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costly conference in las vegas. we're learning about numerous lavish trips by an agency that's supposed to keep federal cost down. we want to welcome our viewers. you're in the situation room. two of the highest members of president obama's war team. secretary of state hillary clinton and leon panetta traveled. i went and they joined me for an exclusive joint interview. we talked about some of the biggest global challenges as well as politics right here in the u.s. >> madam secretary, mr. secretary, thank you for joining us. >> glad to be here. >> let's talk about afghan san. $2 bi...

supermarket. lots of injuries, but amazingly, no one killed. >> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> let's begin with breaking news just coming into the situation room right now out of afghanistan. word of a military crash. let's go straight to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. i know there are casualties. what are you hearing? >> wolf, a u.s. official tells us a u.s. army black hawk helicopter has crashed in southern afghanistan. at this point they believe it crashed during bad weather, b...

Thanksgiving to you. but first, i want to talk more about the alabama senate race and the impact of it all here in washington. i've got a panel to break it all down. catherine, "washington post" palestinian you political columnist. and our own jonathan allen, national political reporter, on set. jonathan, let's talk about the president's role in all of this. i mean, when he was in asia, shehe seemed to say, yes, i'll weigh in on that when i get home. testing whether, you know, how far they should go into saying, okay, we don't want a democrat in this seat. >> i think what you saw first was t...

Jumping on that issue, reminding voters of that war and peace issue, testing whether or not that war issue will still be kryptonite for her politically the way it was in the past, giving her that chance which she took to try to put that issue to rest and to try to turn it to her advantage finally, well, thank you, lincoln chafee. putting the war back into our national politics in the way you did. because honestly, without you, lincoln chafee, i'm not sure the war issue would be in our national politics right now. and it turns out we really need it to be in our national politics right now becau...

Brought democratic voters in that audience to their feet, cheering for her on that answer. so lincoln chafee of all people jumping on that issue, reminding voters of that war and peace issue, testing whether or not that war issue will still be kryptonite for her politically the way it was in the past, giving her that chance which she took to try to put that issue to rest and to try to turn it to her advantage finally, well, thank you, lincoln chafee. putting the war back into our national politics in the way you did. because honestly, without you, lincoln chafee, i'm not sure the war issue wou...