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Defense secretary leon panetta today declared what a decade of wars in afghanistan and iraq have made painfully clear. women are as combat ready as men. >> they're fighting and they're dying together, and the time has come for our policies to recognize that reality. >> joining us now is goldie taylor, an msnbc contributor, and david corn, d.c. bureau chief of "mother jones" magazine. welcome to you both. goldie, this new policy ends the direct ground combat exclusion for women. you are a former marine and we acknowledge and respect your service, but you've seen what's known as the brass ceilin...

Bounds of the combat exclusion policy for female engagement teams, women manning machine guns, leading convoys, fired at virtually all over the battlefield. >> right. >> there were no front lines and we didn't need extra studies or research and the interesting thing that that parallel to don't ask don't tell is very good because i think the military learned from that example that it didn't want to be pushed in to making that decision by the courts and it was very close to that situation. here, you know, again, we have used the courts to gently nudge d.o.d. in the right direction and i think th...

It's specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. to hear more patient stories, visit lyrica.com. hi, everybody. good morning. i'm thomas roberts. several developing stories unfolding in washington right now. any minute, dianne feinstein set to introduce a bill to ban assault weapons. along with the vice president joe biden, who will hold his own fire side chat on google plus this afternoon to talk about the president's sweeping and ambitious gun control plan, then in a matter of hours, the pent gaunt is set to make a ground breaking change. leon panetta will shatter the so-called brass ceili...

Aren't getting the health care and benefits they need. when women are reintegrating back into society, they are not getting the support, the mental health care or the compensation. >> the assumption is they haven't seen combat. >> maybe they were communication specialists or a member of a female team attached to an infantry. they are not getting the same credit or recognition. the brass ceiling in the military world, as opposed to the gas ceiling prevents women from accessing more assignments. the most prestigious assignments are tied to combat arms. there is no question about it. >> the milit...