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Complete confidence that we were acting lawfully in the national interests and the best traditions of our country. america does not leave its soldiers behind. we made the right decision. >> standing by the call. probably not too surprising to anybody at this table. your thoughts, andrea? >> chuck hagel was at the department of defense to be a human shield. put a republican with the defense background, so if anything goes wrong, the white house can blame chuck hagel. what i don't get is the double speak. we hear obama said i would do it again. we've heard the reporting that he's wanting to do i...

Complete confidence that we were acting lawfully in the national interests and the best traditions of our country. america does not leave its soldiers behind. we made the right decision. >> standing by the call. probably not too surprising to anybody at this table. your thoughts, andrea? >> chuck hagel was at the department of defense to be a human shield. put a republican with the defense background, so if anything goes wrong, the white house can blame chuck hagel. what i don't get is the double speak. we hear obama said i would do it again. we've heard the reporting that he's wanting to do i...

Very, very difficult time with the sequester and all the other things going on. mr. hagel may be a very nice man but we have a lot of people whoa we be better. i don't think we're going to get anybody but hagel. he's going to be confirmed and figures to be what mr. obama wants, a guy who is not going to be independent, who is not going to have a deep knowledge of the defense community and not going to be a very effective guy over >> neil: some secretaries of defense, leeon panetta, no defense background, did a pretty good job, utilizing his congressional skills and advisory skills. turned out ...

But the truth is, one of the most positive aspects of qualities of this fund is the person they have in charge. that's one of the first things you look at here. ken feinberg is highly respected as a negotiator. he comes from a corporate defense background. i've been involved in very complex cases with ken. he's always proven himself to be somebody who's fair. that's the best we can hope for. it's almost a solomon quality of fair. i've seen it with pharmaceutical cases with asbestos litigations dal con shield, he's lived up to the reputation of wanting to do the best he can for the claimants. i...

Here, congress couldn't have done it. the court system couldn't have done it. obama did it and the republicans like rush hate that. but the truth is, one of the most positive aspects of qualities of this fund is the person they have in charge. that's one of the first things you look at here. ken feinberg is highly respected as a negotiator. he comes from a corporate defense background. i've been involved in very complex cases with ken. he's always proven himself to be somebody who's fair. that's the best we can hope for. it's almost a solomon quality of fair. i've seen it with pharmaceutical c...