The President has personally weighed in on this. Now, liberals are really mad at him right now and I think with some justification.

The problem here is hypocrisy, ok.

The solution here is not to wait for the senate, which I think will not be able to pass the repeal. But, instead, for President Obama to issue a stop-loss order.

An unintended consequence of 'don't ask don't tell' which was a compromise that the president -- my boss, President Clinton signed into law 17 years ago. Here's what happened. We had an officer, for example, serving in Iraq... he was…

If the Republicans, who still have the capacity under the filibuster rule to block anything, if they hold firm -- and I fear that they will -- they will be able to stop this.

I think he's empirically wrong when he says there's no groundswell of support among the troops. We will see what this study says. But there plainly is. Public opinion has changed on this issue in support of equality. And military opinion…

It's been as rigorously analyzed and thoroughly debated as any national security policy that -- that we have seen in a long time.

I think he should be respected on that. I -- I do think he's empirically wrong when he says there's no groundswell of support among the troops. Public opinion has changed on this issue in support of equality. And military opinion has…

But the president is the commander in chief. He has huge responsibility and authority, under our Constitution, when it comes to military matters. He can order our military to stop the discharges.

the most important person here is the person at the top of the chain of command, the commander-in-chief, who, frankly, has been far too timid on this issue.

I think, one way or the other, it's gone over time. It may not be before New Year's, but it cannot sustain. It's just -- you can't -- discrimination doesn't last forever in America.

It's kind of hard to say somehow this is going to hurt the military.