hands. plus, an election of evil and a major change of course by a leading ally, france elected it s first socialist president in two decades, we re looking at what it means for the united states. i m wolf blitzer, you re still in the situation room. the vice president joe biden said over the weekend he s fine with gay marriage and arnie duncan says he believes gay and lesbians should be allowed to marry. putting him at odds with the president of the united states. jessica yellin is working the story for us. jessica, causing quite an uproar there, what s going on? reporter: this is clearly an unwelcome topic for a white house that pronounces to make all decisions based on principle not on politics. it certainly looks as if the vice president supports gay marriage. who do you love? the president sets the policy. i am absolutely comfortable that the fact that men marrying wo i and women marrying women, are entitled to all the civil rights and the civil liberties. report
i believe we need more in the way of tactical intelligence-gathering. we don t need 100,000 troops on the ground. where we re positioned, for example, in afghanistan is wrong right now. we need more in the way of special forces capability. we need more in the way of drone strike capability. when we collect the intelligence, we should be prepared to act on it. it s just a matter of rearranging some of our national security and military assets that we have in the region. but shoring up the relationship yesterday. i don t see movements in that regard. we share a democratic heritage. we ought to shore up our intelligence-gathering capability and our military-to-military links with india and prepare for what could be a rocky region. greta: thank you, sir. hope you come back. it s going to be a long campaign. thank you, sir. pleasure to be with you.
way of tactical intelligence-gathering. we don t need 100,000 troops on the ground. where we re positioned, for example, in afghanistan is wrong right now. we need more in the way of special forces capability. we need more in the way of drone strike capability. when we collect the intelligence, we should be prepared to act on it. it s just a matter of rearranging some of our national security and military assets that we have in the region. but shoring up the relationship yesterday. i don t see movements in that regard. we share a democratic heritage. we ought to shore up our intelligence-gathering capability and our military-to-military links with india and prepare for what could be a rocky region. greta: thank you, sir. hope you come back. it s going to be a long campaign. thank you, sir. pleasure to be with you.