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Policy was implemented by the clinton administration? we had 14 congressional hearings since then all coming to the same conclusion that this would undermine unit cohesion and military readiness. even the democratic chairman of the house armed services committee, ike skelton, says hes opposed to changing this policy. there are members of the joint chiefs who are opposed to changing this policy. its not a foregone conclusion this is going to be changed. >> larry: what is the fear, that the gay pe...

It has sustained unit cohesion and unit morale. >> i dont think theyre required to lie about who they are. i think thats an overstatement. although, i think the rule of dont ask, dont tell has seemed to work pretty well. >> joining us now is someone whose very existence gives lie to those claims that dont ask dont tell is working out great for the country and great for the military, lieutenant colonel victor fair farrenback. 19-year veteran, he was outed by a civilian acquaintance. even though h...

What should they do? >> they should serve it in some civilian capacity and not join the military. >> why not? >> because the presence of homosexuals in the military is incompatible with good morale, discipline and unit cohesion. thats what congress found in 1993 and thats what the law states. >> again, there is no data, there is no evidence, there is no study whatsoever that you can point to to support that outrageous statement. and what i would also suggest to you is that 79% of americans today...

What should they do? >> they should serve it in some civilian capacity and not join the military. >> why not? >> because the presence of homosexuals in the military is incompatible with good order, morale, discipline and unit cohesion. thats what congress found in 1993 and thats what the law states. >> again, there is no data, there is no evidence, there is no study whatsoever that you can point to to support that outrageous statement. and what i would also suggest to you is that 79% of american...

Effecti effectiveness, including how a change might affect unit cohesion and recruitment and other issues crucial to the force. the working group will develop ways to mitigate and manage any negative impacts. these are, generally speaking, the broad areas we have identified for study under this review. we will, of course, continue to refine and expand these as we get in to this process or engage in discussion with the congress and other sources. in this regard, we expect that the working group w...

Co-workers or the people in georgia or anywhere else at risk and make this country less safe? >> thats a good question. congress has had 14 hearings since this policy was enacted in 1993, and they come to the same conclusion, that in order to have strong unit cohesion, to have strong unit, the cohesion and the strong military environment. you know, most people havent served in the military. they dont understand whats its there for or in terms of the environment that its created in which these pe...

>> they have a problem as far as unit cohesion because they allow gays to serve openly? >> i dont know, but they dont have a choice because its all volunteer. it isnt volunteer like ours is. they have mandatory service. in israel, it doesnt matter whether you like it or not whereas here the recruiters will say, hey, its hurting the recruiting because we dont have as many kids to join because they have allowed homosexuals to serve openly. israel doesnt have that. youre forced to join the military...

Over 1.96 million people have been discharged. 0.5% of those have been discharged because of homosexual conduct. i was in the military. the marine corps for three tours. its going to hurt unit cohesion if we take this issue and we press this as a social experiment on the military right now when we have two big wars going on. >> congressman duncan hunter -- unfortunately, were out of time. id love to have both of you back to continue this debate because obviously its not going away. if you have a...

Cohesion. youve got study and carl levin all say -- levin talked to you at politico, supporting this change. how quickly can it be done? >> i dont think it will be done super quickly. i think theyll probably end up doing an approach similar to the gates approach which says its going to happen, were going to overturn this but were going to have people really study this and make sure as we make this transition we do it in a way that doesnt, to put it in gates words, doesnt disrupt forces or do any...

Explaining the situation in blunt terms. >> we dont believe they have overcome the logistics problems, the command and control issues, unit cohesion and organization. all the problems are stilt bedevilling the russian military. theyre resupplying, refitting to reinforce the forces in the donbas and we can see it happening now. >> an internal conversation is reportedly underway within the biden administration whether or not to send a high level government official to ukraine to show support. poli...