the way he s rolling. i think you do have to realize, this is a tough ympathetic to a agonizing over this. there are arguments by people like john gates, about not getting involved. and john kerry has been in that part of the world a lot, and i ve talked to him. others, john mccain, graham, lieberman and others are calling for this, i do think they ve got the better argument that the united states at this point can t just sit on the sidelines, especially after the president said he s got to go. david, you asked a dwe end of your answer to e.d. that we need to examine and i don t know answer. is there a coherent foreign policy? if we take a step back, look, in iran we offered little to nothing to revolutionaries. in egypt we were for him for a while, against him, it switched all the time. in libya i don t know what we re for. is there a coherent foreign policy message coming out of
breaking news on a federal judge in california with a landmark ruling on an order to get the pentagon to stop enforcing the don t ask don t tell policy. pete williams has the latest. the other shoe to drop in this case that produced a ruling in september from a federal judge in california in los angeles who said that the don t ask don t tell rule on probting gays in the military was unconstitutional. today, the second act in the legal drama. the judge said after asking both sides what she should do about it, issued an order blocking its enforcement nationwide because she said it s unconstitutional. as a practical matter, the judge has the authority to do this. so as a matter of law as of now, enforcement of this law is blocked. the dwe is, what s the government going to do about it
doing this. so are those people radicals? no. are they islamaphobic? no, it s because people are concerned. people want this problem to go away. i have been in this neighborhood for 25 years. i ll continue to be in this neighborhood after this thing dies down. mayor bloomberg was quoted as saying that he believes that the day after election day, this story will go away. do you think that s true? that s what he sa. do you think that s true? i hope it s true. i hope it dies down tomorrow.d because we need this this dangerous discourse to die down. we need to build bridges. to build relationships. to build friendships. and to build a new chapter in muslim/non-muslim relations. is this the right way to do that? how do you propose we do it? how do you propose we really engage? you know, soledad, we must look, this is a maer of engagement right n. how do we how dwe continue
operation behind them to support them. yes, it costs huge amounts of money. it s very sloppy. mistakes are made. money is wasted. there s no dwe about that. that s the nature of war. there s no such thing as a perfect army. there s no such thing as perfect people. sure. but my question is if we know the issue is, and in north eastern afghanistan and pakistan, and we know pakistan has an interest in subordinating india. thooif got another agenda that may or may not be the american agenda and american tax dollars are going to pakistan. this is about as complicated of a conversation you can have if you want to tie your brain in a knot, but are we actually targeting the problem, the
house, house doesn t look at the senate. he s not a member of the senate. not a member of the house. he s a separate and distinct body in government and you and i both know that. look, with regard to folks in the senate, we ll talk about the folks in the senate if we have to. dwe we ll do our best to maintain at professional level. leave it there. vote rama. see if you get sleep tonight. joining me, perspective from the other side of the aisle. maria cantwell. welcome back to the show. thank you, chuck. row had y how are you? good. you re not a big fan of this tax plan. let me ask you this how much are you willing to show your opposition? meaning is it worth trying to shut down the government to stop this tax plan? what stops do you think you should put out to oppose this tax plan? we re doing everything we can today to communicate about it,