assess what could be a contentious road ahead for the president's national-security nominees to my katie mcfarlandas held national security posts under three presidents and a fox these national security analyst and a pulitzer prize-winning journalist judith miller. let's begin with you. the nomination here of brennan and, of course, of hegel catching some, well, this -- by surprise despite the fact that their names have been proffered for some time. >> the jewish community, representatives have let the president know they do not like this appointment. there is to not to do it, but now what is done. many of them starting to fall in line saying, it is done. some will continue to oppose, but at this point you have to assume that senator hegel stands a good chance of being confirmed lou: : first to brennan, he has been purged of whatever his sins were under the bush demonstration by four years of service and the obama administration. any problem? >> there has to be some question is this a new form of american warfare, covert of syndromes? so i think some questions there, but the bigger fight will be o

katie mcfarland, our colleague said point-blank, the failure of this administration to respond to benghazi and it is surely coming, and it did. your thoughts? >> i think that the algerians, even though we are taking a lot of criticism right now for what they did, absolutely right thing because it seems to me that people who strapped explosives to hostages and make it clear that there are there to teach them about islam do not have any intention of negotiating. lou: i will go farther, if i may. i will go further than this and say that the algerian government was so right not to talk to either the british were the american government before handling this situation because they knew what they would suggest, which they were doing relentlessly, apparently, saying don't do anything, basically. perform the only act the car that was rational given the circumstances. >> you can go back to benghazi, and we have done nothing. and our ambassador is killed in our embassy facilities is overrun and three other americans killed, the sense that there is no price to pay for taking american life, very danger