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Immigrants feel about that. >> i think legal immigrants -- bill: whether youre hispanic or african-american or white or irish, whatever you are. >> thats exactly right. i think its troublesome to see, you know, huge numbers of new work permits when there are legal residents and legal foreign nationals here of all types that arent employed. some of those kids really dearly need a fix, but we need a broader push to immigration reform and president obama owes it to the country to work through congr...

A decision on this construct lum. back to you. len len alicia, thank you very much. for more on this controversial proposal, lets get both sides, bruce messenger of the public schools district andter teresa frye, a concerned sit -- citizen and helena youth advocate as well. want to start with the last point alicia made f. im a parent in this school district and this curriculum is happening, what options do i have? >> well, once the curriculum is adopted and the implementation plan is developed, ...

Accompanied this plan with an implementation plan. again, this isnt just talk. this is a direct road map for people to understand how were going to address this problem. the federal government, state and local governments, as well as those in the private sector and in the philanthropic sector and in communities all over the country. >> how do you address the challenge, the broader challenge reflected in the new "washington post"/abc poll of people not really having great confidence in the admini...

Ways to possibly apply it more leniently while they look into the implementation plan. now, whether that means that it takes effect right away and it applies only to future cases, we just dont know yet. were going to need to hear more details. i hope what it means is that cases that are pending like mine, that hopefully theyll be able to look at the way this was handled and theyre able to dismiss my case. >> are you disappointed that the military says it needs a year to study and figure out impl...

My case in particular, i just dont know yet. what i heard today is like you said, they want to look into ways of possibly apply it more leniently while they look into the implementation plan. now, whether that means that it takes effect right away and it applies only to future cases, we dont know yet. were going to need to hear more details. i hope what it means is that cases that are pending like mine, that hopefully theyll be able to look at the way this was handled and theyre able to dismiss ...

How do you find people that dont want to be counted? details of efforts to coax hundreds of thousands of people out of the shadows. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the pentagon is now taking steps to prepare for lifting the ban on gays serving openly in the united states military. the defense secretary robert gates tells the senate armed services committee a year long study is now under way that will contain an implementation plan for win congress repeals the law. the joint chi...

I am mindful of the fact, as are you, that unlike the last time this issue was considered by the congress more than 15 years ago, our military is engaged in two wars that have put troops and their families under considerable stress and strain. i am mindful as well that attitudes toward homosexuality may have changed considerably, both in society generally and in the military over the intervening years. to ensure that the department is prepared, should the law be changed, and working in close con...

98-2 in the senate. over the summer, it was all supposed to be implemented the deadline in the law says october 1st. now its the end of october. it has not been implemented. what are you hearing? why is there this delay? >> sure. well, theres increasing congressional anger over there blowing of the deadline. and when you talk to administration officials they say basically what you saw in that statement that theyre working on it, its complicated there are a couple difficult issues to deal with, o...

Rolling it out. jim miklaszewski is live at the pentagon. whats the miranda rule time frame, explain this to us, for the pentagon to implement new policy, and is this likely to move quickly or do you think it will drag its feet? >> well, quite frankly theres no time for implementation of anything enacted by congress generally. it could happen overnight or it could take some time. the repeal will not take effect until after the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mullen, and the presid...

Period of time. but president obama, the commander in chief, gave a clear signal to the military this morning about his expectations. have a listen. >> the old policy remains in effect until secretary gates, mullen and i certify the readiness to implement the repeal and it is important for service members to remember that. that is spoken to every one of the service chiefs and they are all committed to implementing this change swiftly and efficiently. we are not going to be dragging our feet to g...