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Hearings for senator hagel to that effect. >> dana, is this hagel fight really about his views on israel, for example, and iran? or is it really, truthfully, a proxy fight for something else? >> well, look, i mean, there may be people in the senate who have legitimate disagreements with him on israel. he is pro-israel. has he been 100% pro-israel by the aipac standard? no, he hasn't been. but you know who hasn't been? that's president obama. he's the one that makes the middle east policy. the defense secretary is the one who is overseeing the fighting of wars. so pretty much by definition this...

Political loser in all this. his confirmation hearing could be the one that is the true proxy fight on all this if he ends up the president's choice to head up the cia which a lot of people say, frankly, he may be. there's another big story out there around the world that will have some political and other ramifications. palestinians go to the united nations today in an attempt to upgrade their status in the eyes of the global community. the u.s. says it won't help its bid to establish a palestinian stateside by side with israel. >> we oppose palestinian efforts to upgrade their status at th...

Pelosi had will answer questions about her political future. >> will you plan to stay on as the leader? will you run again for the top slot? >> let's see, what time is it now? it's 2:00 on tuesday. i'll see you right here 10:00 tomorrow morning. while i love you all very dearly, i thought maybe i would talk to my own caucus before i shared that information with you. >> well, the person probably watching that 10:00 announcement most closely is her number two, congressman steny hoyer. we do believe we'll learn something before 10:00, by the way. house republicans will choose between washington s...

Like that -- the syrian problem to remain status quo but iran and saudi arabia are basically having a proxy fight in syria and that's not something that obama would like to see explode big time before the election. >> yeah. well, i was reading a report earlier today a saudi prince said this week that only a minority were involved in the anti-u.s. protests in saudi arabia. he said that the film is despicable and shouldn't be given quite this much attention, he said that getting swept up in this violence is going to weaken the nation, and that islam is actually a lot stronger than a film. is tha...

Testing it is message and the armies and the weapons before a much bigger conflict. and that's what we have here. >> greta: this is first amendment right that the people made contributions from out of state. there is nothing wrong. candidates raise money from out of state. from my perspective, what i see is that this time, there seems to be a lot more than usual, pouring in from out of state, making it almost a proxy fight for november. i am curious, are the democrats and the republicans inside the state, are they content to have all of this money pouring in? >> i think there is frustration on...