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Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets today to consider the nomination of former senator chuck hagel to be secretary of defense. Before i begin, i want to first will come senator inhofe as the new ranking republican on our committee, succeeding senator mccain. Senator mccain has been a great partner over the past six years, and i thank him for all the work he has done to get bills enacted, his leadership on a host of issues, his support for the work of this committee, and for always keeping our hearings likely. Senator inhofe has shown his strong commitment to the National Defense over ...

Under ronald regan and one of the most decorated veterans of vietnam. United states senator. Celebrated author. Lawyer. And i thought he made a pretty strong, persuasive case. So did many of us. Lets turn to cybersecurity. I was pleased that you mentioned Cyber Security in your initial remarks. They have moved expand its Cyber Security efforts. I have to talk about colorado. The air force academy is well positioned to train those. Would you talk a little more on your take on Cyber Security and what sort of resources we need. Ive been to those facilities in colorado a few times and dont know as...

Guest many democrats, very few republicans. Host we have another caller from ohio. Caller good morning my younger brother grow up without video games. We had a stall solid christian family. He is schizophrenic, im a few years older than him. We had paid for services and help. There is no way he contributed to the society. He cannot work. He is totally medicated, excuse me. I respectfully disagree with the republican congressman who says with accounting we can do a better job. [talking over each other] caller excuse me, and what we can do is tell her parents do a better job. There were no video...

Spoke about the report they offered on september 11 attack in benghazi, libya to cut u. S. Ambassador christina and three other americans. The report cited systemic failures, leadership and management efficiencies and Inadequate Security at the conflict facility. Three state Department Officials including eric boswell, assistant secretary of state in Diplomatic Security have resigned in the wake of the report. Next, senators on the Foreign Relations committee who received the report speak to reporters. How not [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] my understanding is ...

For state Department Officials resigned after reports for lack of security at the u. S. Benghazi, libya. Wittiest ambassador and three other americans were killed. At 8 a. M. Eastern the Senate Foreign relations committee, we will have that on cspan2. Later in the day, we will head over to the house side of the capitol. We have live coverage at 1 p. M. Eastern here on cspan3. Our First Experience was to come in a different way than every of them appear, probably will never happen again in history. Its interesting because after dad was sworn in we went in and took a picture, photo of the family...