mean the building shower facilities are going to be shut off. what are you going to do if that happens? i better figure out where the local ymca is. i bet there s one pretty close. i do have a bicycle here. i might be visiting the wmca. the guy makes $174,000 a year, does haven t a place to sleep, doesn t have a way to get there. can t he find a roommate on capitol hill? what s he doing with his congressional parking space? a lot of doomsday talk about the prospect of a government shutdown in washington. guess what? it s happened before. how many times? 17. we re going for 18. we ll see. 17 government shutdowns, tonight s big historic number. president obama s leadership styles being tested by this budget standoff. he s trying toop peer above the fray. i think he s done a good job at
jason chaffetz is now facing. a government shutdown might mean the building shower facilities are going to be shut off.รง what are you going to do if that happens? i better figure out where the local ymca is. i bet there s one fairly close. i do have a bicycle here. i might be visiting the ymca. let me get this straight. the guy makes $174,000 a year. he doesn t have a place to sleep at night. he doesn t have a car to get there if he did. can t he find a roommate and get a cheap basement on capitol hill? what s he doing with his congressional parking space? a lot of doomsday talk about the prospect of a government shutdown in washington. guess what? it s happened before. how many times? 17. we re going for 18. it looks like tonight. we ll see. 17 government shutdowns, tonight s big historic number. president obama s leadership styles being tested by this budget standoff. the government shutdown standoff, if you will.
on gays serving openly in the military. good morning to you. what happens next in implementing the re-beal of don t ask don t tell? well, good morning. now the pentagon gets down to business around here. they will go through hundreds of pages if not thousands of regulations, rule s procedures, all of it to look at what if anything needs to be changed. things regarding benefits, dependents, medical benefits, housing. disciplinary rules, rules of behavior, all of it. some decisions have already been made. there will not be separate barracks, separate shower facilities. this is a country that long ago moved beyond any concept of separate but equal. none of that in the u.s. military. everyone will be treated alike. but they have to look at technical questions. all of this could take some
to actually get settled. correct? reporter: you re absolutely right, kyra. there s a good deal of work that needs to be done. they have to go through all of the pentagon bureaucracy and rules about all of this. they have already determined there will not be separate housing, separate bar racks, if you will. separate shower facilities. this country long ago moved beyond any concept of separate but equal. in the u.s. military, everyone will be treated alike. so, that is the one thing that seems clear. what remains to a large extent to be sorted out are some of the very technical questions, i think, about benefits and dependents. there is the defensive marriage act in this country which defines marriage as between a man and a woman so the question of same-sex partners, health care benefits, health care benefits for dependents, who is a dependent, some of these are the very technical questions that still will be worked on in
i want to go to the recruiting station as soon as possible to get this done. a lot of guys say, look, i m perfectly qualified, i m physically fit. the only reason i got kicked out was for this reason. i talked to guys who were service contractors in iraq who say i would be here in uniform if not for the fact that i had been kicked out under this policy. i m perfectly qualified. this contractor that hired me and sent me over here knows that. i m living and working on military bases, i m using the same shower facilities, i m sleeping in the same but you thinks and it s just i m being paid with somebody else. it just seems silly, they say, that i can t do that. ed o keefe, thank you very much from the washington post. good to talk to you. retailers like what they say. holiday shoppers are spending more this season. does that mean americans will spend beyond the holidays? we ll take a look. [ male announcer ] earlier today, your living room was game day central.