dizziness, but you know what, if you have end stage cancer and a few months left to live i don t think the risks of those side effects are that sit. much more truck ling troubling is the cancer itself. we as practicing physicians need need all the options swre and we re going through a time with our best technology is being jeopardized. gregg: dr. marc siegl, thank you very much. thanks gregg, appreciate it. martha: president obama saying people who take corporate jets do not need tax breaks. gregg: and saying farewell to isn t gates, the president will speak about his accomplishments. martha: and a nuclear scare escalating in the united states, a fire burning close to the los al most al most lab in new mexico. that s coming up. at this point, we re waiting for an opportunity, either a break in the
launched and secretary of state clinton said something else on another network. after isn t gates said no, it s not in our vital national interest, secretary clinton came back and said yes, but it was sort of one of those moments where what the secretary meant to say was, and she got into a discussion about how the brits and the french were with us in afghanistan and iraq, and seemed to imply, at least i inferred, that maybe part of the rationale was that we re part of this nato, this team, and they were with us, and now we re with them. this is in the italian, french and brit vital national interest. bill: that s not what was said in the beginning, it was said that the united states is there to protect the humanitarian disaster. right. and that humanitarian disaster, had it been allowed to occur, could have resulted in mass immigration flows into italy and the southern coast of france, which those countries are very much opposed to. so the catastrophic
but more importantly, there will also be a team coming out here to negotiate with the afghans for u.s. troops to stay beyond 2014. you ve heard a lot of talk about 2014 as a new sort of deadline on the horizon where combat operations will end, but it is clear that isn t gates feels that u.s. troops should stay beyond that, and they re going to begin to negotiating with the karzai government about that. on libya, i asked him whether there was a role for u.s. involvement, whether he could see military intervention there and he really pushed off that possibility, he said nobody is talking about any u.s. troops on the ground there at this point in tim. fforel st saidt a seetary there areo hisowlge for u.s. special forces on the ground in libya, but if you listen to secretary gates, he is very reluctant to use the military to be involved in any ayit regard to the ibn crisis
myself, and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing fwas and lesbians openly would be the right thing to do. the question before us is not whether the military prepares to make this change, but how we must how we best prepare it, for it. senator john mccain, a retired navy officer, and ranking republican on the committee, bristled. he reminded secretary gates the law hadn t been changed yet. i m deeply disappointed in your statement, isn t gates. it would be far more appropriate, i say with great respect, to determine whether repeal of this law appropriate, and what effects it would have on the readiness andfestiveness of the military, before deciding on whether we should repeal the law or not. and unfortunately it is an act of congress. joining me now is former air force sergeant david hall. he was discharged back in 2002, after a third party reported he
was gay. mr. hall, good to have you with us this afternoon on the dylan ratigan show. this has been a long process for the gay and lesbian community in this country. do you feel confident this is finally going to get done and how do you feel about it? i do feel confident we are close to getting this done. i think today was a big step, you know, having a hearing in the senate, and a big difference from 1993, you know, when we had the secretary and the joint chiefs saying totally different things in 1993, than what we heard today from isn t gates. and admiral mullens. i was very happy what we heard from admiral mullens saying he thinks gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly. would you go back in the military if they would reverse this? i would totally go back in the military if they repealed it. i wanted to serve 20 years when i joined following in the