pretend i didn t come on the show. i know later in the show you will be imitating your voice of a woman. i did my acting yesterday. he will do a woman s voice but it sounds a lot like julia childs which is border lineman. i was impressed with your acting with luke perry. what do you have coming on on fox and friends? hillary clinton spoke for 44 straight hours, what did she say, did we learn anything new? we will discuss it with the foremost experts on it and what does it mean for her career and legacy and possible run for the presidency. women in combat. are there hurdles to clear? i don t know mccain will be live about the questions he asked and about women in the battlefield. we have a huge show don t miss it including alley getting her haircut along with steve all coming up on fox & friends. thanks brian. talk to you later.
women have been serving in combat, especially in iraq and afghanistan for the last ten years. so i see this as just a formality in lifting the restrictions so women finally serve on equal footing. they have been doing the job. they haven t been getting credit for it so it s about time. it is interesting. i saw you featured in the nightly news piece last night and you said you didn t get the injuries in a bar fight as you explained it when asked about women in combat. right. i actually, you know, would have people come up to me and say, do you think women should serve in combat? i wear a combat action badge on my uniform. that s given only for combat action. and i just, you know, i usually joke and say, i got it in a bar fight. you should see the other chick. but, you know but the reality is women are serving, dying, being wounded in combat and this lifting this restriction will allow them to do this formally and rise through the
could have an opportunity to talk to you about women in combat. lucky we got you early to speak about senator feinstein s asa assault weapons ban. but the pentagon is going to make this change is lift the ban on women in combat. this move will open up 238,000 jobs that were previously off limits to women, as we know from the facts, 152 women have died in the iraq and afghanistan wars. women now currently make up 15% of the military ranks. yet, there s still a large resistance to breaking the brass ceiling, to putting women on the front lines. what s your reaction to this? it s great news. you know, 20% of the new recruits are women. and it is clear that women have been a part of the military structure for some time. it s been a distinction without a difference. they have been serving at the front lines. we now have a member of congress in the house, tammy duckworth, who has become a paraplegic for
continue to make an issue of this whereas there s more of an ideological view of what happened here as opposed to actually trying to figure it out? or is the white house concerned that the issue has legs in the partisan world? reporter: i think the white house recognizes that it has legs in the partisan world. in that community from sean hannity and from others, a lot of the talking points that were mentioned by ron johnson and rand paul came from talking points that you ve also seen on some of the most conservative blog sites. but i don t think the white house thinks that s any different than any of these other issues. i think there was a period of time during the campaign where they thought this one really could sting, and there was there were potentially legs to that. obviously that was in some ways satisfied by the president s quick retort to mitt romney over the issue of terror, saying that he had brought up that issue only shortly after those deaths. jane harman, let me ask
good singer. up next the pentagon officially lifts the ban on women in combat. women are already serving in combat as congresswoman tammy duckworth can attest. congresswoman duck worth is going to join us next. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. omnipotent of opportunity. you know how to mix business. with business. and you.rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above. and still pay the mid-size price. i could get used to this. [ male announcer ] yes, you could business pro. yes, you could. go national. go like a pro. yes, you could. iimagine living your life withss less chronic low back pain.. imagine you with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal