saying this is not working and you are all going to get an extra year to keep the polythat you now all have. the 5.6 million people that lost their policies that they have. when he signs and executive order, ordering female in the federal government to ask as if the law has to change, it gets under congress s skin and that is what they are looking at as we speak. the challenge there is also to whether or not corporations have religious freedom rights. hobby, lobby, which is a christian owned company that caters to christian clientele in shopping malls has thousands of
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or file under the current system, which he derived. the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that s represented by this palate right over here and the reams of paper. that s what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is is size of what we re talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that.
cable television. it s very kind of you sort of. thank you, lawrence. we now turn to nathaniel frank, the author of the book unfriendly fire, how the gay ban undermines the military and weakens america. nathaniel, thank you very much for your time. good to see you again, rachel. i know you ve been pretty optimistic over time that we were on the verge of repealing don t ask, don t tell. what is your reaction to the loss in the senate? well, it s a profound leadership failure. this is a policy that the american public wants to see. repealed. it s a polythat increasingly the military itself, the secretary of defense, joint chiefs of staff. and polls show that military opposition among the troops is dropping. to see it go up in flames today is of course disappointing. you re right. have i been optimistic and haven t had the best track record on that. but still, we ve come a long, long way since 1993 in terms of the culture where the military is and what the research says on t