about what the military is here for. to protect us and to be strong and to be united. on hussein hasan, i think that that was hundred amuck. i think so political correct they ended up costing lives. lives in our military. i think the don t ask don t have been gays serving in the military all along. i think this is an issue, a nonissue they ve made an issue. and steve, would you go along with that? that you can have a diverse military without having a political correct proud military? the military is one of the strongest instut yugss we have in this country for equal opportunity. there is nothing wrong with that. whit comes to muslims in
a good year. more people involved. four years ago they won a runway. and there this is a country. you don t turn things around. let me start out to you. part of what concerns you is someone when has done three dozen of these. as years progress this got angryer. people started to yell more. and i don t know. have we lost our stability? is 2010 the end of decency? i i don t think it schl people thought when the president got in office, that everything would change right then and there. and when everybody gets in office have you to get used to the way the count very
i have no idea whether 6 billion is a reasonable figure. there was already an agreement with new york city for a lot of these first responders, and by the way, nobody is argue that people who have gotten ill from the cleanup of 9/11 shouldn t be compensated in some way, but the question is who is responsible, who s at fault, do they have the money, is the insurance adequate to cover it, wasn t the previous settlement adequate, why do they need 6 billion, how would people apply for it, how will it be paid for. all these questions are things that people have raised, and they ve been scrambling to try to figure out answers for them, but that is not the way to legislate here at the last minute. we could easily do that in another three weeks when we come back in january. jenna: final question for you senator and we only have a quick minute here, but don t ask don t tell, it s going to quickly become the law of the land. do you have a plan in place to repeal the don t ask don t tell when it
major terrorist attack in this country there will be a lot of people calling for even more government action. so it is always a give and a take, a tug and a pull. jenna: looking at 2001, the 9/11 attacks as kind of a marker, i was looking at ages of some of these men that were arrested, 17 and 28. they were young when 9/11 happened if they are indeed part of plot of extremists or jihadists however we want to talk about them. do you think that the move toward more extremism and jihadists gathered more momentum at 9/11 or was it at its boiling point nine years ago? i think for the first five or six years after 9/11, by and large we preempted most of those attacks and they were various types of cells that had been sent to the united states or people who had received training elsewhere. the difference now is, many of these people haven t received training. that they re, that they fall under the spell of a local
winners and of course the losers. reporter: well, the lame duck session has waddle d to comepletion on major issues while others failed. the senate made history this weekend by approving a house bill to end the 17-year-old policy of don t ask don t tell which would allow those openly gay to serve in the military. repealing don t ask don t tell is the right thing to do, whether you re liberal, conservative, democrat or republican, it s consistent with the best merican values. reporter: but a former military man was not persuaded. i ve heard from thousands, thousands, of active duty and retired military personnel. i ve heard from them. and they re saying senator mccain, it isn t broke. and don t fix it. reporter: the key now, even support respect say, is how the law is implemented, the lame duck congress approved a two-yearsention of the bush tax cuts, along with an extension of unemployment insurance and cut in the payroll tax, but