the warmth of those statements and the thank yous from leon panetta and mike morrell at the cia. these are going to be very popular choices inside the institutions, but whether they are on capitol hill is another question. we have just heard from john mccain. the statement we've been waiting for from john mccain that chuck hagel served in vietnam with honor, and he congratulates him. however, he says he has serious concerns about positions senator hagel has taken on a range of critical national security issues in recent years which we must fully consider in the course of his confirmation process in the senate armed services committee. one of chuck hagel's strongest supporters is the most senior retired career diplomat we have, veteran ambassador thomas pickering, ambassador pickering, thank you very much. why is chuck hagel the best person for this job given what lindsey graham and now john mccain and other of his former republican colleagues have said? >> andrea, because he understands what it is needed to meet america's national security needs perhaps as well as anybody because

mike morrell is acting director who took over for petraeus who resigned after an extra marital affair. >>> james holmes will be at his preliminary hearing. they are ex securitied to have dozens of witnesses play 911 calls and play video from the movie theater. they will decide if he should go to trial. he is accused of injuring dozens of more in the july shooting last year. the search for the massoni fashion house grows more intense as it enters his 4th day. his plane vanishing without a trace friday pizhis wife, two friends and crew members were on board. >> hundreds gathering together for the life and legacy of former president richard nixon. ♪ >> that ceremony held yesterday celebrating what would have been president nixon's 100th birthday which was on wednesday. there was also military flyover. family and friends remembering ni

they want acting director mike morrell to set the record straight. morrell, on president obama's short list to replace general petraeus, released this statement. "the film creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques were the key to finding bin laden. that impression is false." then he added, "some intel came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques. but there were many other sources, as well." while nobody disputes there were many sources tapped in the ten-year hunt for bin laden, the senators say a recently concluded and still classified investigation by the senate intelligence committee found that aggressive tactics such as water boarding played no role at all in finding him. >> the leadership at the cia should make very, very clear none of this ambiguous language about we'll never know, we know. >> reporter: the cia which declined further comment about its tactics cooperated with the makers of "zero dark thirty," arranging meetings with top agency official. even turning over the floor plan of bin laden's compoun

the cia may have misled the filmmakers about what really happened, and they want acting director mike morrellaight. he's on president obama's short list to replace general petraeus at the cia released this statement, the film creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques were the key to finding bin laden. that impression is false. but then he added, some intel came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques, but there were many other sources as well. while nobody disputes there were many sources tapped in the ten-year hunt for bin laden, the senators say a recently concluded and still classified investigation by the senate intelligence committee found that aggressive tactics such as waterboarding played no role at all in finding him. >> the leadership at the cia should make very, very clear, none of this ambiguous language about we'll never know, we know. >> action. >> reporter: the cia which declined further comment about its tactics, cooperating with the makers of "zero dark 30" arranging meetings with top agency officials, even turning over the floor plan of

mike morrell is acting director. he replaced general petraeus who resigned over an extra marital affair. today we'll begin to hear all of the evidence against the colorado movie massacre. the judge will then decide if the case should go to trial. holmes is accused of killing 12 people, injuring dozens more in that shooting last july. secretary of state hillary clinton heading back to work today. a few hours from now clinton will return to the state department. she was released five days ago from a hospital for treatment of a potentially life threatening blood clot. many lawmakers still demanding secretary clinton testify about the benghazi libya terror attack before they vote on john kerry as her successor. >>> look at what's left of this car that had a six-month-old baby inside when it ran a stop sign and collided with a pickup truck. this is in the state of maine. cops say even though the baby was strapped into a car seat he was still thrown from the vehicle, landed in the snow 25 feet away. baby and mom were taken

i want in particular to think mike morrell and leon panetta for their extraordinary service. i just want to repeat i hope the senate will act on these confirmations promptly. when it comes to security we do not bite to leave a lot of gaps between the time one set of leaders transitions out of another. we need to get moving quickly. one of the reasons why i am so confident that chuck hagel will be an outstanding secretary offense in john brennan of the cia, they understand that we are only successful because of the folks up and down the line in these respected institutions. folks on the ground. they're oftentimes putting their lives at risk for us. they are oftentimes i greatly moved from washington and its politics. to have those who have been in the field, who have been in the heat of battle, who understand the decisions we make in this town and how it has an impact of ramifications for everybody who actually has to execute our national security strategies. that is something invaluable. it will provide me the kind of insight i need in making very difficult decisions. it also

the second is that mike mor rell who stood up with him in the white house at the east room today and i went over the the announcement it was quite touching to see how mr. morrell, who had been the other contender for job introduceed mr. brennan and said much about him. but i think if you ask people inside the agency, mr. morrell was very much, i think, their sort of home favorite because he had come up out of the analytic division and has been sort of a calming force in his time there. so it's not entirely clear to me that this is going to be a very easy transition, or as easy as you might think given mr. brennan's 25-year history at the c.i.a., including as the station chief in riyadh. >> rose: john kerry. does he have significantly different views than the president or mr. brennan or mr. hagel or mr. donelan? >> you know, it seems to me that john kerry has been much more in the mainstream and sort of closer to where the administration has been. i think he has gone out as a troubleshooter for the administration on several occasions. >> rose: syria, for example. >> pakistan, syria, other places. and i suspect that president obama is not gng to see in senator j