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>> tucker: whats the point? im losing fact of the point. >> the pointed is when you have a blanket ban that takes out qualified men and women who are otherwise able to serve, paced on a characteristic that hassing in to do with their ability to serve this country, that hurts. >> tucker: like age? >> i dont really think your argument has principle here. let me ask you this question and its sincere. nothing against transgender people. why should military be on the hook for sex change surgery? why ...

The military would entail. thank you. and that set off a whole bunch of discussions here in washington. lets bring in the panel. michael crowley, molly hemming way, senior analyst at the federal list. molly. >> the job of the military is to fight and win wars, and there are many people who would love to serve in the military who are not allowed, if it is because theyre too tall or short or high blood pressure, a list of reasons of people -- for people who cant serve is quite long. the actual dec...

Disruption that transgender in the military would entail. thank you. and that set off a whole bunch of discussions here in washington. lets bring in the panel. michael crowley, molly hemming way, senior analyst at the federal list. molly. >> the job of the military is to fight and win wars, and there are many people who would love to serve in the military who are not allowed, if it is because theyre too tall or short or high blood pressure, a list of reasons of people -- for people who cant serv...

Democratic foreign policy the way we fight wars, the way we have the lengthy times in country without having clear strategy and vision. when you read what mcmaster has been saying -- having a clear end to your war fighting claims and communicating that to the american people. these are things that havent been done in a long time. it matches well with trump. >> he commanded a tank unit in the iraqi battle. thats the first persian gulf war. he wrote a book criticizing -- he led a regiment in 2005 ...

So far, theyve hung back. they dont want to get involved with north korea. destabilizing north korea would result in millions of north korean refugees streaming across the river into china, china doesnt want to deal with that. so its important that the united states has evenhanded and even relationship with china. good diplomacy rather than events like this are going to save the day. its potentially extremely destabilizing, but i think cooler heads will prevail. >> speaking of defense secretary,...

Truthfully. but in this case, id like to have as many informed and mature individuals around mr. trump as he can get possibly seated at the table because of his lack of understanding of foreign affairs and military affairs. so, in this case, i think its actually a very good thing. general mattis brings a mature approach to matters and war fighting. he knows the pentagon. when you throw any civilian official as the secretary of defense who has not been to the pentagon before, that is a staggering...

Of this subsession of the maddog, this character that people would present. >> that was given to him by other marines. he didnt invent it himself. and it was a perception that he is focussed exclusively on war fighting. one of the very few people at high levels in the military establishment who lives and breathes war fighting. thats what hes always done. he loves to spend time with marines and soldiers as close to the battle as he possibly can and always has. he is not the kind of guy who will s...

By former top brass? >> well, its certainly better than having people with no experience. alice makes a good point. famously during the campaign, donald trump said i know more about isis than the generals do. the super pacs ran that clip thousands of times, people showed people were troubleed by that. thought it was nuts that a reality tv star thought he knew more about war fighting than the generals. a very good thing that donald trump is looking at generals. the particular concern about genera...

>> of course. of course thats why they -- the united states always applies the international standards for war fighting but these are additional conditions on top of the military that goes way beyond what the norms for war are. it shows this lack of intent to create a strategy to destroy isis. this is more of a policy of containment. and so -- and its why this incremental effort is not going to work. >> you say you listen to your military advisers but of course, do you have many foreign policy a...

Participating in certain combat roles. the militarys ban on having women in combat roles was rebealed a few years ago. it hasnt gone into effect yet. its time to fully lift the ban. if you look at other countries women have been fighting in direct combat roles with great success for decades. several european nations allow women to fight in combat according to the "washington post." in israel where preparedness and war fighting are absolutely critical, women are required to serve in the military,...