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I know him. he is a patriot. somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the united states senate. somebody who served this country with valor in vietnam. >> i can tell you there would be very little republican support for his nomination. at the end of the day there willle be very few votes. >> praise from president obama and deep concern from senator lindsey graham over the man likely to be topped for the top job at the pentagon. the announcement expected to be made in the last couple of days. reports the president has set isled on chuck hagel. why to you think he picked him given the re...

He is a patriot. somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the united states senate. somebody who served this country with valor in vietnam. >> i can tell you there would be very little republican support for his nomination. at the end of the day there willle be very few votes. >> praise from president obama and deep concern from senator lindsey graham over the man likely to be topped for the top job at the pentagon. the announcement expected to be made in the last couple of days. reports the president has set isled on chuck hagel. why to you think he picked him given the republican opp...

People who want to work, don't have the freedom to work. they are forced to join the union, forced to pay mon tote union and the unions spend the monoa political party they don't agree with -- that's not freedom. that's not liberty. that's not pro-choice. why wouldn't you support the right of people to choose? >> that's an out-of-context descringz of the problem. the problem is without unions, there is no counterforce to big business-- it's legalized theft -- >> give me a chance. there is no counter force to big business to people who say, let's cut the salaries and outsource your job, every...

Point? >> certainly they don't have a tradition of independently stepping in. wikileaks describing the defense minister as mubarak's poodle. it is not clear that they would act independently. at the moment it does appear that they are not on the same page as the president. suleiman was the head of egyptian intelligence, which in many ways was a counter force to the army, under president mubarak, the working for the interior was well over a million. that includes policemen and the many basically paid informants

Them as a counter force against what they see will be the indian encroachment in afghanistan. so they see the afghan taliban as perhaps carving out a sphere of influence in southern and eastern afghanistan, when the fighting stops, and afghanistan is carved up or the end of the war comes and there is some kind of solution. pakistan wants to have its influence in afghanistan, and it will be probably with the afghan taliban and the harkani network, which is mentioned a lot in the reports we published this morning. >> yeah, i'm curious, again, if you're opening your news account of this story on ...