there s no question, there s a process that has been started. we ve seen hearings on the hill, but no indication that it s going to happen anytime soon in terms of an outright repeal. this seems like is going to be happening over a period of months or years, but there were six service members arrested. the same group that protested last night. dan choi, a west point graduate, served in iraq and came out on the rachel maddow show last year and discharge proceedings were started, was one of those arrested here. and finally, dan, i wanted to ask you about rahm emanuel, who last night, talked about running for mayor. says he supports mayor daley, but if he chooses not to run, he would like to go back into elected politics. did that surprise you or do you think he is sort of preparing his exit strategy from the white
central question here, suzanne that many are asking. there are so many applauding pope s latest meeting with sex abuse victims, but some observers say it does not move the meter forward for really addressing this scandal. he s met only three times with sex abuse victims. the latest, like the others, was in private. with the most serious crisis surrounding the church in recent memory, threatening to engulf his papacy, pope benedict xvi is being skrut niced over his ability to publicly manage the abuse scandal. i think it s an open question, whether simply allowing these questions that have been raised about his record to linger, whether out matly that s going to work as an exit strategy from this crisis. cnn analyst john allen is referring to allegations that when he was archbishop of munich, the pope responded inadequately to an abuse scandal. benedict s defenders say he didn t know the details of that case. but analysts say the vaticans had a fractured overall response
reaffirming that we re gonna pull out and basically leave the afghan national security forces in the lurch. sean: what does it mean when you put a deadline, timeline on an exit strategy as the president just did? we are in unexplored territory. there has never been a commander in chief announce he s sending troops and announced the deadline when he is withdrawing. he did that in the west point speech. what does that mean to our allies? we have 43ç other nations with us. afghan national security forces some of which are very good. i put them on my flank any time. some are very, very bad. there isn t time to train these forces if you start looking at what we are going to do is start pulling out you will not be able to adequately train them to deal with the anarchy that could ensue that brought the taliban to power the last time. sean: recent headlines. the president said this week, whether we like it or not, we
reaffirming that we re gonna pull out and basically leave the afghan national security forces in the lurch. sean: what does it mean when you put a deadline, timeline on an exit strategy as the president just did? we are in unexplored territory. there has never been a commander in chief announce he s sending troops and announced the deadline when he is withdrawing. he did that in the west point speech. what does that mean to our allies? we have 43ç other nations with us. afghan national security forces some of which are very good. i put them on my flank any time. some are very, very bad. there isn t time to train these forces if you start looking at what we are going to do is start pulling out you will not be able to adequately train them to deal with the anarchy that could ensue that brought the taliban to power the last time. sean: recent headlines. the president said this week, whether we like it or not, we
ten months ago, last year, asked by a reporter, what is the exit strategy. the exit strategy is implement the president s strategy, it s a smart strategy. not just put in more american troops, allied troops, trainers, civilian surge go on. three things, help move the afghans off this poppy economy, where they bachkly fe basically trade, they can have commodities. they have a huge mining industry there. we should help them develop that. they have a lot more oil and gas, believed to be the case, help them build those resources, rebuild infrastructures, put people to work building roads, bridges, rail system. senator tom carper. appreciate your time today. startling allegations against eric massa, minority leader john boehner calling the disgraced democrat a predator and renewing his call for a congressional probe.