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Hes pulled his name. and the fact that mark green was ever nominated for this job in the first place, the fact that hes now the second nominee to try and fail to become army secretary, is itself ridiculous. right? its just a ridiculous process. its ridiculous for him to have been a candidate given whats available on him in the public record. it is ridiculous for the white house that they put him forward without apparently doing any vetting. their vetting process for security positions appears to...

And the fact that mark green was ever nominated for this job in the first place, the fact that hes now the second nominee to try and fail to become army secretary, is itself ridiculous. right? its just a ridiculous process. its ridiculous for him to have been a candidate given whats available on him in the public record. it is ridiculous for the white house that they put him forward without apparently doing any vetting. their vetting process for security positions appears to be about as difficul...

>> meghan: part of the problem with these leaks are they are citing formal officials, meaning they have left. there are no longer working for national security. a lot of people have been put in the security positions during the obama years. they are going to have some loyalties to president obama and i do think that we need to reassess how people can get fired from these jobs. it is harder to be fired from the government then a 10-year in college. if there are people who are going to put their p...

Of big trees. this is going to significantly complicate matters for hassan ruani who faces reelection in may. he came in on a platform of sorting out the new nuclear deal, de-escalating tensions with the world and propping up the economy. if he cant deliver on that, it could pave the way for a hardliner to come into power with iran, which would definitely spike tensions with iran and america. since the trump administration has come into power and since hes appointed all of these key security pos...

Really good, and it leaves it to president-elect trump to be the decision maker because he knows it at the end of the day that the decision rests on him. >> the president-elect met yesterday over trump tower and a veteran like yourself and do you think that its smart for trump to include tulsa and then other democrats in the key security positions? >> this one is difficult for me because i am friends with her and know her well. i i disagree with her world view. in fact, the statements that i hea...

Daily basis but also on a daily basis you have an influx of muslims across the border from the west bank in an orderly fashion with a great deal of security. how does israel handles that, the best way possible to keep the country secure? >> israel, its own population is 20% composed of about 20% arab muslims. which in itself makes it different from the american situation. israel is surrounded by countries which are predominantly muslim and some of them are hostile. israel has developed over the ...

Step up isis airstrikes. give us a sense of how that air effort helps things on the ground? >> well mikaela, i will tell you right now, when you have to fight in a built-up area, a city to go in there alone as ground force to ground force to defending element and right now that would be isis they defend those cities out in anbar, they have the advantage and its a difficult slog. its a difficult fight to get if there and its deadly. when you have the air support that comes in that can literally w...

Guides of the international jihad. thats where the u.s., the cia, the nsa, thats where the british mi-6 and the russian security service, former kgb, thats where their eyes have been focused for months if not years in the lead up to the games. >> to what extent is the u.s. government cooperating with the russian to keep this secure? >> we are going to give them intelligence and information. do they want us there inserting ourselves or do they appreciate us having warships on standby? they do not...

Winners pick up their papers, they head into the door. like it neat, its neat. and the person who wins wont be a stranger or flavor of the month, someone who has proven himself in parliamentary battle and knows his way around. lets watch the brits. maybe we can learn something. countdown with skooet oeb keith starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? faisal shahzad is still talking. the pakistani taliban is still talking, saying they had nothing to do with hi...

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