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The senate breaking filibusters to fill key cabinet posts. jay johnson was overwhelmingly confirm as homeland security secretary. he's considered a key architect of president obama's anti-terrorism policies including stepped up drone usage in terrorist hot spots. three former penn state administrators will be in court for a pretrial hearing today. they are accused of covering up the jerry sandusky child sex scandal. the defendants each face multiple charges including perjury and failing to report child sexual abuse. sandusky is currently serving a 30 to 60-year sentence for sexually abusing ...

Instructive. presidential candidate who couldn't remember three cabinet posts recommending people self-deport and telling critically ill people to just die. where else could you hear things like that. i'm going to miss is very much if they do that, but it is going to hurt them. democrats wouldn't even think about telling their candidates a thing like that. and goldie, politico had a scathing assessment of what's really wrong with the republican party. the sense that they're alienating every group they need to grow with, whether it's women, whether it's african-americans, latinos or gays. shoul...

The president get together, it becomes very violent. we've seen more than 100 people killed in the last week in terms of clashes and that is why many are afraid without an effective government this situation can continue to worsen. david? >> amen month ha dean on the ground for us in cairo. thanks very much. let me turn to the former egyptian ambassador to the united states. mr. ambassador, welcome to "meet the press." there are reports you would become the foreign minister in a new government that would be formed on this interim basis. but my question to you this morning, sir, is who is going...

Continue to worsen. david? >> ayman mohyeldin on the ground for us in cairo. thanks very much. let me turn to the former egyptian ambassador to the united states. mr. ambassador, welcome to "meet the press." there are reports you would become the foreign minister in a new government that would be formed on this interim basis. but my question to you this morning, sir, is who is going to be in charge of egypt and how does anyone govern egypt at this particular moment? >> let me start by saying that, as you said, we do not yet have a prime minister. consequently, we don't have any nominees for an...

Created by the senate, job of national security adviser was created by president eisenhower. he decided he would like to have someone working close to him, up to speed on everything the secretary of state and secretary of defense are working on, and instantly available to advise on national security matters. jobs like secretary of state, secretary of defense, secretary of treasury, and all of the cabinet posts were actually created by legislation passed by congress, and in that legislation congress gave the senate the power to confirm the president's choices for those jobs. but like white hous...