hearing disappointed even his supporters during the hearing which to many seemed like an inclusive mr haygood had to backtrack on many of the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and some other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that long an exhausting hearing mr haygood kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had to take from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senator's case kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways than it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of an ill turn to do vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a mes

hearing disappointed even his supporters during the hearing which to many seemed like an inclusive mr haygood had to backtrack on many of the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and some other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that long an exhausting hearing mr haygood kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had taken from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senator's case kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways and it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of the mill target of vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a messa

policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that long and exhausting hearing mr haygood kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had to take from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senator's case kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in men. anyways and it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy basically intolerant of and i'll try to do vision alternative thought having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there was too much war talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty

policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that long and exhausting hearing mr haygood kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had to take to previous positions he had taken as he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senator's cape kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways and it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy basically intolerant of the no eternity of vision alternative thought having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much war talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war and just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty ti

but today's chuck hagel as we found out during this hearing is for sanctions to those who believe mr haygood was in favor of direct negotiations with iran as he had previously claimed he was. he offered a correction a very big one he tried to blur his response as much as he could here's what he said i don't have a problem with engaging i think great powers engage engagement is clearly in our interest that's not negotiation engagement is not appeasement engagement is not surrender so no direct negotiations with iran here's another example of how chuck hagel had to walk back on some of his previous statements at one time he said and this has become a famous quote the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of is world and of quote here's chuck hagel hearing this confirmation hearing noted that i. that i should have used another term and i'm sorry and i regret i mean do your use of intimidation. i should have used influence. i think would have been more ap

mr. haygood, the statement i read from miss greenhouse of the new york times, this would be an unprecedented power grab for the supreme court to actually interfere with the will of the people. congress made the voting rights act including in 2006. for them to interfere with it would be unprecedented in terms of how the legal community is set up and the legal system is set up in this system, is that correct? >> that's absolutely right, reverend sharpton. over four decades, four times the supreme court upheld section v against constitutional challenges. it's recognized as a crowning achievement and has gone a distance in recognizing racial discrimination in those places is a different character. it's more intense, more persistent. section v is a strong medicine, a strong remedy to a strong type of discrimination that's persisted over time. the supreme court recognized the gains we have seen have been part and partial of section v. what the court recognized today in oral argument, there's been progress, but discrimination. there was a moment in the oral argument when justice briar asked, i thin

mr. haygood, on this thing, put it together.r, what we've talked a lot about on this show, which i've talked a lot about in the last year, is what i didn't like being done in my home state of pennsylvania where i came from and other states like florida where coy see what looked like clearly discriminatory efforts where you had the head of the pennsylvania legislature, the republican guy, coming out and basically saying if we get this voter photo i.d. law we're going to win this state. in other words, it's going to discriminate against at least superficially just democrats but we all know i think he meant urban minorities. number two you see the same thing in florida where bill clinton said it was the most flagrant case of voter suppression because african-americans for years have gone to church on sunday and then gone off and voted together as a kind of a ritual or way to spend that day before the -- two days before an election. he says by blocking that, ending that it was clearly aimed at blacks. bluntly-s there a connection be