Good morning, im Melissa Harrisperry. This week marked the second of two seismic shifts in the United States military in just over two years. The first was december of 2010 when president obama signed the repeal of the dont ask, dont tell law and ending a policy that mandated shame and secrecy as requirements for service. The second happened on thursday when defense secretary leon panetta joined the joint chiefs of staff chairman Martin Dempsey and made this announcement. We must open up Service Opportunities for women as fully as possible. And therefore today, general dempsey and i are pleased to announce that we are eliminating the direct Ground Combat exclusion rule for women. And we are moving forward with a plan to eliminate all unnecessary genderbased barriers to service. Just like that, 200,000 military combat jobs that were once off limits for women are potentially open to any woman who meets the qualifications. More importantly, the official policy for women in the u. S. Milit
Entitlement portion and the republicans have held their tongues. The whole discussion is about revenue. They are marshalling their ceos to make demands on entitlements. So many of the Business Leaders dont want to go over the fiscal cliff. They really want tax reform to happen. Whatever happens, they want this to be a stage setter. Thank you for being on newsmakers. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] tomorrow on cspan, we look back at august 2011, as the news conferences around the budget control act. This created sequestration. That is split 5050 between defense and nondefense spending. In january, our first week that we were sworn into office, the present as for the increase in the debt ceiling and i made it clear that there would not be an increase in the debt ceiling without changes to the way that we spend the American Peoples money. Shortly after that i was in new york. We agreed that there should be no
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There was no time to consider the fundamental health of america, because we were talking about russia. In washington, russia is all we talk about. All the business in the capital city came to a halt as we looked at a bizarre Scavenger Hunt on Vladimir Putins spies. Even if the whole thing sounded absurd, now we know it it was worse. It was not in fact what we thought it was, the longest episode of mass hysteria. It was instead an elaborate and intentional hoax staged by the most unscrupulous and powermad political operatives this country has seen. It does it sound like an overstatement . How do we know that . Because they have admitted it. The House Intelligence Committee finally released 57 transcripts of testimony delivered to the committee behind closed doors. All of it during the russia investigation. One of those transcripts reveal . We will not ask you to trust us on this one. Te directly fromnt. The transcripts. Jim clyburn, obamas director of National Intelligence said this i n
This morning my question can president obama end perpetual war . And plus the real fight over reproductive rights. It is about access. And we will go below the line to hear from americas homeless children, but first, these boots were made for combat. Good morning, im Melissa Harrisperry. This week marked the second of two seismic shifts in the United States military in just over two years. The first was december of 2010 when president obama signed the repeal of the dont ask, dont tell law and ending a policy that mandated shame and secrecy as requirements for service. The second happened on thursday when defense secretary leon panetta joined the joint chiefs of staff chairman Martin Dempsey and made this announcement. We must open up Service Opportunities for women as fully as possible. And therefore today, general dempsey and i are pleased to announce that we are eliminating the direct Ground Combat exclusion rule for women. And we are moving forward with a plan to eliminate all unnec