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Joins me now from capitol hill to talk about this battle. senator, you have some unlikely allies. how did you create this coalition and do you think you can get the votes you need for this amendment on the floor? >> well, it is a commonsense bipartisan solution and it is really based on what victims have asked. they said they are not reporting these crimes because they don't trust the chain of command. they don't think the current system can be objective enough that they can receive justice. so those arguments resonate with democrats and republicans and people who just want to make sure we can...

Has not provided any specific details about what kind of military aid is going to be provided to the rebels. we know that small arms simply will not do the job against bashar al-assad's tanks, on the other hand missiles, which could be launched against airplanes or helicopters could turn up in the wrong hands and used to down civilian airliners. martha: you have iran and russia on the other side of this equation. this is, as john mccain we just spoke to the potential for a large regional conflict is absolutely there. you have other critics from the united states who really fear involvement in ...

And you can imagine a victim saying i don't want to do that. because my boss may know the person who assaulted or raped me. he may think that i'm the troublemaker. he may retaliate against me because it's going to reflect badly on him. too many issues at stake. it should be somebody independent, outside of the chain of command who is specifically trained to understand these issues. let them do the investigation, let them make the judgment of whether this should go to trial. i think in that instance, more men and women will feel comfortable reporting. you'll have a better reporting rate. and ju...

Independent, outside of the chain of command who is specifically trained to understand these issues. let them do the investigation, let them make the judgment of whether this should go to trial. i think in that instance, more men and women will feel comfortable reporting. you'll have a better reporting rate. and justice will be done in more cases. >> especially as you have heard in many -- well, many. some number of cases. the person who has done the assault is the commandingst officer. the person you're supposed to report to. so how can that possibly work? >> one of the things we did in the l...

To make. we have to keep looking boo what can make it easier for a woman who is sexually assault. one change we made in the last armed services authorization bill was to make sure if a woman was pregnant because of a rape that she could actually have access to an abortion on a military base. we want to expand that one step further and say she can have access to an abortion on a military base whether or not she decides to disclose the rape so that she can keep her privacy and even use her own money. there's more work that needs to be done to guarantee that these women and men who are sexually a...