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0 >> actually not a surprise. not a surprise because most republicans will say a president has the right to choose his own nominees. they believe that so that when the president is from their party, that holds true. what happened here is that hagels performance at his hearing and some of the questions that have come up, some of the unanswered questions, have dragged that out. there are two factions of republicans who have slowed this down. a group focused solely on hagel wanting more information...

vice-presidential showdown and what he expects from obama versus romney round two. >> ladies and gentlemen, mike huckabee. [applause] >> thank you, thank you very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. just days after the uprising at the egyptian embassy and the trerrorist attack in benghazi, four americans, including an ambassador was murdered i looked you in the eye and said, your government lied to you. the reaction from the left was swift and brut...

and accuses the romney campaign of using this tragic event that led to the deaths of four americans to score political points. im shannon bream. americas news headquarters live from the nations capitol starts right now. with questions mounting about the benghazi crisis, advisors to the president and top republicans staked out their positions on the sun morning talk shows. steve sensteve centanni has the. >> no doubt critics continued to hammer away of the obama white house over the ter...

meanwhile, the presidents top advisor defends the administrations handling of the crisis while also saying the buck stops at the oval office and accuses the romney campaign of using this tragic event that led to the deaths of four americans to score political points. im shannon bream. americas news headquarters live from the nations capitol starts right now. with questions mounting about the benghazi crisis, advisors to the president and top republicans staked out their positions on th...

democrats? >> well, theres a lot of democrats, tamron as you know very well that come from swing districts places where the nra has a lot of influence especially in rural areas but also in sort of suburban slightly rural areas. the nra is the most powerful special interest group in this country. and theres a lot of democrats from swing districts that do not get on the wrong side of the nra and will be forced to hold eric holder in contempt tomorrow afternoon. this is something weve hea...

advertisements against them in their district. >> luke, on the side of you, we have a live picture on capitol hill where things are in place. we will start to get more information on the rules. what can you tell us specifically is going on right now? >> what you see there is the house rules committee and the house. this is the committeehat sets up rules for debate for tomorrow afternoon in the contempt vote of mr. holder. theres going to be a criminal contempt vote and a civil contempt...

>> this is not about eric holder. it is about the department of justice and justice in the united states of america. have the guts. i hope we have the guts and perseverance to get to the bottom of this. >> in all of my 30 years of being in the united states congress, the way he was treated when he was here testifying before this committee, i must admit i have never seen anybody treated in that fashion. >> congressman patrick meehan. is a pennsylvania republican. good to see you. has eric holder ...

of the program. and it is the question that makes or breaks presidents who are running for re-election. are you better off now than you were four years ago? weve got surprising new poll numbers that are sure to make the white house smile if you believe them. plus, mitt romney now says marco rubio is being vetted to be his running mate. but was romney forced to say that after being caught flat-footed on the campaign trail? and the jerry sandusky trial. defense rests without calling sand...

mexico. and agents were instructed to simply watch them. let the guns go in and help find out where they ended up. well over a thousand guns were allowed to walk. never were found. two showed up at the scene where a u.s. border patrol agent named brian terry was killed in a shoot-out with drug dealers. though there has never been a conclusive match between those weapons and the rounds that killed him. nonetheless raised a lot of concern about this operation. now the justice department ...

General in the history of this country has faced a contempt vote before. janet reno it was reported during the committee, but even newt gingrich didnt bring it to the floor of the house of representatives to a vote. but it looks like well be able to see if speaker boehner is more extreme than newt gingrich on this vote. >> you brought that point up in your remarks today. i want to play what a committee member patrick meehan of pennsylvania said today on msnbc. take a listen, i want you to respon...