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Winning 86 of 88 counties in ohio. his democratic opponent was really on the downhill as he got to election day and had his own problems but still an impressive win for kasich. two-term governor of ohio. 18 years house budget committee chairman. also on the house armed services committee. he has traveled with the world and dealt with defense issues as well. he will be heavy on the resume on the pitch. jon: we expect the announcement in less than 30 minutes. hope to talk to you afterwards when he...

Attacks. we will remain vigilant against all acts of terrorism and we will continue to prioritize the protection of our service members and civilians overseas. we will also sustain the libyan people and do the difficult work of democracy. some of that may sound like platitudes. the president will undoubtedly have an uphill battle. there were, by all accounts, dozens. but also in the aftermath, there were no american personnel to actually process that crime scene. one of the first people at that ...

We dont know if theres anybody else that would know their system that could do that. obviously, to look at the airlines there, indonesia, would we havent heard from, or vietnam, or thailand. theyre our radar experts throughout the world. but the private company with their own system, we dont know how many more mathematicians they have at that company that can take a fresh look. >> what do you think about a team b? >> i believe thats the way to go. the problem is that the malaysians, for better o...

Its evolved ask fascinating. i covered john mccain and secretary of state john kerry with defense issues. this is really an expression of the frustration, specifically with this administration but specifically when you look at john kerry, used to be friends, negotiating buddies. their personal tension between john mccain and john kerry were never center stage quite like this. thing is just a display of how frustrated republicans are and how off track they feel the obama administrations foreign p...

Embarrassing and as you point out, every time i would sit in an airplane or talk about defense issues, you say to yourself, gee, i wonder who is hacking into whom right now? we got to be careful. >> indeed. susan, i know you have a lot more to talk about. love to chat with you once you talk to your friend, hes in some serious predicament right now. but susan estridge, always good to talk to you. appreciate it and well see you next week. >> thanks, art. >> going to remind you, dont forget you can...

At least to help break a filibuster, if thats what it came to, ambassador rice failed in convincing senator collins. mccain was out of it at that point. >> let me ask you about this other talk, and were going to play nice now. that a former republican senator chuck hagel could become the next defense secretary. what do you think, chris, how would democrats feel about that scenario? >> i think it would be a very interesting pick, senator hagel is tremendously respected on both sides. i think at t...

Pivot at this point then based on leadership in the white house? >> i would hope they would. one of the first things i would do, i have had the opportunity over the last year to meet with prime minister netanyahu at least three teams to look at defense issues in israel. if were concerned about these issues you can imagine how israel, one of our major allies in the middle east is concerned. i think the least the president should do is take a meeting with the prime minister and sit down and reassu...

>> barackh did an interview, yesterday or today, saying that, actually, they have never had a better relationship in terms of defense issues, which is his area of expertese. so i am not sure that i have to agree with that. i think there have been disagreements with israel -- >> he left the prime minister waiting -- [overlapping dialogue] -- >> waiting inside the white house and he snubbed him. we are giving $1.5 billion to the muslim brotherhood. >> we are giving money to egypt, which we have al...

Grows to hike taxes. >> reporter: on all those people and remember its $200,000, its 250 for the household, 200 for individuals. patti murray and other democrats, she runs their re-election team for the senate, and they say, we would rather have taxes go up for everybody in the country. here we are talking about maybe more than $200 billion in new taxes for everybody in the country, or all taxpayers in the countries if republicans dont agree to have the taxes just go up for top earners. the rhet...

listen, give me a sense of your reaction this morning after hearing president obamas announcement. >> well, im still elated and filled with emotion, what president obama did yesterday was so courageous because, as you know, other past presidents and vice presidents have come out in favor of marriage equality for gay people, but president obama did it while hes still in office and while theres still -- some might consider a risk to his future presidency, re-election but it was incredibl...