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Ambassador. more on that in a moment. the president also choosing his top counter terrorism advisor john brennan to be cia director. calling him a legendary work aalcoholic even during presidential vacations. >> in the summer, it's august. he is in full suit and tie. [ laughter ] and one of the reporters asked him don't you ever get any down time? john said i don't do down time. [ laughter ] breneman dropped out of the running same job four years ago because of his bush interrogation enhanced terror suspect. brennan was a strong opponent of waterboarding that critics and the government now cal...

Keep the military the strongest fighting force. >> reporter: but it drew immediate fire. it was a 14-year-old comment about a diplomat being aggressively gay which hagel has apologized and his opposition in iraq and troop surge and independents what he called the jewish lobby and called for talks with hezbollah. all which led lindsay graham and in your face nomination, that the number two republican senator frankly skeptical. >> i think the president has much better choices as secretary of defense than to choose somebody who fails when it comes to the number one security issue mainly a nuclear...

In all this week john has been tireless. people here in the white house work hard. john is legendary even in the white house for working hard. he is one of the hardest working public servants i have ever seen. i'm not sure he has slept in four years. when i was on martha's vineyard, john came and did the press briefing. it was in the summer. it's august. is he in full suit and tie. one of the reporters asked him don't you ever get any downtime? john said i don't do down time. he is not even smiling now. [ laughter ] there's another reason i value john so much, and that is his integrity and his...

Wrote early this morning on his blog election 8, the polls must be wrong for romney to prevail. the polls have been wrong before and will be wrong again, but the odds are against it. he points out that the national polls are lining up with the state polls. president obama holds a slight lead nationally and the real clear politics of average polls. nate says pencils down time has come, and it appears romney has run out of clock. how do you see this race right now? if this many polls prove to be wrong, would you have to remake your entire model? >> i don't have a model, but all the ways you can ...

And i said, i'm probably going to have to ask this at some point. >> you saw the question that they gave you. explain. >> the card that i wrote -- >> you submitted four questions? >> i see. >> and the question they gave me back -- >> of the four thaw submitted you thought -- >> yes. >> were you excited or nervous? >> at first, the people from the debate -- other people from the debate were saying, you're going to ask the first question. and i said, i don't even know if i'm going to ask it. so i was a little nervous. because we had a lot of down time. the rehearsal ended at 5:00 and from 5:00 t...