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malveaux. i want to get you up to speed. president obama stirs up the national debate over same-sex marriage after announcing that he thinks gays should be allowed to marry. >> i've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> political pundits are weighing in on what this means for the november election and we're also listening to you, what you're saying about president obama's announcement. >> i think it's time that he came out, so to speak. i mean, i think all of america has kind...

Lot of trust in mcchrystal to carry out the mission that general mcchrystal and general petraeus helped to put together. now going forward, especially in light of what has happened with mcchrystal and the mission itself, we're going to have to pay more attention to what's going on in afghanistan. are we meeting our targets, our benchmarks? how many, you know, policemen have been recruited? how many villages have been, you know, secured? back to what candy said. can we hold these places once we have cleared them of the taliban? >> and to be fair to the president, one of the things using donna's...

You have to look at it as a short-term step and hopefully as things improve you can lighten up a lot. you have to keep the focus on the mission and keeping people's heads clear. >> isn't the reason they are banning it is not to offend the locals? because of religion and they don't drink? >> well, i think that may be part of it, but i have a secret to reveal for people in the muslim world. sometime people drink alcohol. if it has more to do with the mission itself, i can understand that. i think the troops themselves would understand that. >> were you ever as a diplomats have to eat or drink so...

In northern iraq. now, according to officials, these u.s. special operations forces launched this effort, this mission, to rescue a number of kurdish forces that were being held by enemy forces, presumably isis, in northern iraq. according to the officials, during the exchange, at least one, maybe more american special ops were wounded and according to one source, there may in fact be at least one fatality. in regard to the mission itself, the mission was a success, the hostages were rescued. when asked why would the u.s. military being rescuing kurdish hostages, senior officials are saying th...