Sen. John McCain said he expects Chuck Hagel to finally be confirmed as Defense Secretary this week on CNN's State of the Union. "The president deserves an up-or-down-vote," McCain said. "Now Democrats will say, 'We've never done that before, well they have, and they did with [John] Bolton and John Tower and others. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't give Chuck Hagel an up-or-down vote, and we should." Then McCain gave his passive aggressive outlook on the chances that Hagel actually gets positively voted through when the vote does happen. "I think it will happen, barring some additional revelation concerning his comments about Israel and all those other unfortunate things he's said in the past." The topic eventually switched over to the President's other pending national security nomination, CIA nominee John Brennan. On that, McCain thinks Republicans may try and delay it for more Benghazi answers just like they did to Hagel. "Look, I don't want to put a hold on anybody. But the American people deserve answers about Benghazi. There are so many questions that are still out there, including what was the president doing the night Benghazi happened?" McCain said. Translation: Look, I don't want to do this thing, but I'm totally going to do this thing because it worked the last time. "He needs to answer these questions. And they say, why now? It's the only time we have maximum leverage -- that's just a fact of life around Washington," McCain said. McCain also wants Brennan to address the waterboarding answer he gave in his first hearing again. "Mr. Brennan said that he was opposed to waterboarding and torture, but at the same time he said it had saved lives," McCain said. "I'd like to know what lives were saved, because the information I have is it saved no one's life. There's a lot of misinformation."

Sen. Claire McCaskill thinks it's pretty gross how some people dragged Chuck Hagel's name through the mud during his confirmation process. On Fox News Sunday, she acknowledged that Hagel didn't do well in his hearing, but argued there's been enough belly aching and he should be allowed to do his job already. "Did [Hagel] have the best day that day? Of course not," McCaskill said. "But having said that, he’s qualified [and] I think it’s despicable the way his character has been impugned by other people." She thinks it's about time Hagel be confirmed. "It’s time for us to come together and unite behind him so he can do the best job possible," McCaskill said.

Rep. Mike Rogers is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and also a Republican. He's not excited about this sequester business, not one bit, for it means bad things for the Defense departement. On ABC's This Week, Rogers argued for some flexibility to allow departments to try and lighten the blow should the sequester axe fall. "There will be an impact on national security, there's no doubt," Rogers said. "So it's really only 2 cents on the dollar over the whole federal budget, but they've scrunched that down into seven months and highlighted, or at least put most of the burden, on the Defense Department. So that is going to have an impact."