but 17-year ban on gay troops serving openly in the military won t end immediately. the law only changes once the pentagon proves to congress that the military has met several requirements including troop education programs. and the pentagon saying only it s moving forward at a deliberate pace. you can catch the president signing the don t ask, don t tell repeal tomorrow morning right here in the cnn newsroom 9:15 eastern time. exit stage left. wikileaks founder julian assange does it again. our jeannie moos takes a look at interview walk-offs to remember. to the morning bowl of cereal. and to lactaid® milk. easy to digest and with all the calcium and vitamin d of regular milk. [ female announcer ] lactaid®. the original lactose-free milk.
crankiness. final question, i want to get your thoughts on this, on the strategy here. because it occurred to me to that if s.t.a.r.t. does pass, and it is now looking like it s going to pass. you have two different models. with the tax cut deal, the white house blinked and cut a deal, because the republicans said, we re going to hold these other things hostage unless you deal with it. they said the same thing about s.t.a.r.t., and the white house and harry reid went ahead anyway and called the bluff with the don t ask, don t tell repeal vote, and it looks like they re going to get s.t.a.r.t. and i wonder what that says about how much republicans are bluffing when they do this kind of thing. well, i think on the tax cut deal, the president s argument was that he was playing chicken with a bunch of people who were irresponsible. and if they who were actually willing, at the time, to let the tax cuts extensions not continue for middle class, to let unemployment insurance to just no
breaking news from capitol hill, where the house of representatives is expected imminently to vote on the defense authorization bill, which would repeal don t ask, don t tell. today secretary bob gates announced changes to the way that don t ask, don t tell will be implemented. changes he said are designed to make the enforcement of the current policy more fair. breaking news tonight, from riverside, california, where a federal judge, a u.s. district court judge has just declared the military s don t ask, don t tell policy to be unconstitutional. if you want to know anything about how this part of civil rights in america goes, if you want to know how don t ask, don t tell is going to get struck down by the courts and that s how it s probably going to die, what the court told judge lateen was that he had to consider margy whit personally. i was aware that i wasn t going to tell, they weren t supposed to ask me, but i really wasn t aware that the third party could out me at any time.
in a short span of time, it was about 15, 20 minutes, we were able to employ all the weapons from my aircraft, and as well as i guided all the weapons from my wingman s aircraft while we were under, it was constant aaa fire, and i believe we were fired upon approximately eight times by surface-to-air missiles. and you took that enemy out entirely? we took that target out and that night they took out baghdad airport. i am a platoon leader in the army national guard, and by saying three words to you today, i am gay, those are violations of the title ten code. it s a code that is polluted by the people who want us to lie. and basically, they want us to lie about our identity, and it s an immoral code. and it goes up against every single thing we were taught at west point with our honor code. is the new administration going to get rid of the don t
very hard. republicans have folded up in the senate in many respects, certainly with the don t ask, don t tell. on the dream act, i give them credit for blocking that. on some other very important issues, where republicans should have gotten backbone, the democrats are more inspired than republicans and delivering president victories on capitol hill. greta: so come january, two big things. one, about the budget situation, a resolution, guess it will be in february, and the state of the union for the president. what is the president going to say in the state of the union and what are they going to do about our financial situation? on the budget side, look that was a win for republicans. i didn t mean not mention that. blocking this spending bill that had all these pork filled projects and very importantly, this was a big defeat and