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Allowed -- any transgender member of the service will not be allowed to be an active member of the military. beyond that, it was left at that. there were background briefings today on what's going on in venezuela, a background briefing for administration officials on what's going on in the job announcement in wisconsin. anderson, for a major policy change like this, there was not a single background briefing. administration officials we talked to were, quite frankly, caught off guard, they could not answer basic questions, like what happens to active members of the military who may be serving ...

Warming is a hoax is this. >> you'll have to ask him that. >> of course, we have a difficult time doing that because he doesn't take our questions very often. why won't they give a straight answer to this? >> clearly doesn't want to answer this question and even when a briefer in the background briefing was asked about this, well, why won't you stay on topic talking about the accord. it did seem to be on topic. >> a little bit. >> even when the president talked yesterday, he did not talk about climate change. this is a climate change decision pro or anti. he talked about it as an economic deci...

Extremism and terrorism, and all of the remarks by not only the president, in that historic speech, to 50-plus muslim and arab nations but from the sing of saudi arabia. a lot of people didn't catch what he said but the saudis did. the president moving on to israel, those images very powerful as john and rich have been talking about. and the first president to visit western wall, the first president to put israel on the first foreign trip, but the saudis had the first stop on that first foreign trip. there was a background briefing, a senior white house official, saying in an answer to how he ...

There are other issues, trade issues they want to take about, dairy issues and so on. in has the potential to get complicated for the president to make good on this promise. >> thanks, jim accosta. back to the panel. maggie, i saw people criticizing the president, he's changed again. what he's saying today does sound very much like what he said on the campaign trail, he wants to renegotiate. he's not emphasizing how terrible it is perhaps as much as he did. there is continuity there. >> it is not as dramatic a shift as on some other issues we've seen with the president. on this one, however, h...

More secure. from south korea, the vice president will head to japan, continue to provide updates as they warrant during the vice president's trip throughout the rest of the week. looking ahead, tomorrow the president heads to wisconsin where he'll talk about his buy america, hire america agenda at snap-on tools in wisconsin. for those who aren't aware, snap-on is a prime example of a company that builds american made tools with american workers for u.s. taxpayers. we'll be having a background briefing later this afternoon with senior administration officials regarding the details of the trip....