>> ask chuck hagel, right? poor chuck hagel. gets nominated to be defense secretary. has a really crappy confirmation process where his former colleagues are just all over him. and then for a lot of complicated reasons, ends up spending not a lot of time inside the administration. confirmation hearing are always an opportunity to hash over the administration's policy on a given thing. so they're -- even if the next president wants to send a message by picking someone across the aisle, i would expect the experience to be a lot more like chuck hagel's experience and a lot less like norm mineta's experience. >> margaret? >> i think, again, this is a situation where it may matter which of the two nominees is elected. in clinton's case, you have seen she has trumpeted the fact that a number of republicans have come over to support her campaign, mostly in protest to trump's existence as a nominee. so that gives her kind of a ready made batch of either potential nominees for cabinet posts or at least of potential kind of undersecretary for whatever, whatcha ma call it. and t

features interviews with major figures like ash carter, former defense secretary robert gates and chuck hagelhe architect of the iraqi surge, general david petraeus. >> in responding to these situations, american leadership is imperative. it's indispensable. there's no substitute for it. >> reporter: general petraeus would like to see more decisive action taken in syria. >> i have long advocated a safe zone, no-fly zone. we crater the runways. tell the russians that if you bomb our guys, the ones we are supporting on the ground, the opposition, we are going to bomb your guys, assad's regime forces. >> join us for how we fight. it remeres 8:00 p.m. eastern. we are down to a dozen days before election day. we will see where we are, what to expect and what's out on the trail today when the panel joins me after the break. we asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. travel with my daughter. roller derby. ♪ now give up half of 'em. do i have to? this is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. but, if we start saving even just 1% more of our annual

features interviews with major figures like ash carter, former defense secretary robert gates and chuck hagel the architect of the iraqi surge, general david petraeus. >> in responding to these situations, american leadership is imperative. it's indispensable. there's no substitute for it. >> reporter: general petraeus would like to see more decisive action taken in syria. >> i have long advocated a safe zone, no-fly zone. we crater the runways. tell the russians that if you bomb our guys, the ones we are supporting on the ground, the opposition, we are going to bomb your guys, assad's regime forces. >> join us for how we fight. it remeres 8:00 p.m. eastern. we are down to a dozen days before election day. we will see where we are, what to expect and what's out on the trail today when the panel joins me after the break. >>> i think we have had enough of the clintons, in all fairness. don't you think? had enough. at what point do we say it? hillary clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the president. >> so i hope after all north carolina has gone through with the effort

>> ask chuck hagel, right? poor chuck hagel. gets nominated to be defense secretary. has a really crappy confirmation process where his former colleagues are just all over him. and then for a lot of complicated reasons, ends up spending not a lot of time inside the administration. confirmation hearing are always an opportunity to hash over the administration's policy on a given thing. so they're -- even if the next president wants to send a message by picking someone across the aisle, i would expect the experience to be a lot more like chuck hagel's experience and a lot less like norm mineta's experience. >> margaret? >> i think, again, this is a situation where it may matter which of the two nominees is elected. in clinton's case, you have seen she has trumpeted the fact that a number of republicans have come over to support her campaign, mostly in protest to trump's existence as a nominee. so that gives her kind of a ready made batch of either potential nominees for cabinet posts or at least of potential kind of undersecretary for whatever, whatcha ma call it. and t

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center for global risk and security at the rand corporation and former foreign policy advisor to chuck hagel of nebraska, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> c-span's washington journal, live every day. coming up sunday morning, writers campaign correspondence ginger gibson previews the second presidential debate at washington university in st. louis. plus, charlie cook, editor and publisher of the cook political report and rothenberg and gonzales report on the latest from the presidential race, including expectations for sunday's debate. talk about key swing states in the senate and the likelihood of a democratic takeover of that chamber. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. c-span 2016 campaign bus is traveling throughout virginia to ask voters, what are the most important issues in the election, and wide? j

while barack and i and chuck hagel and dick lugar have been callingfor more money to help in afghanistan, more troops in afghanistan, john mccain was saying two years ago, quote, "the reason we don't readabout afghanistan anymore in the paper, it's succeeded." barack obama was saying we need more troops there. again, we spend in three weeks on combat missions in iraq more than we spent inthe entire time we have been in afghanistan. that'll change in a barack obama administration. ms. ifill: senator, you have quite a record -- this is the next question here -- of being an interventionist. you have argued forintervention in bosnia and kosovo, initially in iraq, in pakistan, and now in darfur, putting u.s. troops on the ground, boots on the ground. is this something the american public has the stomach for? sen. biden: well, i think the american public has a stomach for success. and my recommendations on bosnia -- i admit i was the firstone to recommend it. they saved tens of thousands of lives. and initially john mccain opposed it, along with a lot of other people. but the end result was it

that's a shocker, then, of course, when our former colleague chuck hagel said rm american dominance of the seas, in the skies and in space can no longer be taken for granted. what i'm saying is that you folks need to be outspoken. you need to be heard because you're the experts and the public is not aware of the threats we have so i'm going to ask you in a minute a question just on the size of the military but let me give you a couple of -- these are quotes from you and other people talking about just the size. general goldfein you said "our strategic capability advantage over competitors is shrinking and our ability to protect strategic deterrence is being challenged." general, your predecessor, general welsh said "virtually every mission area faces critical manning shortages. condition with manning shortages. and the air force risks burning airmen out." general milley said "in light of the threats confronting our nation to include russia, china, north korea, iran, isis, we need to talk about that, the army has accepted high military risk to meet the requirements of the national secur

center for global risk and security at the rand corporation and former foreign policy ofisor to chuck hagel nebraska, thank you for joining us today. that's all for today's "washington journal." tomorrow, we will have ginger gibson on. we will also have a discussion from charlie cook and stuart rothenberg on the debate anti- presence of campaign. also, be sure to tune in for newsmakers where ron angstrom of the chamber of congress will discuss the chamber's role in the 2016 election campaign. again, that is on sunday at 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. also, be sure to tune in for the debate tomorrow night. coverage of that will be can live at 7:30 tomorrow night. you can catch that on c-span as well as the c-span radio app. have a good saturday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ > coming up> vice president shall candidates tim kaine and mike pence in farmville, virginia. followed by debate from the candidates running for u.s. senate in cal

>> ask chuck hagel, right? poor chuck hagel. gets nominated, as a really crappy confirmation process where his former colleagues are just all over him. and then for a lot of complicated reasons, spending a lot of time inside the administration. consummation you are an opportunity to bash over the policies. even if the next president wants to send matches by taking some across the aisle of expect the expense to be a lot more like chuck hagel's experience. >> i think again this is a situation where it may matter which of the two nominees get elected. in clinton's case you have seen she has trumpeted the fact a number of republicans have come out to support her campaign. mostly in protests to donald trump's existence. so that gives her a ready-made batch even as potential nominees for cabinet post or at least a potential kind of undersecretary for whatever whatchamacallit. and the upside having someone from the opposing party in such a group, if you feel that you trust them, is that its information from the other side that you migh