Nic nicaragua. it is strengthening. the forecast is to kind of bring it up through this area and then next week through the gulf or the northwestern caribbean, that is open for speculation and that may very well bring the southeast u.s. into play. we ll be watching this airfully. all right. thanks, rob. all right. checking the top stories, leaders say there will be no vote of extending middle class tax cuts before the midterm elections. the democrats and the president are against extending the tax cuts for the wealthy. they felt they would use a vote against them in the campaign. state of virginia executed teresa lewis in a murder for hire case. the first woman executed in virginia in nearly a century. she was . the obama administration says an immediate end to the military s policy of don t ask, don t tell may threaten combat operations. they made the response keeping gays from serving openly.
Week if she does not appear again on his program. kelly o donnell, thanks so much. you bet. we are talking a lot about politics in this first hour. i want to tell you about lady gaga. she s not giving up her singing gig, but she s holding a rally in maine, making her case to end the military s policy of don t ask, don t tell. here s the pitch she has out there on youtube. ultimately the law is being enforced using gay profiling. and gay soldiers have become targets. no short, not only is the law unconstitutional, but it s not even being properly or fairly enforced by the government. so this comes a week after the mtv music awards when she was escorted by members of the military who have been kicked out for admitting they are gay. i start ad twitter campaign to get gaga on the show. we were told she s not doing press before this.
are they saying because of those activities, chaining himself to the fence, for example, that s why he was discharged today, that otherwise they would have let him go on for some time. no. those are just examples of how public he took it. what they are saying is they are not going there s not going to be any witch-hunt out there where they are actively going out and trying to find people to discharge under don t ask don t tell. lieutenant choi was very different and public about his homosexuality and about the cause he believed in in the military. it s interesting, i have to say, because the president wants to get rid of this policy. the secretary of defense. they are reviewing it over at the become where you are right now. where does that stand this review before it formally gets thrown out, the whole policy of don t ask, don t tell? reporter: yeah, i just checked on that this afternoon, wolf, and right now as of today about 40,000 troops have returned their questionnaires to the military. that s out of about 400,000 that
Special celebration for veterans who were students at harvard law school. she really tried to have it both ways. we ll see in these confirmation hearings whether she was successful in a way that pleases the senate. jeffrey, stand by. our senior political analyst gloria borjger is here. this decision she made to prevent the military from recruiting on campus. in listening to jeffrey describe what she did i m thinking it was obama-like in the way she did it. she managed to not have them on campus but still allowed recruiting to occur. when she lost it, of course, recruiting came back on campus. but she s somebody who s been out spoken about don t ask, don t tell, the policy of don t ask, don t tell. also don t forget as solicitor general she brought the citizens united case before the supreme court which she lost.
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Want to attend, but we have allies in europe that are worth cultivating. paul: that s it for this week s edition of the journal editorial report. my panel and you for watching, i m paul gigot, we hope to see you right here next week. . jon: on fox news watch, president obama enleashes a new offense or is it defense. if everybody turned off your cnn, your fox, your, you know, just turn off the tv, msnbc. jon: can they afford to mess the coverage? and undercover journalist gets busted in new orleans and without the facts, the liberal media takes their swipes. you guys slandered him. jon: the policy of don t ask, don t tell over gays in our armed forces gets a full military review, but has the press done a fair job at presenting both sides? news of a possible terror attempt gets an attention and the underwear bomber reveals important details where to find
Welcome back to hardball. the pentagon s top two defense officials testified on capitol hill today in support of president obama s plan to repeal the don t ask, don t tell policy. here s what the chairman of the joint chiefs, admiral michael mullen, told the senate armed services committee today. it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. no matter how i look at this issue, i cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens. for me personally, it comes down to integrity. theirs as individuals and ours as an institution. republicans were resistant to the idea of overturning the policy of don t ask, don t tell. how much of a political fight does president obama have on his
Megyn: welcome back. america s top military leaders are saying gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military. defense secretary robert gates along with admiral mike mullen gave testimony on the policy of don t ask, don t tell. what do you know about the review of this policy that s been announced just now by defense secretary gates? he announced jay johnson, the legal counsel of the department of defense and general carter hamm will lead the charge reviewing all the issues involved with repealing don t repealing don t ask, don t tell. here s secretary gates making his case early today. mr. chairman, speaking for myself and myself only, it is my
To defend their fellow citizens. for me, personally, it comes down to integrity. theirs is individuals, and ours as an institution. republicans were resistant to the idea of overturning the policy of don t ask, don t tell. so how much of a political fight does president obama have on his hands right now? executive director of service members, and senior fellow for policy at the family research council. let me go first to aubrey. you served in the military. you were in the army. where were you stationed? what kind of unit were you in? i was in the infantry in south korea, seventh infantry division. i was a sharpshooter. as a gay man, what was it like? you were not in the open obviously. what was your experience in that regard? what did you learn in terms of this issue of whether gay people should be allowed to serve openly? by and large, even in the 60s, chris, i found that gays and lesbians, most were serving in silence then.
Going to hold a vote despite progress in those talks we talked about last night. when the vote actually happened, it was a surprise. blanche lincoln, it s not her fault she was at the dentist because she didn t know it was coming. as one aide in reid s office put it to me tonight, republicans from their perspective would have come up with excuse after excuse to stall. i ll tell you, though, the problem, anderson, for reid is that gay rights activists aren t so sure. they believe that there are 60 votes, as you mentioned. for repealing the policy of don t ask, don t tell. some are telling me they feel betrayed by reid for not just giving those republicans a vote on the tax cut issue first as they demanded. so lieberman, independent senator lieberman and collins are saying that there could be a separate don t ask, don t tell repeal legislation introduced this session. what does that really mean and how likely is it? as this ill fated vote was going on right on the floor of the senate, lieberman, senator