BALDWIN: Welcome back to the NEWSROOM. CNN has your latest political news with "The Best Political Team on Television." Dana Bash joins me from Washington. And, Dana, we mentioned this in the show, but tell me what more you know about the Senate Armed Services Committee, the announcement today.</s>DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Brooke. Well, the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is being reviewed by the Pentagon, and that report is due next week. Well, the Senate Armed Services Committee has already announced two hearings to deal with that. They're going to have the defense secretary, they're going to have the chairman of the joint chiefs along with the authors of the study. And the results of this report are really going to be critical to whether or not Democrats can find the votes to pass the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal during this lame-duck session of Congress. Many senators said that they're reluctant to do anything before the Pentagon finishes its review. Now second item on the Ticker, should President Obama face a challenger from within his own party in 2012? It's a question a new survey asked Democrats and the answer actually may surprise you it surprised me. Democrats were actually split, 45 percent of Democrats say they do want someone from their own party to take on the president and 46 percent said that they don't. Very interesting, Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Dana Bash, that is sort of interesting, indeed. That seems like a higher number, especially perhaps for a sitting president. Dana, thank you.</s>BASH: Thank you.</s>BALDWIN: We will get more political news from CNN here. You can always go to CNNPolitics.com, go to Twitter @PoliticalTicker. And I promised you this story and this relief worker. He was in Haiti in January. He was trapped under all of the rubble, in total darkness -- imagine -- for three very long days. He lived to tell the story. This is not a movie, I promise you. This is very real. You will hear Dan Woolley compelling story for yourself. That is next.
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Subject of Newly Scheduled Senate Meetings