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There is a lot more happening tonight. susan hendricks is here. susan? >> anderson, president obama plans to tap james comey to replace robert muller as fbi director, according to officials familiar with the nomination process. comey is a former federal prosecutor who worked in new york and virginia, served as attorney general in george w. bushs administration. the world health organization called a new virus recently found in humans a threat to the entire word. the new coronavirus first surfa...

Terrible mistake. i want to get michelle malkins teak on this. >> it is chilling and disturbing and, of course, eric holder lied there. i think im willing to pay for a chiropractor for juan because the water buckets he is carrying for the white house are very heavy. i cant be mad at you any more, juan. >> michelle, im disappoint. >> look, i will tell you what disappoints me that anybody would be surprised or shocked at the outcome of this thoroughly corrupt justice department led by eric holder ...

Was standing up to the white house and blocking the reauthorization of the warrantless wiretapping program. rick, it seems as if you must be a republican, if president obama hopes to get anyone through any sort of nomination process, he or she must have logged in some time in the republican administration. >> above all, in a job like this one. i mean, we ive just been trying to think if there ever was an fbi director who wasnt a republican, and i dont think i can come up with one. certainly j. e...

The whole idea that they were briefed, could be burg not prior to the events. thats why i think he is trying to straighten out these feelings right now. >> and talk specifically about the presidents claim today that we prefer to capture as opposed to drone strikes. does that ring true to you? >> it does not. if you listen carefully to the nomination process, they named the one guy that they captured prior to the spring. weve now got two. the preferred method has been to kill. i and other intelli...

Balance of power here, kristen, on that appeals court. this is the second highest court to the supreme court. >> thats right. i am told by senior administration officials that they are calling around to see if they can perhaps persuade any senators to change their votes. theyre also, of course, looking at other potential judges for this position, but, youre right, there is a concern about sort of the balance of voices on that court. some democrats accusing of republicans opposing this nomination...

Disappointed we didnt hear hardly anything about what the plan for afghanistan is. instead we heard about questions of who changed talking points back in september which had nothing to do with chuck hagel. >> does she have a point, john? >> i understand that. i think there should have been more conversations about afghanistan. but a big part of this was about iran. let me tell you, america has big problems. we have, you know, the debt. we have stagnant economy. you want to turn those into small ...

Press secretary referred to a bogus report fabricated by the breitbart media team which suggested chuck hagel may be connected to a nonexistent organization called the friends of hamas. >> just to be clear, he wont be withdrawn. >> absolutely not. if any suggestion to the otherwise -- to the contrary might have been found in the minutes of the meetings of the friends of hamas, yeah. >> ari melber is an msnbc contributor and correspondent for "the nation" magazine and toure is my colleague and co...

Are elected leaders on the right feel they have been given enough information? >> well, here is the issue. chuck hagels nomination has nothing to do with benghazi. if there were issues the senators have of benghazi it should have come up during senator kerrkerrys nomination process. it does not. the fact that chuck hagels nomination process is about benghazi when first it was the issues he had with afghanistan and iraq and the positions that he has with israel, what is this about really? this is...

Help somebody when they go back to their district for an election in 2014 that theyre able to say i stood up to the president on chuck hagel? >> i think that, look, most americans i think are not terribly tuned into the nomination process of chuck hagel, probably doesnnt have strong feelings about him. say youre lindsay graham and you have a town meeting, a lot of people are thinking is graham really with us? is he fighting the president to the wall the way we want him to? lindsay graham does ha...

Muscle by republicans in the senate for sure. >> okay. so hagel gets blocked at least for now. rand paul and others are threatening to block john brennan. susan rice didnt get to the nomination process. is this rocky road if thats how we want to describe it, david, does this hurt the presidents credibility or at least his ability to get things done, a small distraction, should it become a smaller one? put it into the wider con tech in terms of what the white house want to be accomplishing right ...