ch chuck hagel will remain the defense secretary until ash carter is confirmed by the senate. that could take a few months, right? >> well, several weeks to say the least and secretary hagel continuing with his duties even as we speak, he is scheduled in the coming hours to begin an overseas trip. cnn will be with him. our own jim sciutto will be with him on that trip reporting on what hagel is doing so he is working around the clock on the war on isis, on the defense budget, on spend iing on signin orders to deploy troops. all of this. but these are things that will confront ash carter when he comes to the pentagon. the white house made the public claim it was "time for a transition to new leadership." many people will say does the white house really want new leadership at the pentagon? does the president want new ideas? does the nsc and susan rice, the national security advisor, do they want a defense secretary to speak up and offer new ideas? if the president doesn't have any different policies, if the president doesn't have any detire change policy and strategy in the war o

they have just announced defense secretary chuck hagel will skip the ceremony announcing his predecessor ashton carter. president obama, of course, expected to announce that within minutes at the white house. i have to tell you, hagel was expected to attend. all reporters were given information late last night that he would be there. now the word is he will skip it. the official word is that hagel wants the day to all be about ash carter celebrating him, his nomination, his family but, look, there is no way around it. this is a last minute change in plan. secretary hagel several days ago pushed out of the job by the white house, a lot of controversy about he was with leaving. on both sides, did he push? did he jump? was the job too much for him? why did he move on?

we're going to hear from chuck hagel in a moment.ttom line question is, do you believe senator dianne feinstein's report or the cia director john brennan when he comes out with a very different assessment of the effectiveness, as he calls it, of some of the techniques. we're going to continue our analysis. thanks very much. once again, the defense secretary chuck hagel is speaking out on the senate's report, the preparation for the pentagon for possible retribution by terrorists in the mid dell east against american diplomats and military personnel and civilians. we're going to hear what chuck hagel told our own jim sciutto. that's coming up next. you're driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car. one second it wasn't there and the next second... boom! you've had your first accident. now you have to make your first claim. so you talk to your insurance company and... boom! you're blindsided for a second time. they won't give you enough money to replace your brand new c

a day earlier, chuck hagel was there to speak with military leaders. jim sciutto has this cnn exclusive. >> reporter: this is chuck hagel's fourth trip to afghanistan but his last as secretary of defense. we traveled with him to eastern afghanistan where he met with troops, sharing his own experiences, the first enlisted combat veteran to serve as defense secretary. >> do you think it will be a loss for the defense secretary position to have somebody who didn't have that experience? >> that's not for me to decide. everybody brengs to their positions their own set of positions and strengths and i believe my set of experiences fit me very well but that's chuck hagel. i don't ever judge anybody else. >> reporter: at the end of this month, u.s. forces will give up their combat role for training, advising and assisting afghan forces, a new mission as the u.s. prepares for a complete withdrawal in two years. we saw how it dissolved with the advance of isis. why are you confident that afghan forces will perform better? >> they want us here. they want us to as

much more so than perhaps chuck hagel spoke during his tenure. >> i was curious on the hill you -- no one ever agrees about anything. but even before ash carter was officially announced, i heard democrats and republican senators all singing his praises. gwen: is that confirming the leak, i think. >> and is that because he's so great or they're so happy to be rid of chuck hagel? >> i think he's been before the hill three times previously for previous jobs as he's had. so he's familiar. and what's interesting is that in his writings, he -- it has a very academic approach. there's nothing controversial. he's been vetted three times over. i think -- there's an enthusiasm for what he can bring. and frankly, it's not a job that many people wanted. so that someone with such great threct and -- intellect and a rich background in the pentagon was eager to take the job. >> why volunteer in the final two years of the administration? people took themselves out of the running. why do this? >> it's a question many are asking. not only that. when he comes in, the budget will already be decided. he f

chuck hagel stepped down last week amid reports he was too passive in the face of the new challenges.ced out. he said the decision was mutual. based on my conversation has been largely bipartisan support from capitol hill. republican senator ted cruz saying he's skeptical that carter will be a strong leader. he slammed the administration for having four defense secretary in six years. he said it's add together sense of instability. sources on both sides of the aisle saying barring something unexpected carter is expected to be confirmed. a little bit of biographical information. he coauthored 11 books, a native of philadelphia married with two children taught at harvard, and spent the last year lecturing at stanford. >> thank you. general, it is unusual for there to be four secretaries of defense in one administration >>well no question. i think to some extendt, the administration had a real malignancy not just in the pentagon but the state department where you have a fairly small staff. 3 to 400 people trying to micromanage global u.s. affairs. it doesn't work that way. too big, too c

he was actually in the running last time when chuck hagel got the job.that, he was the head of defense procurement, the chief weapons buyer in the pentagon. and was actually credited with doing a lot to push through some of the emergency urgent equipment that they needed in iraq and afghanistan to counter ieds, roadside bombs, that sort of thing. so very much familiar with the bureaucracy of defense, and a thinker on defense. he's actually a physicist by training, but he's done a lot of work on nuclear weapons. so very much knows the pentagon. i think that is his strength. as i say, we were expecting this. the only issue really was the timing, and it looks as far as mr. obama is concerned, the timing is now. he became the frontrunner actually because some of those who were previously thought would move in have moved -- abstracted themselves out of the running. like perhaps somebody who would have been the first woman u.s. defense secretary. so in some ways, he became frontrunner by default. >> can we go so far as to say he's dovish or hawkish, or is he b

bloomberg politics has been reporting on who will succeed chuck hagel a secretary of defense.e're not sure which ashton it will be, but we will let you know as soon as we do. let's assume it is ashton carter, not ashton kutcher. a tough job to fill. the pentagon has been a quagmire for the obama administration. can ashton carter succeed where chuck hagel failed in the previous secretaries of defense did not have that great of a run? >> he has worked a lot in the building. he did not serve himself, but he has a lot of respect on capitol hill and in the building, and he doesn't care about bureaucratic fighting with the white house. i think he is a very solid choice. he is kind of like panetta or gates, and because he is on the procurement side he will be very skilled at managing down the defense budget. >> the biggest thing the white house had as a legitimate gripe against hegel, and they had themselves to blame, he could not tame the pentagon, a monstrous bureaucracy. they had their own agenda and hagel could not contain them. ashton carter, he has been in this system as unders

chuck hagel making a surprise visit to afghanistan announcing the change in the troop's drawdown. why the pentagon is keeping an extra 1,000 troops there. >>> a major development in the sony picture cyber attack. this as the f.b.i. is looking into those chilling new e-mails that threaten employees and their families. >>> and u.s. naval engineer in trouble with the feds allegedly trying to sell secret documents detailing how to sink its newest generation of aircraft carriers. >>> first new details at this hour on the american hostage held by al-qaeda terrorists in yemen. he was as we've been reporting, killed today during that brave rescue attempt by a u.s. special forces. 32-year-old photo journalist luke somers, kidnapped in september in yemen's capital last year. the group planned to kill him today. u.s. special forces were sadly unable to save him. now the very latest in washington. >> reporter: as soon as president obama believed luke somers was in imminent danger sometime mid-morning yesterday, he signed off on a mission to rescue him. the commander in chief said this morning

. >> and outgoing secretary of defense chuck hagel making a surprise visit to troops in afghanistan today to announce a change in plans. >>> gas prices in one state reaching a low not seen in four years. could the rest of the country soon follow and pay less than $2 a gallon? but first this hour, new reaction from the white house today after it was revealed that an american journalist held hostage by al qaeda terrorists in yemen was killed during a brave rescue attempt. luke somers was kidnapped in september of last year in yemen's capital. al qaeda had planned to kill somers today but u.s. special forces were unable to save him. peter doocy has more details. >> we have brand-new information about the daring raid carried out by american commandos to save luke somers, the president and chuck hagel approved the mission yesterday based on threats thursday from the al qaeda kidnappers that they would kill luke somers today if their demands were not met. at 5:00 p.m. eastern last night, 40 americans took os pray land craft to a site 10 kilometers from where they were being held and started wal

if confirmed he will succeed chuck hagel who resigned last ponth -- month. >> reporter: chuck hagel wasically fired. the islamic state of iraq and the levant is now the focus. >> it does mean as we consider the next remaining two years of the president's time in office, that another secretary might be better suited to meet those challenges. >> reporter: so i that are replacing hagel a man who was fought and wounded in vietnam, with ashton carter, a man who never served in the military. >> i think leadership comes with a responsibility of also knowing when it's probably a good time to let someone else come in and -- come in behind and pick up where you have left off. all right carter is very familiar with the massive mash -- machinery that is the pentagon. known for demanding results and a fiercing inth elect. he has two degrees from yale. his doctorate is in theoretical physics. in 2006 he publicly urged then president bush to bomb a launch pad in north korea before a missile test could be conducted. he is known for speaking his mind and speaking truth to power, but past secretaries und

this is chuck hagel's fourth trip to afghanistan but his last as secretary of defense. we travelled with him to a tactical base in eastern afghanistan where he met with troops, sharing his own

defense secretary chuck hagel said the u.s.ill keep 1000 more troops there at least next year combachlt hagel said the plans to leave 9800 troops in afghanistan is abandoned, but not because of the increased attacks from the taliban. john? >> reporter: hundreds of u.s. troops that planned to return home for the new year will remain in afghanistan. outgoing secretary of defense chuck hagel made a surprise visit to afghanistan where he made a surprise announcement. the u.s. plans to pull troops out of the country are put on hold. delays on signing security pacts to send 2000 troops to join nato forces to train and assist afghan security forces. >> that will mean delayed withdrawal of up to 1000 u.s. troops rather than 99800 could remain this year or next year. >> he added that u.s. commanders have flexibility with the dates. hagel joined in kabul where there has been a surge in attacks. >> we face threats and changing environments of threats, but one thing needs to be clearly understood. we are determined to make sure that our pe

about the mission to save luke somers, which was approved by president obama and defense secretary chuck hagel following new threats by al qaeda kidnappers to kill the american journalist today if their demands were not met. the 30 minute raid began at about 5:00 p.m. eastern last night when osprey aircraft carrying 40 american special forces touched down in yemen, 10 kilometers away from the spot that somers and a south african teacher named pierre corky were being held. the american team walked towards the hostages but spotted from 100 meters away. officials believe that is when the hostages were shot. the american team continued moving in. they loaded the wounded american and wounded south african into the osprey where surgeons worked on them as they rushed toward the nearby ussmacon island. corky died in flight and somers died on the ship. the family got news about his murder at midnight last night. top elected officials are praising the brave operators involved in last night's rescue attempt as well as a previous attempt where they were unable to save somers because he had been moved. >>

we are told that chuck hagel made sure ashton carter was in the spotlight and wished him well. none theless a lot of questions of whether carter will be his own man. carter himself turned to the president sort of dramatically and looked him in the eye and said this. >> if confirmed in this job i pledge to you my most candid strattic advice and you will receive candid military advice. >> very clear that ash carter sent a signal not only for the president but everyone gathered around that he plans to be his own man, whether or not he clashes with the white house as his predecessor had. >> he sets a strong tonight. he will be the fourth that the president had under him and will that give him more leverage. >> reporter: maybe after looking around and the other potential candidates bowed out, it is clear that the president was struggling to get a new defense secretary. it will be hard to push ash carter are out when he is pledging to be his own man. and republicans like linsay graham said he has great credit essentials and they think he will be confirmed, but the republicans like bu

carter never served in the military nor elected to congress as his predecessor chuck hagel had but carter forged his reputation as defense strategist and nuclear expert. hagel is stepping down after less than two years on the job but said he will stay on until a new defense secretary is confirmed. something to keep an eye out for as we head into the confirmation process, carter likely will face tough questions from lawmaker about the obama administration strategy in the fighting islamic state or isis terror group. also the administration's strategy for afghanistan. and what the long-term plan is by the president and the pentagon for the guantanamo bay terror detention center. eric. >> all right, molly. questions about whether how independent he will be from the white house. we'll cover it all throughout the hour. martha? martha: ash carter as you heard has extensive experience in national security. he served as deputy secretary of defense from october 2011 to december 2013. he joined the defense department in the 1980s, focusing primarily on missile defense and conversion after the cold w

she wants that action taken this year. >> so tony, chuck hagel resigned last week and he certainly gotot of questions about that today. >> reporter: this is the first chance they had to talk to him about since announcing his regular i go face. reporters pressed him on whether he really volunteered to step down whether it was a mutual decision or whether he was really pushed out of office. and hagel game some long, rambling responses and insisted that he was good with what happened and it was a mutual decision. but it went on for so long that he never actually took a question about the sexual assault report that he was there to present. i tried to and him a question about that i guess we'll have to wait for the history books write the definitive account of the departure of chuck hagel. >> thank you, jamie. >>> bliss in abu dhabi have arrester aid suspect in the murders of an american women. officials in the united arab emirates also say they have uncovered a plat by that same suspect to plant a bomb in front of another american's home. the state department is calling these acts of terro

that chuck hagel will not attend. it is a last-minute decision. most members of congress have gone home for the weekend, but nancy pelosi is still here. she will brief reporters this morning. the lame-duck congress has one more week of work schedule before adjourning for the year. foreign-policy experts and journalists will discuss the next challenges and north korea at the wilson center in washington. they will talk about social changes, economic challenges, and reporting pitfalls. >> here are some of the program this weekend on the c-span networks. live coverage of the memorial service for marion barry. and compton -- ann compton. on how the northeast u.s. was not always a haven of racial equality. sunday, our live conversation with arthur brooks, with your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets. on american history tv, on lectures in history, martha jones on female slaves and the law. sunday at 8:00, president george h w bush's former secretary of state james baker on the liberation of eastern europe. find a complete schedule at c-span.org and let us

surprises, several officials are now indicating ash carter will be the president's choice to replace chuck hagelas pushed out as defense secretary last week, of course. ash a long time pentagon veteran. he served as hagel's deputy until last year. before thaefs tht he was the to acquisitions official. he knows the ins and outs of how billions of dollars of taxpayer money is spent on weapons and defense programs. he knows what can be cut and what still might be considered essential. if there's perhaps one short coming in his resume it would be he doesn't have a lot of experience on the geopolitical world global stage but certainly some. so what are his advantages. he wants the job, there's a lot of people that have bowed out and he can get confirmed by the senate arms services committee, by senator john mccain, a republican, who wants to see much more action by the u.s. in iraq and syria. the question for ash carter, perhaps, will be can he stand up to the white house? can he offer new ideas? new options, and get the white house to listen to him? carol? >> can he, jim? >> well, that will be the b

he plans to use the hearing as a way to examine problems with that. >> counter defense secretary chuck hagel was a no-show at the announcement today. is that significant? >> i wouldn't read too much into it. secretary hagel had another commitment that he would make. he issued a statement supporting ash carter. yesterday he said he was comfortable with his departure from the pentagon. times, at your engagement ceremony you don't necessarily want to invite your ex-wife. >> jamie mcintyre, you had a couple today. appreciate it. thank you. >> you're welcome. >>> the latest job's report offers good news for the nation's workforce. 3021 jobs added and 5.8% unemployment. ali velshi joins us to break down the numbers, from "real money". it's a mostly good report isn't it? >> very good report. 320,000 net new jobs, all the jobs added minus those lost. it's 100,000 more than economist forecast, and they revised the last two months. re vingss since -- revisions since september and october. on average 240,000 jobs per month in 2014. it's about right, where the job gains should be, for the job market to

at the end of the day, chuck hagel was viewed by the white house as almost too passive. think the real reason why he was let go is because the white house, after the mid terms, felt luke they needed to show they were doing with -- they were shaking up the national security team. the reality is he didn't want to shake up his national security team. he went for the lowest hanging fruit. >> it was interesting to see the republicans who voted against chuck hagel in confer rags sudd suddenly embrace him. >> i agree firing is too harsh. this is conscious decoupling >> wow. pharrell williams and gwyneth paltrow on the same show. >> i thought hagel was brought on to be a non-factor and was performing in that role. i was surprised by this. you now have three former defense secretaries that say the white house is too insular and is micromanaging on foreign policy. you have a policy making process that is troubled. and a substantive policy that i believe is a disaster. >> the question is where does the substantive policy go? specifically, islamic state. and to me the war seems to b

is leaving and chuck hagel was one of the principal architects. he wrote a report back in 2008, after georgia civil war, he was one of the early advocates of the defense policy, because you had secretary of defense in the first place who didn't believe in it. and now there are changes also in washington. so that might help because ultimately that is world order we are talking about. >> what about the understanding that the west wouldn't press too close to russia, the pressure is put on russia because many of its neighbors are nato members and it's cornered in. >> it's not about we irritated russia, there are lots of useful idiots in the west that are saying, that was our fault. hitler had his interests, we should understand. putin was doing before second world war and saying what was -- he was saying before second world war. so the reality is that putin would have gone aggressive and no matter what, from the very beginning he proclaimed this was his goal to reassert soviet sphere of influence. and the west could either appease him, many would say,

chuck hagel made the nuclear overhaul announcement november 14th.ut then ten days later, poof, he was gone. you're going to do that. me, i've got to go. i'm resigning. so one of the more immediate questions is do you support these major changes that your predecessor just announced while he was on his way out the door. that's just one of the questions. that's just the multitrillion dollar terrifying nuclear question, but there are more. the reading out of washington right now is about who's going to replace chuck hagel as defense secretary. all the smart money is on this man, ash carter. by training, ash carter has degrees in medical history with a particular expertise in nuclear policy. whoever takes over will be handling the nukes issue as well as a brand new war out in the middle east in iisis as well as all the other mundane tasks of managing the single largest organization on the face of the earth. the united states military. we are told to expect an announcement either way in the next day or so. >>> so one of my colleagues here at msnbc has bee

we're expecting to hear from soon from outgoing defense secretary chuck hagel. chief. >> he's expected to hold a press conference any minute now. we'll bring you that as soon as it begins. >> earlier today defense secretary hagel confirmed that the 33-year-old photojournalist was killed. he used the word "murdered" as u.s. forces were trying to rescue him from his al qaeda captors in yemen. hagel confirmed that aqap killed somers. it's believed the raid took place in yemen's shagwa province. militants also killed a south african hostage. >> we know that president obama ordered the raid. this week, the militants release a video threatening to kill somers if washington didn't meet its demands. we also heard a short time ago from secretary of state john kerry who says, quo, the murder of luke somers during a rescue operation say reminder of the brutality of the terrorists in al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. again, we're waiting to hear from secretary hagel who is going to be addressing the public, the world really, any moment now from kabul, the presidential palac

defense secretary chuck hagel is in afghanistan where he's discussing security measures with leaders and commandos ending there in a few weeks. he's confident that afghan forces will prevail, for giving a live look. >> there is hagel speaking now. this likely will be the last visit as secretary. he announced his resignation last month. >> the battle for kobane is heating up. kurdish fighters, as well as iraqi peshawar and syrian rebels are locked in a fight to stave off demands in the town. it came as a repel group says it captured an air base. also this morning "rolling stone" magazine facing backlash following an commission on friday that it misplaced trust in an unidentified woman, claiming she was gang-raped at the university of virginia. >> lisa stark is live for us this morning from washington d.c. >> when i read the article, it was appalling. aggressive. it was a rape scope that you hear about. now they hear that they may have displaced trust in this woman, and the university took major heat for the story. how are they reacting to the "rolling stone" apoll xie now. >> -- apolog

also ahead outgoing defense secretary chuck hagel makes an unexpected stop in kabul to announce extra troops. >>> zimbabwe names grace mugabe as head of the women's league. >>> philippines prepare for a typhoon. >>> why scientists say they have solved a medical mystery. >> an american and south africa being held hostage by al-qaeda in yemen has been killed during an attempt to rescue them. president obama said i authorized the mission because luke somers' life was in danger. >> it was the second time u.s. and yemeni forces tried to rescue luke somers. along with pierre kork work who was held aside him. this time they never made it out alive. >> they wanted to rescue him, but the al-qaeda was wag bearing down, and as one of my sources told me, they tried to kill him. they tried to escape with him, but the operation was very strong, and they were surround surrounded, so they killed him. >> that operation took place in the southeast of yemen. u.s. president barack obama released a statement that strongly condemned the killings and explains the timing of the operation. it reads that luke

today president obama will announce his choice to replace chuck hagel as the next secretary of defense. he is expected to nominate ashton carter in about 30 minutes. trac tracie potts joins us from capitol hill. he's an unknown name, though not unknown to the administration. >> he was the number two at the pentagon until last year when he was passed over for the top job by chuck hagel. he is initially an academic but also has a long history at the pentagon managing defense cuts. he's an expert in weapons. he came in as a missile defense analyst so he knows a lot about weapons. he was the main purchaser for weapons at the pentagon so he know s a lot about the tools they're going to need to do things like fight isis, get out of afghanistan, ukraine, ebola. the nomination, then he'll probably make a tour and do some visits on capitol hill the confirmation hearing will not likely take place until the new legislators take office. >> we know that chuck hagel's nomination and confirmation were hard fought. so maybe some compromise there in washington. thanks, tracie. >> plenty of storms in wa

this one will bring flooding. >> thank you, bill. >> breaking news overnight, defense secretary chuck hagel made a surprise visit to baghdad. the trip was kept a secret for security reasons. hagel met with u.s. troops. he will also sit down with iraqi leaders to discuss isis. the visit comes after a stop in kuwait on monday. this is expected to be hagel's last overseas trip as pentagon chief. >>> right now, u.s. cembassies around the world are on alert, beefing up security ahead of the new release of a new report by the cia. it highlights enhanced interrogation technique used in the aftermath of 9/11 to get information and the center of a long-standing tug of war. one side says the release could mean danger, even death for americans abroad. the other believes the evidence could spell the end of violent torture as the means of interrogation. but chief of staff jeremy bash cited the pressure in the shadow of 9/11 to prevent another attack. >> the trade towers were still in a smoldering ruin at ground zero when this program began. >> nbc's tracie potts is live in washington. good morning to yo

chuck hagel, senator from nebraska, a republican. >> senator hagel is the reason i really was appointedy the attorney general. as a former chief of staff to senator kennedy, i wasn't exactly the person who everybody would automatically assume would be assigned this task, by the attorney general and the administration. chuck hagel, who i have known since agent orange for over 20 years, personally pushed at the white house and at the department of justice, claim that i was the right man to do this. >> you wanted this job, you say. >> oh, yes. i think millions of people would have wanted this job. >> did many people apply for the job? >> of no idea. >> to this day, i don't know if the administration sought out others. or offered it to others. >> what were you doing at the moment you decided you wanted the job? >> i was feeching at the university of pennsylvania law school, i was teaching. and i read about the program. i was coming back on the train, and i said to myself, i think this is something that i want to do. >> because you -- step back. where were you the moment of 9/11? >> at the u

the president tapping ashton carter as his pick to succeed chuck hagel as defense secretary, a pentagoneran known for his expertise on nuclear issues. if confirmed, he would be the president's fourth pentagon chief. >> today i'm pleased to announce my nominee to be our next secretary of defense, mr. ash carter. now, with a record of service that has spanned more than 30 years, his public service, as an adviser, as a scholar, ash is rightly regarded as one of our nation's foremost national security leaders. >> whoever becomes the next defense secretary will face a host of foreign policy problems including the ongoing civil war in syria, the growing threat of isis and increasingly aggressive vladimir putin and the struggle to contain iran's nuclear ambitions. this as recent fox polls show americans are expressing deep doubts about the president's handling of global affairs and our nation's standing in the world. nearly six in ten americans believe president obama's leadership on foreign policy is weak and indecisive, and about that same number say america is less respected around the worl

at the end of the day, chuck hagel was viewed by the white house as almost too passive. is because the white house, after the mid terms, felt luke they needed to show they were doing with -- they were shaking up the national security team. the reality is he didn't want to shake up his national security team. he went for the lowest hanging fruit. >> it was interesting to see the republicans who voted against chuck hagel in confer rags sudd suddenly embrace him. >> i agree firing is too harsh. this is conscious decoupling. >> wow. pharrell williams and gwyneth paltrow on the same show. >> i thought hagel was brought on to be a non-factor and was performing in that role. i was surprised by this. you now have three former defense secretaries that say the white house is too insular and is micromanaging on foreign policy. you have a policy making process that is troubled. and a substantive policy that i believe is a disaster. >> the question is where does the substantive policy go? specifically, islamic state. and to me the war seems to be in the sort of untenable middle groun

. >>> it appears president obama will likely pick a nuclear expert to replace chuck hagel as defense secretary, carter is in charge of buying weapons for u.s. troops in iraq and afghanistan. >> reporter: he spent a good part of his career in academia. but with his prior pentagon experience, knows budgets, bombs and the building very well. what he hopes he will bring to the job that some perceive chuck hagel did not is a real depth of knowledge and focus on isis and the problems in iraq and syria. of course, the drawdown in afghanistan is on the horizon as well, but this is going to be a very critical period at the pentagon with very little time left for the president and his team to try to turn things around. >> meantime, the former wife of isis ladier abu bah keer al-baghdadi is seen here. she and one child were caught a week ago trying to sneak into lebanon. they hope she will lead them to them. >>> michael brown's stepfather was heard screaming after he heard that darren wilson will not be charged for michael brown's death. he could be heard screaming, quote, burn it down. investi

. >> as you point out it's not just chuck hagel, you say before hagel bill gates and leon panetta alsoomplained of micromanagement? >> that's right, secretary gates and panetta both wrote books that talked about the difficulties in dealing with the white house on doing their jobs at the pentagon. it differs from president to president and of course the pentagon would like full autonomy to do whatever they want, everybody knows that, but in this case it's really serious, and it's a problem. for example, obama had several other folks he was considering and would like to have tapped for defense secretary. they pulled their names out of the running, the reason being they feared they wouldn't be able to carry out the job. so there's two years left to the administration and ashton carter will be filling that role for a couple years. i don't think there are real high expectations that much is going to change. i think they thought secretary hagel would work more with the administration, and kind of do what they said, but even he became frustrated, thus his very quick ouster. >> it's not clear

defense secretary chuck hagel says he does not expect afghanistan's security forces to buckle the waythe weekend in afghanistan. he said the difference between afghanistan and iraq, afghanistan wants u.s. troop there is to assist, advise and train. >> they have welcomed us. they want us to continue to help them support them. that's a big difference between afghanistan today and where we were in iraq. >> jim sciutto spoke with secretary hagel in afghanistan. he will have a that interview live to "new day." >>> there are concerns this morning over the release of a top secret cia interrogation report. explosive report details what the cia did following the terror attacks on 9/11. now there are fears the release of the report could lead to violence to americans around the world. former president george w. bush told cnn whatever the report says is way off base. >>> it is just like the beatles, but not nearly the same song repertoire. prince william and princess kate arrived late last night. the prince will meet with president obama and vice president joe biden. the duchess is five months p

if chuck hagel wasn't, he certainly won't be. >> reporter: still carter is known for speaking his mindsomething the white house complained hagel didn't do. >> if confirmed in this job, i pledge to you, my most candid strategic advice. >> reporter: he is expected to be confirmed by the senate, but if the experience of the last three secretaries of defense are any indication, getting the job might be the easieiest part. >>> graham allison is the director of the center for science and international affairs, and joins me live now. you know ashton carter pretty well. this is arguably a job that no one wanted. how do you think he is going to adjust to his new position? >> well, i think it's a good choice, and i think ashton will prove himself to be well suited to the job. i had the good fortune to know him for more years than fear i can remember. i recruited him here when i was dean. i appointed him assist important professor. he grew up to become a professor. he was the director of the center i currently direct. ashton has shown himself to be adaptable, adjustable, agile, but always determi

. >> reporter: defense secretary chuck hagel is out, and there are strong indications his former deputy ashton carter will be named today at haigelgu hage replacement. the white house won't confirm but praised carter earlier this week. >> he's somebody that certainly deserves and has demonstrated strong bipartisan support. >> reporter: but the outgoing democrat and incoming republican over the committee in charge of confirmation hearings agreed. carter is a weapons expert who managed deep budget cuts in the defense department, but can he crack the president's inner circle? that's believed to be why hagel to do go. critics are concerned about revolvie ining door. four defense secretaries in four years. >> at a time when it's so grave, we shouldn't see more turnover in the defense department than one see at a typical burger king. >> reporter: we are hearing lawmakers say they think he'll have an easy confirmation process. support on both sides and has been through the process before back when confirmed in 2011 as deputy, by unanimous consent. todd? >> it is rare for anything to be easy in

. >>> president obama nominated carter after chuck hagel steps down.e'll look at the challenges o after a new cold war begins. ♪ >> largely peaceful protests across the united states tonight. you are looking at pictures of new york city where protesters are marching down fifth avenue heading further south in midtown. you know we were talking to duarte about what's motivating them now but there's really a bigger story now, ben is also the author of if mayors ruled the world. dysfunctional nations and rising cities. i don't think he meant for the title of that book to be ironic, rising cities. ben says that poor police training is the single meece important problem that cities face internally. focused on the topic you have been focused on for the last year or so is the cities, the financing of cities, the disparity twin whites and minorities in cities, the bifurcation between the two in cities, this is coming together in boston, new york city, and chicago. >> right there in the center of town they were laying down in the street they were peaceful but the

but that's chuck hagel.else. >> >>. >> reporter: at the end of the month, u.s. forces will give up their combat role for training, advising and assisting afghan forces. a new mission as the u.s. prepares for a complete withdrawal in the coming years. >> we saw how the iraqi forces dissolved with the advance of isis. why are you confident that afghan forces will perform better? >> they want us here.

we had interesting week this past week in terms of president obama firing his defense secretary, chuck hagel as he submitted his resignation. john, let's start with that issue do you think we'll see the president name a new choice to be defense secretary shortly? >> i talked to somebody who is involved in this process right now, he said it could happen within next several days. the names we've heard are jay johnson head of the homeland security, ashton carter who is deputy secretary of defense. what is interesting about this, criteria will be somebody who has power within the building, can work within the pentagon also is trusted by the president. the position of secretary of defense, the fourth this president has had is such fascinating to look at extent to which president wants to get his hands involved on detail level but then also no president can be in charge and control of everything. first meeting at the pentagon president said to then secretary of state bob gates, i think of myself as parallel parking. in other words i'm coming in there, two wars going on, host of hold over policies