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Dominance of policy thinking ended when barack obama was elected president. but today was the day that the obama administration made the single biggest play to define what comes next. today, he nominated chuck hagel, in doing, he nominated the first vietnam veteran. >> he understands that sending young americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that is something we only do when it is absolutely necessary. my frame of reference, he has said, is geared to the guy at the bottom who is doing the fighting and the dying. with chuck, our troops will always know just like sergeant hagel was the...

Ugly event in libya just before the election, and second, the more serious policy issue is what exactly was the administration, the white house and the state department, doing during that period when this big fire fight was taking place in benghazi? and i think the white house has been trying to sweep this issue away in the wake of the election and i think these senators are entitled to keep pressing toind out what happened then. >> paul: so, susan rice's nomination becomes an opportunity in dan's telling to try to get at that story, that libya story. >> it's actually an opportunity to get at ...

Before the election, and second, the more serious policy issue is what exactly was the administration, the white house and the state department, doing during that period when this big fire fight was taking place in benghazi? and i think the white house has been trying to sweep this issue away in the wake of the election and i think these senators are entitled to keep pressing to find out what happened then. >> paul: so, susan rice's nomination becomes an opportunity in dan's telling to try to get at that story, that libya story. >> it's actually an opportunity to get at what the nature of the ...

Control of the party's policy thinking to score those political points. >> because there is an opening. we'll be finding out about what the obama side wants people to watch and listen for what r boert gibbs joins us live from the spin room next. this is msnbc's live coverage of the last presidential debate. we'll be right back. >> there's no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a foreign administration. >> i'm sorry. could i just pause. i did understand you to say that the russians are not using eastern europe as their own influence and occupying most of the countr...

Whether it's the conspiracy theories about the president not being born here, whether social problems -- fiscal policies. this the not a policy thinking toward the future, their future or the country's future. they are ignoring hispanic, lat latinos and hispanic, young people, black people, brown people. >> women. >> don't forget the gays. >> people that have higher education. >> john, do you agree with alex that this is party rooted in a period, i guess, not the last, but the last century, i guess. >> it's sort of saddled with candidate that are more than willing, to turn the clock back on a ...