and who cared? nobody cared because the number one thing that you worry about, that you focus on, that you pay attention to, is readiness. you subordinate what i would call those individual struggles. you embrace them. but you've got to subordinate them because the unit is what's most important. you, as a taxpayer, want that unit to be at the highest level of readiness. i don't care how you got there, and at the end of the day, you're either a male or a female. transgender is simply a process. so i don't care how you got there. and we can discuss this in more detail but i don't think -- i would say, quite confidently, this isn't an issue. >> well, the word readiness is, you know, listening to sarah huckabee sanders yesterday in the briefing, that was what -- and i think she had a tough time defending this for the president but the word she kept coming back to in defense was readiness. >> and victory. >> readiness, victory, winning, but it sound like to you that that doesn't pass muster. >> if you can too your job, my