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New fall out today from president trump's tweets that service members will be banned from the military. defense or telling cnn and the chairman himself had no idea this was coming. they were totally blind sided. and moments ago, this comment from the army chief of staff. >> treat every single soldier, sailor, marine, coast guard, with dignity and respect for the service and the cloth of our nation. >> we add on and tell you that the navy will not discharge transgender sailors and they will still receive medical treatment. the military here suddenly finding himself on the defense from a preside...

Out of nowhere, today president trump announce ad new military policy twitter banning transgender people from serving in the u.s. military. he wrote, after consultation with my generals, please be advised the united states government will not allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming -- >> the department of defense was so blind sided by the tweets that pentagon officials release ad statement admitting the defense department has no plan to deal with the policy reversal and will provide guidance in the n...

>> we're in the business in america of providing the basics or people, not in the business of perfecting everybody's sex life. i'm sorry, it couldn't happen any way. >> this is an absurd argument and the real issue here is that donald trump, for no military reason, the department of defense secretary is on vacation. the pentagon admits they were blind sided. he woke up this morning, we don't know why, but if it's because he's a hateful man and hates transgender americans, that's enough. if it's for political reasons, it's even worse. this is a bad day for lgbt americans, but this day will not ...

>> the department of defense was so blind sided by the tweets that pentagon officials release ad statement admitting the defense department has no plan to deal with the policy reversal and will provide guidance in the near future. it drew strong opposition from civil rights groups, from democratic lawmakers, and also republicans like senator joni ernst and senator orrin hatch. >> people who are transgender, they don't choose to be transgender. they're born that way. why should we hold that against them? they're human beings. many of them are extremely talented human beings. we should be open t...

Remember, he talked about this even at the rnc. what more does the community need from him? >> well, we don't want anything extra. i don't want any extra money, extra rights. i don't want anything extra. i just want what any other american citizen would be offered. dignity and respect. and the ability to serve my country. that's all we're asking for. i don't want anything extra and to people in uniform, yeah, we're upset. a lot of them are calling me, asking me what's going on and i'm still -- we're all blind sided. and i want those folks who are in uniform to understand that there's a lot of ...