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>> thank you. >> joining me now, senator tammy duckworth. the president said this morning that this was an issue of cost and readiness and distraction. do you think that's true? >> no. it's baloney. you want to talk about cost? studies have shown if 2016, the d.o.d. spent with $5.6 million on health care for transgendered service members. they spent $21 million on viagra alone. 84 until for erectile dysfunction, medication and treatment. if they want to cut costs, i don't think this is place to look. >> what about readiness? that it emanated from consultation with the folks at dod? >> my under...

The past and said they can certainly work this issue. we have had transgender americans serving with honor in the military. it did not affect unit readiness. and this is completely not the issue. this is an issue of the president appealing to his base. or a handful of people. my understanding is they reached out to him through steve bannon because they couldn't get through to the pentagon leadership who oppose this. bottom line. the tweet from the commander in chief, the united states military, is disruptive. if somebody is averting readiness, it is president trump and tweets like this. >> wha...

Committee about the russian meetings and other ongoings that he doesn't remember and donald trump, jr., his own son's organizing of that meeting with russia, which, of course, are center stage to the russia investigation and, of course, we will continue to ask those questions, but how was this viewed from the world where the president is so out of step with his government? >> look. any time you make policy this way, you will make bad policy, because you don't vet it properly and you don't prepare for implementation. that's what we will see here. look, we got thousands of people in uniform and ...