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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101219:00:20:00

input such as partners and others in the military. >> when you were doing this, did you think it would help end repealing the policy? >> absolutely. if we were going to actually help end the policy, they had to learn about us actually serving in the military who are gay and lesbian and our types of experiences, especially us either serving openly on our upt to show it's not going ton an issue when repeal is gone. >> okay. let's talk about outserve. 1700 gay and lesbian service members known to each other but not the pentagon. how has it worked and what purpose has it served? >> we use hidden social media to connect. gays and lesbians are serving across the world including afghanistan and iraq. and so we have one large national -- or international network of 1700 people. and then we have local chapters around the world such as germany, korea, all over the worldment and some of the chapters are even meeting

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here is the difference, ali, you see a difference of opinion estate tax when you factor in african-american, hispanics and women business owners. we're seeing now the first, second generation of those business owners creating businesses generating the kinds of revenue. even seeing some shift among members of congressional black caucus and hispanic caucus they are representing people saying wait a minute, we are now building up these businesses. it's not some white guy out there. krista, you're wrong, it's not this whole notion of a silver spoon in somebody's mouth. there are people who have businesses, $2 or $3 million a year who don't have 30, 40, 50 million who are saying i want to put my child in a position to pass it on and create wealth. there are very few african-americans historically

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101219:14:05:00

forward. i found working with them is just fine as i said, we weren't sent here to do nothing and if the administration believes they need to go in a different direction, and it mirrors the things that i and my members believe is good fort countr the we're going to do it. this is an example of that. the overwhelming majority of the members of the house and senate thought it was a right thing to do. >> there has been some flack from republicans, conservative republicans, tea party and others look at this and say listen this is a stimulus plan, because it does maintain some of the things that were in the original stimulus bill, and it was, the president was being sparked because he couldn't have come up and said i need this much money to stimulate the economy. let me just read you something that charles crowdhammer wrote recently, calling president obama the comeback kid. if barack obama wins re-election

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101219:03:37:00

the repeal, it won't go into effect right away. there will be a certification process for a few months to verify the change won't impact military readiness or effectiveness. if all that checks out, the repeal will go into effect once and for all 60 days later. for now, gay service members are advised not to do anything. but former army lieutenant dan choi isn't one to stay quiet. he was still in the service when he came out on national tv last year. that earned him a discharge. and he became one of the loudest voices in the push for repealing don't ask don't tell. here's what he had to say when i spoke with him. >> we know when you're on the right side of justice and history, you ever go backwards. so this is the real moment. it is not for me that is the most excited. i'm sure this is sending shock waves to all the closeted and fearful and self-hating people all throughout miracle are

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101219:00:09:00

smartly and get on with it, don. >> i've been talking with several military members, some are current. others have -- were kicked out because of don't ask, don't tell. they all said the same thing. members of gay men and women in the military now can walk with a stiffer spine and can walk a little taller. so when can military members start coming out? >> reporter: well, there's bait a bit of bureaucracy. the president will have to sign this into law. and then the pentagon will engage in a certification that could last weeks or several months to make sure under this law that has been passed all of the policies, procedures, regulations are in place. they will certify that the military is ready for this. there will be no adverse impact on military readiness. and then 60 days after that certification, don't ask, don't tell will be gone once and for all.

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a lot of our members who are not on the committee are getting deeply involved in this for the first time, as i just indicated, at the risk of being redundant, i don't think this is the best time to be doing this. members are uneasy about it, don't feel thoroughly familiar with it. and i think we'd have been a lot better off to give -- we would have given them a time to complete this early next year. they turn that down. they want to do it now, we'll see what happens. >> but you are committed to voting against it? >> i'm going to oppose it. >> health care strategy, are you still committed to making some kind of move in the u.s. senate to try to repeal health care? >> i'm hoping we will receive from the house of representatives a full repeal of obamacare. it will be hard to get that through the senate, but we will be working to try to get a vote on that. and hope that among those who had maybe second thoughts in the senate, including the 23 democrats who are up for re-election in '12, there'll be some openness to revisiting what

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101219:00:19:00

he is founder of outserve, an underground network of 1700 gay and lesbian service members. so j.d., thank you for joining us. you know about today's vote. how soon do you think that you will be able to serve openly and to come out in the military? >> for the most part, i'm already serving openly in my unit. i hope that all of us can live freely soon. >> how you are feeling about this? >> it was amazing to watch today, just to see the vote take place. i mean it was just -- it was like a knife came out of your back. you know this is going to be over in the next few months. it was amazing to see it happen. >> did you work with the pentagon on the troop survey regarding the repeal of don't ask, don't tell? >> we did. >> you did? and how did that process work? what did you do? >> we helped solve any input they had and we also gave any

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101219:13:16:00

advocacy groups are warning gay and lesbian members of the military, don't state anything openly just yet. you could, could still be at risk. there's another part of this, t.j., the federal courts have had a number of rulings declaring don't ask don't tell discriminatory and illegal. there hasn't been a final ruling yet, but that is still hanging out there, and unless something changes, there is always still the possibility the courts will say no, no, no, you don't get to take all this time to think about it still. it is immediately gone, so people are, some people are very happy about what congress did. still a lot of washington bureaucracy to deal with here. isn't that always the case, but still a lot of people happy with that landmark vote we saw yesterday. while i have you here we've been talking about what's happening in north korea, i'm sure the military, the u.s. military keeping a close eye on things there as well. what are they necessarily keeping an eye on and maybe even preparing for? >> yes, t.j., absolute.

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and a sliding, a whole lot of splashing even going on in california. monster storm system dumps snow and rain, and this storm is not done yet. reynolds wolf here with the severe weather forecast, as many of you trying to travel this week trying to head somewhere for the holidays. welcome to the cnn center in atlanta, georgia. this is your sunday morning, december 19th. i'm t.j. holmes. glad you could be with us. big vote on capitol hill yesterday. the senate has voted to repeal don't ask, don't tell. president obama expected to sign the change into law sometime this week. this would abolish the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military. the vote yesterday in a saturday session of the senate was 65-31. the president calling gay and lesbian service members, quote "brave men and women who enable our freedoms and no longer have to hide who they are." when exactly will don't ask, don't tell impact the military and when? defense secretary robert gates

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has said he'll approach the process deliberately. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr is at the pentagon. barbara, good morning, glad you could be with us on this sunday. remind us, first of all, there were some members of the military, including leaders, who were in favor of the repeal. others weren't shy about saying, no, we don't think so. >> reporter: that's right, t.j. good morning. i would say that the most senior person to publicly say he had reservations about this was general james amos, the commandant of the marine corps. he said that, when he looked at some of the survey results, the pentagon, you'll remember, surveyed the military to say, what do you think about all this? he said that there were front line combat troops, frontline marine units in the war zone that had expressed reservations. he's right. there were some combat units who said they thought it was not a great idea even though overwhelmingly the majority of the u.s. military said they had no problem with it. however, that said, general amos also said f it goes into law,

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