal it. do you expect this to be repealed, obamacare? >> we will vote to try to do that. >> do you expect that? >> i expect that we are going to strip out the most danging parts of the healthcare law, focus on things that have already passed the house with bipartisan support. the employer mandate. get rid of that focus and try to eliminate the individual mandate even use reconciliat

it was about the current obama administration. i have my questions and concerns with what the obama administration did and did not do, but i think hillary and bill clinton got into the campaign trail. they did what democrats, good democrats do and try to excite the base. it didn't work. but there is going to be a reset for the next two years. >> i'll get back to that. tammy, tell me if you think it was fair to call it a referendum on hillary clinton. >> you know, i agree with basil, but for a different reason. i think that the referendum on tuesday this mandate, was not about even personalities anymore. this was a much larger rejection of policy. and this is now hillary clinton's challenge. for six years, we've had politics by personality, right? like celebrities. and i think that people have gotten used to doing that. but now the american people on tuesday said look, we've seen the results of certain policies and we don't like them. not just at the federal level, but with the governorships, 31 states are now in the control of rep

before the obama administration launch of what is now known as obamacare. he helped design romney care. he worked with other governors, including governor schwarzenegger. also republican health design what a new health insurance system would like like if you wanted to expand coverage. >> did he also work with capitol hill? >> yeah. he worked with members on the hill as far as i recall. but basically more behind the scenes. he was not really writing a legislation so much. he was helping people understand what the legislation did. and he was kind of the numbers guy. he was crunching a lot of the numbers. building economic models what the legislation would look like. what would work, what wouldn't work. and the reason why he became known as mr. mandate is because of those complicated economic models demonstrated without an individual mandate he believed that the new system would fail. >> is there anyone else, was there any other mr. mandate. what sort of struck us is that the leader pelosi as far as back as referred to him not by mr. mandate it seems his was t

he once told me when i was covering the obama administration, he said listen to all the questions and answers. a lot of correspondents don't do that. they go with questions on paper and the president may say a gaffe or something else. i haven't heard you say this conference and essentially you wanted him to give a greater acknowledgement of the part that his party has got shellacked. >> i think that stood the test of time. for the last few days, it's been widespread commentary that the president basically did not acknowledge that he lost. i was trying to make the case that somehow his policies had won. democrats took a drubbing, even democrats acknowledged they took a drubbing. look at the numbers. it's simple math. but he wouldn't have gotten out. i know you're half joking when you say, he didn't eat sufficient enough crow. he also came back at me and said, well, you just want me to fire people or something like that. no, i was asking about his leadership. i don't think there should be a ritualistic firing game, i agree with the president on that, just fire someone? >> you think ther

so, the obama administration trying to run from him? >> they are. they are trying to say this is just about mr. gruber. it's not about us and the administration. and as we all know now, that gruber sat in the inner circle, in the oval office with barack obama, harry reid, nancy pelosi, crafting the law. representation. the lie is the law right now. and i think now that they are being exposed they are trying to do the jeremiah wright, bill ayers, i didn't know him. he wasn't really in the inner circle. when we look at the law and look at what gruber said, they match up. there is no distinction between the lines that were told and law that was written. that's why this video is so powerful. >> which video. there are seven of them. >> what he is saying is actually what i have seen happen in the law. they lied to us. they misrepresented to us what they were doing. and we're putting the puzzle together and i think that's why it's so damning for the administration. >> so what happens? i mean, it's okay, they are up to their eyeballs with gruber and look pr

a republican-led congressional committee says the obama administration was not guilty of wrongdoing in benghazi. and in our signature segment, tribal justice: searching for ways to punish non-native americans who commit domestic violence on reservations. next on pbs newshour weekend. >> the confusion creates this place where you have a category of people who are essentially above the law. >> sreenivasan: next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. in a major unannounced policy shift, american troops serving in afghanistan beyond the end of this year will be allowed to engage in combat against the taliban. this from th

u also have the reof the preemptive moves that the obama administration has been able to o. there has been a recognition if the united states is going to play the role as the -- the place of action is asia. if the united states is going to be the superpower, it has to be a pacific power. the obama administration has zealously pursued a relationship with asia every open a base in the philippines. he has been able to put in place a symbolic, but important base of sorts in australia. making clear that the disputed islands would be covered by the u.s. defense treaty with japan. he has been able to offer a kind of vision of trade and opportunity to asia that bush was not able to do. all of these things have created a reality that the united states is now much more able to play that role of balancer and stabilize. it would not be enough. the basic strategy is correct. a final point i want to make about the world being so unstable -- really what you have is a world in which the middle east is deeply unstable. the rest of the world is in pretty good shape. the rest of the world has

obama administration officials say hagel is stepping down under pressure from the president. senior defense official says hagel submitted his resignation letter to the president this morning and the president accepted it. the 68-year-old hagel agreed to stay in office until the u.s. senate confirms his successor. hagel is the first senior obama adviser to leave the administration following the sweeping losses in the midterm election. president obama is expected to make an announcement in just a few minutes and nbc news will have a special report and we'll bring that to you as soon as it happens and we'll do it live. >>> meanwhile, skyforce 10 was over an accident on kelly drive near boathouse row. this happened around 8:00 this morning. several vehicles were involved. we're working to find out if anyone was seriously hurt. >>> one person was killed in an accident involving a bread truck and an suv early this morning. the accident happened in the northbound lanes of 95 near route 322 and curlin street in

it's really heartbreaking when their new secretary of agriculture in the obama administration came in with an agenda of revitalizing rural america and not meant promoting small farms again. he hasn't been able to do very much with that and i think that's a real tragedy. >> host: why not? >> guest: the forces of agribusiness in this country are huge and may understand that the organic seasonal, local food movement that is so popular among the educated population of the united states is a direct critique of industrial agribusiness. they don't like it and they have the power in congress. >> host: genetically modified foods. natural on not or is it a bad thing? >> guest: it is just as polarizing in the united states as the middle east is. you can't get people in the same room, just like you can't get pro-israel and pro-palestinian people in the favor and just like pro-gm of people and anti-gm of people in the same room. they have no common base is speaking. that's really too bad. i think the industry brought this on itself. by insisting away from the beginning that there was no reason to

the obama administration zealously pursued a relationship in asia. he has been able to put in place a symbolic but important base of sorts in australia, and he has strengthened relations with japan making clear the disputed islands would be covered by the u.s. defense treaty with japan. he has been able to offer a kind of vision of trade and opportunity to asia that certainly president bush was not able to do. all of these things together have created a reality that the united states is now much more able to play that role of balance and stabilizing asia than it was before. i, myself, would like the administration to do more in this regard, but the basic strategy is correct, and some of the core implementation has been done properly. the final point i want to make about the world being so unstable, because what you have is the middle east is deeply unstable and the rest of the world is in good shape, and the american intervention in syria is the 14th american military intervention in american military sbhmil military intervention in syria since 1982.

but if she can continue to offer progress that was made in the obama administration, i assuming people will buy it, and not playing the gender card, per se, then that would work well to her advantage. >> michael shure, looking ahead a year from now candidates will be tromping all over iowa. it's hard to imagine, but there they'll be in the run up to the caucuses. are there field-clearing or field-limiting candidates in both parties, that once they decide they're in or out it really changes the complexion of the race? >> i think hillary clinton would clear a lot of enemy out of the field. not on ideology, but in fundraising. dan quayle was going to be a candidate for presidency. as soon as george w. bush announced he was going to run, everyone knew the funding organization of the bush family was going to clear that field. the same thing may happen for the economies. it's going to be a lot more difficult than those two names stand out to me, names that make it difficult for other candidates to raise money. >> those other candidates, what do they do? what do they do now? continue to build

that's what the obama administration wants. but if you look at the details, eric, by 2016, by the end of obama's presidency, he's got the troops down to about 1,000. so clearly, the white house has not learned its lesson. what they're trying to do is just make it seem like they have a troop presence there. they're really more concerned about the promise that obama made, the political promise to bring all the troops home. so we want to whittle that down to 1,000 u.s. troops. i don't think that's enough. i think we're going to need to have a lot more, and it's a good thing that the bilateral security agreement goes past obama's presidency so that the next president of the united states can take it more seriously. eric: so finally, you obviously don't think that thousand figure, let alone the 10,000, are enough. this is at the same time, rick, they've announced they're moving assets from that war theater down to syria and iraq to fight against isis. >> well, i think the isis problem, eric, is simply because we didn't have a presen

and a shot to the obama administration. he said if the president unlaterally and uses executive authority to significantly change immigration law in this country, the president is going to have a real problem and congress will refuse to do anything toward immigration reform. ready to extend an olive branch. and looks forward to working with mitch mcconnell and the republicans in the senate. one question, what happens in the lame deck session when the harry reid holds the gavel. will the president try to ram through nom nos and programs that otherwise might not pass muster with the republican members. and interesting politics and fun to watch the chess poses. we'll watch it all here on the fox news channel. >> with all of that in mind, we'll talk about it some more. and the president will push forward on immigration reform and promising toous excutive authority. and watch. >> you send me a bill that i can sign and those executive actions go away. that is a commitment i would make to john boehner. and so before the end of the

they accuse the obama administration of moving the goal post by tightening the standards. but industry always complains about clean air standards. in a written statement. four decades we have cut air pollution 70 percent and our economy tripled in size and the sky never fell. it would cut the threshold of smog down five parts per million to a level of 65 or 70. the epa will hear further testimony. that will save 4000 lives and 18000 lost work days and critics say it will coast billions. the lower standard would cost $270 billion a year and wyoming senator said in a written statement, that the rule is more prove that the obama administration is turning a deaf ear to americans who want washington to focus on job creation. it george bush over rowelled this in 2008 and president obama delayed saying that the economy was not strong enough. most counties the have until 2025 to meet the target and those in california would have more time. >> wend awl. thanks. >> and to you. it is not a happy thanksgiving for travellers facing the long lines in the airports. thanks to the massive

award winning cheryl atkinson, how she believe the obama administration put her under surveillance for investigating the president. i'm antonio mora, those stories and much more. on "consider this." >> republicans now control the house and the senate. >> the era of the obama gridlock is over. >> we're going to make them squeal. >> american people have spoken. they've given us divided government. >> they expect the people they elect to get the job done. >> just because you have divided government doesn't mean you don't accomplish everything. >> i look forward to working together to deliver for the american people. >> former cbs reporter cheryl atkinson said her reporting was stonewalled. >> alex rodriguez confessed to using steroids to federal officials. >> his credibility was pretty shattered already. >> recovered safe and sound. >> we begin with president obama's response to the historic republican blowout victory in the mid term elections. >> the american people sent a message. one that they've sent for several elections now. the they expect the people they elect to work as hard as w

another chip away at the obama administration. now, their signature legislation, all right, is thought to be deceptive in some quarters. got to do daniel. >> it does damage, political damage. not a good thing for the president. it adds to the feeling that the government is deceptive ant isn't on our side and isn't doing the right thing. >> here is how you have to attack the problem and i did say and some say it isn't true. all right? but why would a guy like gruber, all right, smart guy, he has been on the factor before. all right? why we go out and say a falsehood in talking about something that he put together? it doesn't make sense. >> i'm not sure he was. i mean, probably was some deception going on. pack certain way. >> not going to call it a tax because it's never going to pass if we do it. supreme court as you pointed out before did say it's a tax is what made it legal so he could proceed. but if they called it a tax up front, it would have had a lot of political problems. >> here is what is going to happen, leslie. this is

so, the obama administration trying to run from him? >> they are. they are trying to say this is just about mr. gruber. it's not about us and the administration. and as we all know now, that gruber sat in the inner circle, in the oval office with barack obama, harry reid, nancy pelosi, crafting the law. representation. the lie is the law right now. and i think now that they trying to do the jeremiah wright, bill ayers, i didn't know him. he wasn't really in the inner circle. when we look at the law and look at what gruber said, they match up. there is no distinction between the lines that were told and law that was written. that's why this video is so powerful. >> which video. there are seven of them. >> what he is saying is actually what i have seen happen in the law. they lied to us. they misrepresented to us what they were doing. and we're putting the puzzle together and i think that's why it's so damning for the administration. >> so what happens? i mean, it's okay, they are up to their eyeballs with gruber and look pretty bad trying to run from

and they used the former members of obama's administration. and they let them constantly deny reality with no one, none of the journalists present, except jake tapper occasionally, trying to knock them down. so honestly, i don't understand why they are still hiring. they think they have somebody on the right, somebody on the left. there were a lot of people on the left there. and carnie is the worst. he is the lying liar who lied for the administration. most anti-pressed administration since nixon. this is the guy on cnn on election night telling you what it means, i don't think so. >> since you're pulling the question, will you question the lineup as well? >> you saw it, actually. andrea mitchell sitting next to al sharpton. same thing with chuck todd. they make no distinction between an activist between al sharpton and journalist like chuck todd. you have al sharpton analyzing the race in pennsylvania saying how successful people were in getting people out to vote for the democratic cause and he is the activist getting them out to vote for t

>> guest: it went from 1992 through 2011 when the obama administration replaced it. i happen to be very fond of the period and it's something none of them have done which is to make it very clear that it is done in some more than others and they are less hierarchical than that. but the obama administration wanted the clean sweep of anything that had gone before. >> host: when the students come into class what is your reaction to some of the products they have. >> guest: i never comment on what anybody else eats. i think it's rude. >> host: what is your opinion when you go to some of this mac stuff. >> guest: it's about marketing it's not about health. if you want to eat healthy you have plenty of fruits and vegetables in your diet, you don't eat much junk food and balance your calorie intake against the number you are expanding. there's really nothing to it and there are lots of tips. lots and lots but those do not get heavily advertised food products. it used to be that the periphery of the grocery store had real foods and i could stay out of the center aisles that

we are hearing lowered expectations from the obama administration. that said, one of the things they seem to be overlooking is of the people that picked plans -- 7year, only sell million have coverage. >> on the expectation gains. a quote from marsha blackburn this past week, the administration is trying to rewrite its definition of success with the president's signature law. can you talk about the politics? >> republicans will come after the obama administration if it wants to switch the expectations. it remains a political issue on capitol hill. with the republicans pose to take control of the senate, we are likely to see hearings on both the enrollment issue itself, the numbers, and technical a glitches that arise with the website. it is interesting that they came out this week with numbers that are lower than the previous projections. of the heat off of groups like enroll america and allows him to go about their work with less pressure. we have a very up eat enrollment rejection -- up the enrollment production -- upbeat enrollment projection. why

but when the obama administration came in, it came in with a very clear agenda to try to clean up the food safety problem to the extent that it could. and what that meant was getting congress to pass the food safety modernization act, which congress did in early 2011. finally. and that law gave the fda powers that the fda had been seeking for decades to issue recalls, for example, to require food producers to follow standard food safety procedures and so forth. so the fda is finally getting started on that process. the rules are out, they've been proposed. it's going to be a few years before they're completely implemented, but everybody knows that this is coming. and a lot of food producers have just gone onboard and started following these procedures. the other thing that's happened is the courts have started taking food safety more seriously, so the officials of the peanut corporation of america were convicted recently of doing very bad things. and this was the company that knew that its peanut butter was contaminated with salmonella and shipped it out anyway. and lots and lots of p

you is one of the things have to live with if you're going to be secretary of defense in the obama administration. >> i talked to you before i did an interview with chuck hagel. about the policy issues, and other matters. not because of my conversation with you but because i read a bit, i asked him, did he have the confidence of the president. give me the timeline of that. >> that interview was on thursday. time int week was the which she made the decision to hand in his resignation. although he actually went through the procedure over the weekend. it was last week that he made the decision. when he said to you i don't wake up in the morning worrying about whether i am going to teach -- keep my job, he was telling the child truth. he probably already knew he wasn't going to keep his job, and it was his choice. >> did he or did he not have the confidence of the president when he said if i don't have the confidence the president will tell me? >> i think he had the confidence of the president. it is impossible to penetrate those one-on-one meetings between secretary of defense and the president of t

>> guest: it went from 1992 through 2011 when the obama administration replaced it. i happen to be very fond of the period and it's something none of them have done which is to make it very clear that it is done in some more than others and they are less hierarchical than that. but the obama administration wanted the clean sweep of anything that had gone before. >> host: when the students come into class what is your reaction to some of the products they have. >> guest: i never comment on what anybody else eats. i think it's rude. >> host: what is your opinion when you go to some of this mac stuff. >> guest: it's about marketing it's not about health. if you want to eat healthy you have plenty of fruits and vegetables in your diet, you don't eat much junk food and balance your calorie intake against the number you are expanding. there's really nothing to it and there are lots of tips. lots and lots but those do not get heavily advertised food products. it used to be that the periphery of the grocery store had real foods and i could stay out of the center aisles that

is the response to the obama administration to putin's aggression sufficient? >> yes. >> you didn't answer. >> yes. >> let her answer. >> yes. so this was about syria. so -- i mean, we're all here in a debate and we actually believe in reasoned deliberation and we believe that if you hear facts and well-expressed opinions based on facts, it can change your mind. that is the premise of this evening. i knew you would quote that against me and i did believe it when i wrote it. i absolutely thought this is critical in terms of sending a message to putin. i have since spent half the summer talking to russian experts talking about what in fact is driving putin and i absolutely think at this point that had we done what i was suggesting, it wouldn't have changed putin's calculation. >> so don't do what you're suggesting now. >> no. >> wait a minute. >> but equally -- equally importantly, it might have changed -- it might well have tore pea deed our negotiations with iran. much as we should be actings differently, i fully understand barack obama's calculus that says thi

administration. the president never asks him to stay. i think chuck hagel, who is certainly a veteran of washington politics, saw the handwriting and tried to leave on his own terms and submitted his resignation. >> without being asked. >> yes. >> why did the president didn't ask them to stay? >> i don't think it was his views. if anything, it was that the white house was disappointed he wasn't more vocal in his defenses of administration and national security policy. they did not see him as a great spokesman for their cause. i think there was the imperative, after the shellacking democrats took in the midterm election, there had to be changes made. when you look around the national security establishment, chuck hagel was the guy holding the short straw. >> what was his relationship to the national security council? >> the reputation he had was that he was not very forceful in those meetings. he did not speak up at length in those meetings. his story was the reason he didn't speak up in meetings was

administration. martha: the bigger part of all of this is not that he seems smug as he's talking about how the wool is pulled over the eyes

and also, it looks like a big win for the obama administration. do we have background on this yet? how long officials had been working on this? >> reporter: we do know. it wasn't all that long. we found out about it out of the blue this morning. that's what a lot of people are saying, that it happened very quickly. we found out after about 10:00 a.m. or so this morning. we do know that on wednesday, james clapper, the director of national intelligence was supposed to be speaking in new york, at an event. that was canceled due to scheduling conflicts. now, we know why. the obama administration sent him to north korea to secure the release of these two detainees, poppy. >> i also know that the obama administration, very quickly, came out this morning and said, there was no quid pro quo. nothing was given to the north koreans, in exchange for these detainees, right? >> that's right. we heard that from the state department, to be clear about this. the white house has not said much. president obama did make brief remarks when he was asked this morning. and i think we have those comments

now this is obviously the big -- a big announcement for the obama administration. eric holder is stepping down, as you know. he announced that last month and there's a lot of big cases that they're looking at, including the investigations into the shooting of michael brown. now, loretta lynch handled a very important case similar to the michael brown case in the 1990s, if you remember the haitian immigrant abner louima who was sodomized by some new york city cops. she handled that case. so that's going to be an interesting thing for -- experience for her to bring to the justice department. >> evan, such a fascinating choice. she is not known as a headline grabber here in new york, and there are plenty of those in this area. she's known as a crime fighter mostly and a prosecutor and you brought up the abner louima case which is so interesting because obviously one of the biggest cases or one of the biggest situations the justice department is dealing with right now and will be dealing with is what happened out in ferguson and the issue of police conduct. >> right. e

we begin with breaking news in a major shakeup in the obama administration. defense secretary, chuck hagel, is stepping down. hagel, the only republican on the national security team, is expected to join the president next hour in making that official announcement. hagel and the president have been discussing his departure over the last several weeks. let's get to the pentagon and barbara starr. although the white house is saying it was a mutual decision, you say it's not? >> well, carol, good morning. the white house and officially here at the pentagon the sword it was a mutual decision between the president and secretary hagel for the secretary to go. but in reality, the political reality, several officials now tell us here at cnn is that hagel basically was forced out, pushed out, whatever you want to call it. the secretary and the president had been talking over the last several weeks about what the president wanted to see in the final two years of his administration in national security. they had been talking about it and, you know, once you start talkin

>> does the obama administration have to enforce the law as it's written. the plain text of this law says -- >> the question i'm asking you is about the federal exchanges. >> that's right. and the plain text of this law says the federal exchanges cannot offer subsidies to the consumers who come and sign up for obamacare. >> okay, so contrary to what is in the law. >> that's right. >> what will the supreme court do with this? >> the supreme court is going to rule that the obama administration must implement the law as written. they don't have the power to change the law. and the result is going to be the end of obamacare because four out of five people who are signing up for this health law get a subsidy and that subsidy is so big compared with the price that once the supreme court rules, they are going to see the actual cost of these obamacare affordable plans and it's going to be 400% higher than it currently is. nobody is going to sign up for these. this exchange period that started today, it's going to be the last one in history. >> all right. well, we'l

rolling back the obama administration's agenda. it depends on the issue. senator murkowski and harry reid reid -- i will work with them on energy and alaska. >> mr. sullivan, as of this afternoon, $57 million has been spent on this race. how has the spending serve to inform and motivate voters. have there been benefits? >> one of the things we recognized early on was how much money was going to be spent in this race. we recognized it was going to be a challenge. a flood of outside money, third-party, outside money supporting me, mark. we saw that as a challenge for all races. i think it has kept many other races off the air. we put ford an agreement called the alaska agreement, very summer to the agreement put ford in 2012 massachusetts senate race. it worked. it was between elizabeth moran and scott. it kept the outside money off the airwaves. it was unfortunate that mark did not -- he had plenty of time to sign it. he did not. the vast majority of alaskans wanted that to be signed. >> 57 million is unprecedented. does this help voters understand the issu

damage done to the obama administration, leslie? >> oh, definitely damage done to the obama administration. i mean, you know, democrat -- i'm a democrat, but we have to be realistic and look at the facts. the fact is we got slaughtered in the midterm election. the fact is the president's approval ratings are very low. and the fact is we have a presidential election where we definitely want to gain seats in the house and the senate and want to keep the seat in the oval office. this is a piece of legislation that republicans have been very open about wanting to repeal. replace, to tweak, to change. definitely hurt the president. i think democrats honestly my fellow democrats are lying to themselves by trying to pretend that it doesn't. >> anybody who thinks that it isn't. they have to look at the new polls that says only 37% of the country now supports obamacare. %. very low. now, in the next year, it is widely predicted by economists that your health insurance is going to go up. that your conduct tillables are going to go up. mine al

but clearly, the obama administration was not. the obama administration -- president obama said time and time again that this was not a fight that the united states could make an appreciable difference in. it was his role to keep the united states out of it. we heard in so many interviews that he would compare the syrian conflict to an african civil war or something that was really marginal win the u.s. looked at its own interests. that was the civil war against assad. we wrote however many stories about how there was this debate within the administration, but fundamentally president obama never really believed it. he didn't believe that it was that important. on the other hand, you had iran, which was clearly heavily invested in supporting the assad regime. flowing money, personnel, troops, weapons to the assad regime, because it was about keeping the assad regime, central to iran's interest. there was this real mismatch of interest. in some ways, that allowed, at least from the united states point of view, to compartmentalize th

we begin with breaking news in a major shakeup in the obama administration. defense secretary, chuck hagel, is stepping down. hagel, the only republican on the national security team, is ex

and i think in part it's because the administration, the obama administration, did such a good job of desensitizing a lot of the general public from this issue. you talk about benghazi now, and no matter how bad it was -- and it was bad -- people just roll their eyes. so will this report or will the report from the intelligence committee make any difference? i don't think so at the end of the day. they just seem to have been able to get away with an awful example of leadership and then a cover-up that is just despicable. shannon: you know, i spoke at an event with a group of business leaders from the u.s. and britain earlier week, and one of the fellow panelists with me said he thought come 2016 hillary clinton's going to get a lot of credit for being a grown-up on foreign policy given her experience as secretary of state. and one of the ceos pulled me aside afterwards and said what about benghazi? don't you think that's going to come up in 2016? do you think anything from these two reports could be troublesome for her if she makes a run for the white house? >> well, i'm sure that, yo

the obama administration puts a lot of faith in the united nations. and tehran has been violating six regulations and now our position is now ignoring that. >> that's right. look, iran is following the richard nixon strategy that he used during watergate. you know up, he famously said to john mitchell once, do anything, plead the fifth, stone wall, whatever it takes, save the plan. that's what iran's doing. and president obama and secretary of state kerry are falling for it. >> well, finally richard nixon was forced to resign, he didn't have support of the republicans on the hill. what do you think will happen with tehran? >> i think they'll go from strength to strength. if you see weakness in negotiation it's not just the obama administration, but the british and the french and the russians and the chinese are happy to have it turn out this way. it's a pathetic performance and it amounts to appeasement of iran's leaders. >> ambassador john bolton, see you tomorrow at 12 noon. perhaps there will be an announcement as we follow the on going development

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as you know, hagel most recently criticized the obama administration on syria. he said the strategy there needed to include the syrian government as well. he also testified before congress recently on, you know, perhaps we need ground troops to fight isis. don't know if any of this has to do with the stepping down, we just got this word, defense secretary chuck hagel stepping down as defense secretary. just took office in 2013. we have general mark hurdling on our beeper line, are you there? >> i am here. >> general, are you there? >> i am here, carol, how are you? >> oh. i'm good, i'm just kind of stun fwhid news that chuck hagel is stepping down, how about you? >> well, it actually does stun me a little bit too. it's surprising giving some of the things that are going on