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Texting and calling each other excitedly and it was a tremendous validation and the service of hundreds of thousands of american women in combat including tremendous women like shoshana johnson, the first african-american prisoner of war and tammy duckworth who lost both her legs serving in combat. this truly validates and vindicates everything that all of these brave women have done serving their country in the past decade. >> the last thing i'll say is that good leaders make good units. it doesn't matter what the policies are. it you're a bad leader it doesn't matter if the policy makes sens...

>> thanks for having me. >> thank you. jon: you've heard some of the growing concerns over the pentagon's decision to allow women to take on combat roles. coming up, our "news watch" panel weighs in on the topic is getting covered in the media [ male announcer ] with over 50 delicious choices of green giant vegetables it's easy to eat like a giant... ♪ and feel like a green giant. ♪ ho ho ho ♪ green giant i'm up next, but now i'm sging the heartburn blues. hold on, prilosec isn't for fast relief. cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast. ♪ oh what a relief it is!

♪ ♪ >> greg: i love that barry springsteen. pentagon is lifting a ban for women on combat. hooray. i guess. if cushing the combat roles would affect the ability to move up the ladder, it shatters the glass ceiling. it also elevates risk. god bless her, that woman is a better man than i. if she wants to fight, far be it from me to say no. the chances are she could take me and chances are i would enjoy it. the only thing i ever served was a volleyball. senator mccain knows women must still meet the same physical standards as men. you can't become a seal unless you can do what a seal does, i ...

Taking as suggesault weapons wot in fact make it safer particularly for the cops. a shot gun will keep you a lot safer. a double barrel shot gun than the as saelt weapons in somebody's hands who doesn't know how to use it. you know. it's harder to use an assault weapon to hit something than as a shot gun. so you want to keep people away, buy shotgun shells. joe manchin of west virginia said he's working to develop a separate proposal that would expand background checks on gun sales. a new era is now under way in the u.s. military. the pentagon yesterday announced it has lifted a 20 year ban ...

It really does perhaps come down to capability? >> right. i know a lot of women who graduated from the service academy and been in the service a long time. incredible women. major mcclung, was the first female marine killed in iraq and she was a public affairs officer. but in reality she was on the front lines. what interesting about this, we have had time that was sort of de facto combat roles for women with these lines blurred that you actually can sort of evaluate where they were effective and how things are different between men and women on the front lines. i do think there are concerns a...