the repeal of dont ask, don t tell would be signed by the president likely on wednesday morning. the military s ban on gay service members could still be in effect for another six months to a year despite congress approving the repeal in a historic vote this weekend. and for the time being, openly gay service members could still face possible expulsion from the military. joe salmanese is president of the human rights campaign and really led this fight. congratulations to you. thank you. how did it come back from the dead? someone was telling me that stanley hoyer was an unsung hero. when the bill came from the house he fast-tracked it and cut through all the procedural stuff. i spoke to congressman hoyer last friday night and he with our legislative director and others kind of revised the bill and decided that they would
kirsten gillibrand and richard trumka. is the crisis in korea cooling? pyongyang backs off its threats for now. ambassador wendy sherman is next. a landmark vote to repeal dont ask, don t tell. now, how long will gay soldiers have to wait to come out? the president of the human rights campaign and leader who got the repeal joins us. and stormy weather. we ll have the travel advisories on what to avoid on your holiday trips. and what if a sports team made history and nobody noticed? it must be women s basketball. uconn women tie the men s record with a winning streak and now with a chance to go one better. good day. i m andrea mitchell live in washington. senate democrats are trying to keep their winning streak going after repealing dont ask, don t tell on saturday. now the goal is to ratify the s.t.a.r.t. nuclear arms treaty and pass health care benefits for 9/11 first responders. our capitol hill respondent kelly o donnell joins us. a busy time and you ve got
things change, the more they remain the same. the cword today that the econom is adding jobs, but not enough to budge the unemployment rate from 9.6%. listen to the president s reaction, he know he s going to have to do business with a new bolder republican opposition. i m open to any idea, any proposal, any way we can get the economy going faster so that people who need work can find it faster. can washington s warring factions work together on a jobs plan. let s debate this breaking political news with democratic pollster stanley greenberg and gloria borger. why did nancy pelosi decide to try to stay? reporter: the morning after the election somebody very, very close to nancy pelosi told me, look, she s a fighter, she s not the kind of person that would want to slink out with defeat. i just also spoke to somebody who he just talked to, somebody very close with her who said look, she wasn t finish with the effects of what they have done, what she thinks they have don
on this vote the yeas are 219, the nays the 212. the motion reconsiders the table. good morning, america! it s a new day. it is a new day. and in the understated words of a republican congressman in a press release to his district, quote, freedom has died tonight. not all freedoms. that s silly. i was walking outside the door and of course, the first thing you smell is the sulfur because beating on the back of the oh, what a weekend. it was a very historic night last night. very, very historic night. it was. elections have consequences. and as we said near last week, we knew this was going to pass. we said, there is no other way you can go for barack obama and not pass the vote with enough confidence, but the hysterical reactions over the weekend were really something. even by the standards of our current political environment. it was depressing. yeah, a little bit. but i think for so many other things we can get to when we cover this story, which we have
stanley hoyer said they have the votes now but they want to be sure and leaving nothing to chance. you see these behind door meetings, i don t know, do you think democrats, they may be keeping a confident face to the public, showing the public confidence, but when you keep hearing, there s another no, that doesn t bode well, it appears. it could be, and as i said, there have been democrats switching both ways over the past 24 to 48 hours. so i think on the other side, i think there have been there were a number of democrats who voted yes in november who are in very, very tough political races and you heard the president allude to that today who actually surprised me and surprised many other people around here who decided when they announced that they were actually go to stay yes. but it has broken both ways, we ll see tomorrow if they re