both the army surgeon general patricia owe roy yoe and secretary of the army john mchugh declined toe interviewed for this story. at a briefing in washington, mchugh recently told reporters that the army takes the problems that nbc dallas first reported seriously and more wtu changes may be coming. >>> they are getting ready for a big weekend on the national mall. here is a live picture of the mall as crews set up for a big earth day event and concert saturday. organizers expect about 250,000 people are going to show up. some big acts have signed up to perform no doubt usher, fallout boy. expect road closures around downtown most of the day on saturday because the concert runs all day. check the nbc washington app before you head out to avoid delays. quite a lineup. >> yes. thousands of people wanting to know what the weather will be like on saturday. >> still awesome? >> the best part is i have free tickets to that. >> oh, you know somebody. >> everybody has free tickets. >> right. >> it's a free event. everybody is special that day. >>> the weather will be great. this is saturday w

i say they they, i mean secretary john mchugh, the secretary of the army a distinguished member of this committee in congress took away a silver star that it took one year of research for major goldstein to get one year of research. one to three years to get any award. he revoked the award without due process. there has not been a single formal charge. secretary mccue revoked his silver star which was in the process of being upgraded to a distinguished service cross. i don't want to read the entire citation, but it is pretty damn inspiring. laser sharp focus and emotionless decision-making kept his combined patrol a step ahead of the skilled and prepared enemy and his decisions prevented the loss of aircraft in vehicles and save the life of an afghan national army soldier. casualties, contingency planning known ied and sniper threats and the opposition of over 50 enemy fighters he led a mission that handed the enemy and devastating loss of fighting positions and personnel. if on one may 1st you commit a gal an active gallantry and on may 3 you do something a political appointee does not

paul mchugh the chief of psychiatry at johns hopkins medical school.eassignment surgery. said it created more problems than it solved. i think we need to hear all these voices? >> why? why do we need to hear voices about who it helped and who it didn't help and why it should be done and why it shouldn't be done if it is a matter of legal right and your own personal choice? >> i think we need to be having an informed discussion. we should know how do we respond in love to someone like bruce? i'm not interested in the government taking sides one way or the other. i don't think the government should be involved. it should be up to each individual. but i think how we respond as a community needs to be based on good information. and that's why all voices all stories matter. >> but because of your first concern, how we respond as a community, you have forced the government to get involved. we get to say if it's good or not. we're going to balance voices on it when you could argue this is a personal decision. we don't have community change about how i do my h