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If they want to get them some other way and leave the sisters alone, they can do that, but they said, sister, you need to sign the form and be a part of it. if you won't do it, we'll crush the beautiful ministry everyone learned about with fines. >> we'll see how the case plays out at the u.s. supreme court. thanks for being here. >> thank you. take care. we're now getting reports that roughly half of the new female marines have been unable to complete part of the basic fitness test at the end of boot camp. they need to do three pull-ups. and more than half are not able. so should they be di...

Phoneticall in the teleprompter. >> i set you up for failure. >> or he gave you an opportunity to succeed, which didn't work out well. >> i've been on the show a bumpl of times and talk bs about the whole not for women in combat. we talked about the whole women in combat thing. you know how i feel about that. go ahead and let them until. >> do three pull ups. >> it's critical because of the nature of the contemporary landscape. what i mean by that is counter

Little muscular strength. >> reporter: a former marine corps officer commanded trips in afghanistan. could you do three pullups? >> i was able to do five pullups. >> reporter: women have to learn how to do pullups. something many have never done. >> you sort of experiment with different techniques. you figure out what other exercises to do. >> reporter: critics say the push over pullups is part of a bigger problem. pressure from the white house to make the military gender neutral. >> something is wrong here. it's not the women's faults. it's the policy that marines are pursuing. >> reporter: s...

Phoneticall in the teleprompter. >> i set you up for failure. >> or he gave you an opportunity to succeed, which didn't work out well. >> i've been on the show a bumpl of times and talk bs about the whole not for women in combat. we talked about the whole women in combat thing. you know how i feel about that. go ahead and let them until. >> do three pull ups. >> it's critical because of the nature of the contemporary landscape. what i mean by that is counter

Levels. but at the bare minimum, a marine has to be able to do three pullups. >> i want to make sure every marine is successful at maxim e maximizing pullups. >> reporter: more than half of the recruits couldn't do it so marines are pushing back the day when it becomes mandatory. >> if you have a failure rate of 55% and 99% of the men are succeeding, obviously this is not going to work. >> reporter: men have to do three pullups minimum to pass the marine's fitness test. it takes 20 to earn a perfect score. women had to meet the same minimum but only need eight pullups to score perfect. because...