vine. what democrats are wondering, what mr. woodward said, mr. president, was it worth it, have chuck hagel to prove a point with republicans and tsk-tsk them and what kind of party they should be. woulds was it worth it to expend the political capital and others that agreed with the president and could have sailed through with unanimous votes. >> megyn: the republicans managed to filibuster him last week and deny an up or down vote for now, but john mccain was on the show saying he'll get a vote, it will happen. february 26th. he'll get his vote and when he does, he'll likely get approved because the democrats control the senate, but there's a question, chris, about whether that's true, in the way that bob woodward put it, there's the danger of witherring on the vine and you know, you're out there and timing is a factor and twisting slowly in the wind, that's how he put it. and the more of these things that emerge, the more potential trouble because now he's got the 2007 rutgers allegation and two others that he has not produced and this whole t