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Score perfect because so few passed, the marines will let them choose to hang on the bar for 15 seconds and pass without doing any pull ups. >> wide grip works best for you. >> reporter: they admit pull ups are better than the flexed arm hang elicits little muscle strength for military tasks such as pulling yourself over obstacles and other equipment. she is a former marine corps officer who commanded troops in afghanistan. >> could you do three pull ups? >> at one point, i could do fife. the fi...

If the government wants to leave the sisters alone, they can do it. the problem is the government said, sister, you need to sign the form and be part of it. if you wont do it, well crush that beautiful ministry with with fines. thats no way for a free government to run. >> well see how the case plays out at the u.s. supreme court. thanks for being here. >> thank you, megyn. >> we are getting reports roughly half of the new female marines have been unable the to complete part of the basic fitness...

If they think this is the best choice, i just appreciate theyre moving in the right direction. >> allow me to play devils advocate. women are fighting to meet the same standards as men, and now the standards are changing, one could say lowering, as the number differential exists between women and men. is that counter intuitive. if you want women to be treated equally, should they be required to fit the same number? >> i think that there are a couple of different points here. first of all, we wan...

Means for the women. if you look at the marines upper body fitness test for women, they have to do a minimum of three pull-ups. if they do eight, they get a perfect score. but because not enough passed, theyll have the option of the flexed arm ang. they have to do that for a minimum of 15 seconds, but can get a perfect rating with 70 seconds. compare that with male marines. they also have a minimum of three pull-ups, but they need 20 for a perfect rating, and there is no flex-arm hang test for m...

Suit decrying the fact she said her gender limited her military career. shes zoey bidell, a lieutenant in the marine corps, and she now serves in the reserves. she joins me from our washington bureau. can you hear me? >> i can hear you now, thank you. >> excellent. we saw the video of the pull-ups. women required to do at least three. do you think you could do that? >> i know if i was training for it, and this was a requirement, absolutely. i have done it in the past. >> okay, so if you were tra...

The path to equal rights in the u.s. military has taken an interesting turn. the marines are reportedly pushing back a january 1st deadline to require female marines to be able to do three pull-ups. women recruits train for much of 2013 to reach the minimum fitness standard, which is the same for men. the marine forces reserve even put out a video, take a look. >> focus on quality over quantity and over time you will end up with a high quantity of quality pull-ups. >> the quality may be there, b...

Around a lunch table. >> water cooler or golf course. yeah, right. >> yeah. >> social media, dangerous. be careful. >> so incredibly dangerous. >> this is his version of sending naughty pictures. not a good idea. >> not good. a man in colorado putting a scare into onlookers who repeatedly called 911 until they saw him dangling from a hot air balloon. turns out he was only doing pull-ups. dan vincent said he and his girlfriend were filming an ad for a new exercise product, called monkey bars, a...

Ryan, myself, brian, and mike mccue. >> its me, d, jay, and joe. >> we got ryan. thats all im going to say. >> [ bleep ]. >> he cant do it all. >> cant do it all. >> going to let rooen do the whole competition by himself. >> ryan, go. do the push-ups, run, everything, brooen. just piggy back him at the end. >> so me and you and d combined. look at this guy talking. ryan do the running. im doing the pull-ups. >> you cant even reach the pull-ups. >> dude, come on. >> how many you do this morning m...

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