Will they get picked out . Today, no answers to that question. Sarah Huckabee Sanders could not or would not answer questions about whether Current Service members will be removed. The president has a lot of support for all americans and certainly wants to protect all americans at all times. The president has expressed concerns since this obama policy came into effect. But hes also voiced that this is a very expensive and disruptive policy, and based on consultation that hes had with his National Security team, came to the conclusion that it erodes Military Readiness and Unit Cohesion, and made the decision based on that. The decision is based on a Military Decision. Its not meant to be anything more than that. At a white house event an attempt to get clarity from the president later went ignored. People in the military . Shes very rude. So all we have on this Policy Change that will profoundly affect thousands of Service Members lives are the president s three tweets, which mention th
decades, more than 35 years through social circles and through howard university, the board of howard university. it is really an intimate and small and tight-knit professional black community here in washington, d.c. you would see general powell, his wife, alma, at many of the functionings and activities, whether it was the boulay or the lakes or jack and jill or any one of those black service organizations that would bring all of us together on many, many occasions. wolf, the first time that i met secretary powell, it speaks to his charm. it was 28 years ago. he was the commencement speaker at harvard university. i was just a young reporter at the time. he was very controversial about the don t ask, don t tell policy in the military that was prohibiting gays from openly serving in the military. there was of course that negotiation that took place, the don t ask, don t tell policy through clinton.
and i remember seeing him. there were protests that were swarming around the campus. i convinced my photographer to jump over a set of bushes to get to him. when we cleared the bushes, right in front of him, startled him, i couldn t speak. he looked at me. i looked at him. and he just said, well, hello. it really just floored me because i couldn t speak at all. i had all my questions and i froze at that moment looking at this kind of brilliant smile and very imposing figure. but he just smiled at me. eventually i got my thoughts together, was able to challenge him a little bit on that policy, which he had since repealed, the don t ask, don t tell policy. but he did have that electric charm and smile, if you will. wolf, i want to tell you, i d be remiss not to comment at least about the program taking place right now. this is the organ and brass prelude. you hear the u.s. army brass quintet. if you look at what is on the menu for those to listen to,
on that. coming up in the don t ask, don t tell era, if you were going to come out, you were going to lose your commission. car insurance so i only pay for what i need. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.
there was even the shameful tour that they did on a submarine showing the sleeping quarters to raise up the ick factor for the american people so that they would then call their members of congress and say, don t do this, don t put our son in danger of being preyed upon, these scary gay people. we cannot have the homosexuals wandering around in the military and seducing the younger people. that s what they did, and it worked. hearings begin today in the senate that could lead to legislation, putting a permanent gay ban into law. the president had to back down and ended up coming up with this terrible compromise. don t ask, don t tell. the don t ask, don t tell policy would permit gays in the military as long as they don t reveal their homosexuality or engage in homosexual conduct. i joined the reserve in 2009. it was late in the don t ask, don t tell era, but it was very much the law of the land.