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Next secretary of defense. up next, well learn more about ashton carter, his time over at the pentagon, who is e h? what does he want to do? plus, the one key element that he lacks that both of his predecessors have. and are the presidents actions on immigration reform legal? the secretary of homeland security, jeh johnson, was up on capitol hill today in front of the house leadership. representative peter king is standing by. well get his reaction to what he heard. and dozens of people killed...

Hagel. why is it the of defense under this president have had unhappy experience. >> they say it comes from obamas views on the iraq war, on the afghanistan the way its been managed. he just doesnt take his recommendations with the same weight at his some of his predecessors -- >> not just the military. >> his whole leadership. but hes skeptical of military options put before him. >> he doesnt like war. obama doesnt like war. thats reasonable, but he has declared one, essentially now. hes in a t...

Bring you in. david cameron getting tougher and pushing the european union in their meeting to brussels to support tougher sanctions. he invoked nazi germany here. theres a great amount of focus on the president here, but many believe rightfully so david cameron is challenging the allies, european union that it needs to have a stronger voice and lead here as well. >> yeah. thats right. and this is kind of a political stretch for him political at home. his government and his predecessors tried to...

Briefing peter baker of "the new york times," tweeted that at the very moment he was criticizing the use of anonymous sources by the press, the white house had just e-mailed a notification of a background, anonymous white house briefing for reporters. >> mark, this isnt unusual. i mean, anonymous sources are used all the time. youd like to not use them if you could, but frequently you need them to get to a story. there were many people on the record in this "washington post" piece. >> including ...

Saying he accepts responsibility for the george washington bridge scandal and denying involvement. >> as we let you go, youre running? [ laughter ] >> its such a great question. >> let me give you a different answer. because you know, you were obnoxious enough to aask again, i might as well give you something. the fact is, that you should beware of people who are overanxious to make that decision before they need to, and by the way, its pretty nice to be asked, you know? if you really stink, the...

And it was as this was breaking, and were told by the kremlin that it was putin, and then confirmed by the white house, putin who told president obama about this downed airliner in ukrainian air space. what about this -- where we go forward, if in fact russian separatists and if in fact russia has been supplying them? >> look, bret, charles just made the case, so nicely outlined almost in lawyer-like fashion the evidence against the russians, and the evidence against president putin. this is not...

I dont think weve seen that before. this may be a fairly primitive drone, but it does point to hamass growing ambitions as well as their growing arsenal. the other new and sort of potential game-changer here is the general in egypt. for hamas to get its hands on those weapons, a lot of them come through egypt. the egyptians are beginning to crack down harder and harder on the tunnels and shown no interest -- the general is not friendly towards hamas in any way, shape or form, unlike his predeces...

Standpoint, focusing on elements of the health scare law makes the most sense. there are conservatives, republicans say you should be going on him over executive actions overall even though historically its lower than his predecessors. >> you say its the border issue right now before the administration would deal with this lawsuit. what else is on their agenda that they think they can get some progress on this year? >> well, in the executive action toolbox theres a lot of things there. and witne...

>> the seed was planted when there was a massive march on the pentagon. people realized that we could go beyond polite protests into more massive civil disobedience and shake up the war makers. >> mcnamara had been managing the war since 1961. the man was just overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secretary of defense. no one of my predecessors has served so long. i, myself, did not plan to. >> robert mcnamara leaves office. i think its fair to say th...

And shake up the war makers. >> the man was overwhelmed with guilt. >> in less than 60 days, i will have served seven years as secretary of defense. no one of my predecessors served so long. i myself did not plan to. >> robert mcnamara leaves office. i think its fair to say that he is by that point tortured on a personal level by the war. >> tonight the communists hit the very heart of saigon, the brand new u.s. embassy building and ten cities in that war torn country. >> the offensive was the b...