So, they had to embarrass themselves. The American People deserve to know answers. We were missled. What difference does it make . By the competitive nature of politics. Im happy for you. They determined an effective representative. My senior senator and my friend, senator john kerry. Suddenly im feeling a lot of sympathy for the folks who sit down here. Some things dont change. If you are trying to get some daylight between me and secretary clinton that is not going to happen here today. We do know what happened. Were you at the briefing with the tapes . That is not going to happen here today. Republican reset. Could there be a war on the republican party. Here it is again. What do you think the party must do better. Coordinated effort by republicans. To change the rules for electing a president. They have no choice. What do you think the party must do better. Were laistening, were listening. Another day, another hearing in which a senator gets to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is in competent. Will you work with me so that we can find out what actually happened and then we can move beyond that. Well i think, senator, in all fairness, i think we do know what happened. I think it was very clear. Were you at the briefing with the tapes . No. There was a briefing with tapes which we all saw those of us who went to it. We sat for hours with our intel folks who described to us what we were seeing and we saw the events unfold we had a complete description. That was john kerry humiliating senator johnson. He received the most impressive bipartisan introduction that perhaps the senate at ever seen. Im very pleased that john will be given the chance subject to confirmation to continue the work of a lifetime on behalf of our country. Let me thank you on behalf of the committee for all that you have done. There is no one in the senate that has spent more time than you have on issues of imporps to our country. One say historians will judge his senate years much the same way some recognize centsen sena ted kennedys impact. But that didnt stop the republicans from trying to turn the hearing into episode two, into why did they conspire to hide the truth from the American People . The world is a Dangerous Police when america is not leading. We had a hearing yesterday about libra libya but we didnt talk about the conditions that led to the consulate. I think this is important and trying to get to the truth in the matter of benghazi do you agree with Hillary Clinton, that that is yesterdays news and lets move on. If you are trying to get some day light between me and secretary clinton that is not going to happen here today. John mccain could not reserve the going back to yesterdays news. I didnt want to bring it up, but since it was just brought up ill have to respond again. We do care why the American People were misled. Some of us will not give up on this until we get all of the answers. I dont want to go on about it, but i didnt suggest and i dont want to suggest nor do i believe that secretary clinton was saying that people dont care about knowing what happened. There is no exam for being a United States senator. It is a matter of tricking enough voters. The bar is in the ground. What an amazing day two on the failure to unearth the conspiracy of how to lie to the American People. He is like a human whackamole. Ron johnson gets too close to him and your brain cells die. This is like the legacy of ron johnson. He attributes the warming of the earth to sun spots to gee logical spots of time. He is convinced that there is a conspiracy and there is none there. Nor is it with Hillary Clinton saying it doesnt matter. He is obsessed with you know, he is obsessed with suspects who are no longer being examined and we know who did it. But he is following vapor trails to nowhere. I thought marco rubio did well i wondered if ron johnson was part of a onetwo punch. He was going to really try to be men al migitry. It was striking to me. The sense of and this is bipartisan. The sense of paranoya anxiety that permeates every discussion of americas roll e in the worl and foreign policy. You would think we are consumed by consatant threats and occupiers. Im nervous about this and anxious about this and i think it was a striking moment. It gives you a sense of what the cost of trying to moaintain thi presence and project is. And the difficulty of articulating a strategy. Speaking of costs. And speaking of senator johnson. I dont mean to pick on him. He did ask an interesting question that i believe has never come up in a confirmation hearing. That is what are you going to do about the debt and deficit . Lets listen to that. You utilize your position to work with the president to solve the debt and deficit issue. Scepte im not here to go th the details why we didnt. There was a very, hard line position that prevented us from being able to come to an agreement which we just came to. But we came to it with far lesson the table and far less accomplished than we would have had if we had come to it a year ago and that is the most diplomatic answer than we had. Well, it is telling that this is sort of the default position on anything. You got me on benghazi now debt and deficit. But this is the position of the republican ares on any kind of big picture item. We are outraged on his speech because he didnt talk about the deficit. What would he talk about . There is nothing else they have to wave. That is one issue where they have a political traction. There is a majority on americans. But they have made the calculation. There are a whole bunch of issues where they are not on the right side. Most issue. They are trying not to talk about those things. They are thinking we can get to 55 if we talk about this. We can alienate young voters if we talk about this. I want to watch Hillary Clinton first. For me, this is not just a matter of policy, it is personal. I stood next to president obama as the marines carried those flagdraped caskets off the plane at andrews. I put my arms around the mothers and fathers the sisters and daughters and the wives left alone to raise their children. Now, of course, people who believe that john boehner is the greatest speaker of the house criticized that saying there she is trying to bring emotional testimony into that. I dont know how you describe that scene without some emotional expression. I think the outcry, imagine if the tables were turned and there was a republican secretary talking about that and did so with the emotion that Hillary Clinton did and there was an outcry that it was fake and it was hood winked. Lets take a look at john kerry. If you confirm me, i would take office as secretary proud that the senate is in my blood. But equally proud that so too is the foreign service. My fathers work under president s both democrat and republican took me and my siblings around the world for a personal journey and sacrifices that the men and women make every day on behalf of america. No criticism for that. The criticism about secretary clinton that i thought, here she was clearly taking responsibility. I think the reason that she teared up is that she feels responsible. As the moment that she takes responsibility they go after her for it. Thank you for joining me tonight. Coming up. How soon will be hearing the words senator barney frank . After the landslide. Republicans are trying to rig the Electoral College of course and the most important testimony given at the Senate ForeignRelations Committee was given by john kerry 42 years ago. 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Into a scooter that talks to the cloud . Or turn 30million artifacts. Into a hightech masterpiece . Whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. Considered one of the battleground states although that is going to be changing soon. That was president obama in texas. Knowing that he couldnt win it. All of texas 34 electoral votes went to mitt romney and he was playing the long game. And the democrats believe those votes will be worth fighting for in the future. Team obamas field director jeremy burd has decided his next job will be turning texas blue. He told politico as democrats are looking to expand the map, republicans are designciding if you cant beat cheat them. They are moving forward with a plan to change the system from winner take all to Congressional District districts one. In november in virginia, president obama won 51 of the popular vote and received all 13 in the system. Now here is what would have happened under the proposed 47 plan. President obama would have won 51 of the popular vote but just 4 of those votes. Mitt romney would have received the other 9 votes. Under the proposal mitt romney would have won 47 of the actual vote but would have been avoided 69 of the states electoral votes. If you cant win honestly go this way. It is fascinating to me what he was doing in texas this summer knowing that he wasnt going to win it. And knowing what they can do with the changing demographics of the state. I think texas is a longer term process. Democrats are plblowing it out. If you look at the population in the state it is not matched by the registered voter pool. That is going to help you a lot. The problem is if you look at east texas and west texas we have heavily white populations, where race is the sole predictor. If you look at mississippi and alabama, these are states where he gotten percent of the white vote. So the problem is, if the white vote in texas continues to trend toward the deep south it is not going to be in the next decade. But it might not be for another decade. This is the longterm strategizing. In virginia, they are inviting a constitutional challenge. That will be taken up by the supreme court. The weird twist there is, you have the maine and nebraska models in effect now. And the winner of the popular vote gets the two atlarge votes. And there has been that plit in 2008. The twist in virginia is it is the winner of the most Congressional Districts. It is a strange move. There is sort of an admission here by republicans that there is a threat here that if this gathers steam, if the big blue states, if you had that basic maine nebraska model, the vote would have been 276 romney and 262 obama. It is that condensed. In a few numbers of districts and in the state. The democrats have the numbers but republican ares have land mass and that is where it kind of shows. The next big election massachusetts senate. John kerry is day as way from confirmation. And they have to have an interim senator appointed the official position of this show is go with experience and go with barney frank it was big of you to take yourself out of the mix. I decided to go with more experience. You know, it has been fascinated. My sense of the situation is that he was looking to appoint somebody out of the box. And bar knee frank i think picked up on that. He has created a situation here if patrick does not give it to bar knee frank the question is going to be that he has tremendous liberal based support. Im not sure how much experience the government has with dealing with that demand for somebody. Im not sure how this is playing with pa track. It is the psychology of one guy and who can get in his head. Steve, thank you for joining me tonight. Coming up. The military will open up comback positions. And in the rewrite tonight why the testimony john kerry gave today and every time he appears before the committee as secretary of state will never be as important as the first time he testified to that committee 42 years ago as a war protester. Pleasures can simply hurt. The sadness, anxiety, the loss of interest. The fatigue and aches and pains. Depression hurts. Cymbalta can help with many symptoms of depression. Tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens, you have unusual changes in behavior or thoughts of suicide. Antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. Cymbalta is not for children under 18. People taking maois, linezolid or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. Taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. Severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. Signs include abdominal pain and yellowing skin or eyes. 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The women have proven the contributions that they have made and i support it. That was senator john mccains response that the ban on women in combat is over. Senator leon panetta lifted the ban opening positions to women soldiers and marines. It wont happen right away. The first plans arent due until may of this year and special exceptions can be requested by each branch for jobs until 2016. But more women who have served in iraq afghanistan. Nearly 1,000 have been wounded in action. One of those is now a democratic congresswoman from the state of illinois. She can tell you that combat is already a reality. I did lose my legs in a bar fight. I was sure i was in combat. Joining me now retired army general. What is your reaction to this latest development . I think it is a Great Initiative and long overdue. And im kind of curious, im very curious about the timing of it. And the implementation. They need to make it retro active back to at least 2002 when women were already serving. There was no question about physical capabilities then as they were attaching women to these fighting units. But waiting for three years what happens in thee years that has not happened in the last 7 or 8 . They need to recognize them officially that they served in combat. And move ahead from here. There are certainly men who wont pass the Qualification Tests as there will be women who dont pass the tests. There will be women who accell and men who accell in these situations. Maybe there have been situations in placing them in combat training situations first. I want to tell you about the qualifications. It is another thing to be out there on a night raid against al qaeda. But the fact is that this is a i support this decision and i think that woman are are fully qualified to carry out that mission but i want to see the same physical standards and requirements. What about that . As i said, there are men who cannot qualify. That has never been a point. Mostly because it is how it was related to how the american ment uses the draft. Every man that was drafted was drafted for a combat position and there were other positions that became available. But there was never a discussion about are all men qualified for combat now there is a discussion about whether women are kal qualified for combat positions. But in 2003 there was no discussion about deploying women to iraq for this combat situation about whether they would be physically capable because they would be physically attached. I dont think it is fair i do think there has to be an evaluation. But it must ininclude every entry at every rank in the military system. General, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Coming up. You have seen the moment when you ask the question, how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in vietnam . He had so much to say i believe it saved thousands of hives by getting the United States out of vietnam sooner. 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