but just really quickly about this. alice has passed away over the weekend. remember her on the brady bunch? we ll have more on that. katie couric is here in our 8:00 a.m. hour. also jay carney announced he s leaving the white house. but before he does, he joins us at 7:00 a.m. for a friendly exit interview. it ll be friendly. i hope you don t say anything inappropriate, joe. coming up, the insider trader allegations involving a billionaire investor, one of golf s biggest stars. that story is next. this is strange. but first here s bill kairns, speaking of strange. exit interviews? is it possible? let s have it now. i think we ve been doing it for a long time.
olympics. charred remains in that burned out california cabin, now identified as ex-police officer christopher dorner. he s accused of killing four people, including a police officer and the daughter of a former lapd captain. those are your headlines. brian: the other big story that has come out as the confirmation hearings for the president s new cabinet takes shape is there are so many questions unanswered as to what happened in benghazi on 9/11/2012. how they re getting those answers is to ask these people who are going to hold positions, through exit interviews or through people who want to hold new jobs. as it turns out the president was not briefed him, he wasn t curious enough to pick up the phone. he went to bed know what happened to the ambassador. is there a problem with that? the president has a totally different view.
gerrymandering when speaker pelosi was speaker pelosi. it s gotten more gerrymandered. even with reagan, it s not just reagan. we began to see the realignment happening in 68 with richard nixon. by 72 when he faced re-election, the south had now moved to the republican column. we don t really i think we re in a fluid period and it s due to the fact in part that we don t have a set of ideas that will bring unusual groups of people together and that s what a coalition is. you can t be just a coalition of the willing. it s got to be those who are different on a number of that they see something in common. for example, in 1980 on election day, the exit interviews showed many or most of those who voted that day disagreed with reagan on school prayer, gun control, abortion, e.r.a., but 90% of those people agreed with him on defense and economic policy.
tough questions, her directness that was equal to the directness of some of the senators including rand paul saying he would have fired her and intriguing i think in her exit, so-called exit interviews. many people asked about mistakes in the past, some presidents others have not. she instantly went to benghazi as a mistake. as something that went wrong under her leadership of the state department. will that linger if you will on her legacy as there are still questions that have not been answered? well, it will certainly be part of her record and it has to be. she has stood up and taken full responsibility many times including in those very dramatic hearings on capitol hill of last week. obviously, that was a black day for the foreign service to lose four fine public servants. and so, the state department needs to internalize the lessons of benghazi and move forward but
actually sign legislation now to fulfill a campaign promise is a bit naive. maybe that was the calculus in 2010. it was not the calculus this time. sure the president is using campaign tactics to pressure congress but he wants the legislative win. he already got the political win. it s called a second term. finally, friday is hillary clinton s last day in office. now that her successor has been confirmed, she is talking to the press, including andrea mitchell in a series of exit interviews. yesterday clinton weighed in on what may be the most underreports story in washington, the unrest taking place in egypt right now. clinton stood by one of the most consciousal foreign policy decisions the administration made that gets little little the ouster of mubarak. she responded to the head of the army who said that the state could fall part. that would lead to incredible chaos and violence on a scale that would be devastating for