tonight keeping them honest on don't ask, don't tell. america's top military leaders tell lawmakers why it should be repealed. it was a stunning day of testimony today. they took on tough questions about why, why now, and why their landmark study didn't ask u.s. troops directly if they want to see the rule lifted. you're going to hear both sides in a moment and i'll talk with

senator joe lieberman about whether or not he believes his friend, senator john mccain has been moving the goalpost on repeal. that it's happening here. happening today. girls being lured into forced labor. part two of our shocking series, "american slaves, hiding in plain sight." john walsh joins us to talk about that as well. we begin, though, as always, keeping them honest. after a historic day in the fight over ending don't ask don't tell, critics making that change have plenty of concerns about allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military. we spent the week separating fact from physician fiction and ting new concerns when the old ones are addressed. tonight we want to show you how the top leadership today addressed critics point by point in their own words. joint chiefs chairman mullen and defense secretary gates along with authors of the pentagon study on gays in the military going before the senate armed services committee. mullen and gates arguing the time for ending don't ask don't tell is now.

senator john mccain is obviously the ranking republican on the committee and you'll recall he once said if the military leadership came to him with such a recommendation he said he would consider it. then when they did he said he was waiting for the results of the stoitd. then when the study leaked out he questioned the validity of the study and would be more inclined to take the opinions of the chief because the chairman doesn't command troops. today admiral mullen spoke directly to that criticism and to the senator in particular. >> one final word and with all due respect mr. chairman and senator mccain, if is true that as chairman i am not in charge of troops. but i've commanded three ships, a carrier battle group and two fleets and i was most recently a service chief myself. for more than 40 years i've made decisions that affected and even risked lives of young men and women. you do not have to agree with me on this issue, but don't think for one moment that i haven't carefully considered the impact of the advice i give on those

who will have to live with the decisions that that advice informs. i would not recommend repeal of this law if i did not believe in my soul that it was the right thing to do for our military, for our nation, and for our collective honor. >> that's one objection answered. senator mccain had earlier downplayed secretary gates' qualifications because the senator said gates had never served in the armed forces. in fact he had and senator mccain had to retract those remarks. the service heads testify tomorrow and it will be interesting to see if the marine corps commandant will change his opinion now that he's had time to study the pentagon report. the study does show higher resistance among the marines and front line forces about serving alongside openly gay troops. secretary gates and senator mccain clashed on it sharply. >> i would point out that for in the example with the marine corps, you also have and most of the marines who are in combat are 18 to 24, 25 years old.

most of them have never served with women, either. and so they've had a very focused, very limited experience in the military, and it's been a tough one. but i think that with time and adequate preparation we can mitigate their concerns. >> well, i couldn't disagree more. we send these young people into serve with and the impact on their battle effectiveness. >> a second concern of mccain and others, the authors only asked service members about what they thought the effects of ending don't ask don't tell would be, not whether they

thought it should be ended. >> i think in effect doing a referendum of the service of the members of the armed forces on a policy matter is a very dangerous path. >> do you think the answers to the questions would have been different had we asked them outright? >> well, i think that as mr. johnson and general hamm have testified earlier, through the many questions in the survey, you get a pretty clear view of the views of the force in terms of this change. >> in addition, in his opening statement, admiral mullen pointed to polling done before integrating the military that showed 80% of troops then opposed it and many saying they would leave the service if it happened. today senator saxby chambliss of georgia raised that same concern. by his reading of the pentagon report, more than a quarter million troops might up and leave if don't ask don't tell is

lifted. >> what if it does happen? what if those 265,000 resign from the military over the next short period of time? what are you going to do? >> if i believe that a quarter of a million people would leave the military immediately, if given the opportunity, i would certainly have second thoughts about this. but i don't believe that. >> secretary gates on the idea of mass depart tours. there's also the question of why now? why war time. should we be tinkering with don't ask don't tell? republican senator collins handled that one. >> admiral mullen, the second objection that we hear over and over and over is that we cannot implement this kind of change in the midst of a war. and i thought you made an excellent point that the opposite may be true, that war time facilitates change in some ways. and in fact, wasn't president truman's 1948 order to integrate

our forces actually fully implemented during the korean war? >> well, admiral mullen said yes, in fact it was, and far from being a bad time to implement change it was, in his view, ideal. >> we have changed dramatically as a military since 2001. which i would argue putt s us in a good position to facilitate additional change. there couldn't be a better time to do it. we are better led at every level than we have ever been led. so leaders can do this. we are able to take advantage of our ability to change and sustain that combat readiness, and i believe making a change like this makes us better. it doesn't make us worse. >> finally there's the question of legislative timing. many senators want to delay a vote on don't ask don't tell until the new senate is seated. they say there simply isn't

enough time in this session to get it done. senator mccain wants more study and more hearings in part because there wasn't enough time in today's hearing to fully answer all the questions. but what's interesting about that is he chose not to use all the time of the hearings today to focus on don't ask don't tell. look. >> secretary, finally, very deeply concerned about wikileaks. the impact that it has had on identifying people who were cooperating with us in afghanistan and iraq. and some leaders have said they have blood on their hands. >> so we're going to devote more time now to the repeal. i spoke earlier today with senator joe lieberman, independent of connecticut. senator lieberman, based on what you heard today, is there any legitimate reason for keeping this policy in place? >> no. i don't think after today's hearing, after the report put out by the pentagon a couple of days ago, there is no legitimate

reason for sustaining the don't ask don't tell policy. i mean, i thought admiral mullen and chairman of joint chiefs of staff said something that summed it all up. today, based on the report and survey that was issued by the pentagon a couple of days ago, admiral mullen said it's my professional opinion that we can make this change, which is right, and do it in a way that will not compromise our military effectiveness. >> you've actually called this policy un-american. >> i think it is un-american. the basic american value, to me, enshrined in the declaration of independence is that we're all created equal. that was god's work. and as such we're all endowed with the same rights. at the beginning, those rights were obviously not really given to all americans, and in some ways american history is a journey to realize the basic promise of equal opportunity. and now we've extended it obviously to women and african-americans. in our time i think the front

line of the civil rights movement, the human rights movement in america and the world is making sure that people don't get discriminated against based on their sexual orientation. >> your very good friend senator john mccain is obviously a staunch opponent of repealing don't ask don't tell. i want to play you something he said back in 2006 on "hardball." >> the day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, senator, we ought to change the policy, then i think we ought to consider seriously changing it. because those leaders in the military are the ones we give the responsibility to. >> years later, when the leaders in the military, when mullen and gates came out with their opinion, senator mccain started saying, well, we have to wait until the survey is complete. then when word leaked about what the survey was actually saying, he said, well, they didn't ask the right questions in the survey, and then this is what he

said today. i want to play this. >> i am simply saying that it may be premature to make such a change at this time and in this manner without further consideration of this report and further study of the issue by congress. >> has he been moving the goalpost here? >> well, i -- john is my good friend, but i disagree with him on this. and the tapes you played suggest changing standards here. i mean, in my opinion -- >> so you do think that he's changed his standings, he's moved the goalpost. >> i think the questions he raised has been answered in the survey. two-thirds of the american military, a little more than that, say they don't think repealing don't ask don't tell will have any effect on military readiness, and 92% of the american military who feel that they have served with somebody gay or lesbian in their own unit say that it has simply not been a problem. >> so as his friend, what do you say -- you're not going to give up private conversations, but when you're one-on-one with him,

what kind of discussions do you have? how do you try to convince him? >> well, you know, the one-on-one conversations, i mean, i troo to convince him in the same way that i've made the case here. but as is evident from today's hearing i'm not making much progress in my arguments. but i think that there are -- i don't think, i know there are more than 60 votes in the u.s. senate to adopt the defense authorization bill, including the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. the only thing that will stop us is it time. and that would be a shame. dr. king, martin luther king once said it's always the right time to do the right thing. and that's exactly the way i feel about repealing don't ask don't tell. it's the right time. >> honestly, though, how much of the opposition -- i'm not talking about from senator mccain, but other folks in congress, how much of the opposition do you think is from folks who maybe just don't like gay people or are just uncomfortable with homosexuality

or opposed to it on religious grounds or whatever, because you don't -- you know, while you hear many people who oppose repealing it, you hear them praising service members, you never hear them praising gay and lesbian service members who basically fight and risk their lives while at the same time are forced to keep their, you know, a key part of themselves a secret. >> yeah. you know, i don't know the motivations of people who are opposed to this. again, i want to repeat, i thought it was very interesting that if you ask the military personnel who have in fact served with gay and lesbian troops in their unit whether it had any effect, they say no. so that's the greatness of the american military. it's committed to a cause greater than the individual. they're committed to each other. they protect each other. and obviously a soldier in combat will not care what your race, gender, religion, nationality is, or your sexual orientation. they'll care about what kind of soldier you are, and the record is clear that gay and lesbian soldiers have performed bravely and brilliantly in service of our country. you know, in the military, what matters is how you fight.

not what you do in your private life. admiral mullen talks about integrity. the military still has great values. but this policy, don't ask don't tell, is a stain on the honor and values of the american military and we ought to remove it as quickly as possible. >> just final question, part of the argument used by those who oppose repealing this is that, while sharing bathroom facilities or showering facilities, although frankly most showers in the military are individual, would be -- make people uncomfortable and would also be bad because of possibly predatory, i guess, gay and lesbian service members. do you think that's a valid argument, and -- would you have a problem sharing a locker room facility with somebody who was gay? >> of course not. i mean, look. if any gay soldier begins to sexually harass somebody, a man, they're going to be subject to discipline just like a straight

soldier sexually harassing a woman will be subject to discipline. so i understand some of these concerns, but, really, there's no reason for them. in any way. and again, the survey is so powerful, which is they've got their own private lives. they're not going to, as one of them said, there's not going to be some outbreak of gayness in the military, that's not what we want. we want to be members of the military, honorable and effective. and our sexual orientation is our private business. and that's the way we're going to keep it. >> senator joe lieberman, appreciate it. >> thank you, anderson. >> let us know what you think about all this. the live chat up and running right now. up next, congressman charlie rangel's punishment by fellow house members and his claim that he doesn't deserve it, that he's not corrupt. we'll give you the facts on what he did, keeping them honest.

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keeping them honest tonight, a congressman who broke the rules punished by fellow law makers today. he says it's all about politics but a lot of his democratic colleagues disagreed. so today, charms z charles rangel stood in the well of the house and received the condemnation of his speaker and his colleagues. a man who once ran the committee, that wrote the nation's tax law, censured this afternoon. 333-79. came after the house ethics committee found him guilty on 11 counts. the 20-term new york congressman talked to reporters insisting is he not corrupt. >> i think history would show

that a different standard has been used in this case, where i did not curse out the speaker, i have not tried to have sex with minors, i didn't steal any money, i tried to help city college and it's been hard for me to get some of the people in the press to state that out of the 13 charges seven of them are related to one event. as i said two years ago, i have not and never and there's not any evidence that i did anything to enrich myself, that i've done anything corrupt, or done anything to sell my office or to sell the congress, anything that involved intent to deceive or to avoid my taxes or any disclosures.

>> that was congressman rangel today. no, he did not have sex with minors as some other censured congressmen have, nor did he curse anyone out, but he was found guilty of 11 counts of misconduct. let's talk about the facts. some of the counts were related to his using his office as a powerful congressman to raise money for a school at city university of new york named in his honor. why is that wrong? well, the question is is it really appropriate for a member of congress to be suggesting or even appear to be pressuring companies or individuals to donate money to something. in one case according to "the new york times," mr. rangel's committee helped preserve a tax loophole for an oil drilling company that pledged money. even if it wasn't money he himself was after, you can make a case it was influence and he was also censured for accepting

several rent stabilized apartments at prices far below market value, apartments designed for residential not office use. mr. rangel denies any wrong doing. those apartments are meant for people with low incomes. if rangel was using those apartments and got them because of who he is, then actually deserving people were not able to use them. then there's the dominican republic. here he is enjoying a moment on the beach. the congressman failing to disclose rental income on this villa as required by congress. he filed amendments only after the ethics committee began investigating him. now the congressman has blamed sloppy bookkeeping and that may be but it may also be an excuse. remember, this was the guy writing tax law and he can't seem to keep his records straight, the kind everybody has to, whether we're in congress or not. joining me now, joe johns and melanie sloan, currently executive director for citizens of responsibility and ethics in washington. next year she'll go into private practice with lanny davis. melanie, is congressman rangel corrupt? he says it's not corruption because he wasn't personally

benefiting financially but is there an argument to be made? >> i think there is. i think if you ask most americans, they'd think that if you're getting a bunch of apartment that's other people couldn't have access to, that if you're trading on your influence in congress in order to raise money for basically a big monument to me, people would have problems with those kind of things, as well as a tax violations, for example, failing to disclose income, those are things that directly benefited mr. rangel. >> you were at the house today, what was his mood like? >> humiliated, no. contrite, no. apologetic, yes. admitting that he did something wrong and needed to be punished, yes, but bottom line was he thought it was too much punishment and the interesting thing was watching the dynamics in the house, he was surrounded by people. there were only two moments i saw when it looked like he was alone and sort of soaking this in and realizing that he was in

trouble here. one was when it was clear that they weren't going to bust the charge down and make it a lesser charge. he was alone, looked like he had to take a bunch of deep breaths to sort of regain his composure. and the other time was when the speaker of the house read the censure resolution while he was standing in the well. those were the two moments. otherwise, this was a politician who was just not going to let them see him sweat today. >> melanie, he was talking about the punishment's too severe and part of his point is that others in the past, members of congress, have committed similar violations and were only reprimanded, but in truth there really was no punishment. yes, he was sternly talked to today, i guess, but that's it. >> well, that's right. and so to a lot of people that probably wouldn't seem like much, but this is sort of the ultimate humiliation for a member of congress. being censured is the most serious thing that can happen to you short of being expelled and they save that for members of congress convicted of crimes. let's also note he changed his

strategy. if you'll remember, for the past two years he's been proclaiming his innocence. he didn't do anything, he was going to have his day and tell us all how he didn't do anything wrong. that didn't work out for him so well. so he's changed his strategy. it's not that i didn't do anything wrong, i wasn't personally corrupt so you still shouldn't issue this hard sanction on me. >> the congressional black caucus was upset, they thought it went too far. maxine waters is also facing ethics charges. how wary are they perceived that they're being extra tough on african-american lawmakers? >> that is a concern because we have these two african-american congress people who are both very high profile. nonetheless, there has been some concern, a greater concern, perhaps, that this democratic congress came in talking about a culture of corruption among republicans and weren't able to discipline their own. now with rangel sort of held out as an example, that he did something and he actually was the first member of congress to get censured since 1983, so it will be a little bit easier for them to make the claim that they police their own after these two

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the story we're about to show you proves not only is it possible, it may be happening in your neighborhood in front of your very eyes. here's amber lyon with our exclusive. >> reporter: these girls were victims of something hard to believe. something you will might never expect. something that happened in plain sight. you're looking at girls who were held as slaves in america, not for a week or a month, but for years. can you tell us about what it was like having someone else control all of your movements, everything you did. >> it was like being, you know, being trapped, you know, being in a cage. >> it's horrible. you know, like sometimes there's not enough food for us to eat. >> no freedom at all. >> reporter: nicole and zena and another 20 girls like them were brought to the u.s. from their

homes in the west african nations of ghana and togo nearly a decade ago. barely teens, promised an american education. they were instead enslaved in newark, new jersey. what did the traffickers take from you? >> they took my childhood from me, my teenhood, they took it from me. they took my trust from me and they took everything. they took everything away from me. >> reporter: the girls were forced to work in hair braiding salons serving customers all day. right out in the open. their captors took all the money the girls earned. every penny. how many days a week were you working? >> seven days a week. >> reporter: how many hours a day? >> sometimes 14 hours. >> reporter: this went on for five to six years. traffickers held the girls in several houses in newark and east orange. the traffickers no longer live there. this is the neighborhood where these girls were being held, and

just look at it. manicured lawns, nice houses, it looks like any neighborhood in america, and it definitely doesn't look like a place where you'd expect to find slavery. who would commit such a crime? these are the traffickers. akouavi afolabi was the ring leader. lassissi and dereck the son were accomplices according to court documents and law enforcement. why did they do it? money. pure and simple. they made about $4 million off the girls. paul fishman is the u.s. attorney for new jersey. his office prosecuted the case, rutting in convictions. >> i think it's hard for someone to believe that in the year 2010 we have people who will actually put people in slavery. it's the most fundamental and intolerable violation of human rights. >> reporter: a newark court recently sentenced akouavi afolabi to 27 years in prison.

the father got 24 years and the son? 4 1/2 years. >> after all the promises she promised me, and then when i got here my life was messed up. i was too young, if i knew this was how my life was going to be, i would have never come. i would never let her take me. >> reporter: the fact that my clients could be in these hair salons for so many years braiding hair as young as 9, 10, 11, is extremely frustrating. but it's not shocking. human trafficking is extremely profitable. it's so profitable that we're seeing some drug traffickers get out of drug trafficking and into human trafficking. >> reporter: zena took me on a walk where the girls walked every morning to work. from the house to the hair salon down the street. slave girls walking in plain

sight of an entire community. >> i always thought of running but i didn't know nobody. i didn't know where to go. >> reporter: finally after five years, a tip came to immigration and customs enforcement, or i.c.e. >> these girls were shielded from the outside world, virtually hidden in plain sight. >> reporter: after months of surveillance, i.c.e. agents raided the houses. inside, they found the girls, mattresses on the floor, and filthy conditions. the traffickers had hidden bags of cash and the girls' pass portland ports. something else they found, a notebook used to track the tips the girls received. ironically on the cover of that notebook, a picture of the statue of liberty. after so much pain, the girls, now young women, were free.

>> it was a good day. because, you know, it helped my life. i was so happy that i was out from the jail. >> all i did was cry. it was -- you know -- it was overwhelming. i told myself she finally, you know, she finally got what she deserved. she did really, really wrong. she treat us bad, and she -- i just -- she was heartless. when i think about it. she was heartless. and i'm happy that she's caught. >> reporter: amber lyon, cnn, newark, new jersey. >> it's incredibly disturbing report, that so many people who could have helped didn't. so the question we have is what's being done to kind of stop this crime on a broader scale. i talked earlier to john walsh, host of "america's most wanted." it's interesting. these young women who were brought over from africa and forced to work in this hair

braiding salon, i mean, they were living in a neighborhood, people saw them coming and going, it's almost sort of hiding in plain sight. >> it's all over this country, and i don't think politicians or the criminal justice system has really dealt with it. it's the ugly underbelly of america. it's something, save the whales is a good thing, save the polar bears, save the amazon, but this is ugly, ugly stuff. there's three big revenue streams for illegal activity. number one is drugs. we all know that. tied with number two with illegal arms and guns is sex trade. who is the number one country that engages in sex trade and use of illegal workers and keeping them in slavery like those women? america. and we have central americans, we have mexicans -- >> tens of thousands of people are brought -- are trafficked into the united states for this, for slavery. >> for sex, for work, work they don't want to do, work they don't have to do, seven days a week. brutalized, scared to death,

threatened with, we'll kill you, we'll kill your family. i think it's the underbelly of this rich, rich country we live in that touts freedom. we are the freest country. every time i come back, i say thank god i live in america. but we're also a great country in denial. freedom of sex, freedom of speech, how about freedom of life? of trying to live your life not being exploited and not being used in sex trade or working in a job that you're terrified to tell anybody. >> i guess some people say these women were brought in from africa working in this hair is aen lo, they weren't chained up, they weren't -- they were coming and going, walking to work every day, why didn't they try to escape. i guess the answer to that or one of the answers is, had they tried to escape they were afraid of being deported and being sent back. >> of retribution. the people who membership anipulate e people are good at it. look at the mexican people that have been smuggled in here. i've done many cases of mexican

pim 7 ps and madams telling the girls they'll be maids at the ritz carlton and where are they brought? south florida or southern california or texas and they're brutalized by pimps control them and say i'll kill you, you don't tell anybody, or we'll get back into mexico and kill your loved ones. we know exactly where you're from, we got you from your family. >> the trafficker in the case of the africans in the hair salon got 27 years. that's an extraordinarily long sentence for -- it's a rare sentence. >> it's a bellwether. it sends that long message that if you're going to bring people into this country illegally and exploit them you're going to pay for it. and i think law enforcement's ready to saddle up for years, they just don't have the resources. the fbi and the national center for missing and exploited children just partnered up in a

nationwide sting and they arrested 900 people that were involved in sex trafficking of little children. of teenagers, girls, 12, 13 years old. they got -- i forget how many kids they got out of that, something like 30 kids they got out of it. they've been wanting to do this for years. they need the mandate, the money, the resources, and the politicians to say it's not enough to deport these guys, they're going to come back in six months and operate somewhere else. >> john walsh, thank you so much. >> thank you for covering these cases. you give victims hope. i was young, i was in shape, and i had a heart attack.

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