and makeup. he wants hormone therapy for gender reassignment, and that s something ft. leavenworth does not provide. well, i don t know about the sex reassignment surgery that chelsea hasn t indicated that would be her desire. but as far as a hormone therapy, yes, i m hoping ft. leavenworth would do the right thing and provide that. if ft. leavenworth does not, then i m going to do everything in my power to make sure they are forced to do so. pentagon correspondent chris lawrence joins was more. good morning. reporter: good morning, carol. it does not appear that ft. leavenworth will do that. it looks like dana coombs will have to sue the army or petition on medical grounds to get bradley manning transferred to a federal prison where perhaps he could get that therapy because due to army and d.o.d. regulations, ft. leaven swort not going to give that hormone therapy much less sex
this is not going to happen at ft. leavenworth. it s an all-male prison. i just got off the phone with some officials just a few minutes ago who said, look, right now, and he is still in the body of a man, and placement at leaven swort based on gender, and right now there is just no provision for this. he s going to have to go outside the system to make this happen. all right. chris lawrence reporting live from the pentagon this morning. also this morning we re hearing from hannah anderson in her first interview since being freed from her kidnapper in the idaho wilderness. hannah says she wants to defuse whispers over some curious details that have emerged. they include the cell phone records showing she and her kidnapper, james dimaggio, trading 13 messages on the day she vanished. here s what hannah told nbc s today show. the phone calls weren t phone calls. they were texts because he was picking me up from cheer camp and he didn t know the address or, like, where i was so, i h