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Which felt like almost the prosecution and the defense there between carl levin and jim inhofe. michael scherer, did you hear anything in either opening statement that surprised you? it certainly, i think, set the tone for what kind of hearing this is going to be. >> yeah, i wouldn't say there were surprises, but levin clearly set the tone by saying, here are the concerns that we have, and i'm sure you're going to be able to answer them, as you've that's going to be the formula going forward. someone like senator inwho have is not going to support hagel, but he also doesn't carry much decisive...

Representing that strabd nd of republican party. >> and i think we'll see that on display. ted cruz is going to make some noise around this issue, particularly around israel. he's visited israel twice over the last couple of months. he's big on that issue. so i don't know if it's going to be the fireworks that we saw with the hillary clinton must-see tv content last week. we're going to see that split very much on display, the tea party folks. >> what should be the line of questioning on hagel? we're going to spend a lot of time on 0 israel which seems to be almost -- where you're going to fee...