new details today over the controversy created by president trump s twitter announcement yesterday which said transgender people would no longer be able to serve in the military. the chairman of the joint chiefs, general joseph dunford, in a memo to military leaders said, there will be no modifications to the current policy until the president s direction has been received by the secretary of defense and the secretary has issued implementation guidance. nbc news pentagon correspondent hans nicholls has been following all of this. what do we know at this point, hans? reporter: craig, we just heard from the army chief of staff general mele and he said he first found out about this decision when the president tweeted it. he didn t know about it before hand. he said he didn t necessarily expect he would be read in on something like that, but the general kind of giving us our first voice on just how confused the pentagon is and the
president. right? so we will work through the implementation guidance when we get it. general joseph dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs, he said in a statement to his personn personnel, meantime we will kpont to treat all of our personnel with respect as importantly given the current fight and the challenges we face, we will all remain focused on accomplishing our assigned missions. are you concerned that the president made this announcement major policy decision via twitter seemingly with zero notice or preparation? oh, i think it s very disappointing. you know, to give a major policy directive through a tweet to the leaders of our military, who by all accounts were not consulted prior to the president making the decision. the president certainly has the authority to make the decision. i believe that the president, as
yesterday morning. and now 24 hours later, they are asking for some guidance from the white house, what exactly does the president mean and what does he envision here? the chairman of the joint chiefs, the president s top, most senior military adviser, general joseph dunford, issues a memo to the troops, and i want to read you just part of which general dunford said to the troops a short time ago. and i quote he said, there will be no modifications to the current policy until the president s direction has been received by the secretary of defense and the secretary issued implementation guidance. in the meantime, we will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect. general dunford, laying it out there in black and white. they do know know what comes next or what the president wants and don t know how to carry it out, because all of this was military policy by twitter. so a long way to go here.
earlier today said he was looking at legislation that would create some roadblocks to firing special counsel, some sort of review process. do you think the house needs to act preemptively i haven t given thought to this. the think it s in the president s interest that he continues to do his job. paul ryan finishing up speaking at the podium. there s a lot for us to cover, including new developments surrounding president trump s surprise announcement banning transgender service members. paul ryan noted it there for a moment. reuters reporting the u.s. joint chiefs of staff told military leaders today, quote, there will be no modifications to the current policy until the president s direction has been received by the secretary of defense and the secretary has issued implementation guidance translation, tweets don t count. trump announced the plan via
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