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>> are you pleased with now he has been conducting himself? >> he has a unique way of communicating with our allieall. but the sub fans is very interesting. in the nato alliance we have to be strong, and that strength comes from how much each one of those sprat members is actually putting into the pot in terms of defense for their own country. we want to see the defense dollar thats are available to defend against, in this particular case, russia, and agrex from other countries. to make sure tha...

The decision, citing trumps reasoning that the military cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. >> we need to spend every defense dollar where we need to. and this has been a real concern. >> reporter: a 2016 ram study concluded gender transition and health care coverage for transgender military members would increase the defense departments health care cost by as much as $8.4 million, a tiny fraction of the pentagons ove...

Gender identity. but some lawmakers agree with the decision, citing trumps reasoning that the military cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. >> we need to spend every defense dollar where we need to. and this has been a real concern. >> reporter: a 2016 ram study concluded transgender health care coverage for transgender military members would increase the defense departments health care costs by as much as $8.4 million...

Mccain, senator and chairman of the arms committee, said there is no reason for force service members who are able to fight and deploy to leave the military regardless of their gender identity. but president trump said the military cannot be burdened with the rising medical cost and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. >> we need to spend every defense dollar where we need to, and this has been a real concern. >> reporter: a 2016 rand study concluded that gender translation ...

Spending any tax dollars to do gender reassignment surgery when we dont have weapons or bullets. >> the "washington post" just posted an article noting that another study which says, and ill put it up on the screen that 18 countries allow transgender personnel to serve openly in the military including australia, britain, sweden and canada. none of those countries, "the washington post" reports, are experiencing ill effects for opening up their armed services to the transgender individuals. austr...

At the moment, the authorization bill makes no appropriations at all, as you well know, number one. number two, it attempts to evade the question of overall fiscal responsibility with the so-called oko gimmick, which is objectionable to me and to others in other agencies. and i think ought to be to the taxpayer and certainly to the war fighter. and then finally it contains other provisions also objectionable to me. and ill give you some examples. we have proposed for several years now changes --...