i would hope chuck hagle would not run flu his enemy.ama would nominate him and fight for his confirmation. folks, brings us to this weekend before christmas. i will be office enjoying my family next week. david shuster will be here filling in. so i hope you all have a great weekend, and happy happy holidays. merry christmas. we will see you early in 2013. god bless. >> this is "the bill press show."

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i like chuck hagle a lot.when we thought he was going to run for president. >> uh-huh. >> then he had that news come friends. come on. yeah. do you think these -- timing we will know before the end of the year? >> yeah i think it will start leaking out pretty soon. it's got to. yeah. but president obama's so locked into having a big legacy a big meaningful legacy action i think he will go with flornoy. what a gesture that would be female defense secretary. something to leave to posterity. >> bill: in the press corps that you used to be part of? >> i am still. >> bill: everybody thought last friday we were going to find out. i would say by next friday we % will know. >> you know, holidays coming up. >> bill: yes. and speaking of holidays, is john boehner is spending a little holiday time at the whitehouse. he wasn't there to see the decorations. what do you think this means? anything? so unscheduled meeting between the president and the speaker, just the two of them, one on one, sitting down at the whitehouse y

. >> chuck hagle will be the next secretary of defense?y a float put out yesterday. you know we will see whether there is any pushback on that. certainly, some jewish groups are not terribly thrilled with him. we will see how well that goes >> bill: that's a battle president obama will be willing to make. i guess we will know this early in the next week. from politico political reporter reid epstein. thanks for coming in. >> this is "the bill press show." i've never seen anything like this. >> when disaster strikes sometimes the only way out is to look within. current tv digs deep into the extraordinary tales of heroism determination and escape. "trapped" experience the drama. back to back to back. >> hold on mates! >> catch the "trapped" mini-marathon saturday starting at 1 eastern. on current tv. [ music ] >> this is "the bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: all right. on a friday, december 14th, here we go, the full court press coming to you live from our nation's capitol, our studio here on capitol hill. we are

i love chuck hagle. i think he would make a great defense secretary.g on that and on the fiscal cliff the only item on his agenda is getting the daily briefing with the vice president at 9:30 this morning and then this evening, they have a big reception at the whitehouse for the diplomat ilkic corps. i will get my butt down there and represent all of you. in the next hour, in studio with us, congressman peter welch from vermont and lee saunders from apsmee. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] >> bill: my fellow americans, good to see you today. welcome to the "full-court press" here on current tv. i am bill press with you for the next hour to review all of the big stories of the day and, of course, to hear from you, take your calls at 866-55-press. thanks for joining us this morning. man, lots to talk about, including how about this? the official investigation is over, and the report has been issued now which blames the state department of for systemic failures that led up to the assassination of ambassador chris stevens in benghazi. they blame