Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130201:17:09:00
Sit on their hands on this nomination, and the israel, not the jewish lobby, hasn't really weighed in in a meaningful way on this is a big deal for the white house, but, you know, part of this, i think, reflects the basic reality is they don't want a strong secretary of defense. i think what you are looking at here is somebody who is not at least initially seeming to position himself as a strong secretary of defense, does not have deep connections necessarily within the infrastructure itself, clearly doesn't have a lot of the bridges to the republicans in the senate. they want to run policy ou...