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thank you, andy. north korea facing tough new sanctions designed to send a message to the brutal regime. >> we are prepared to do whatever it takes to defend ourselves and our allies. the ball is in north korea's court. >> what we know about this regime, they prioritize their nuclear and missile program above all else. >> the russian investigation is heating up a and so is the president. >> have you seen any russians in west virginia, or ohio, or pennsylvania? >> sources tell cnn financial links could create a more path to criminal prosecution. >> i own nothing in russia. i have no loans in russia. the presses president's senior policy adviser
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is under consideration for a huge communications job. >> he wants to have folks like miller on television defending him no matter what. >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. right now secretary of state rex tillerson is at an international meeting of foreign ministers in the philippines. >> harsh new sanctions after north korea over its missile test and could cost the country a billion dollars in exports annually. listen to what u.n. ambassador to the u.s. nicki haley told ana cabrera. >> we are prepared to do whatever it takes to defend ourselves and to defend our allied, and the ball is in north korea's court. they now have to decide where they want to go from here. we hope that they will go the route of peace and security. plus, president trump was on twitter commenting on north korea sanctions saying united nations resolution is the single largest economics sanction ever on north korea. over $1 billion in costs to
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north korea. let's talk about this and bring in lieutenant general mark hertling, cnn military analyst for the army and sumi terry a former cnn analyst on korean issues. as i was preparing for this, i wonder why we haven't heard from kim jong-un? >> well, he will speak very shortly. but you've heard him before. i don't think sanctions, why these are important measures and i'm glad the unc passed a resolution slapping sanctions. kim jong-un is not going to give up nuclear weapons. he has said this over and over that he is not going to give it up. so i'm glad these steps are taken but i think we have still a long way to go before we get to any kind of peaceful state. >> general, let me come to you. the potential for talks. we know that south korea wants to talk and china wants to talk. even tillerson has said that he
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would like to engage in some talks but, first, north korea must abandon their nuclear ambitions. will the u.s. have to step away from that prerequisite in order to have these conversations and do you see that potentially down the road? >> i agree with sue on this. this is something that kim will not back away from. this is his regime survival. this is how he stands out in the area. he feels like he has to defend his country against all of the surround i surroundi ining hordes that wou take him down. i don't do you'll see him give up the missile program. what he is able to do is put that under control due to the impetus by the sanctions and the diplomacy which is pulling together a bunch of nations of the world for the first time, countering his actions. that might be enough to cause him to live more by the
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standards of global norms and that is what is missing lately. >> will there be talks? if kim is not going abandon this effort to get a nuclear weapon and the u.s. has said that we won't engage in talks unless do you that, will the u.s. engage in talks any way at some point? >> well, we don't know. that is the key part of the diplomacy. you give a little bit and you get a little bit. but i agree. this is going to be very challenging. this has been his attempt at snubbing his nose at the world and to do otherwise would cause him probably a little bit of losing of face to his people and that is not acceptable for him right now trying to control a regime that is really on the precipice of failure. >> sue, if kim is not going to abandon this effort to obtain a nuclear weapon, at what point will the world or have some countries already silently even adjusted to the idea of pursuing a nuclear or nonproliferation
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strategy instead of preventing him from getting the weapon, just accepting that -- there will be a nuclear north korea and then what? >> i just came back and why this is not a stated policy. i do think more people are now painfully realizing we might have to live with a nuclear north korea. the u.s. has to also make that painful decision. as i've mentioned, i don't think north korea is going to give it up and i think more provocations are coming expedite these sanctions. i see another nuclear test down the road so we have to get realistic and decide are we okay with deterrence policy? are we going to live with nuclear north korea? >> general, i want you to listen to the chinese foreign minister today at the summit. let's listen. >> translator: china urged fler to treat the new resolutions by the u.n. security council regarding north korea in a calm manner and not to conduct
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missile tests and nuclear tests which violates u.n. security council and the desire of the international community. of course, we will also urge all other parties, including the united states and south korea, not to further escalate the tension. >> dissect this for us, general. obviously, calling for north koreans to stop with the testing of the missiles, the flnuclear test or the test launches and u.s. to dial down the rhetoric and they don't like the drills with the south koreans but the chinese signed on to the sanction. help us understand what the chinese really expect the u.s. and north korea to do? >> they are walking a very fine line, aren't they, victor? it's a critical element they need to tamp down, not only what the north koreans are doing because they realize they are becoming more pariah on the world stage but they also know that there are a lot of people to include mr. trump and his
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administration who are willing to cause further disruption in north korea which will certainly affect china. and it's not just the fact that there could be an explosion between the u.s. and north korea. it also has to do with what will happen on the south korean peninsula. what other effects on the chinese economy will occur if some of the language that has been used lately actually comes to fruition. they are walking a very fine line between all this, trying to keep north korea tamped down and under control and, at the same time, be part of the league of nations that is trying to bring apart -- bring around this reduction in inflammatory languages between the u.s. and north korea. >> it could be an impact on the economy of north korea. put mmeat on the bone for us.
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what does this mean for the north korean and for the regime? >> kim jong-un has less money to fund his missile and nuclear program because this is going to cost about over 3 billion dollar gdp. most importantly for these sanctions to work they have to be enforced. so the question for the united states government is how much are we going to pursue secondary sanctions against chinese banks and entities that have business with north korea. these sanctions are good but forced on the ground level and china has been reluctant to do that before. so i think the question is back on the u.s. table in terms of how much are we going to pursue secondary boycott. >> i'm running low on time but, general, i would be remiss if i didn't point out that 75 years ago on this very day, august 6th, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima. this is not happening in some abstract discussion. this had a real impact on people. i want you to hear today from the mayor of hiroshima talking
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about what this means, these conversations we are having. >> translator: this hell is not a thing of the past. as long as nuclear weapons exist and policy make them exist their horror. you could find them suffering their cruelty. >> general, beyond the minute-to-minute negotiations and discussions, put a cap on this. put it into some context for us. >> that is a very powerful message. frankly, victor, we have been talking about the use of nuclear weapons the last three to four years than ever before. not only on the part of north koreans missile program but in other places in the world like iran, russia, and china. so you might also include india and pakistan in that regard. any use of nuclear weapons are deplorable. listening to someone who is
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experienced that, you know how sgl deplorable they are and anything to use a nuclear weapon in the future will make he-- we have t get economy and conversation factored into these reductions into nuclear arms. >> 72 years ago today. thank you both. >> thank you. the investigation into potential ties between the trump team and russia could be creating some legal trouble for the president, himself. special counsel robert mueller now looking at documents in the probe and looking into the trump family finances. a national organization announces plans to sue the trump administration over the president's transgender military ban. day 13. if only this were as easy as saving $600
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the trump administration. this investigation now approaches the white house. the trump campaign and even president trump's personnel finances. cnn's pamela brown has new details of the excrete knee of the president and those closest to it. >> does anyone really believe that story? >> reporter: the russian investigation continues to widen as federal investigators explore the potential financial ties of president trump and russia. investigators are delving into possible financial crimes including some unconnected to the election. for the president, that is going too far. he has warned that delving into his business is, quote, a violation. trump that maintained there is no collusion and he has no financial ties to russia. >> and i can tell you, speaking for myself, i own nothing in russia. i have no loans in russia. i don't have any deals in
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russia. >> reporter: now, one year into this complex probe, the fbi has reviewed financial record related to the trump organization. the president, himself, as well as his family members and campaign associates. cnn has told investigators have combed through the miss he list of shellshi companies and they scrutinize the roster of tenants at trump tower in manhattan reaching back several years and officials familiar with the investigation tell cnn robert mueller's team have examined the background of russian business associates connected to trump. dating back to the 2013 miss universe pageant he hosted in moscow. >> thank you to the focus group for their amazing hospitality. >> reporter: cnn could not determine whether the review has included trump's tax returns. but even investigative lead that have nothing to do with russia but involve trump associates are
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being referred to the special counsel to encourage subjects of the investigation to cooperate. >> the entire thing has been a witch hunt. >> reporter: president trump keenly aware of the increased financial focus recordly denounces the investigation. >> russia is fake news. russia -- this is fake news put out by the media. >> reporter: trump's team seeking to limit mueller's investigation. >> the president's point is that he doesn't want the special counsel to move beyond the scope and outside of its mission and the president has been very clear, as have his accountants and team, that he has no financial dealings with russia and so i think we have been extremely clear on that. >> reporter: cnn that learned new details about how mueller is running his special counsel team. more than three dozen attorneys, fbi agents and support staff. experts investigating fraud and financial crimes. broken into groups focused separately on collusion and obstruction of justice. there is also focus on targets like paul manafort and michael
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flynn. cnn has learned that investigators became more suspicious of manafort when they turned up intercepted communications that investigators collected discussing their efforts to work with manafort to coordinate information that could hurt hillary clinton's bid for the white house, according to u.s. official. in flynn's case the focus is now on his lobbying work for the turkish government which he failed to initially disclosed as required by law. while both deny any wrongdoing it may offer a template how the focus by variations on possible financial crimes could help gain leverage and cooperation in the investigation. the president's attorney said in a statement, quote. the outside legal counsel a have not received any request for doums or any information about this. any inquiry from the special counsel beyond the mandate specified in the appointment we
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would object to and for contacts investigators to go to the president's lawyers to get information. the investigators can issue subpoena duces tecum to financial institutions and get records from the treasury department. pamela brown, cnn, washington. chicago sun times and washington bureau chief lynn sweet is with us and "the washington post" columnist josh roggin. thank you both for being here. let's listen to what -- actually, let me ask you about the statute of limitations. how far back can mueller go looking into the president and any of the people that are around him when it comes to -- when we look back at the clinton administration? they started with whitewater and ended with monica lewinsky. can we have a repeat of that? >> you can. there is a difference what you may charge in a crime and how
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long the statute of limitations may take and you follow the investigative stream which why this is a mass concern to trump because you don't know where the various lead go to and you may go down paths you never imagined just like who back in the day would have thought whitewater would have led to monica lewinsky. so when you think of what a chargeable crime is, it's a high standard. if you just try to connect the dots to figure out where you should be looking you could go wherever you want. in pamela's report when you the forensic agents and access to a lot of records and intercepts, connecting dots that may not have looked like a pattern of significance without this context you have a lot of raw information that then need to be evaluated and you can decide if there is legal charges that could be the fruit of that investigation. >> there is some gray areas,
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josh josh, when it comes to president trump and russia. at one point, ed he had met russian president vladimir putin and really liked him. then he said he never met the man. what if president trump had business dealings 20, 25 years ago with russia, would it matter today? >> i don't think you have to go back that far. a period where the height of the financial crisis and donald trump jr. and ivanka trump were making multiple trips to russia to seek buyers for properties that the trump organization had been developing that all going empty and a big liability on the company. right? that is one area that the investigation is likely to look into. dating back to the '90s, you know, again, as lynn said, there is a lot of evidence that, you know, there are relationships with russians. that doesn't necessarily speak to collusion or crimes per se. you know? but the point is that, you know, we won't know what is relevant and what is not relevant until the investigators go through all
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of this inquiry and investigation and that is what i think the new grand jury that "the washington post" had on last week are meant to go about, right? some of it will be perfectly above board and some of will be a gray area and some of it could be very problematic for the trump organization. the only way to get through it so actually do the investigation and find out what the truth is and work from there. >> this is come as the president just signed this bill this past week, new sanctions against russia. i want to hear now what the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nicki haley said about trump's sanctions on russia. >> we should be hard on any country meddling in our elections. those sanctions were a responsibility to the meddling and we negotiated with russia this week on this security council resolution and we were
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able to find common ground in terms of making sure that we had a strong voice for north korea. we hope that they will continue to see that it's about strong actions and not about irresponsible once. so we hope that their days of meddling in election are over. >> i'm get word that secretary of state rex tillerson as we know met with the russian foreign minister. out of this meeting, lavrov asked tillerson about russia's retaliation to the u.s. sanctions. we do not know what happened beyond that. the question is -- russia just voted with the u.s. and the u.n. on sanctions against north korea. there is a commonality there. what is the chance, lu lynn, a could form that could affect north korea moving forward? >> these alliances group and regroup often depending on the issue and diplomacy, just like investigations go down many rivers and trails and streams
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here, so when you have a common ground, you pursue it. it doesn't negate the sanctions, it doesn't negate the rift that we may have with russia over meddling, which isn't it interesting that u.n. ambassador haley outwardly said there is meddling, something that the trump white house doesn't like to say. now the important thing, though, i think in diplomacy to underscore is that sometimes it's just situational and just issue by issue and in this one when it comes to the growing military threat in north korea, everyone in the u.n. security council found common ground. >> real quickly, josh, president trump is in new jersey the next 17 days. he claims, listen, i am not on vacation! i does not like that termology. he tweeted working in bedminister, new jersey, as long planned construction is done at the white house. this is not a vacation. meetings. and calls. why does this get under his skin? >> first of all, i'd like to say
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one quick thing with north korea. >> go ahead. >> russia and u.s. are not on the same page with fler on fler. russia is increasing its trade with north korea quite substantially and undermine sanctions. when they signed this sanctions bill that we all pretend we are on the same page but the united states and russia with not doing that. i think trump is entitle to do a vacation. you know? we all are. at the same time, for them to claim that he is working every day would be nice to have some details about that. they haven't released any schedules. they haven't released a book reading list. you know? i'm not sure the boxes get ready any way but nice to look at. you know? there is a gap between what the administration says that the president is doing and what we actually can confirm. and i think that is what is causing a lot of uncertainty about the claims here. >> i think it was nancy reagan that i read who said the president is never on vacation. he just gets a change of scenery
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is what it is. lynn sweet and josh roggin, thank you so much. the u.n. hits north korea with sanctions over his its long-range missile program. what does this mean for the administration? our political panel is here to answer that. plus, is the vice president preparing for a 2020 run? what are the next steps for the transgender military ban? one group says their next step is to sue the administration. when a fire is going on, you're not thinking clearly, so they called the fire department for us.
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slam the banks and key exports by more than a billion dollars. u.n. ambassador nicki haley says these are the strongest sanctions ever imposed in response to a ballistic missile test. >> we are prepared to do whatever it takes to defend ourselves and our allies. the ball is in north korea's court. they now have to decide where they want to go from here. we hope that they will go the route of peace and security. we hope they will go focus on human rights and feeding their people. and stopping modern slavery they do in terms of sending laborers overseas and taking money from that situation but, again, all of this is now in north korea's court and we will see how they respond. sanctions come as secretary of state rex tillerson is meeting with world leader in the philippines today. he just met with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. world leaders will watch how he interacts with the counterpart. the two will be in the same
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meeting but could ignore each other for all we know. whether they speak or not could set the tone for the trump's administration policies on pyongyang going forward. let's talk about these sanctions and more with jack kingston, a cnn political analyst and senior former adviser to the trump campaign and a former chairman of the washington, d.c. democratic party. good morning. >> good morning. >> scott, on this weekend when everyone is counting the days the president trump spent at one of his golf resorts or how long on the vacation or even a democrat who is not a fan of the president will have to admit a significant accomplishment for the u.s. and the trump administration. >> i think it's significant because we got russia, they got russia and china to sign on board. this was unanimous. i think it's important, obviously, and i think it's the right step, but it's not depositive of the nuclear issue are fler north korea because th
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refuse to put the nuclear issue on the table when they have gotten to the table in the past so i still think that the pressure has to be put on surrounding countries, especially china, to force china to be a leader on this issue and until that happens, the people of north korea can starve, but north korea wants to be a player at the table and they know the -- having nuclear arms is what gets them to the table. >> jack, to you. we have heard this week this conciliatory tone from the secretary of state rex tillerson saying that north korea is not the enemy. they do not want to have a regime change. but on the other hand, we have heard the president calling kim jong-un a mad man reportedly and going after him on twitter. will we continue to hear that type of rhetoric from the president? >> i think you're going to see both. the good cop and bad cop approach to diplomacy and you can have it i think against trying to urge china and other
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nation to toe the line with us. scott is right. china is at the table but, at the same time, china's imports from north korea alone have gone up 10% and i think it's something like $3 billion. they are a nation with a gdp of $40 billion. a billion might not mean much to china or the united states but it means a lot to north korea. i think the president has to talk tough. i think tillerson, though, on the other hand, has to be the guy out there saying, look. we don't want war. we want to cut a deal with you and we want peace. i think you're leaving the door open but you're also saying we are going to talk tough and show you the b-1 bombers and show you the t.h.a.d. missile defense system and show you what we have got in case you do not behave. >> so let's turn now to 2020 presidential politics. i guess it's never too early. >> already? >> yes! let's start, scott, with you. we heard from massachusetts senator elizabeth warren saying yesterday that i'm not running
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for president. i'm focused on the job in front of me. now one can hear that as if i'm not going to run and another one can hear it as i'm not running at the moment. what does that mean for the field and does it open up a lane for a progressive liberal? what does the party lose or gain potentially from elizabeth warren not pursuing the white house? >> i think it's way early, quite frankly. despite that, you know, you had john delaielanie saying he is t first. i think what is going to happen next year with the 35 governorships and can the dnc get organized on and then the field for a presidency is going to play itself out. i think 2018 is important. we are a long way off. she may not want to run now, but depending on whether the progressives in the democratic party can figure out how to win, she can take that off the table and throw her name in the hat. there is a lot that is going to happen with the democrats and
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the republicans before that field settles out. >> so, jack, let me go to this "the new york times" reporting which i'm sure saw this weekend that there are a series of republican shadow campaigns they are reporting for 2020 and one name mentioned in this write up from new york city is vice president mike pence. according to sources for "the time" an aide for the vice president says pence want to be ready if there is an open in 2020. the vice president is having big donors and conservative activists at the naval observatory. his official residence. what did do you make of these moves an as opening in 2020? >> i read the article but if mike pence is helping trump he is helping himself and if he helping himself he is also helping trump. i think part of his attractiveness as vp is that he is kind of guy that the establishment is a little more comfortable with. charlie demp, the moderate
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leader of the tuesday group in the house, spoke very highly of mike pence, having served with him. but, at the same time, groups like the family research counsel who are very comfortable with him because of his christian moral traditional values type stances. so there are coalitions behind mike pence but really anything he does to help trump is going to help him and i think mike pence, i've known him for a long time. he is a team player and that is what he is doing. he is just playing on the trump team. >> not this early, victor. not this early. >> go ahead, scott. >> he is hosting these conservative groups. he is on the extreme part of the conservative republican party. he just hired a chief of staff who is political operative not a political govern. democrats and republicans, given that donald trump is not your, quote, whatever normalcy is, president, whatever that is is any more, he is preparing. he is preparing to run because
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many people don't believe donald trump will be available to run in 2020 based on the mueller investigation, based on his hypocrisy and consistency and based on the inconsistency that messaging that the white house is putting out. he may not be here in 2020. >> jack, one line in this write-up. you can add your comment to what scott said right after you respond to this. john mccain told the times, quote, they see weakness in this president. discussing senator benefit sass sasse of nebraska and ohio govern john kasich making some moves. this day single day of his presidency hasn't been out of water in the favor ability polls. is this president in trouble head nothing 2020? >> mccain also underlined this is not a nice town and not a nice place. i think you get ambitious people always angling and have a scenario but one thing that ties mccain and scott's comments together is the fact that we, as republicans, during bill
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clinton's first term, did the same thing. we thought he is a goner. so we just knew he was a one-term president but what happened? the economy improved. for example, right now, unemployment at the lowest rate in 16 years. a great jobs report. 1.3 million jobs created. stock market at record highs. border crossing is down. i think what the american people are going to see these results, then all of this talk might not die down but i don't think the people will be any more successful than the republicans were. >> we have to wrap it there but we have a few more years to have this conversation. >> democrats never doubted clinton. >> the chief of staff of the vice president has pushed back against this saying this is essential nonsense and i'm paraphrasing there. still some interesting report from "the times." everybody should go and read that. thank you both. >> thank you. looking ahead to "state of the union" with jake tapper. congressman adam schiff and new jersey governor chris christie
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searching in the military. the department of defense is wading for further guidance before making any policy changes. cnn legal and national security analyst, also an associate dean at yale law school is with us. yasha, thank you for being here. the fact that the dod has not made any attempts at this point to modify the policy does that tell you anything about where this is going? >> i don't think so. the president has before tweeted about things like wanting to build a wall or immigration, letting in refuges and he has translated that into executive order. but i do think there would actually have to be a policy in place in order for the lawsuit to move forward because you would actually have to have people affected by the policy before they could go into court and challenge it. >> i want to read to you something from the website of an lgbt rights group.
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the staff attorney there wrote this. will it get that far and how far could this go? >> i think this is an issue that could go very far. so if the department of defense under an executive order implements a far reaching policy of the kind that the president has described in his tweets, which is to actually remove transgender personnel who are already serving in the military and to prevent further people from going in, it raises a whole host of legal issues. so for people who are already in, to remove them would create a lot of due process concerns. there are people there who have relied on their, you know, the promise that they would remain in the military to make job decisions.
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many of them are accruing a pension and maybe, depending on that, it's called a reliance argument and they can challenge that through due process hearings and that could take up a lot of administrative resources within the military. now for people who are outside military who want to go in and would be banned by such a policy, that would be a little bit harder to challenge because, typically, legal speaking, the courts will give a lot of deference to the military but again here, something that so far reaching that doesn't just limit to people in combat. you know? talking potentially about engineers and doctors and the people who drive trucks on bases, that could really open up to a lot of scrutiny what the president's motivations are in promulgating this kind of policy in the same way that it was questioned in the travel ban.
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>> you mentioned the money aspect of this. do we know what is at the core of all of this? and how lambda legal or any group could argue against it? what is their best defense? because on the surface it seem like it's discriminatory. >> absolutely. i think the main thrust of the argument would be that this is in violation of equal protection, that this is simply motivated against a particular group and they would point to the fact that unthe policy would be implemented so far reachingly across the board if these tweets actually go into effect as they have been written. there is also been a cost argument that is made by the government that transgender personnel would require additional medical costs for surgeries and such. that, i think, can also be challenged. i think the cost has been estimated about $4 million out
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of a $600 billion budget. that is something that if that were the case, the government could actually just simply refuse to provide that benefit. but, ultimately, what the issue would be is how the courts are going to view this group of people. now when the government makes policies based on race, for example, or gender, what they are going to do is they are going to look a little more carefully at what kind of reasoning the government is giving and they are going to make sure that, you know, they are a little skeptical of it. >> okay. >> you snow this -- whether they are going to do this for transgender people remains to be seen. >> thank you. >> in courts. >> asha rangappa, we appreciate your input today. thank you. >> thank you. let's weigh the numbers for the president. better than expected jobs report, slipping approval rating. how he is trying now to appeal to his base. that is coming up on "inside politics."
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