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On the morning of her third day as Schuylkill County’s human resources director, Andrea L. Whelan has her boots firmly on the ground. Whelan, of Tower City, was hired Aug. 11 at $80,000 a year, and st...

Nevada posted its first-ever direction doing dumb mike green show where they have the option to learn the history of it drag queen performance. they thought it was a good idea, the event was essential to the readiness of the military. not only are you a former patriot, you are telling me at one point how much you enjoyed drag performances. >> i do, im a big connoisseur, actually. its one of my past times. ive attended a few uso performances, never drag queens, we managed to maintain our morale, ...

Helps you in multiple ways. it allows you to not be distracted by other things. you can focus entirely on your job, and as you said when individual performance improves, individual readiness goes up and has a result that unit readiness goes up, as well. >> you also mention the importance of getting the job done based on character ability, not based on gender identity, do you think you got any shot at changing the presidents mind if he sees more stories like yours? >> i certainly think so. we hav...

>> thank you. >> joining me now, senator tammy duckworth. the president said this morning that this was an issue of cost and readiness and distraction. do you think thats true? >> no. its baloney. you want to talk about cost? studies have shown if 2016, the d.o.d. spent with $5.6 million on health care for transgendered service members. they spent $21 million on viagra alone. 84 until for erectile dysfunction, medication and treatment. if they want to cut costs, i dont think this is place to loo...

The past and said they can certainly work this issue. we have had transgender americans serving with honor in the military. it did not affect unit readiness. and this is completely not the issue. this is an issue of the president appealing to his base. or a handful of people. my understanding is they reached out to him through steve bannon because they couldnt get through to the pentagon leadership who oppose this. bottom line. the tweet from the commander in chief, the united states military, i...

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...