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Legally-married gay couples. we are live outside the high court with the latest. plus, breaking details in the benghazi investigation. the head of u.s. special operations command in africa testifying in a closed door meeting before congress for the first time right now. will this be the day we finally get an answer as to why special forces were told to stand down on the night of the attack?

General clapper, they both initially thought this began as a protest. so unless the chairman is saying theyre part of a vast conspiracy involving the state department, it hard to see how this makes much sense. >> the president was pressed in the press conference he had last week and whether or not there was an intimidation factor going into whether or not state department officials felt pigeon holed into not speaking out. we have this transcript that has just been released to nbc news and the go...

What happens next. chris wallatas sat down with two veteran who is had very different points of view. a bold move by the pentagon, changing the roles of women in cam -- in combat. >> i think that people are jgy quite supportive. i dont think there is going to be a move in congress because the secretary of defense has the ability do this unilaterally, it would take new throgz block it. i dont think this is going to happen. there are some concerns. we had a fascinating debate today. i was really l...

Petraeus, but do talk about her relationship with generals at the u.s. central command and u.s. special operations command. according to a source presumably we can assume one of those was general allen. >> and these harassing e-mails, we have confirmed, and all sides have confirmed, they came from paula broadwell? >> the fbi was able to trace them back, although they were sent through anonymous accounts, they were able to trace them back to paula broadwell. i do think, and this is interesting, w...

Friends there. im awaiting to see what the public affairs officers both at the u.s. special operations command and the navy special war fare command have to say about this. it is of concern. i think would all like this to go away. let these professional lawyers go about their business, because were a nation at war. >> the time i have spent with the navy s.e.a.l.s, and did on and off for about six months in coronado, i found them to be very protective of one another, very protective obviously of ...

Certain respects. lets talk for a second about counterinsurgency coin which is, of course, a sort of military doctrine that petraeus was instrumental in developing in its current context as deployed in iraq. youve reported on it a great deal, wrote a great series for "the washington independent" about it. i wonder are we going to reach any point of coin backlash? mean, i think coin -- what happened in iraq has sort of given the coinistas as they are called a sort of confidence and petraeus is th...

President. but i think well be waiting for many, many days for that. >> days? >> months. >> how about forever. >> yeah, forever. >> i think forever, too. >> i do want to say one last thing about the group. well come back to the very top which is about general mcraven who 37 years in the u.s. navy ran u.s. special operations command, jsoc europe, unable special warfare group. one of the most distinguished heroes in the last half century in the american military. donald trump today said he didnt k...

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Generals at the u.s. central command and the u.s. special operations command. and apparently paula broadwell at least believed there was a basis that jill kelley had entre and relationships and friendships that may have been inappropriate with multiple high-level people. how accurate all that is at the end of the day we dont know. but we do know and i think we heard a lot of it from jill kelleys own voice when she made that 911 phone call about the press on her -- stalking her if you will over t...