Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im anthony mason. In his inaugural address, President Trump said, when you open your heart to patriotism, theres no room for prejudice. But today, the commander in chief decided there is no room for patriotic Transgender Americans willing to serve their country in the u. S. Military. He is reimposing the ban lifted by president obama. Major garrett begins our coverage of whats behind the decision and the fallout. Reporter the president s tweets sounded like new policy. But it caught the pentagon and but it caught the pentagon and congress completely off guard. The white house could not explain what it meant for the thousands of transgender individuals serving now. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders did not provide a time table for implementing the policy. Obviously, its a very difficult decision. Its not a simple one. But the president feels that its the best one for the military. Reporter but you cant swer the question of whats going to happen to transgenders who are in the military now. Shouldnt you have been able to answer that basic question, with a policy of this magnitude . Imes yk, i think sometimes you have to make decisions, and once he made a decision, he didnt feel it was necessary to hold that decision. Were ending the ban. T reporter the Obama Administration lifted the ban on Transgender Military Service in june of 2016. Thendefense secretary ash carter Transgender Americans may e ope openly. And they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender. Reporter estimates of transgender individuals in the military range from 1,300 to 15,000. In his tweets this morning, the president said their continued service would burden the military with tremendous medical costs. But a 2016 study found transgender individuals who may opt for gender reassignment surgery or other procedures would add onetenth of one percent to overall military health care spending. The men who died reporter during the campaign, candidate trump said he would fight for the Transgender Community. L. G. B. T. Is starting to like donald trump very much lately, i will tell you. Reporter today he ignored a question about the policy. Reporter john mccain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee, rejected the policy implied by the eetsidents tweets writing, one one who meets current medical and readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving. Anthony. Mason Major Garrett at the white house. Thank you, major. It was on this day in 1948 that president truman declared that all members of the armed e rvices would have equal treatment and opportunity, regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin. Transgender Service Members say they deserve the same. Heres jericka duncan. Ive done 11 deployments, including five strategic ing ols. Reporter Lieutenant CommanderBlake Dremann served in afghanistan in 2011. Two years later he started transitioning from female to male. Todays tweets by President Trump worry him. This does impact me, absolutely, personally. Iansgender people are already serving in various aspects of ope military honorably, and aneyve shown no impact to readiness or the lethality of rer mission. Reporter civil rights and veterans groups reacted with outrage. The Transgender American Veterans Association said, we want to ensure that people know that right now, this is a tweet, not an official policy. But organizations like liberty counsel, who have been calling for a reversal of the obamaera lilicy, applauded the president for making america safe again. The military, according to founder and chairman matt staver, is a Lethal Weapon designed to protect america and our allies. It is not a social club, a social experimentation petri dish, or club med. Allison jaslow is executive owrector for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. Is it disruptive to be transgender . Is it disruptive, based on your own experience in the military, does it matter . You know, i think, honestly, whats disruptive is sort of shootfromthehip policy making. Reporter do the comments that President Trump made today set the Transgender Community back . I think that the comments that the president made today harm national security. We need soldiers in uniform. Once you put that uniform on, youre the same as anybody who t next to you. Reporter as for dremann, he said todays tweet shouldnt prevent any american from serving openly. I do want to say to the Service Members that are currently transitioning in the military, continue to do what youre doing. Reporter the American Medical Association weighed in, saying, there is no medically valid reason to exclude transgender personnel from military service. The a. M. A. Says people should be honoring their service, not trying to end it. Ththony. Erviason thanks, jericka. One day after Senate Republicans brought their Health Care Plan back from the dead, caring it to the senate floor on a stretcher, mchances for survival are still in doubt. Heres chief Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes. The motion is not agreed to. Reporter seven republicans bucked their leaders this afternoon voting along with every democrat against repealing obamacare without a replacement. Epub republican rob portman i didnt think repeal only was appropriate because it doesnt provide that help for those people. Ineyre stuck in the status quo. Reporter it came after nine republicans voted down their irrtys replacement plan last ys t, which would have slashed medicaid, cut some taxes for the wealthy, and allowed Healthy People to buy cheaper plans. The motion is not agreed to. Reporter in the absence of consensus, republicans are voting their way through a buffet of repeal plans. Democrat mark warner in effect, we have a series of options that say do we want to pass legislation that would llke 16 million americans off of health care . Do we want to pass legislation to take 22 million americans off 22 mth care . Still a little bit of confusion about what is the path forward. Reporter alaska senator Lisa Murkowski was one of two republicans who voted against even starting debate without a clear plan. Icanident trump tweeted this morning that she let the republicans and our country down. Do tweets like that from the president work . Do they intimidate you, put pressure on you . If i were to focus on on every little morsel that comes out every day, i wouldnt have the time to do the job that i need to do. Reporter these votes will go on another couple of days, and its looking increasingly likely the g. O. P. Leaders will ultimately try to pass something biown as skinny repeal, a bill that would only eliminate one or oo elements of obamacare, but that would give them something, anthony, that they could take into a negotiation with the house. Mason putting the Health Care Bill on a diet. Nancy cordes, thank you very much. Repealing and replacing obamacare was one of president roumps key campaign promises, so was bringing back jobs. Today, he announced the Electronics Giant foxconn, will build a factory in wisconsin, eatected to create 3,000 jobs. Dean reynolds caught up with Trump Supporters in ohio. Reporter as his motorcade made its way to a big rally in youngstown last night, the president said he was struck by the closed factories he passed. My wife, melania, said, what happened . I said, those jobs have left ohio. Theyre all coming back. applause dont move dont sell your house. cheers reporter the crowd, including truckdriving democrat turned republican voter gino defabio loved it. Thank you, sir, for keeping the promises that you made to these 12,000 people and to the country. Reporter mr. Trump accepted the compliment. With few exceptions, no president has done anywhere near what weve done in his first six months. Not even close. Reporter today, i asked defabio about the president s accomplishments. Cant do everything at once. Reporter Health Care Reform . Working on it. Reporter tax reform . Its coming. It has to come. Reporter but the revival the president brags about is a long way off for the more than 700 workers who have lost their jobs at the big g. M. Lordstown facility nearby, or the 100 Union Workers at a g. M. Supplier in austintown, or the 115 workers laid off at magna seating systems, or the 15 who lost their jobs at jamestown industries. Much of it since mr. Trump took office. Are the jobs coming back . No, theyre not. Reporter bertram de souza is Editorial Page Editor of the youngstown vindicator. Hes playing on the fears and the emotions of people in areas that have been hard hit economically. Its great to be back in youngstown. Reporter at a separate event with veterans last night, the president suggested his message carried youngstown and Mahoning County in november. Democrats, they win in youngstown. But not this time. Reporter actually, mr. Trump lost youngstown to hillary clinton, but her margin of victory, both here and in Mahoning County, was only three points. In 2012, barack obama won by 28. Anthony. Mason Dean Reynolds in youngstown. Thank you, dean. Congressman Steve Scalise of louisiana has been moved from a Washington Hospital to a rehabilitation facility. The House Majority whip was critically wounded six weeks ago when a gunman opened fire on republicans practicing for a congressional baseball game. The hospital says scalise, who is 51, is in good spirits and looks forward to returning to work when his rehab is complete. And we look forward to it, too. A bill that would slap new sanomic sanctions on russia for meddling in the u. S. Elections has reached the senate after the house overwhelmingly approved it. Understandably, the russians dont like it. And Charlie Dagata found some of americas european allies are also opposed. Reporter senior russian Officials Say the new sanctions ovake no sense, and move alreadytense u. S. Relations into uncharted territory. Andrew kortunov, director of a Prominent Russian think tank, told us russians arent happy being thrown into the same basket as iran and north korea. So basically, the signal is that you three bad guys, you will get the same treatment from the United States congress, and with all due respect, but russia is not north korea. Reporter but the sanctions also have some unintended consequences. The bill, as written, now targets any company that contributes to the maintenance or construction of Russias Energy export pipelines. Instead of just punishing the russians, they snared european and American Business in their web. The vast nord stream 2 pipeline between russia and germany, has huge financial stakes for more than a dozen European Energy companies. Rimerica first cannot mean europes interests come last, complained jean claude juncker, the e. U. s chief executive. Alexis rodzianko is president of the American Chamber of commerce in moscow. He told us American Companies would also pay a price. The ability to do business for large u. S. Investment banks and Global Investment banks have been affected the most by sanctions. Reporter nobody knows how president Vladimir Putin will react, anthony, but a kremlin spokesman said today putin will easu until the new measures become law and then act accordingly. Mason Charlie Dagata in moscow. Thanks. A Police Supervisor in texas is defending the actions of a constable in a confrontation last week with a young man. Millions have seen the cell phone video. Some believe the constable crossed the line. Omar villafranca reports. Reporter the cell phone video captures the moment when a Harris County constable stopped 20yearold Marvin Gibson last week as he and his brothers were passing out business cards for his lawn service. But the situation got tense after gibson asked the constable for his information. Turn around and put your hands behind your back. For what . No. Reporter gibson, instead, left the scene. I still be doing this right here, my lawn service, making rvney. Thats thats the goal for me. Thats what we were doing, trying to support our family. Reporter constable administrator alan rosen says gibson left because of an outstanding misdemeanor assault warrant. When originally stopped and inestioned by the officer, thats why he really didnt want to say who he was. Reporter constables came to his house later that day. Gibson recorded that, too. The 20yearold says constables broke down his door, tased him, and sicced a canine on him, leaving him with bite marks on his arm. Cant even lift certain stuff no more. My arm is still numb in certain spots. I can barely lift it up. Reporter but rosen says his officers did nothing wrong. We gave mr. Gibson before the police dog even went upstairs. We told him four different times, we yelled, police dog, police dog, come out. Reporter the Harris County constable says they have body camera video that backs up their side of the story but they have not released it yet. Anthony. Mason omar villafranca. Thank you very much, omar. 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