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You pointed out the president could do it himself. >> i'm not sure. is that true? i thought the regulation says he has to go through the justice department to fire them. >> they have to go through the justice department ultimately. any -- there's no such thing of somebody who's independent of the executive in the executive -- >> the president would have to fire him to find somebody else? >> people can defeat the order. people quit in the -- >> he didn't want the justice department denuded of senior people. >> correct. for whatever reason he's the one who did it and someone would do it for trum...

Confirm -- >> okay. i will stick to what i'm saying. they were interested in his defense policy would have asked about it. >> i want to make one point. the number of times that israel came up i think in words was about 160-plus. the number ever times they talked about afghanistan was really into the dozens. if you look at the weight of each issue facing the next defense secretary, you would admit that -- >> but hagel brought a lot of this on himself by talking about the jewish lobby. >> once. >> 3450i point is if you go through this hearing and they ask a question been eld statement once, fine...