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Combat roles and so they were a bit, you know, considered a second class citizens. and because they weren't in combat roles, they didn't have access to some of the highest ranks, you know, the highest duties of jobs that just weren't available to them. and so they aren't today in a position to make some decisions around solving military sexual assault. i think that's the grand irony of this. >> that is a great point. anu, i want to play another moment which i think lindsay graham is the only senator on record saying he is with the brass on this. he doesn't want to take it outside the chain of ...

Previously allowed to serve in combat roles and so they were a bit, you know, considered a second class citizens. and because they weren't in combat roles, they didn't have access to some of the highest ranks, you know, the highest duties of jobs that just weren't available to them. and so they aren't today in a position to make some decisions around solving military sexual assault. i think that's the grand irony of this. >> that is a great point. anu, i want to play another moment which i think lindsay graham is the only senator on record saying he is with the brass on this. he doesn't want t...

Percolating in the culture that get into the military and then, you know, you have men being fed these messages and around women who until recently couldn't serve in combat roles so there was this unequal situation to begin with. goldie, how do you make sense of it? >> the pathologies don't check themselves at the door when you get to camp. so what you present is what society you've been drawn from. the military, however, known for as well trained as we are, you know to become a fighting machine, it does not address appropriately some of those maladies that we bring forth. in fact it reinforce...

Panetta did to actually allow women to serve in combat roles so that they can be elevated, so that they can continue to rise in the ranks was a very important change to help change that culture. but you have to remember, andrea, more to remember, andre more than half these assaults and rapes are committed against men. it is not just about gender. it is also about the nature of the crime. these are crimes of violence, crimes of domination and crime of aggression. when you have a perpetrator who is actually a predator who targets the victims, waits until the victims are weak, they will continue ...

♪ ♪ we're still in debt, but it's all right ♪ ♪ the united states really couldn't get any broker ♪ ♪ got to liquidate its assets just like al roker ♪ >> sometimes you feel bad for brian. last week, many criticized the military's decision to allow women to fight in combat roles. jon stewart explains the logic. >> there are certain facts ability upper body streng. 6'4", 240 pound marine and you are injured and you need the marine next to you to carry you back to safety and she weighs 115 pounds. it's irrelevant. we can't have women in combat because they are tiny. they are too deli...