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Of four u.s. servicemen out there, ambassador and the like. so how do we now deal with this in the context of everything else. >> you deal with it by dealing in fax. >> and i think thats the point, ed. i think thats the point. >> whatever happened to the day when the united states senator would pick up the phone and do his own information. senators do have their phone calls taken, okay. is this true? what do you know? and were losing that. karen, what about that? >> well, remember also, as we le...

Off of what you read on the internet or what somebody tells you. go to the briefing. check that information for yourself. >> in that same exchange, a senator who was not at the briefing asked john kerry if he would work with him on that. well, i guess so. you didnt go to the briefing. >> its a good start. >> ed, what im curious about is hillary clinton, unlike a lot of secretaries of state had a very good working relationship inside the senate on both the right side and the left side of the aisl...

0 those of you who are staying, as many of you will, please know that i hope you will redouble your efforts to do all that you can to demonstrate unequivocally why diplomacy and development are right up there with defense. how when we think about who we are as americans, its because we are united and committed across our government to do whatever is required to fulfill the missions we have assumed as public officials and public servants. >> right up there with defense. that is one of the big ide...

0 no americans were hurt or killed, but one of the people who was wounded in the blast was a turkish reporter who was reportedly at the embassy to meet with the u.s. ambassador. the turkish government is blaming known members of a marxist group they say has operated in the country since the 1970s. in egypt today protesters hurling firebombs through the estate of mohamed morsis presidential palace, taking place on the date of the uprising that overthrew mubarak. vice president biden in europe, an...

0 i will miss you. i will probably be dialing ops just to talk. >> dialing ops. want to know what ops? this is ops. ah, this is the state departments nerve center, better known as the operation center, better known as ops. this is the place where for the last four years hillary clinton could call any hour 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to find out what the heck was going on anywhere in the world. the operation center is sort of legendary. it was created by jfk in 1961. it is essentially the sec...

And that was the larger issue with romneys 47% comments and with paul ryans makers versus takers argument, as greg sargent of the "washington post" puts it, "there has been a great deal of chatter among republicans lately that they dont really need to change their ideas, they merely need to change their tone. but as cuccinnellis comments demonstrate, the ideas are the tone." lets turn to our panel tonight. msnbc political analyst richard wolffe is with us. also howard fineman of the huffington p...

>> good to be here, ed. >> you bet. did chuck hagel deserve the treatment that he got from these senators today? was it out of line in any way? >> its a pretty rough world, and im sure senator hagel, whom ive known for almost two decades, realized that, and knew because of his previous moderate positions within his party, moderate positions becoming as scarce as almost anything in the republican party, he was going to be taken to task. i want to say that the most encouraging remarks i heard from...

With paul ryans makers versus takers argument, as greg sargent of the "washington post" puts it, "there has been a great deal of chatter among republicans lately that they dont really need to change their ideas, they merely need to change their tone. but as cuccinnellis comments demonstrate, the ideas are the tone." lets turn to our panel tonight. msnbc political analyst richard wolffe is with us. also howard fineman of the huffington post and david corn of mother jones. gentlemen, great to have...

So im going to do something i dont usually do, which is vent. who are the takers and who are the makers, ed? is chris christie a taker? are the people on the jersey shore takers? not makers? are the people in connecticut and on staten island who were devastated by sandy takers and not makers? the congress of the united states, over the last couple months, just voted about 60 or 70 billion dollars to repair the devastation in the new york metropolitan area through new jersey up to connecticut. an...

The pentagon budget and maybe they can finally audit themselves, as weve had senators on this program say the pentagon is so big they cant even audit themselves. give hagel a shot. he deserves it. because he was shot at in vietnam and he knows what troops go through. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonights question -- do republicans want a defense secretary who would just lead us into more wars? text a for yes. text b for no to 622639. you can always go to our blog at e...