Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Looking ahead to 2016, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says both Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are “qualified” to serve as president and commander in chief. 
  
 Panetta would not pick sides in the potential 2016 battle. 
  
 “I've worked with both of them. You know, if they make the decision that they want to be commander in chief, I think they're both qualified to do it,” he said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." 
  
 Read more about: Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Elections, 2016 Elections ||||| Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he remains confident Democrats will stand behind Chuck Hagel for defense secretary after the former senator’s shaky performance at Thursday’s confirmation hearing. 
  
 Reid told ABC’s “This Week” in an interview aired Sunday he believes Hagel will be an “outstanding” and “terrific” defense secretary and defended his performance Thursday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. 
  
 “Are you still confident after that performance that the Democrats will stand behind him and he’ll get confirmed?” ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked. 
  
 “Sure,” the Nevada Democrat said. “This is a short interview, but if you had interviewed me for eight hours, like they interviewed him in the Senate...you and I would both flub up a little bit.” 
  
 Stephanopoulos replied, “That’s probably true.” 
  
 Reid then called Hagel a “fine man” and a “good senator.” “He’s a Republican. That should be a plus,” he added. 
  
 And after hours of tough questioning, Reid said he thought Hagel “did pretty good.” 
  
 “This was eight hours,” he said. “Give the guy a break, I thought he did pretty good.” 
  
 Read more about: Harry Reid, Chuck Hagel, Pentagon ||||| Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he wants to “get something done on guns” and will take a look at a number of proposals. 
  
 The Nevada Democrat said in an interview aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week" he still supports the Second Amendment, but will look at proposals on everything from the ban on assault weapons to limiting gun magazine capacity. He also said “we need to increase” background checks and do more on mental health issues. 
  
 Reid also addressed his relationship with the National Rifle Association. 
  
 "I've been supported by the NRA on occasion. I know Wayne LaPierre, he's always been extremely pleasant to me. We have a good relationship. So I am not here to demean the organization," Reid said. 
  
 "Just because they resist, it doesn't mean we can't do things,” he added. “We have a lot of special interest groups that come and complain about things. … We’ll listen to them and make the right decision.” 
  
 Read more about: Harry Reid, NRA, Wayne LaPierre, Guns, Gun Control ||||| Without comprehensive immigration reform, Senate Majority Harry Reid says “it would be a bad day for our country and a bad day for the Republican Party.” 
  
 "It's certainly gonna pass the Senate. And it would be a bad day for our country and a bad day for the Republican Party if they continue standing in the way of this," the Nevada Democrat said in an interview aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” 
  
 The questions over the definition of border security and how to treat gays and lesbians under the legislation just offer Republicans more "excuses" not to support comprehensive immigration reform, he said. 
  
 “If they're looking for an excuse not to support this legislation, this is another one," Reid said. "But the American people are past excuses. They want this legislation passed." 
  
 Read more about: Harry Reid, Immigration, Immigration Reform ||||| AP Photo Close 
  
 Former White House press secretary and Obama adviser Robert Gibbs said Sunday Chuck Hagel “seemed unimpressive and unprepared” on questions he should have expected at Thursday’s confirmation hearing to be secretary of defense. 
  
 Gibbs said on a NBC “Meet the Press” panel that he found it “disconcerting” that Hagel was not ready for some of the questions directly linked to running the Pentagon. 
  
 “The disconcerting thing, obviously, for anybody that watched it was he seemed unimpressive and unprepared on the questions that, quite frankly, he knew was coming,” Gibbs said. 
  
 But Gibbs also added that many of the questions asked of Hagel at Thursday’s hearing were unnecessary, and particularly singled out Arizona Sen. John McCain’s line of questioning about the surge as a “vanity thing.” 
  
 “The next defense secretary is not going to deal with Iraq and the surge,” Gibbs said. “This was a vanity thing for John McCain to try to prove to a former friend who disagreed with him that he was right on the surge and that Chuck Hagel was wrong.” 
  
 Read more about: Chuck Hagel, Robert Gibbs, Meet The Press, Pentagon |||||
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Wayne LaPierre has got to be feeling a little like he had a bulls-eye on his forehead during this morning's turn on Fox News Sunday, reports Politico. With Mark Kelly renewing his call for stricter gun control, LaPierre even took heat from Fox's Chris Wallace, who blasted LaPierre's contention that American children face the same dangers as President Obama's daughters as "ridiculous." "Tell that to the people in Newtown," responded the NRA chief. LaPierre also took aim at universal background checks, saying, "it's a fraud to call it universal. The criminals are never going to comply." Over at ABC, Paul Krugman chimed in, calling the NRA "an insane organization." “They have this vision that we're living in a Mad Max movie and that nothing can be done about it, that America cannot manage unless everybody's prepared to shoot intruders." More from the Sunday dial, as per Politico: Leon Panetta on Zero Dark Thirty and enhanced interrogation: “First of all, it's a movie. The real story is that in order to put the puzzle of intelligence together that led us to bin Laden, there was a lot of intelligence. Yes, some of it came from some of the tactics that were used at that time, interrogation tactics that were used. But the fact is we put together most of that intelligence without having to resort to that.” Robert Gibbs on Chuck Hagel: “The disconcerting thing, obviously, for anybody that watched it was he seemed unimpressive and unprepared on the questions that, quite frankly, he knew was coming." Harry Reid on Hagel: “This was eight hours. Give the guy a break, I thought he did pretty good.” Reid on wanting to "get something done on guns": "I've been supported by the NRA on occasion. I know Wayne LaPierre, he's always been extremely pleasant to me. So I am not here to demean the organization. Just because they resist, it doesn't mean we can't do things. We have a lot of special interest groups that come and complain about things. We’ll listen to them and make the right decision.” Reid on immigration reform: "It's certainly gonna pass the Senate. And it would be a bad day for our country and a bad day for the Republican Party if they continue standing in the way of this." Panetta on Hillary Clinton vs. Joe Biden in 2016: “I've worked with both of them. You know, if they make the decision that they want to be commander in chief, I think they're both qualified to do it."