professor of public policy and director of the center for workforce development of rutgers -- at rutgers state university. it is a superb group of individuals to take part in our conversation today. i want to begin with you, joan, and ask from the corporate perspective when you have seen about what it is like to bring people with disabilities in, the possibilities and challenges. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for this opportunity. i am thrilled for the level of focus of this issue is being given today. congratulations to everyone on that. from 2004 to 2009, when i managed an initiative within j.p. morgan chase that took a look at people with disabilities and how we reflect them across the firm in the full spectrum with our products, services, policies, and procedures. it started with the tone at the top. our ceo, corporate senior executives, business executives, managers throughout the firm, that was the directive. this is where we're going to go and how we're going to do it. from the leadership perspective, they were engaged. that was critical. moving forward, several other items i took a look at

pointed to some newly reported comments that hagel is said to have made at rutgers university a few years ago, that the state department was becoming an adjunct of the israeli foreign ministry. >> he said the u.s. state was the adjunct of the israeli foreign ministry office. i got a letter back from the senator in response, did you say that and do you believe that. the letter said he did not recall saying that. and he disavows that statement. >> eric: joining us is chris wallace. these xhechblts are coming out about the jewish lobby and iranian regime is legitimate and latest comment that latest one, what does it mean? >> if he never said it it doesn't mean anything. he said he didn't recall which is not a flat denial. you think you would recall it if you said something like that. this is a was in a age of cellphones and somebody has a record of it. if it turned out he said that, it mate be curtains for him. we don't have any indication he did say it other an blog post. that is the interesting things here, although the senators who blocked his nomination, first time to a defense nominee, saying they want mor

rutgers university and put on his blog the next day six points of the speech. question-and-answer session, and point six was allegedly senator hagel said the u.s. state department was an adjunct of the israeli foreign minister's office, which i think would be breathtaking if he said that. >> okay. so let's see if we're all on the same page here and have this correct. a right-wing website publishes a resumer from a blog based on something hagel may or may not have said in a speech over, count them, five years ago. and now sitting united states senators are demanding hagel explain himself. hagel provided ayotte and graham with a copy of the speech and notes he does not recall making any such statement. now, folks, this is a pattern for the new gop that maybe mr. viguerie is looking for. senator rand paul pushing a theory about moving guns from libya to syria. paul's theory can be traced back to glenn beck. michele bachmann accused hillary clinton's chief of staff of having ties to the muslim brotherhood. her source? an uncorroborated report from a right wing talker frank gaffney. congressman darrell issa got in the act. he orchestrated an entire circus

rutgers in university in 2007. that speech apparently not recorded but is reported as having said that the u.s. statetment has become an adjunct of the israeli foreign ministry office. it was reported by george ajan. a former new jersey republican candidate and an international consultant. this morning he told fox news he attended the lecture and thinks hagel is expressing frustration with u.s. mideast policy. >> i think at the time the comments reflect his frustration with the way the american foreign policy was conducted in the middle east and i don't think they indicate some kind of unsuitability to be secretary of defense. i think he would have been is wiser to state it as he did on other occasions saying he could have good relations with israel and at the same time good relations with other countries but stay true and look out for america's interests first. >> reporter: ajyan blogged about the comments at the time but despite he supports hagel's nomination. bill: what is the reaction we're getting on capitol hill? >> reporter: senator lindsey graham opposes hagel's nomination. he heard about the