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Yesterday as the new secretary of state. kerry is expected to speak in about ten minutes. duvall patrick named an interim replacement. his former chief of staff will serve until a special election is held in june. >> working with and indeed learning for the congressional delegation and president obama, i know i can help move forward the interest of this great state in this temporary period and i look forward to this honor of service. >> joining me now, politics reporter for boston globe. thank y...

Packages in 2012. a breach of government rules limiting compensation. as the morning times annie lowery reports, all but one of the top executives at the failed insurer a.i.g. which required more than $180 billion in emergency taxpayer financing received pay packages worth more than $2 million and 16 top executives at the three firms earned comboyned pay of more than $100 million. the report concluded, treasury made no meaningful reform to its processes lacking criteria and an effective decision...

Are -- if it ends up being the official hillary super pac, it could be a force to be reckoned with. >> and i also wonder, margie, if this super pac does very well, very early, gets a lot of money, maybe other super pacs form, if that could be part of her decision-making process, if it could push her toward an affirmative decision. >> its possible. i think hillary clinton has a lot of things to think over. she has a well-deserved break ahead of her. and whats great about hillary clinton is that w...

At the white house. any idea why now, what was behind the timing of it? >> reporter: i think at least from the white house, it sort of caught them by surprise because there was only limited review that took place here. speaking privately to white house officials this morning, they say that the white house thinks this is great, that they didnt want to interfere with the decision-making process made by the chiefs. theyre expected to put out some public statement on this very topic only a short tim...

Blunting and its now going to be up to the members of that committee to say, theyve either got evidence that shes lying or not or theres just nothing there that you can draw from her. she said, we didnt deny and we gave them what they needed. >> michael? >> chris, i think its not the small tactical stuff, which has been gone over many times now. its the bigger strategic issues. its her statement that we cant conduct diplomacy from a bunker pb and its also this broader strategic challenge in nort...

Position after position, i hope that he is looking in future appointments to include more diversity because i think it will make the country and the decision making process stronger. >> to krystals point, take a look at this picture from todays "new york times." it was taken late last month. and it features the presidents senior advisers. and other than valerie jarrett who i believe is hidden in the photo, all the presidents men. >> yes. you can just barely see her leg behind the man in the blue...

Going to continue to rely on and, you know, anything that sounds like an obama doctrine in the second term is a hagel, kerry, biden doctrine. >> michael, continuing the mafia movie theme we have going in this block, i think of "godfather 3," just when i thought i was out i get pulled back in. were pulled in vietnam. that was the boogieman for decades. they didnt have the vietnam sort of memories hanging over its shoulder and invading the psyche and challenging the thought process and now when we...

I believe in using force but only after a careful decision-making process. i will do everything i can to avoid needless senseless war. is that an unreasonable position for a secretary of defense to have? >> i think it is in line with where we see the president going in terms of using he doesnt want to put troops on the ground any more. he made that clear. he wants to the rely more on unmanned drones for example in afghanistan and so on and fight terrorism that way. i think brit is right and part...

Magazine, im not a passivist. i believe in using force but only after a careful decision-making process. i will do everything i can to avoid needless senseless war. is that an unreasonable position for a secretary of defense to have? >> i think it is in line with where we see the president going in terms of using he doesnt want to put troops on the ground any more. he made that clear. he wants to the rely more on unmanned drones for example in afghanistan and so on and fight terrorism that way. ...

Magazine, im not a passivist. i believe in using force but only after a careful decision-making process. i will do everything i can to avoid needless senseless war. is that an unreasonable position for a secretary of defense to have? >> i think it is in line with where we see the president going in terms of using he doesnt want to put troops on the ground any more. he made that clear. he wants to the rely more on unmanned drones for example in afghanistan and so on and fight terrorism that way. ...