i'm going to ask you to letdown your guard and reflect on a man, senator joseph lieberman, knowns as a pa rye yeah, and then you came back and won that race as an independent, many liberals do not like you and you know that and then it's joe lieberman carrying the don't ask, don't tell to the finish line in the senate. there's a little bit of irony there? >> well, there is in which people -- if you don't agree with him 100% of the time, they don't agree with you any of the time and that's just not the way our politics should be. in this case, right from 1993 when don't ask, don't tell was first proposed, i voted against it on the arm's services committee. i felt it was unfair and bad for our military. so i'm very lucky and fortunate to have played a leadership role and now ending this injustice and doing something that makes the american military even greater than it is today and, frankly, make our country even greater than it is today. >> senator joseph lieberman of connecticut, thank you. >> thank you, john. >>> when we come back, back to our feisty group and the controversial polit

senator joseph lieberman and other lawmakers have unveiled legislation that would make it illegal for anyone to publish the name of a u.s. intelligence source. the bill was introduced thursday and comes after the wikileaks website published classified u.s. diplomatic documents. the lawmakers say wikileaks' actions have threatened the safety of those working in u.s. undercover operations. in a statement, lieberman said "wikileaks' move is the latest example of how the illegal release of classified information can jeopardize the security interests of the u.s. and its allies." he also said the legislation will make anyone who puts sources of information at risk criminally accountable. >>> u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has been busy contacting foreign leaders and expressing regrets over the wikileaks document release scandal. u.s. assistant secretary of state philip crowley told reporters on thursday that clinton has been in contact with pakistani president asif ali zardari and argentina president cristina fernandez de kirchner to express regret over the issue. she has so far ca

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that's joseph lieberman speaking there. defense secretary robert gates and michael mullen are testifying along with other military leaders. gates and mullen are urging congress to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. they say a just released pentagon report we told you about yesterday shows most members of the military are not opposed but in questioning this morning, senator mccain is concerned about the service members who did express reservations. >>> supporters of prop 8 asked a judge to sep aside and remove himself from a hearing set for next week. they questioned judge steven reinhardt's impartiality because his wife is a outspoken opponent. she has taken part in legal proceedings against the ban on same sex marriage. if he rescueses himself another judge would be chosen at random and the hearing would be postponed probably. >>> there is a new report that says 50,000 prison inmates from all over the country are claiming tax refunds this year. the report says none provided wage information to the irs.

the key player pushing that bill through has been the independent senator joseph lieberman.o be on john king usa tonight. and one of the questions we'll put to him, why can't he convince his close friend john mccain to vote yes on repeal? >> that will be good to watchful thank you very much. john king usa tonight. 7:00 p.m. eastern. your next political update just an hour away. >>> billions about to be returned to bernie madoff victims. a story i've been intrigued with since learning about his massive deem two years ago. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com don't want to deal with a lot of flibbity-flab or mumbo-jumbo. sounds like you need to name your price. no gobbledy-gook? never. do i still get all the dagnabbit coverage i need? sure. we give you a quote and you can adjust your price up and down to find something that works for you. ♪ this thing is okey-mcsmokey skiddly-doo. great! i think. diggity. oh! still not sure. the "name your price" tool. only from progressive. call or click today. >>> for the last three hours we've been reporting news about a massive repayment

session because two extraordinary senators, susan collins of maine, a republican, and joe le joseph lieberman, of connecticut, then a democrat, worked together in a lame-duck session and literally reorganized the intelligence structure of america. it was a an amazing undertaking and i think one that has served us well. we did it in a lame-duck session. and no one stood up and said, i on, don't go forward. i object, we need two weeks. we can get it done. we can work in the same spirit with the start treaty. and let's get that done. let's get the tax provision done. let's get funding the government done. and let's get the start treaty done before we go home. we can do this. we are capable of doing this. but an empty chamber and empty desks and no senators on the floor will not achieve that. i'm glad you clarified that you were not stepping in the way of considering the start treaty with this ultimatum that was sent out from 42 republican senators. i wish we could do a few other things, too, like extend unemployment benefits, but apparently there's an objection to that. so i hope that we can wor

have removed wikileaks from their servers but it might have to do with the fact that senator joseph liebermanazon calling for a boycott of amazon if they continued the host wikileaks and it is interesting to note online now there's a move to boycott amazon because they took wikileaks off the server and seems to be a team assange versus team amazon on the web at the moment. >> eighty shubert for us this morning, thanks. >>> wall street opens after the best day in three months. the dow closed up nearly 250 points yesterday. the rally in part because of better than expected auto sales and upbeat report showing 93,000 jobs added to the private sector last month. >>> a fascinating look at the scope of the fed's role at the height of the crisis. christine romans joining us now, the fed was the central bank to the world for a time. >> it was. the scale of the rescue of the global economy is so much bigger than we even thought. $9 trillion. let me put that in perspective you. the entire u.s. economy is $14 trillion. $9 trillion of aid went into the economy almost every single day as banks borrowed em