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Is that, in fact, possible? would he veto a bill that passed with just three negative votes in the house and two negative votes in the senate. >> as i said yet yesterdsterday president, the administration supports sanctions against russia, ian, and north korea. we continue to support strong sanctions against those countries and well wait and see what that final legislation looks like at that point. as soon as we have a final piece of legislation, well let you know. >> in terms of working with th...

Our troops are on ground trying to fight in a war. what they need to be doing is focusing on the mission, and they need to know that their commander in chief has their back. >> but we really are in -- its sort of an implementation -- the military is a can-do organization. i think back to the implementation of "dont ask, dont tell." the marine corps was probably the branch of the armed services that was the most resistant to that at the leadership level, and even among the low ranking u.s. marine...

Same version that weve already seen from the house is going to be up for senate vote. is that in fact mobile? would he veto a bill passed with just three negative votes in the house and two negativ votes in the senate? >> as i said yesterday the president supports sanctions russia iran and north korea. we continue to support strong saksz against sthoes three countries. and were going to wait to see what that final legislation looks like and see what that looks like. >> in terms of working with t...

With just three negative votes in the house and two negative votes in the senate. >> as i said yesterday the president and the administration support sanctions against russia, iran, and north korea. we continue to support strong sanctions against those three countries. and were going to wait and see what that final legislation looks like and make a decision at that point. >> as of right now -- >> -- as soon as we have a final piece of legislation we will let you know. >> in terms of working with...

>> thats something that the department of defense and the white house will have to work together as implementation takes place and is done so lawfully. >> reporter: a study commissioned last year by the pentagon estimates there are roughly 2,500 transgender service members on active duty. one of them, air force staff sergeant logan ireland, profiled in a "new york times" documentary while he was serving in afghanistan. >> theres not a lot of people that know im transgender. its very much on a ne...

The president went onto the next line. he went on to say, he was blocking transgender individuals from serving in any capacity in the u.s. military. this major shift in policy came as our secretary of defense is on vacation. and came without a plan to implement it. no paperwork has been forwarded from the white house to the pentagon. when reporters asked how this change would work, heres a sampling of what they heard. >> thats something that the department of defense and the white house will hav...

Committee about the russian meetings and other ongoings that he doesnt remember and donald trump, jr., his own sons organizing of that meeting with russia, which, of course, are center stage to the russia investigation and, of course, we will continue to ask those questions, but how was this viewed from the world where the president is so out of step with his government? >> look. any time you make policy this way, you will make bad policy, because you dont vet it properly and you dont prepare fo...

Significance that was being studied at the pentagon that the defense secretary said he was studying, why do this and surprise your administration and republicans on capitol hill who, in fact, were just talking about the financial aspect of this? >> i think in the seventh month were all getting used to the fact that donald trump is not going to conduct business the way were used to conducting business. he is announcing big policy changes on twitter without lining up people in advance. its clearly...

The president informed jim mattis of what he was going to do, theres no policy, theres no implementation right now, this is really a bolt from the white house, and now everybody has to figure out what happens next. >> you know, john kirby, the defense secretary, general mattis, hes a retired general, he said give me six months to come up with a strategy, this is only a month into that, why do you think the president all of a sudden decided to do this? >> i think this came as a surprise to everyb...

About it. the estimates on them are in the hundreds. i know that rand story is out there and the estimate is in the thousands. in terms of self reporting, the pentagon hasnt seen those numbers yet. that doesnt mean that theyre not out there. its just in terms of self reporting theyre not at those numbers yet. theres a separate issue, and that is to do what to do with new recruits. and on the new recruit issue, secretary mattis in the pentagon in general did agree to a six-month delay because som...