and if the republican candidate, for example, was chuck hagel i would have no hesitation in supporting chuck hagel. >> so on iraq your strongest feelings. >> i think the iraq adventure is a profound misadventure. who was hoisted on this country by demagoguey from the top down. it involved basic misjudgment of what was needed and how to go about pursuing what was needed. and the consequences are visible to all. our credibility worldwide has been shot. our legitimacy has been undermined. and last but not least, global respect for our power has been much reduced. >> i want to go back to the videotape from 1989 and what you had to say about mr. gorbachev and the soviet union. >> i don't have to dif resht between mr. gorbachev the human being and the fate of the policy he's promoting. he certainly is a very intelligent person. he makes a very good impression. that's why he's so attractive he stands in such contrast to those who proceeded him. his policies which are based on two russian words which have come to be well known. are designed to promote a reform of a system that he recognizes ha

in fact eventually was god, that committed the christian heresy of the idea of what the philosopher hageldo all of the things that god would do, if god actually existed. and it empowered the left to play god. if you read liberal or leftist philosophy, it is always about putting man in the place of god whether the bulshevics or progressive, it is trying to make the here and now like the hereafter, and the problem is you cannot do that. you cannot create a heaven on earth. the perfect society is reserved for the next life, not this one. [ applause ] this is something all conservatives of whatever faith fundamentally understand that weer built from the crooked timber of humanity and that the state cannot straighten it out. if you read liberal philosophy, john rawles says the way to imagine a decent society is to imagine you are creating it from scratch and you didn't know where you were going to be born into that society. he calls it the veil of ignorance and says you would create a just society if you thought you might be born the lowest person in that society, would you want to hedge your

senator hagel, a few words for us. [applause] >> fred coming thank you.i had my welcome on behalf of the recent atlantic council. we are very pleased that you are here and certainly we are proud to have joe ackermann with us today because not only has fred explained part of that reason. it was noted as i walked across the street about half an hour he turned and said it will be a very enlightening to have an individual can't explain what the is going on in the world. not afraid you can't or the atlantic council, the josef ackermann has not only an interesting and important perspective, but one grounded in the realities of responsible global leadership goes far beyond and financial services in europe. as fred noted, at a time in the world is undergoing a fundamental change in order in every way, certainly as manifested by our politics not just here in the united states, but i think in all countries you can take any region of the world and identify the probably unprecedented historic shift in geopolitics. and i think the last 15 months in north africa and th

this is hagel's problem. hagel thought everything was headed to the prussian state. no history here. is this the first time of the history of america an attorney should be held in contempt? if so, give me the evidence. >> if mark halperin is right from the first comment, this is about targeting the political base of the republican party, which you put forward as a theory, if that is true, that in and of itself is an inappropriate use of a contempt citation. >> they want the documents and attorney general won't give them to them. what should they do? >> they can continue do oversight. they don't necessarily have a right to the documents that were created in response to the justice department. if the theory is right, it's an inappropriate use of power. that's their problem. >> it is certainly something that we will be following. we did not get to discuss the issue of commerce secretary john brycen resigning. >> he's glad. >> he's glad. he's out of there. thanks again to ari, mike, maggie and michael. that's all for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern.

the rector was hagel that she left campus without comment. students on campus learned of the temporary leadership change as they headed to classes. >> they found a good person for the position. >> there is still bitterness about the way the change happened. >> i think it is not very transparent as a public university and the board acted like it is a private university. >> they private process and late night appointment does not sit well with the student. >> it is a huge violation. >> more than a week after the removal students and faculty rallied outside the school rotunda. there is an underlying concern about honesty. >> i feel like a lot of faculty are upset about not being talked to. >> the big word is transparency. there is no transparency. i do not think it was handled very well. >> the school's rector said the committee would be put together soon to name a new president. >> a virgi he is accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with a 17-year-old girl. the last incident happened in 2001. he denies any wrongdoing. >> another contro

>> hagel think it is worse. -- i don't think it is worse. that is the argument. that direct subsidies work as cross subsidies. that is odd to me. we have a jury rig an entire insurance system so we can font the budget so we can fund the process of their moral demand. we have emergency room care and all of these other things. so, yes, we created a system where we have moral the man and we hope directed -- help fund it directly. >> the argument is very simple. we have a situation where states are presented with a choice. the states have been given over voluntarily an opportunity to opt into the program based on certain fiscal projections. now the entire health care delivery network requires it. it was precipitously -- if it were precipitously withdrawn, there would be a major health crisis. if you don't give them a choice, states believe, despite , that medicaid would bankrupt them, too. i often cannot reject it. that is called coercion. i'm not interested frankly about what is economically efficient. but the aggregate -- that the federal government do medicaid dir

i would like to turn the podium over to atlantic council chairman senator chuck hagel who will say a few words and introduced dr. ackermann. i will not give you his entire resume, but i think it is important to note that aside from being a decorated soldier and senior statesman, he is also .n accomplished business anman we are particularly proud of the role you played on memorial day remembering the vietnam war when you introduced president barack obama in the ceremony that highlighted the tremendous heroism of vietnam veterans, including yourself and your brother, and this country's continuing obligation to honor their service. on on to parricide -- on the entrepreneurial side, he worked in the private sector as president of mccarthy and company, an investment-banking firm in omaha. he also served as chairman of the board of american information systems. before joining mccarthy, he was president and chief executive officer of the private sector council in washington. he has been a steady and moderate voice of all of the core issues from dealing with to thenuclear ambitions future ro

ronald reagan, jeb bush, bob bennett, bob english, chuck hagel, mitch daniels, mickey edwards to name a few of many are plenty conservative and not extreme. now i'm going to suggest that a party can be extreme in three ways and i will discuss each. tactics, ideology and rhetoric. first tactics. i should emphasize tactics do depend on context. i posit that the gop has adopted a set of parliamentary tactics in a nonparliamentary system in a way that is unlike any we have seen before. underscoring some of jeb bush's points, purely oppositional and obstructionist disdaining problem-solving, defining its partisan adversary as the enemy and opposing positions often because of who is supporting them, not because of what is in them. now the first evidence comes from the filibuster, let me put up a chart. which is now being applied in a fashion unseen in all of previous american history. i don't have time to go over the history of the filibuster. much of it is in the book. did i mention it makes a great holiday gift? but, let me say that in the past filibusters were used rarely for an issues o