a menace himself in his younger days. let s just say i hurt a lot of people. seemed the best way to get aggression out. i was taking pills, drinking. because back in those days we had real liquor in here. not wine. not hooch. we had real liquor. stone used to be kind of a rebel. major robert cavanaugh was a correctional officer when stone first arrived. me and stone got to know each other quite a bit when i was in charge of cell houses. i was the captain in charge of cell houses. and i used to walk a lot. that s because when fistfighting with officers was allowed. if they opened up your cell door and told you to step out, it was punch for punch and no write ups involved. all about respect. get your teeth knocked out or next day everything s forgotten about. can t do that now, though. now they call it spouse abuse. he would go around and drink, smoke, get into different kind
ask/don t tell. coming out of columbia medical school, robert cavanaugh wanted to be an officer all right. unfortunately, chris, we have a little technical problem there. we re going to try to fix that package that you prepared, but let s talk a bit about what s going on. give us a sense of what the prospective troops were saying to you. wolf, we got a wide range of opinion. some people said they already know they ve seen them on ships and the units. nobody asks, nobody tells, the policy seems to be working. on the other hand, we talked to people who said if they do their job which we see them doing every day, what does it have to do with anything?
let me get this safe. they would dress up as a pitch and be willing to face federal criminal charges? journalists we ve spoken to are roundly appalled by that suggestion, which, by the way, went principally unchallenged. new-age journalist james o keefe topping the list u don t want 2 be on. mr. blitzer comes now from new york in the situation room. wolf, take it away. all right. rick, thanks very much. happening the beginning of the end of don t ask/don t tell. this hour, how the troops feel about fighting alongside openly gay service members. the obama administration takes some credit for pushing toyota to confront problems. stand by for a new claim that toyota was a little deaf to the dang danger. and it s being called a game-changing study on delaying teens from having sex. now social conservatives who have been preaches abc nerns are saying we told you so. will the obama administration respond? i ll ask the second tear of education this hour. i m wolf blitzer. yo