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Impact? do you think, either of you, if the president were to ask tim geithner to stick around at least through that, like, listen, friend, can you extend this another six weeks because i dont want to go through a nomination fight in the middle of all of this as well, dont you think tim geithner would say okay? >> one thing i learned in politics, if the president of the united states asks you to do something, you usually do it. you do it enthusiastically. i think timothy geithner, i agree with w...

That you might be nominated or your name might be floated, you might say i dont want my name floated. if you keep watching this kind of process go on. >> well, i mean -- another take which im not sure i believe, but another possibility is that this is all, like, cold hard calculation by the administration. and that they never actually preferred chuck hagel but put him up as a decoy so somebody else could more easily get through the nomination process. i think andrea is right there. it looks bad ...

Im a united states senator. im not an israeli senator. >> well, id certainly think hes going to be put through the ringer more than senator kerry who will be very, very easily confirmed. but hagel has a lot of friends in the senate. not as many as he used to because theres been some turnovers. some of the newer senators dont have the respect and consideration they might have for a former colleague. but hes got excellent credentials. hes got two purple hearts. he was an enlisted man. i think they...

Concussion during the benghazi hearings that got underway just yesterday. we talked to senator bob corker about 30 minutes ago who was on the committee who was doing the questions on benghazi yesterday. he says it is more important to have hillary clinton testify before they proceed on the nomination process of john tere kerry, well see whether or not that happens. martha: it raises the question if this will obfuscate the question of benghazi. will we here from hillary clinton? that is the big q...

Would accept that, im sure speaker boehner would accept that if the presidents hoping to. >> very quick before i go, the k -- unloaded on -- this relationship between harry reid and john mccain, is it as bad as it looks? >> they have found times to work together in the past, but in this day and age, they have a hard time agreeing. >> was harry reid itching for a fight? >> i havent talked to him, i didnt have a chance to talk to him about it, but im pretty confident, not only he was looking forwa...

York city for benghazi is really a stretch. she was the werngs who went out on sunday television. and she said today to brian williams that she is not blameless. i think there was a lack of care with the talking points and the republicans seized on it and claims she was being political and trying to be political at a key point in the presidential election campaign, which she strongly denies. >> but youre saying that the presidents statements to that effect were not enough because they were not b...

Nomination process. but she was left -- she said she didnt feel that shes a victim here, but she certainly did acknowledge to brian that she thinks politics played a part. and i dont think theres any way to deny that. now, the fact that he had an alternative nominee who is so well qualified, is the chairman of the foreign relations committee, has goj oj r gone on secret missions for this white house has done work in afghanistan and pakistan and can sail through confirmation and prevent another b...

Raise questions for them at the white house. the president, at least in every public way possible has shown a lot of support for her, and it real any some ways comes down to the question of whether or not he feels very emboldened by the election and believes that this benghazi thing is something that is going to go away. they have to make that calculation, because she will be grilled on these questions if she actually goes before this senate committee, no? >> reporter: they do have to think abou...

John kerry. >> thats absolutely true. but we are still looking to this nomination process and republicans obviously are thinking about that, as well. senator corkers comments about how the secretary of state is a very important role, they dont want to see a political nomination. the administration knows that. they want their nominee to have the full confidence of the senate and that in part why ve has to go through the meetings right now. >> joel, then if this is the case and erin is correct, su...

That would be the appropriate place perhaps the nomination process but everything weve been told, thus about benghazi, finding out why four souls to lost, to give their families answers. this is not about the secretary of state nomination. this is who changed talking points, so on and so forth, right? >> it may be. >> it may be. which is why some people are concerned. the mere fact we have to say it may be when it should be. >> sure. but the administration likely would not be putting susan rice ...