Bill Nelson: “My question would be that one of the things this Senator was struck with yesterday in hearings, basically all day, was…”

“My question would be that one of the things this Senator was struck with yesterday in hearings, basically all day, was that he came to the table refreshingly open in a nonpartisan way, much more in a bipartisan way. We certainly have not seen a lot of the conduct of this war in the past several years being done in a bipartisan way. I ask the Senator: How do you think Dr. Gates, as the new Secretary of Defense, is going to be able to involve that process, where those of us on both sides of the aisle will be able to participate and assist him in his role as Secretary of Defense?”