acts, the pentagon and the military will have a lot more leeway in how they implement a repeal of this policy. >> let me jump in there. you just gave me the perfect opening to bring in barbara starr, who is live for us at the pentagon. barbara just quickly so i can update our viewers, we about three minutes to go there in the vote. it's alphabetical. we're in the ws. we know we're ending the vote and then we will see if they get the 60. barbara starr, dana just mentioned how we saw secretary gates last week testifying, feeling very, very strongly that he wants this repeal to happen. >> oh, absolutely, brooke. let me follow up on what dana is saying here. here's the problem for the pentagon. there is a court case out there that is being heard. there will be a number of appeals coming down the road on this court case. and the feeling by the pentagon leadership and secretary gates is that the courts will eventually make that final