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a lot of stories to talk about today chuck hagel has now been officially
nominated by president obama to be defense secretary
the controversy mounting immediately let's start looking through
the good the bad
the arguably questionable about truck hegel
now uh...
something that seems to be unanimously considered good about chuck hagel as
defense secretary nominee is that he earned his wariness of war
the hard way with two purple hearts in vietnam
and if he realizes that uh... sometimes of muscle and not talk is what works
but that very often talk and not muscle is what works and i'd like that about
him
and that's part of partly why he is kind of considered a defector to the
republican party in many cases
the bad is that he has been very backwards in the past when it comes to
homosexuality he opposed
a clinton administration and that's uh... ambassadorial nominee
for being what he called openly and aggressively gay he has since recanted
openly in aggressively he has said that it was a mistake and so on and so forth
uh... okay fair enough
his views abbe of all that they not outer now
uh... they certainly don't seem to have aligned with mine at some point
i do believe though that on that issue uh... people can can change they can't
just understand really what they're somewhat their what we're talking about
and the knee-jerk reactions to to be against
just basic equality
barber placed with reason and thought so i think i can see that
but we're not talking about things he said when he was in eighteen
uh... this did not happen that long ago and
i don't think people change that quickly and i think once you reach a certain
point in your life
you're a lot less likely duty change once you've reached here
peak if you will work your peek at the peak of uh...
your political views and social these we'll talk about that but i mean
especially with the repeal of the nasty talent potentially chuck hagel stepping
into a
a situation that certainly has allot of of working directly with the military
what's your thought on that is the fact that now that between if we don't
believe his apology if we believe he apologized
but he still believes what he said initially
is that a factor
well there's no way to know what he really thinks uh...
all we know is that he's changed his public position and honestly that's all
we can really ask for i mean you have to remember that the role of the military
leaders said
were in the army uh... oh when it was still segregated and when it was
desegregated all of those guys stayed on for a few years and uh... if you public
as long as you publicly say
that uh... that you now support uh... you know
uh... the repeal don't ask don't tell and gay rights et cetera i don't think
that we can really uh... judge woody
believes in his heart you know
well so let's talk about the questionable there's a quote a
questionable
uh... but this controversy from the right at the right being very critical
of chuck hagel
for being the only senator
lou did not know if he were running a time this was a resolution that was
proposed in the senate
it was uh... she was the only senator al does the hundred to vote against it
joy describe what it is yes so the resolution basically said that it was
uh... going to direct
boris yeltsin to address
anti-semitism within russia essentially is that it
uh... however global lose going on here is that ok eagle was against
anne you resolution they called for a foreign leader to address the domestic
issue
uh... but if the issue here is what people are thinking is that he was
somehow
uh... against condemning anti-semitism he then sent a letter to president bill
clinton
and urged him to virgin forest yeltsin to address the issue
which by the way he said would be probably more effective than a
resolution that boris yeltsin wouldn't re
yen you know luis work on this show were criticized very often for just pointing
to anti-semitism where it doesn't exist and i completely disagree with the
audience on those uh... situations
overhear i do really don't believe
that this is evidence that chuck hagel is uh... is an anti-semite like a
concept
what he what he says he was against was
doing things in the senate
tend to encourage your direct the leader of another country to do something
domestically and he did go to bill clinton and say i would like you to ask
boris yeltsin to do this because as the president it's much more likely yeltsin
would listen to bill clinton that the some resolution from the senate i don't
really think that this is a perfect example of something that if it was
george w_ bush who would nominated chuck hagel
we would not be hearing a word about this
perhaps and i agree with you that uh... it's not
it is not
conclusive that he's
anti-semitic anything of the story
extensively with him if that's what the jury believes that this is something
arsenic
should probably not be worried about
yeah i mean what if there was a something voted it in the in the russian
senate
directing the the president to do a b_ or c_ he would have a we ridicule every
single one of these right wingers that's criticizing hegel it's a wet what right
dude as the russian senate have to direct our tonight i don't agree with
that
are you kidding
i'd i think that what you're saying you agree with chuck eagles idea of the the
the the
congress shouldn't be involved in telling other country what to do with
their own problems has always been are not saying that the u_s_ broadly cannot
have a conversation for the kind of cool m saying is the idea
of defending our these resolutions based on the senate vote directing other
presidents
to do specific things domestically if it was reversed those same senators are
those the same republicans that now are being critical of hegel for having that
view
would-be gun or a those resolutions from other countries
that's possible i do think that uh...
it's perfectly reasonable to condemn a foreign leader
for the way he's handling an issue domestically are when we talk about more
serious issues i mean i don't agree with
with the reason why hegel didn't sign this and i just think that it's not an
example of into some of them
i say let the president of the secretary of state and all that stuff last thing i
think conservatives actually don't like chuck hagel not only because it's a bomb
a nominating him but because cha cable in two thousand eleventh at the pentagon
budget exploded it must be paired down
and we know republicans do not like that
that's no question about it