Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20141204:21:19:00
Dictating what we do in terms of defense? >> what i make of it, alex, is that it's going to be an exciting time for us journalists because there will be a lot of drama stirred up with ash carter when he takes over the pentagon and john mccain when he takes over the arms services committee. one of the flash points will be over money. you know sequestration will kick off next year and we expect it to. the money for the pentagon runs out next week, as you pointed out and there's no time to do any long-range cerebral planning of which ash carter is a champion and there's lots of other structural b...