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good morning. we're grateful to have you with us on a saturday. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're live in washington where it has been a week of turmoil, chaos, and controversial, and it is a very early saturday morning. there's time left. last night, late last night, in fact, the white house announced a policy banning most transgender people from serving in the military. this move is drawing criticism from democrats and others and promises from advocate groups to fight the ban in court. >> hours from now, the white house and congress facing a different type of criticism. students from stoneman douglas high school in florida lead the nation and really the worlds in rallies calling for stricter gun control after 17 people were killed at their school last month. >> we're going to make a statement that teenagers can change the world, and these things really can't happen without somebody doing something. >> you're not going to be able

to ignore us because we're at your doorstep now. we're going to stay here and fight. >> washington's ready for us, and we're ready to give them hell. >> we will have team coverage on the march for our lives rally all day on cnn. we're going to start now with cnn's abby phillip and the late-night ban on transgendered troops. good morning. >> good morning. president trump making the decision very late last night, announcing at the very hours before a deadline that most transgender troops would no longer be able to serve in the military. this final decision comes months after the president himself announced the change on quitter but caught husband own defense department by surprise. he then gave the defense secretary, james mattis, months to come up with a policy around the decision. this is one that is likely to draw some serious legal challenges in the months to come. here's what the white house said the policy will do in a statement last night. "transgender persons with a history of diagnosis of gender dysphoria, individuals who the

policies state may require substantial medical treatment including medications and surgery, disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances." now there's some other details about this that are notable. this rescinds the obama-era rule change that allowed transgender members to serve. it also allows people who are currently active in the military, most of them, to continue serving. it prohibits transgender individuals from enlisting into the military, and those who are currently serving may be required to serve according to their gender at birth. james mattis defended the decision in a statement announcing the policy saying that there were concerns about the effect of transgender troops serving in the military on military readiness as well as costs. he also noted that it would require waiving some requirements that are already in place for those who are serving. those statements contradict a 2016 study on the impact of transgender service members, on

the military, that was done by the rand corporation that found that some of those effects are minimal if not negligible. but in the courts, this is going to be fought out pretty aggressively over the next couple of months. the california attorney general has already announced that they plan to challenge the court decision going forward. >> all right. thank you very much. >> thank you. we appreciate it. we want to go to military analyst lieutenant colonel rick francona with us now. colonel, thank you very much for being with us. we appreciate it. you heard her there talk about thei isism -- the impetus comin from james mattis is that it is a question of their readiness, of the cost that it would entail. you have a storied career obviously in the military. have you ever found that someone who is a transgender has been a detriment to military service? >> you know, that's an interesting question because when i was on active duty,

transgenders were not permitted to serve. i may have served with a transgender and not known it. it even goes further than the don't ask, don't tell. years ago you couldn't be openly homosexual. i honestly don't know if i served with anyone. honestly there would have been no impact on cohesion. i read through the entire statement, the entire report that the pentagon provided to the president. it's 44 pages long. i think the key point is the impact on unit cohesion and unit readiness. that seemed to be the core theories there. it does protect those serving. >> let me ask about an element that one of the cryptics on the show -- the critics on the show last hour raised. what will be the response from those who support the policy when it's compared to those in the military dealing with hypertension or diabetes or take anti-depressants and the relative cost of other medical

concerns? an important distinction from your perspective? >> they address that specifically in the report using hypertension as the comparison. it is like apples and oranges because hypertension can be treated with medication that's not -- that's readily available, easily deployable. they're talking about different kind of, you know, cross sex, hormones, and expensive treatments. i don't care -- the cost isn't the issue here. it's the impact on deployability. so you can deploy with hypertension, but you cannot deploy with some of the effects of gender dysphoria. >> the aclu said what the white house has released tonight is transphobia masquerading as policy. do you see any tinge of that? >> yeah. you know, i have to tell you in all honesty, my own personal opinion, is anyone who wants to serve their country should be able to do so. i think all of the gender

assignment/reassignment should be completed before getting into the military. you show up whatever gender you prefer to be, and that's what you are allowed to serve as. this looks like 44 pages of justifying a policy that was already decided. i think rather than doing a study and coming out with a policy, i think we came one a policy and now came up with the report that justifies it. >> yeah. the chronology supports that framing from you. >> i think you're right. >> thank you very much for being with us this morning. >> thank you. the survivors of mass shootings are going to be heard around the world today. city after city, nation after nation, preparing to hold anti-gun violence rallies. this is, of course, in the wake of the school shooting that killed 17 people in parkland, florida. >> and in a few hours from now, thousands of people are going to be in march for our lives right here in washington. many right there in front of the white house. some students and parents,

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already out there, seven. let's see -- four hours before this starts. >> yeah, this starts at noon here in washington. there are more than 800 sister marches, not just across the country, but around the world. hundreds of thousands rallying in washington, d.c., to call for action to stop gun violence. we will be live all day covering the march for our lives here in washington and around the world. >> also talking about this trill-dollar spending bill -- trillion-dollar spending bill, as well, because the president threatened to veto it. then he decided to sign it. it does mean that it's going to keep the government open. the government blasted congress, though, saying he's unhappy with this. take a listen. >> there are a lot of things that i'm unhappy about in this bill. there are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill, but we were in a sense forced if we wanted to build our military, we were forced to

have. there are some things that we should have in the bill. but i say to congress, i will never sign another bill like this again. i'm not going to do it again. >> all right. joining us, wanda summers, senior writer for cnn politics, michael zelden, analyst, and robert mueller's former assistant of the doj, jack kingston, and senior adviser to the trump campaign, and democratic congressman and nominee for the 2020 nomination for the democrats for president, john delaney from maryland. good morning to everybody. >> good morning. >> let's start with what is happening today and what brought us to washington, this march for our lives. hundreds of thousands of people here, and it's possible congress should could do nothing. >> i think the passion is hard to miss. seeing young people, many in their teens, not able to vote, calling out for specific

legislative reforms is incredibly moving and visceral. that said, the state of play on capitol hill surrounding the issue the guns is largely the same as it has been for years and years. this debate that we've been having since the young children were killed at sandy hook. there's not a lot -- there are still people who are unwilling to come to the table. there's a lot of back and forth over getting serious. one thing i'm looking at is education secretary betsy devos was tapped to lead the school safety commission. she'll lead it with members to talk about the issue. i'm looking to see what can the commission do, will there be substantive legislative reforms, who will they be speaking to, will they speak to students, and can anything come out of that that will stop the tragic killings happening in our schools that are alarming at an all-too-frequent pace. >> congressman, we had a senior on last hour. she said if they're not going to listen to our voice, they're going to listen to our vote. these kids are rallying to register to vote, get their friends to vote. do marches like this make a difference to you and your fellow congressmen?

do they matter? do they drive any sort of vote or decision? >> yes, they clearly do. you can see there's a lot of energy. i think the thing about young voters or high school kids who are not eligible or ready to vote yet, the thing about these people is they're issue and caused focused. they don't think of it through a traditional lens of politics. they don't identify quite as much with the political parties. they identify with issues and causes. so as these people age into the voting kind of base, if you will, they're going to be very focused on the issues that they care about, and they're going to vote on those issues. i think it's going to make a huge difference. >> jack, do you expect that something will be done -- we are, what, seven months out from the midterm. major legislation maybe is passed as members of congress try to campaign to keep their jobs. do you expect anything will be done on gun control? >> well, just yesterday the

appropriations bill had $2.3 billion for teacher training and school campus safety. i think working with secretary devos they'll find out how do you best utilize the $2.3 billion to make sure that it actually is effective. the other thing is a lot of the gun laws and certainly school safety laws and schools in general are a state dough machblt you're going to see state governments, as we've seen in florida, take an active role. >> all right. michael, when we talk about these kind of events that we're going to see today and -- let's be clear, it's not just here, it's worldwide, not all of those are voters, not all of those people worldwide obviously are voters here in our country. do you get the sense that a movement this huge, this massive, can really drive congress to do something? >> well, it reminds me of my youth in the antiwar days. and the thrajectory of the

antiwar movement has parallels to what we're seeing here. this is a spontaneous uprising of kids who are affected personally by gun violence and are taking to the streets, if you will, to say enough's enough. we had the same thing. i was draft age, ours was a draft-driven antiwar effort. we took to the streets to say enough's enough, we don't want to be drafted. we don't want to go there. we don't have a dog in that fight, and we saw what happened. i think we're in a similar, you know, sort of pivot point recent these issues. >> yeah. this week, there was a school shooting in maryland, great mills. and when we heard from the vice chair of the nra several years ago, and he's reiterated since then, wayne lapierre, that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, and creatics of the --

critics of the nra ex-coronated him for that perspective. the person that ended the shooting in maryland was a school resource officer. what do you make of that as -- this is his picture. we want to put his face on television so people know who saved lives at that school. this seems to contradict those who say we don't need additional guns in school. this man saved lives. >> he's a hero. the situation in maryland, my home state, could have been so much worse. we did lose one person which is a tragedy, miss wiley. the fact that we didn't have more losses is because of this gentleman. but there's a difference between arming teachers and having armed security officers. in this case, this gentleman was a police officer in a school. i'm very supportive of having armed security officers, armed

police officers protecting our schools. the notion of arming teachers i think is a very, very different consideration. if we want to talk about having more security in our schools, i think the way is to have more gentleman like this person who is a trained police officer in this school responding to the violence as opposed to arming our teachers. those are very, very different things. >> and there again, it's going to be state discretion. georgia since 2014 has allowed teachers to be armed. it's not implemented. texas has been the law since 2007. and 172 school districts actually do allow some teachers to be armed. i think it depends on the comfort level of the teacher and the school community. if you have arms in there, you can stop this violence. it can help stop the violence. >> right. we have to be very careful about

getting arms in schools obviously. most teachers, not to disagree with jack, but most teachers come out against the proposal to arm them. i'll be at the march today. i think there's going to be a last of teachers marching. that's what's amazing about the movement and young people coming forward and talking about the vietnam war, talking about what happened in the vietnam war was people basically stepped forward and said the institutions in our society are failing us. and we want to make our voice heard. >> in fact -- >> that's what's happening today. they're saying, you know, you haven't done anything, your generation hasn't done anything about this. and that's what they're demanding. and i think most of these people who are marching today do not want teachers armed. i think if you were to ask them do you want armed security officers, armed police officers in each school, i think that would -- the response to that would be very different. >> and in addition to not having teachers in favor of this, most first responders are against this because when you come on as a law enforcement person, as you come on to a live shooting scene in a school, and you don't know who the shooter is and you see

an adult with a gun, your inclination is to assume that person to be the problem. and the risk of additional injury because of that is something people say we just don't want. >> remember, the first responders failed in florida. four officers who were armed stood outside of the building and had a teacher who had the ability been armed and was inside, it could have been a different outcome. >> way too speculative. >> yeah. >> well -- >> we see in maryland how it worked worked. it's not always going to work perfectly, nothing does. the issue with not having armed police officers in schools is a money issue, right. so i think we've got to take a step back. if we want to have security in our schools, we may have to spend a little more money. i think if you were to poll the american people, i think they would overwhelmingly support that. to your point, you want trained police officers to the extent you want anyone in schools. >> is there a way to reconcile this in terms of -- i think you're right, there aren't a lot of people coming out saying we

need the teachers armed. but we need the funding to get more of these security officers in schools. is there a way politically to reconcile those two? >> i think what we're trying to figure out now, secretary devos was on capitol hill this week testifying about her department's budget. she was actually asked about these proposals, whether or not she supported arming more teachers. she said to jack kingston's point, this is an issue left up to the states. many states are already taking a look at that. but that this is part of a wide menu of things that the had the busy proposed and hoped to address this. whether or not there was a political middle ground here on the role of guns, what steps should be taken. i think it's unclear what's going to be the thing that people agreed on. >> the students have had success on the state level. we saw this with the bill that governor scott signed a couple of weeks ago. we'll see how much success they have as they continue to push federal legislators. >> i would add that if you ask most teachers, looking at west virginia, they'll say we want a pay raise before we want a gun. >> yeah. yeah. they absolutely say -- and that's all across the board at

this point. >> across the country. >> in terms of pay raises across the country. >> if you ask the parents, they want school safety. and that's what i think -- >> and students want school safety. >> everybody wants school safety, the question is the best way. >> there week we had positive developments this week. the spending bill had some gun safety measures in it. the president announced he's banning bump stocks. i don't think these things would have happened if we weren't having these marches all around the country. >> and these conversations. everybody, stay with us. we're going to talk to you in just a couple of minutes about some other news that's been -- you've seen it. last-minute budget deal, new national security adviser, that's coming up. two women allegedly with affairs with the president. it's been quite a week, and we still have an awful lot to discuss.

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to change gun laws across this country and end gun violence at schools. what's happening in washington will be one of more than 800 sister rallies around the world. cnn will be live all day watching the march for our lives. >> thank you for joining us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. stormy daniels' lawyer sends a "warning shot" to president trump. is he beating the president at his own game? let's bring in the panel, wanda, jack, john. wanda, i'm t appears that michael and stormy daniels every couple of days let out a -- they let out a little bit more to keep people interested. >> this is a great p.r. strategy. they seem to know how to keep the story in the spotlight ahead of the highly anticipated interview that anderson cooper

did that's airing tomorrow. this is something that aides have denied. i think this is forcing us as reporters to keep asking questions of the white house df this happen, did the president have an affair, a sexual relationship with this woman, why aren't we hearing more from them. this is keeping it front and center. i see when the women come out in interviews, it's visceral. after seeing karen mcdougal's interview and watching people internalize that, it puts not just a name but a face and voice and details to what stormy daniels alleges happened. and i think that that will make it a little bit more difficult for the white house to kind of continue to do this, nothing to see, the president ignoring questions about alleged affairs as recently as this week. >> it's interesting because some people care about the integrity of the president. others, not so much. it depends on what they do wh--

they do while they're there in terms of policy. we have stormy daniels, mcdougal, zervos, of which the cases do you think is most dangerous to the president? e it end of the day this isn't about affairs, this is about alleged intimidation or possible campaign violations. >> there are a couple of things. with respect to stormy daniels and perhaps karen mcdougal, it from a legal standpoints is an election law issue. whether the money was paid in violation of federal election laws is the legal issue. for the president individually, i think that the summer zervos case is the most problematic because that joins the question of is it true that you had unwanted -- because the other two are consensual -- unwanted sexual touching in a predatory way with this person, and did you lie and defame her when you said it didn't happen? that's much more problematic. the issue in a defamation suit

is the truth of the matter. and so if it's proven true that he did grope this woman and then defamed her, that's paula jones, that's what led to the demise of the clinton presidency in large measure, and the impeachment trial. >> i remember -- let me get to jack here. i remember campaign jack kingston when infidelity was something that was important to you. when you were talking about the clintons. and we've had this conversation going over and beyond the infidelity and the moral question as michael framed it. and now that doesn't matter as much? >> i think it definitely matters. it was something -- i don't want to say beat to death during the campaign, but there was a lot of lively discussion about, it as you know. i know in the case of summer zervos, she was a huge thank you very much fan. and then during the campaign, he did not stop by her restaurant. and then -- and by the way, she recruited her entire family to

be a trump -- to be trump supporters even to the extend that when she flipped, her cousin said, what the heck is she doing? she's mad because donald trump did not visit the restaurant. i don't know the facts on that. as michael knows, the court will take a look at it. here we have karen mcdougal, and she says "i'm a different person, i'm a wonderful person now," not being sarcastic here. but then she looks back at her deal which was two years old and decides it wasn't enough money, and now wants more money. what is this about if it's not about the money? >> two things stand out to me about what you said. that summer zervos changed and, therefore, lied -- >> i didn't say she lied. she flipped. >> the implication is from your statement that when he didn't visit her restaurant, she somehow created this story to

get even with him. >> that was the pivot. michael, i was there. that was the pivot. >> i understand, but the implication is she's lying because he didn't visit the restaurant. that's why i say to you, the defamation tests the truth of the proposition. hers versus his, it's legally problematic for him. and i just don't see how you get there, jack, without -- without sort of wishing it to be so, without there baseball a factual predicate for -- without there being a factual predicate for it. >> you're shaking your head. >> clearly having a moral compass is important to the presidency. one of the reasons he wasn't fit is because he lacked the moral compass. what's unfortunate is that we have to deal with this, right, because we have so many things to talk about. in about 60 days, we're going to negotiate with north korea. this is a very consequential meeting. north korea's a rogue nuclear state, they've talented the united states with intercontinental ballistic

missiles, and we're disproportionately talking about this stuff. it's a tragedy to the mid to upper that all of these distractions are coming at us when we have so much more important stuff to deal with. i mean, the president is performing as advertised. i mean, a lot of us thought these concerns existed with respect to the president, and they're playing out. and i think the losers are the american people because not only do they have a president who doesn't have the kind of character i think they'd like in aid leader, but they're distracted with all the stuff. we can't get down to the business of the people. >> they have jobs, they're working. the fact that isis is gone, the fact that consumer confidence is at almost an all-time high, that's what i think americans are corresponding with. i think when they looked at the two presidential candidates -- getting to your question, a serious question -- i think they thought you know, neither have done everything the way i would have done it. but donald trump is more in line with what we need for the economy, what we need in terms

of restraint -- >> does the president have a responsibility to come out and address it somehow? he was all the things he talks about and the things that we think he's going to react to, it's the opposite. he reacts to things we don't necessarily understand why he'd be talking about it, but this in particular, he won't touch. >> he should comment on it, of course. i mean, look, it's -- how much of your time and the other cable outlets are being spent on this? at some point, he's the leader of the country. this is about him. he should have some comment on this. if for no other reason than to try to get us to move on to folks on some of the issues. i agree with jack. the american people are excited. i'm happy that unemployment is at a record low. i mean, i think that's great. but we have a lot of other issues we need to deal with and have to find a way to have closure on this stuff so that we can actually either go one direction or the other with respect to the president. >> do you know who else isn't commenting on it? leaders on capitol hill.

mitch mcconnell, paul ryan. >> no, i think they are exactly in jack kingston's comment. they want to talk about the economy, the wins they're seeing on capitol hill. they're having a go-it-alone strategy. they have notched a number of conservative volkswagictories, they said they wanted to do, and they did. two things can be true -- we can have victories, and there can be an unanswered question on the other side. the president tweets about a litany of things. i'm shocked we haven't heard from him. >> it is saturday morning. everybody, stay by your phone. >> keep your boots on. >> quickly -- >> one last point, jack hasn't answered the question of why he was morally outraged with clinton and seems to give this president a pass. he wants to talk about the economy -- >> one word which you would appreciate -- perjury. >> are you -- are you morally outraged? >> it was perjury. >> you were morally outraged way before the perjury. >> you didn't know he ten years ago. i was -- >> you were morally outraged with jennifer flowers. you were morally outraged with

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supporting their fellow students and possibly teachers and other folks from parkland who have come to washington, d.c., to protest the gun violence that's been seen, particularly that has touched their community in the last couple of months. these students are the ones who have really rallied. they have gotten the support from a lot of adults, and this is a big part of why we're having this conversation now. >> cnn's paolo sandoval is on a bus with students traveling to washington for the march for our lives. paolo, tell us what you're seeing there. >> reporter: yeah. let's see if the signal holds up. we are, after all, on a moving bus on the pennsylvania turnpike. heaters what we've got here. -- here's what we've got here. about 250 young men and women and civic leaders from pittsburgh. they are making the four-hour drive to the nation's capital to join the massive crowds expected on the national mall. some of the kiddos, young men and women, certainly need a chaperone, as well, including justin cooper. you are from pittsburgh. tell me about why -- why you

felt the need to get involved in today's event. >> well -- i think probably the biggest problem is that our youth are really being confronted with the shootings and all the violence. i think they're looking at it and say, well, most people support some kind of change as far as the political system goes. we need change. a majority of people are up for that, yet our laws don't seem to be working with the people. i think the youth of this country said enough is enough. we need to do something. we need to work the changes. they're saying this is a democracy, we are the people, so people are going to get together and get our voices heard, and the kids are running all this. they're doing an amazing job. >> what is it that, for example, you grew up in a family of hunters or a hunting region? >> i definitely grew up in a hunting region where guns are -- people like to have guns and

enjoy hunting and sportsmanship. yet, you know, most people still want some kind of, you know, regulation and, you know, they want something to be done to make it safer. yet, you know, we don't want all the guns taken away, yet something has to change. >> thank you very much for your time. thank you very much for your time. before we lose the signal, we'll send things back to you. >> thank you very much, paolo. we'll check back in in a bit. >> we will. i want to talk to national spokeswoman for every town for gun safety and is running for georgia's sixth congressional district, and her son, jordan davis, was shot and killed at a gas station in florida by a man objecting to the loud music jordan and his friends were playing in their car. >> lucy, thank you very much for being with us this morning. your t-shirt reads "we can end gun violence." the question, of course, is how. hundreds of thousands of people will be in washington today. how do you take that energy, that pressure, and force members

of congress to do something? up until this point, nothing, not the death of your son, not the death of children in newtown, all of the other school shootings have accomplished it. >> i think the students are the tipping point. i think they're pushing us past the point of inertia. this is a whole new demographic of voters. they are beginning to build their "get out the vote" campaign. when i was working as one of the mothers in the movement and traveled around talking to millennials, trying to get them to understand how important their voice and vote is, time and time again we heard, my voice doesn't matter. you know, the adults are unaring the country. we'll worry about those things later. i think this is different now. they are fighting for their lives. they recognize and understand that they can have a great impact on their own futures. and that this is their time to stand up. these are going to be the new demographic of voters that we've needed to begin to really push

this issue toward safer gun laws. >> you're also wearing a pin with jordan -- >> yes. >> of course. what do you think he would say to you? seeing everything that you have done in the last couple of years and now? >> i think he would be very proud of me. but there again, what i am doing is what i was trying to teach jordan to do -- to step outside of the box and be about making sure that people's welfare and their lives and democracy is preserved. and so i think i'm just really doing what i was teaching . >> do you think he would be here with you then you believe? if he were here, he'd be standing by your side? >> absolutely. jordan was a person that really wanted to make sure that everybody had a piece of the pie, you know. he was a leader with his friends, but very much a social activist himself. so i know that he would love to be here.

and he is with me. he really is with me. >> we're so sorry for your loss. but thank you so much for being here and talking to us about it. >> thank you. >> we appreciate it. again of course it was back on february 14th where a gunman killed 17 people and the survivors now are leading this march, leading this movement to change gun laws in this country. and to end gun violence. there are rallies around the world. more than 800 sister rallies. and cnn is covering this from beginning to end. a quick break. ♪ (vo) do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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