elections based@-9juáhqtup&ity of all americans, gay or straight. an i wonder where you stand on "don't ask, don't tell." my question is you as the president can sort of have an executive order that ends it once and for all as truman did for the integration. i wonder why don't you do that if this is a policy that you're committed to ending? >> first of all i haven't mentioned that i'm against "don't ask, don't tell." i've said very clearly including in a state of the union address that i'm against "don't ask, don't tell." we're going to end that policy. that's point number one. point number two, the difference between my position right now and harry truman's was that congress explicitly passed a law that took away the power of the executive branch to end this policy unilaterally. so this is not a situation in which with a stroke of the pen i can simply end a policy.