i think there was a lot of discussion in the first term about finding a place for chuck hagel in the president's cabinet. i think that discussion was naturally renewed when there was an opportunity to bring new people to the cabinet in the second term. i think that is the president's friendship and republican for chuck hagel is what drove the decision more than anything else. at least i'm not aware of any other factors in that. >> well, if i can quickly followup. [laughter] does the posture in the administration in term of -- concern you at all? i'm a proponent of having a strong military stument to support our foreign policy goals. i think during a period of war because you have tens of thousands of americans in harm's way on the ground, the voice of the department of defense in foreign policy decision making naturally becomes louder relative to times of peace when you don't have many americans in uniform in harm's way. i think that is appropriate. it's important it be heard when so much of the risk at stake in human terms. leaders in uniform would agree that the military voice woul

defense secretary chuck hagel wandered about the automatic budget cuts. his remarks are 35 minutes. >> if you have seen the organizational chart of the department of defense, you might have noticed it's a little bit different from most corporate or business arrangements. that tend to put people in boxes. what you'll notice about the pentagon is that the box at the very top has two people. not one but two people in the same box. it's the secretary of defense and the deputy secretary defense. john and i each had the pleasure of working inside that box. not as a secretary but deputy. we can tell you there's downside to the arrangement. since the secretary chooses who gets what assignments, you can gets who debts -- gets to visit with foreign leaders and who gets to go to guantanamo. [laughter] having watched firsthand from the closest possible position inside the box with the secretary of defense, i can tell you the secretary hagel has one of the toughest jobs in the world. the job entails an extraordinary range of responsibility and demands a unique combina

i think that chuck hagel has been a close association since their time in the senate. he served on the president's intelligence advisory board. i think there was a lot of discussion the first term about finding a place in the president's cabinet, and i think that discussion was naturally renewed when there was an opportunity to bring new people into the cabinet in the second term. so i think that is the president friendship and respect is what drove the decision more than anything else at least i'm not aware of any other factors and not. >> if i could quickly follow up does the posture of this administration in terms of the demilitarization concern you at all? >> to be clear on my own views, i'm not a big proponent of the militarization of the foreign policy. i am a proponent of having a strong military instrument to support our foreign-policy goals. i think during a period of war because you have tens of thousands of americans in harms way on the ground, the voice of the department of defense in foreign-policy decision-making naturally becomes louder relative to times

hagel's nomination was pending in the senate for a record 34 days, more than three times the previous average of a secretary of defense. remember, mr. president, our country was at war. republicans have blocked executive nominees like secretary hagel not because they object to the qualifications, but simply because they seek to undermine the very government in which they were elected to serve. take the nomination of richard cordray to lead the consumer financial protection bureau. there was no doubt about his ability to do the job. but the consumer financial protection bureau, the brainchild of elizabeth warren, went for more than two years without a leader because republicans refused to accept the law of the land, because they wanted to roll back a law that protects consumers from the greed of wall street. so i say to my republican colleagues, you don't have to like the laws of the land, but you do have to respect those laws and acknowledge them and abide by them. similar obstruction continued unabated for seven more months until democrats threatened to change senate rules to allow u

[inaudible conversations] >>> in a few moments defense secretary chuck hagel speaks. in an hour, an update on implementing the health care law. then legal officers from the intelligence community testify about proposed change to the nsa data collection and surveillance programs. >>> on the next "washington journal." a couple of hearings to tell you about. the head of the center for medicaid services will be on capitol hill to talk about the health care law. testifies before the senate finance committee about the health care website. secretary and other obama administrations say that problem with the health.gov westbound will be fixed by the end of the month. you can see that hearing on c-span at 10:00 a.m. eastern on wednesday. what is the most important issue congress should consider in 2014? that's the question for middle and high school students. the order comes after nine states denied benefit to the couple. secretary hagel -- during remarking at the antidefamation league on new york city on thursday. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. i am grateful for a

hagel is a veteran himself. so the point is that it is a means to talk about this, which they are doing and we have to respect the people who are experiencing mass. >> you get the last word because we are right up against the time. so it must be a brief last words so we have not unilaterally disarm the weapons to kind of begin this and it will mark a milestone in this range. so at the end of the day, in the same way that we came very close to a nuclear holocaust in 1963. .. thank you for coming. [applause] >> watch nbc's coverage of president kennedy's state funeral. >> and now to london for prime minister's question time live from the british house of commons. every wednesday while parliament is in session, prime minister david cameron takes questions from members of the house of commons. prior to question time the house is wrapping up other business. this is live coverage on c-spa c-span2. >> that's one of the reasons why the company is investing. >> order. questions to the prime minister. >> number one, mr. s

now we have chuck hagel who is now lobbying against the kirsten approach, to my knowledge. it's not good enough to say we have a zero tolerance policy. we do. but what does that mean? how does that translate into changing anything? i want to know. well, he wants to know? i'll tell him. support the kirsten gillibrand amendment, change this, reform this, take these serious offenses outside of the chain of command. it's not working. leon panetta, july 11-february, 2013, we have no tolerance for any form of sexual assault. he didn't take anything outside of the chain of command either. secretary robert gates, 2006- 2011 -- "first of all, i have zero tolerance for sexual assault." really? really? every one of these men had zero tolerance for sexual assault, and yet not one of them ever lived up to the promise, not one. sexual assault is running rampant, running rampant. we have 26,000 cases a year, and you know what percent gets reported? 10%. do you know what cases don't get reported? 90%. we have a 90% problem, mr. president. 26,000 cases, only 10% get reported, and 90% don't

hagel is a veteran himself. so the point is that it is a means to talk about this, which they are doing and we have to respect the people who are experiencing mass. >> you get the last word because we are right up against the time. so it must be a brief last words so we have not unilaterally disarm the weapons to kind of begin

hagel. so the january promise was broken. this led to increasing tensions until july of this year when democratic and republican members met in the old senate chambers to privately share their concerns and a new deal was hammered out which is essentially that the executive nominees would get up-and-down votes. and that happened for a significant list of nominees. an up-and-down vote on richard cordray to be head of the consumer financial protection bureau, jenna mccarthy to be head of the e.p.a., nominees to fill the national labor relations board, nominee to head the alcohol, tobacco and firea firearms, nominee to head the ex-im bank, and shortly following thereafter, a nominee to be the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, samantha powers. and so that july deal held through a list of nominees until two weeks ago. and two weeks ago, this body blocked an up-or-down vote on mel watt. so we're right back where we were before. right back where we were. the promise made in january shattered. t

and all lack like they were, you know, representatives of working right out of chuck hagel's office. they're all military and all services u.s. military around the world since 1999. then they have a testimony from one very wonderful looking woman soldier. she says, "after there was a mistake with my pay, i didn't know how to make ends meet." luckily they understood my situation and were willing to help me when i needed it. thanks for helping me. here it is written. and people are going fall for that. they're going fall for that. so my question to you, who two different consumer protection agency, to speak. what can you do in outreach and education? what is it really possible to do? , i mean, these folks are changing. they get a video display or whatever. how can you really reach them? well, mr. chairman. i think you are always going have to have a cooperation of both education and protection. when it comes to education and outreach there are a variety of things that can be done. i think you have heard some today. we are doing our best at our agency to do a combination of things. i pe

defense secretary chuck hagel has sent out a message to personnel saying to all those deployed overseas >> coming up this evening here on c-span2 we will bring you a symposium about genetics forensics and their use in the criminal justice system. also look at the public policy and privacy issues surrounding genome sequencing and the implications of prenatal genetics testing. again, that's tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2. on c-span in primetime tonight we will go back 50 years ago today for remarks from president lyndon johnson as he addressed a joint session of congress reflecting on john f. kennedy's legacy. just five days after his assassination. you can see that tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the '60s were -- the '60s were different. [laughter] and there were a lot of things happening involving race, the breakdown in the structure of society. i was suddenly out of the seminary and in new england. and there were no rules. things were falling apart. and you know, without structure is very, very difficult to navigate. i was extremely fortunate to be at holy cross. i was ex

hagel. and then senator hagel got a better offer and moved on. so it is now chaired solely by ambassador eizenstat. and the purpose was to help us perform a comprehensive analysis of iran's internal political landscape as well as israel in the region in the world and to answer the question as to whether there were elements within the country and the region that could build the basis for an improved relationship with the west and how these elements, if it exists, could be used by u.s. policymakers in the dialogue with iran. that dialogue is progressing, even today we are waiting for, as my colleague, barbara slavin, said earlier this morning, the white smoke from the top of the chimney stack in geneva as to whether there's a deal or no deal. i also want to acknowledge the generous support for the work on iran that our center has been doing for the past three years, from the ploughshares fund. they have been consistently behind us and have encouraged us to do more and more common and we indeed