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Hagel’s Comments More Central Than They Might Seem

by Fiona Carmody

January 9, 2013 - 8:46 am

Rachel Maddow explains that while past comments by President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, about such things as rape, abortion and homosexuality might seem irrelevant to the job, in fact they’re very important to the military members whose lives he would be overseeing.