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Ambassador. more on that in a moment. the president also choosing his top counter terrorism advisor john brennan to be cia director. calling him a legendary work aalcoholic even during presidential vacations. >> in the summer, its august. he is in full suit and tie. [ laughter ] and one of the reporters asked him dont you ever get any down time? john said i dont do down time. [ laughter ] breneman dropped out of the running same job four years ago because of his bush interrogation enhanced terro...

Keep the military the strongest fighting force. >> reporter: but it drew immediate fire. it was a 14-year-old comment about a diplomat being aggressively gay which hagel has apologized and his opposition in iraq and troop surge and independents what he called the jewish lobby and called for talks with hezbollah. all which led lindsay graham and in your face nomination, that the number two republican senator frankly skeptical. >> i think the president has much better choices as secretary of defen...

In all this week john has been tireless. people here in the white house work hard. john is legendary even in the white house for working hard. he is one of the hardest working public servants i have ever seen. im not sure he has slept in four years. when i was on marthas vineyard, john came and did the press briefing. it was in the summer. its august. is he in full suit and tie. one of the reporters asked him dont you ever get any downtime? john said i dont do down time. he is not even smiling n...

Wrote early this morning on his blog election 8, the polls must be wrong for romney to prevail. the polls have been wrong before and will be wrong again, but the odds are against it. he points out that the national polls are lining up with the state polls. president obama holds a slight lead nationally and the real clear politics of average polls. nate says pencils down time has come, and it appears romney has run out of clock. how do you see this race right now? if this many polls prove to be w...

And i said, im probably going to have to ask this at some point. >> you saw the question that they gave you. explain. >> the card that i wrote -- >> you submitted four questions? >> i see. >> and the question they gave me back -- >> of the four thaw submitted you thought -- >> yes. >> were you excited or nervous? >> at first, the people from the debate -- other people from the debate were saying, youre going to ask the first question. and i said, i dont even know if im going to ask it. so i was ...

The theme of the republican national convention. >> brian: if you have a good idea for what we should be doing when were not on the air, write us. >> steve: remember, our coverage starts on sunday and then were going to fly down and were going to be there. were done at 9:00 oclock every morning. so we got a lot of time, lot of down time, if you got ideas on what we should be doing. >> gretchen: youre auctioning us off? i actually have a problem with that. >> steve: from noon on, our afternoons a...

that. a packed show ahead. take a look at the photo, we have joe lieberman and christine todd whitman, olympic gold medalist dan obrien and the infamous, is that the appropriate word? honey boo boo from toddlers and tiaras. >> "starting point" begins right now. good morning, happy tuesday to you and thank you so much for being with us. >> in our "starting point," disturbing revelations about the man police say is behind the deadly wisconsin sikh temple shooting, including word that a...

To your point about cutting on education, i started out on a school board actually for four years on public school board. and so, i think funding for public education is extremely important, i think its the great equalizer in our country no matter where you come from, but if you work hard you can create good things because of our school system in our country. that said, just as businesses have to cut back during down economic times, people have to do more with less, and i dont think public secto...

>> they went to the baron money, 07 and 08 contributions. i think if they asked for exhibits dealing with false statements or conspiracy after that, theyve reached a conviction on one or more of the campaign contribution counts. you can get an idea where they are going right now. no indications they have reached an agreement on anything other than the buddy money, but reached an agreement on that when its guilty or acquittal, we dont know, i think they are done with that part of it. >> one of th...

You married someone smarter than you, and this is what. >> juliet: oh. >> clayton: should have told us. you and i both. >> dave: i followed that to a tee. >> clayton: absolutely. >> dave: and when youre going to have that down time, a bad time in your career, its nice to have someone smarter than you around. >> clayton: picking them up off the floor and stop meeting the mack and cheese, come with me, big boy. >> juliet: and your parents. >> dave: they want whats good for you, not whats best for ...