Rand Paul Talks To Glenn Beck About His Vote For Hagel And Upcoming Confirmation of Brennan

The U.S. Senate voted 58-41 Tuesday to confirm former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel as America's new defense secretary, TheBlaze reported here and here.

Oddly enough, Republican Sen. Rand Paul — who voted against ending the filibuster — was one of the four GOP senators who voted to back Hagel's confirmation.

Why? That's exactly what Glenn Beck wants to know.

"Help us understand your vote for Hagel," Beck said Thursday.

"First of all, I was the deciding vote to filibuster him and the only way to defeat him was to filibuster," Sen. Paul explained, repeating his claim that he only supported the motion to block Hagel because he wanted more information on the president's defense nominee.

"So we had 41 votes. I was called and lobbied hard from the other side to change on the 41," he continued. "Within three days, many Republicans announced they weren't going to filibuster anymore ... we didn't get any information — which is why we have filibustering! "

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[Papa Rocks]

Rand Paul drops the drone bomb on Beck. The vote had nothing to do with the nomination. Just a way to communicate the fact that the president and Brennan are being called out on drone attacks.....he wants an official statement that drones will not be used to attack Americans on American soil....screw the nomination...this was about drones...Rand pulled this off like a cat

[Juhsayngul]

People get so caught up about things that don't matter, like this vote. For crying out loud. I would pay attention to Rand Paul's accomplishments and his motives, both positive and negative, in judging him, not just his actions and whatever motives people decide to imagine are behind them.

[Zio--Cancer]

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[Scott Vogler]

Beck, have we not invaded countries and destroyed them and killed innocent people? that's a bully, our foreign policy is HORRENDOUS. Until you admit that, you will always be an establishment stooge. Stop calling yourself libertarian please.

[olalor]

He knew first that they didn't have enough votes to defeat the nomination. Rand is just giving the Dems enough rope to hang themselves. He's no dummy.

[Lionel Suarez]

Americans now see that Beck is a wolf is sheep's clothing, a fake consitutionalist and patriot, whose in back pocket of huge anti-american Zionist powers. He's NOT a libertarian - his view of the world are skewed by his apocalyptic-occultic Mormon religious views which places Israel at the center of the world, and America merely a mechanism to aid Israel reach higher levels. Beck may not know it, but his Israel first views are profoundly anti-American. Beck sees the USA as Bibi's toy.