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There was support among all of the service chiefs, they just wanted to dough a little more research to find out how transgender members were being treated. and in fact, secretary mattis put out a record saying i want to come back in december 2017 with my final assessment. and then the penalty gone tweets this out. so it caught the pentagon flat-footed. no one knew this was going to be tweeted out as a directive. and if i could say one more thing about mr. gorkas comment, he actually made somethi...

Districts, this plan is unpopular, and i think adding to the nervousness of these moderates is essentially a fundamental recalculation of the politics that maybe after all, its better if we just dont cast this vote. that is in contrast to the thinking for the past eight years. if we dont at least take a vote, were going to be punished. the stats now that the plan is out, are not looking good, and i take you back to what pat toomey said which is they were caught flat footed. they didnt expect tru...

The president has been pushing for. i think it underscores one thing that we know, andrea, that the president, this administration, acknowledged they were caught off guard when they realized that they didnt have the votes to get the repeal and replace bill passed through the senate because remember, president trump was meeting at the white house, having dinner with senators who supported the bill. he was trying to hammer out a strategy to get the bill passed, but he wasnt meeting with those sena...

Last point there, john mccain issued a statement from his sick bed where hes recuperating from surgery, saying lets go to regular order, lets have hearings, lets have, you know, debate, lets work with democrats basically. and thats probably where they should have started in first place maybe, but for mccain to have someone issuing that or he issuing that, from where he is in arizona, recuperating, is very telling indeed. i want to go to kristen, though. what was the heads up to the white house c...

Saying that, you know, look, we acknowledge that actually, we never thought trump would even get elected. we were caught flat footed. we have just been basically opposing obamacare all this time, but we did not have time to put together a plan. lets go back to the drawing board. whether that looks like something that compromises with democrats or another pass at a republican plan, im just not sure it will ultimately make it through the senate. >> real quick, shannon says its a fantasy that democ...

Savings they would apply to tax reform would have been gotten from the obamacare replacement. that is why democrats are so furious about this. they say its essentially a tax cut veiled as a health care reform package. so this could be a domino, essentially, to trumps entire agenda if he cannot get it done. not only because it would demoralize his party, but like you say, the cost-saving benefits. i actually think it may not happen just because the senate is such a different chamber than the hous...

Former u.s. government officials that were being targeted, the idea was lets take those secrets and release them in a very strategic and manipulated way to influence a narrative around the election. and they did that to great effect. it is something we hadnt seen in the united states, i think we were caught flat footed. >> clint watts, thank you very much. and coming up, flip-flop. democrats try and fail yet again to turn a red seat blue, even with president trumps approval rating below 40. the ...

Into that, he kept it very closely held to the vest. the white house communication operation, sean spicer, others, had less than an hour of advance warning before any of this happened. thats why they were caught flat footed last evening. >> you asked the deputy price secreta -- deputy secretary about this. >> that flies in the face of what the president has said who said he has the confidence in him. sean spicer said that last week. i asked sarah sanders what changed. >> i think one of the big t...

Is he allowed to fire who he wants. bill clinton did the same thing firing his fbi director. brian: but had ethics violations and he was replaced by somebody who ended up being bill clintons nemesis louie freed big time. donald trump most reports, real prized after eating dinner after the announcement was made nobody was out there defending him. his communications team seemed to be caught flat footed. he tweeted this out. dems have been complaining months and month about fbi director comey. now ...

The white house communication operation, sean spicer, others, had less than an hour of advance warning before any of this happened. thats why they were caught flat footed last evening. >> you asked the deputy press secretary time line about this. what did she say? >> she said the president did not have confidence in this director since the day he was elected. but that of course flies in the face of what the president has said when he had the confidence in him. sean spicer said that last week. i ...