let's return to our top story now: a former us army civilian employee who served with us intelligencese, explained life in the military as a transgender person. i actually joined the army with the intent in mind to transition, and injoining the army i had a suspicion i would be joining a workforce that would be open and accepting of what i needed to do with my life. i expected that the work i did would speak for itself, and i was not disappointed. i wanted to ask you about how much do you think transgender people rely on mental health services within the us military? it's a crucial part of any trans person's transition, to go through some sort of mental health. most of us do it. in the military, it's a required part of transition. you have to get a doctor to signoff on your psychological state before you can actually go through transition. so it is crucial. it's notjust critical for people going through transition actively, but also for people who have post transition needs, including veterans. the rand corporation says it is less than a 0.1% of the cost of medical bills for people of

emily crose is a former us army civilian employee who served with us intelligence agencies.e and thank you forjoining us. you are transgender and you work for the us army. what is in your direction after donald trump's ban announcement? there are going to be announcement? there are going to be a lot of families devastated by this. it is very troubling to see people discriminated in this way and it is hard to see policy like this. why it do you think he is doing this? i honestly could not speculate on what would cause of this to happen at this time. what did you think when he said transgender people were a burden on the military and talked about the medical cost. top read through your experience.” would say that anyone who contributes to the military should absolutely not be qualified as a burden by anybody, inside or outside the military structure. personally, i think that is offensive. what were your experiences like? what is it like to be transgender in the us military and how it differs from anybody else bass i had a fantastic experience. i joined anybody else bass i had

back to haunt us now so now you mentioned gladio earlier let's talk about gladio because obviously there's the historical aspect of gladio which we know has to do with stay behind armies facing the fascist elements the posts in the post world war era former nazis and basically fascist groups that were being utilized by the western intelligence apparatus of nato and basically were used not only as stay behind armies in case of a soviet invasion or oftentimes were engaging in terror attacks in the west so then blame on there is less just whether it's red brigade or the socialist movement parties right to basically try to create political chefs internally in the west this matter of fact as you know like during levy one the years of living in italy where there were these to reflect on things even the mean positive for the time they were all done by really to stay behind units are glad your units. spurred on by the cia funded by the cia and all these attacks are blamed on the communists of course communists were completely completely completely you know innocent so it was a ploy but we know this not only in italy but we've done much you know late in in in germany the hombu

online no this is the conclusion of a year in the making pentagon report published in june by the us army war college is strategic studies institute and it was sponsored by the us army strategic plans and policy directorate the joint staff and the office of the deputy secretary of defense for strategy and force. development just to name a few it's gloomily titled at our own peril the study essentially concludes that quote while the united states remains a global political economic and military giant it no longer enjoys an unassailable position versus state competitors the status quo that was hatched and nurtured by u.s. strategists after world war two and has for decades been the principal beat for d.o.b. is not merely fraying but may in fact become lapsing so with the post world war two power structure that centered around the wants and needs of the united states and its allies now starting to collapse it's now staring collapse in the eye just what is an empire to do what do the brilliant minds in the department of defense suggest is the remedy well investigative journalist not these ahm

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he also helped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army.es he believe that the nuremberg trials have made genocide and other crimes against humanity less likely to be committed in the world today? ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. you were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. you moved to the united states with your family when you were a little baby. you really epitomise the american dream, a kind of rags to riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to harvard law school. we arrived in america. my parents were young immigrants fleeing persecution and poverty. no money, no skills, no language. and lucky to have some friendly new yorker offer us, my father, who had been trained as a shoemaker, but they didn't need any boots made in new york, there were no cobblers. but the owner of a building offered us the opportunity to sleep in the cellar and my father would be the janitor. that's where we began, and that's where my memory begins, in a high—crime density area known

he also helped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army.does he believe that the nuremberg trials have made genocide and other crimes against humanity less likely to be committed in the world today? ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. you were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. you moved to the united states with your family when you were a little baby. you really epitomise the american dream, a kind of rags to riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to harvard law school. we arrived in america. my parents were young immigrants fleeing persecution and poverty. no money, no skills, no language. and lucky to have some friendly new yorker offer us, my father, who had been trained as a shoemaker, but they didn't need any boots made in new york, there were no cobblers. but the owner of a building offered us the opportunity to sleep in the cellar and my father would be the janitor. that's where we began, and that's where my memory begins, in a high—crime density area kno

they were using army surplus. us, we havethree of done it all. all of the traits. carpentry, tile work, sheet rock, electric, plumbing, cap bintry.-- cap phase one. the wood working phase. i cut it once with a jigsaw. very precise. now i want to put the pattern back on. out to at to route finer degree with the router against our pattern. make it more precise. what i'm doing right now is building what we call the h frame. it is the sign of the trailer. in the shop, it is mostly colin and me. we are making phone calls and answering phone calls and selling. we cut out the wood. finish everything. put the box together. now we have a wooden box. a lot of people do not understand hand tools. they are the quickest to get things done a lot of the times. amounto do the maximum with they, would -- bare minimum of tools. building each caravan takes two weeks to assemble and finish. is we insulate the box. and then we -- with aluminum. it is a soft aluminum. we have to be careful in the shop. if we get the side of the trailer, we have to pull that piece of skin off and put a n

it absolutely safes us army. there have been a number of studies, the air force estimated they are over 20% over their installations. i agree with that. what our bill has done is prohibit them frrm even thinking about a brac. so it is a brilliant argument to say and put in the bill you are plobetted from doing the study. but it isn't helping our military. we have more needs than we have money for. we cannot afford for interests to get in the way what is in the best interests of our troops. and what this amendment does, it doesn't authorize a brac. t removes the prohibition of a brac. and so all this is going to do if this amendment passes is allow the military to do what the gentleman from sourget carolina said they ought to do. there is no reason to oppose this amendment. and i urge support. the chair: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized. mr. wilson: i yiled to mr. scott. mr. scott: i rise in the opposition to this offered by mr. mcclintock of karl. t would strike a provision national defense authori

our third speaker is richard poussin who is a us army advisor and member of post-atlantic us department of state and also our fourth speaker is chair of security studies at sata foundation and international create relations at sekhar university and mister ambassador, ... >> let me tackle this from two stent standpoint. one is the situation related to the crew and how that impacted bilateral relations. secondly, the much broader context of american turkish bilateral relations in the context of the middle east and eurasia. turkey of course was extremely fortunate to have survived a coup of this breadth and depth and danger. the united states has many as he pointed out, was expected to embrace a democratically elected government facing a military coup and there was great disappointment. i was involved peripherally outside the administration in the decisions in the first few hours and i can assure you this was not a deliberate action by the administration. rather, any of you who have followed president obama in the press or as i have worked with him know that he doesn't make decisions quick

have the materials they use, the jeep wheels, the aluminum, it is quite simply because they were using armyhree of us, we have done it all. all the trades, carpentry, sheet rock, electric, plumbing, cabinetry. all of that. >> phase one is the woodworking phase. we put the pattern down on here . traced our lines. and i cut it rough with the jigsaw, very imprecise. i'm just getting most of the material out of the way. now i'm going to put the pattern back on here and i am going to route it out to a finer degree with the router against our pattern and make it more precise and smooth. ♪ >> what i am doing right now is building what we call the h-frame. it is really the sign of the trailer. >> in the shop, it is mostly us. he doesn't have time. he is making phone calls, answering phone calls, and selling. so we cut out the wood, finish everything. the box together, so now we have a wooden box. >> a lot of people don't understand hand tools, but they are the quickest to get things done a lot of times. >> i try to do the maximum amount of quality with the bare minimum of tools. >> building each ca

national geographic kate line very as she recalls the life of the first african-american captain of the us army ship. also that evening, will be in new york at the brooklyn bridge park with former literary editor of the london times, erica wagner's book is a biography of the builder of the brooklyn bridge. on wednesday were back in washington at busboys and poets were georgetown university law professor paul butler will argue that statistics are influencing racial injustice in policing america. also that evening, will be a tattered covered bookstore in denver where radio broadcaster and journalist david baron, reports on the american scientist who studied the solar eclipse of 1878. saturday will be back at politics and prose to hear a story and william randall recover how the united states use the 1812 war to become international independent of great britain. that some of the events that will be coming this week and many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on the tv on c-span two. >> stop harassment and take your power back. gretchen carlson is the au

in the us a child can choose an army course in school. with retired officers as teachers really don't. recruit will says to you if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves. the pentagon is funding a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers your chance to step up to an apollo so that comfortable with yourself. things you can't go wrong with the military it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do but some veterans are willing to tell enthusiastic children a little more they ask me call of duty is a very popular first year video game. it's play and that's because the military like call of duty to turn off call of duty oh yeah well you can't turn off work and lot of these kids just don't hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them to be told or does it just need more recruits. for the truth because of the. oh oh . chicago a city we can't seem to stop caring about in the recent media reports on crime just this week a seventy year old man was shot and killed on t

. >> welcome back, us army soldier station in the hawaii is facing terror charges this morning, aftersis. federal officials arrested 33 year old i. ka over the weekend as part every sting operation following year long investigation. now, authorities say he offered to provide isis with military support not knowing he was actually dealing with f.b.i. agent. >> the material support included providing military document, person he believe would pass them to isis, to be involved in the purchase after drone, with the intent that it would be provided to isis in providing combative training to an individual he believed was affiliated with isis. >> now, according to his military record, was deployed to afghanistan in 2013, and in iraq in 2011. he even earned a global war on terrorism service medal. authority say no military document ever reached isis. >> very disturbing story there. dozen every wild fire fires continue to burn out wets, more than six battling wild fires in california, at least 3500 people are out of their homes, fires different on the to santa barbara county. larger of the two

these active and former us army officers have advanced to the finals without winning a single heat.m know that second place is no longer good enough. -man: one, two, three! -heart of texas: heart of texas! yee-haw! -the heart of texas beat us twice now but doesn't mean anything in our books. the finals is gonna be anyone's game. we're doing almost every single obstacle on the course, so it's gonna be a little bit longer. -we have a team of endurance athletes, so the longer the course, the better we think that suits our strength. -we haven't won a race this whole season, so i think, you know, that would be the first and foremost thing. we ready to prove that, you know, we're not a team that's just gonna be a wild card the whole time. -ashley: personally, if we won this competition, i would really be overwhelmed with honor that we were able to represent our country, represent the us army. -killian: this last race, it's gonna be a fight to the finish. -killian: this is it. last race. we know endurance is our strength. we're not gonna fail. we got this. -we got this. -all right, let's d

the us army's chief of staff warns that time may be running out for unknown minute tree solution to the danger posed by north korea. recently a band was introduced on all american citizens traveling to the country. following the death of the u. s. student detained that. pyongyang insists the band one cause any harm as most tourists and divide the border with china. it's from that that the b. b. c.'s jon some with reports. from their tour boats chinese onlookers here across the river. but it already isolated state about to become even more consul. so few american tourists actually cross this from tier that the travel ban is of course more symbolic. then meeting followed an economic sense none the less it is a sign that. often months of rising tensions. the senate of unpredictability and the risks a growing. is for. everything isn't skating. it was this case that focused minds in washington a u. s. tourist given fifteen years hard labor. trying to steal a north korean propaganda poster. he was released last month in a coma. and died soon after. the contrast between the chinese city of dan

most recent example of the pentagon's faulty bureaucracy earlier this year it was revealed that the us army failed to properly track over a billion dollars worth of weapons and equipment and iraq and kuwait lax controls and record keeping such as this has reportedly resulted in u.s. manufactured arms and then up in the hands of terrorist groups such as i sold this means the u.s. is shipping out weapons without being sure where they end up and just this week the pentagon was criticized for wasting as much as twenty eight million dollars by selecting forest camouflage pattern uniforms for afghan national army soldiers for a sprint in afghanistan only two point one percent of the country is covered by forest the u.s. defense secretary slammed the pentagon for the waste of taxpayer dollars and called for reform rather than minimize this report or excuse wasteful decisions and expect all department of defense organizations to use this area as a counselor to bring to light wasteful practices and take aggressive steps to end waste which is all. well and good but this is not a new problem two years