but gibbs says the commander in chief and many in uniform disagree. if you look at the commander in chief, the head of pentagon and chair of the joint chiefs you ll find unanimity in the belief it s time to do away with the policy. if changing don t ask, don t tell fails, advocates aren t sure of the impact for mr. obama. we re at the 1 yard line a small ask that we merely do everything possible in order to get over the finish line. that will factor into people s judgments once they decide who to support. speaker nancy pelosi says there will be vote tomorrow in the house on don t ask, don t tell. she made the announcement on twitter with a swipe saying senate action on this issue is long overdue. mike emanuel. thank you. getting rid of don t ask, don t tell was one of the president s campaign promises.
multitude of things we have to do to ensure our energy independence and to make the to make the transition to a clean energy future a bridge to that. so, yes, i that is still that is still his belief. but we have to do it in a responsible way. and if we can t do it in a responsible way, then we won t move forward. so just to be precise, he s still open to, in his words, the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration. there were additional areas opened up for that possibility. and we re going to make sure that if before anything moves forward, before new leases are let and drilling is done, that it s done in accordance with safety precautions that guard against the kind of incident that we saw here. david axelrod, the senior adviser to the president. david, thanks for coming in. okay. good to be with you. gays in the u.s. military. the defense secretary robert gates tells cnn s john king his views about changing don t ask, don t tell. stabbed by.
in chief and many in uniform disagree. if you look at the commander in chief, the head of pentagon and chair of the joint chiefs you ll find unanimity in the belief it s time to do away with the policy. if changing don t ask, don t tell fails, advocates aren t sure of the impact for mr. obama. we re at the 1 yard line a small ask that we merely do everything possible in order to get over the finish line. that will factor into people s judgments once they decide who to support. speaker nancy pelosi says there will be vote tomorrow in the house on don t ask, don t tell. she made the announcement on twitter with a swipe saying senate action on this issue is long overdue. mike emanuel. thank you. getting rid of don t ask, don t tell was one of the president s campaign promises. another, create millions of new green jobs.
what i would like to see is a change to that policy. i think you see admiral mullen on the frontlines saying he wants to see it changed. defense secretary gates. if you have the top leaders of our military saying that they want to see a change in the policy, the fact that elena kagan has in the past said that was her personal opinion to see a change, i would hope that that wouldn t be used against her as the only reason someone would vote against her. that makes no sense. they may not agree with her opinion, but they have to look at whether she s qualified to be a justice on the supreme court. she clearly is. she s earned the respect of everyone she s worked with. when she was out for solicitor general five former republican solicitor generals supported her. recruitment of military on campus is all right with you? again, i want to see a change in the policy, chris, as do so many of my colleagues as to leadership and military and we won t have that issue anymore. i support changing
military? now that the law has been clear that that s happening but what i would like to see is a change to that policy. you see admiral mullen on the front lines saying he wants to see a change. defense secretary gates. if you have the top leaders of our military saying that they want to see a change in the policy, the fact that elena kagan has in the past said that was her personal opinion to see a change, i would hope that that wouldn t be used against her as the only reason someone would vote against her. that makes no sense. they may not agree with her opinion, but they have to look at whether she s qualified to be a justice on the supreme court. she clearly is. she s earned the respect of everyone she s worked with. when she was out for solicitor general five former republican solicitor generals supported her. recruitment of military on campus is all right with you? again, i want to see a change in the policy, chris, as do so many of my colleagues as to leadership and milit