she speaks farsi, arabic and about five other languages.'s been in the war zone a couple of times, back and forth. she's immensely capable. how will you replace that person? all that experience and all those language skills? i can give you dozens of dozens of accounts of people with that kind of experience. if you had me right now serving in the military, you can't replace a senior chief. you can't replace all that experience. it's a very difficult replacement. so you're talking about some huge disruptions. >> the president, according to the white house press secretary, that it erodes military readiness and unit cohesion. that's a quote. i wonder your reaction to that. that's an argument that's been made, frankly, for, you know, whether or not to have african-americans serving in the military, and whether to have openly gay people serving in the military, gay and lesbian people. does it affect unit cohesion? >> you brought up the exact points. this is the 1950s, going back to segregation, you're going to the don't ask, don't tell era. i mea