now thatve function will mo out of the officef personnelma nagement to the defense department. the white house personnel director woworks at t defense department recently skipped testifying because tit whe house did not want himero. has been a lot of controversy about the security clearances. now it looks le the opm will be hands off and the defense department will take care of it. >>> president trump's prose to stone wall democratic investigations was no empty threat. the white house is refusg to allow steppen miller to testify. the committee received a letter denying his request for miller to testify on the trump administration's immigration policies. >> reporter: from the president, a subpoena stone wall. we are fighting all the subpoenas. these aren't liketi imparal people. the democrats are trying to win 2020. the only way they can luck out is by constantly going after me on nonsense. >> why not cooperate? because the president argues, his white house has alreadyer coed with mueller's. >> they checked my financials and taxes, i assume. it was the most thorough investigatio

and the defense department needs to do its homework now. >>in washington morgan right. >>vice president joe biden's campaign says it has raise million in the first 24 hours since he announced he is joining that crowded race for the white house that is more than any other democrat running right now has raised in the first 24 hours for a little perspective california senator kamala harris raised one million in her first 24 hours. and she went on to raise about 12 million in the 1st quarter so biden is just getting started aides for biden say he raised more than 96 or more than 96,000 people i should say donated to the campaign and 97% of online an online donations were less than $200. biden also held his first major fundraiser yesterday raking in half a million dollars, san francisco based uber is planning on selling a 180 million shares in its company for between $4450 each. >>in a bid to raise up to billion that would put uber's total value somewhere around 80 or billion that's lower than earlier estimates which were as high as a 120 billion uber is lift stock has falle

the last time we saw an official defense department spokesperson or a defense official hold a press televised press conference with three hundred days ago and the pentagon doesn't seem to have an explanation why defense department spokesman charles summers told the press quote i can't tell you why it's been so long but i know that we will go on camera and when we're ready to do that i will let you know now the air force and the marine corps have not ceased to have press conferences but the navy the army have cut back on general officer announcements and lead to avoid cyber attacks against those officers however despite the fact that it has been not only commonplace but a longstanding practice to hold these regular press conferences the current u.s. defense department seem to be afraid of speaking to the press whatever the reason may be avoiding the press does not help the problem of misinformation in fact it makes it worse because the incorrect reports are not corrected in a timely manner by officials retired army lieutenant general. russel honore a known best for being the commander who took

for publishing classified defense department documents on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. and state department documents and the so-called diplomatic cables that exposed the ugly side of american foreign policy this past week was proven wrong. however the indictment released by the u.s. department of justice does not as many predict charges under the espionage act for publishing classified information such a prosecution would have opened the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations including mainstream media outlets that published his material instead the d.o.j. has charged under the computer fraud and abuse and accusing him of proactively helping his source chelsea manning log in to the defense department computers to get the documents in question. regardless of which law u.s. authorities are charging essential press freedom advocates of war the criminalize ation of what essentially does stand accused of such as the use of encrypted messages concealing a source inside and using secure drop boxes all common. working practices have precedence implications

the defense department has stopped refueling as a matter of policy. this measure would do so as a matter of law. the defense department also says that the united states is not engaged in hostilities when it comes to this war. well, the defense department is entitled to its opinion, but congress is a co-equal branch of government and only we say and decide when the united states is at war. we don't look to the executive branch to explain the war powers that reside in this body or for permission to exercise that power, the power the framers gave to congress. this measure is written very narrowly so it won't tie the hands of the executive branch or set new precedents or, of course, unintended -- or cause unintended consequences when it comes to other agreements around the world. it does nothing to expand or modify the authority provided under the authorization for the use of military force this body passed in 2001. instead, it focuses on this particular tragedy and sends the message that enough is enough. madam speaker, the house is not in order. the spe

you're saying it's acceptable for soldiers to illegally hack in to the defense department of the united states and reveal c. classified information i mean that's just insane if you can't run a country that way you can't run a world that way so out chelsea manning is that despicable criminals of the us should be running the world and so. and if and if in fact julius did what the united states government said he did he too now no one's talking about the death penalty and no one saw king even about life in prison and right now the indictment under the charges he faces that would be five years in prison i love the fact that my counterpart sits there and just you know says whatever he wants without any facts the m.f.f. the loan you have no facts so that he wasn't tortured in the embassy somebody is tortured he's free to leave i woulda left a long time ago under the conditions you're putting forth he's never claimed he was tortured or that embassy where do you get that i love this everybody is evil except the bad guys in your world there are good guys it's all topsy turvy you even people who

> changing coming for deployments and home comings due to operational security reasons, the defense department will no longer announce when naval forces deploy or return from a tour of duty. it's all part of a new defense strategy which is calling for the military to be less predictable. while many military families say they don't like the new defense department policy, others say they understand the change. more news right after this break. 4:52. we have another robocall sy for you. this one hits close to home here at nbc bay area. >>> 4:54. robocalls for you. this one hits close to home. >>> a warning that an i.d. thief is spoofing our phone number. >> a san francisco man alerted us that he got a phone call from nbc bay area. peter smith snapped a photo of the caller i.d. right here. it said kntv and ksds. but the phone call was not from us. he said the other person claimed to be from medicare and asked for his social security number to get him a new medicare number. that's a known scam. preying on the fact that new medicare cards are going out in the mail right now. the feds have warned us

and the defense department needs to do its homework now. >>in washington morgan right. >>police calling her recovery a miracle we speak to the pacific a woman who survived being shot in the head. well 8 months pregnant plus los angeles colleges are ordering a quarantine for hundreds of students and staff the latest numbers on the growing cases of measles new reaction today from president trump that's after the break. >>and it was a beautiful day across the bay area what we expect for this weekend on your 10. >>in the north bay of san anselmo teenager suffered a terrible injury. a few weeks ago resulting in the loss of one of his hands and now as community is rallying around him raising money to offset enormous medical costs and as con forcefully jungle tells us his family says response has been overwhelming. >>at the end of the day lou go hide in is still alive and for his irish american family in marin county. that's the most important thing i haven't seen him cry. >>they just want to get on with this he wants to get on and go to college and peace keeping everybody str

putting a boxer in charge of the defense department might not be the best idea. thank you, thank you. you got it, coach, thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. >> what is your mom say when you said you were going to this? >> she got really nervous. >> we are going to leave this to you can find our coverage online on the span.org. the house is about to javelin -- gavel in for speeches. bill debate starts at 4:45. as leaders give members extra time to return from their home districts for the last week of work for the spring recess. bills today, authorizing funding for local water projects and approving a seven state agreement allocating

it's our understanding that last night the department of defense sent a notification of the intent to reprogram funds and use from 10 ucs to construct portions of the border wall. we also understand that department of defense may start awarding contracts using funding pursuant to 10 as early as may. can you explain in more detail the status of your plans to build a border wall pursuant to 2808. have you made any determination that the supposed national emergency requires the use of arms forces? if so, why? >> the status of 2808 is i received a request from the department of homeland security. part of the process to make a determination is i tasked the chairman and they provide a military recommendation. >> mr. chairman? >> have you made any determinations that a border wall is necessary to support the use of troops at the border? >> mr. chairman? >> kangman, just to make sure that i answer the question directly, so we're responding to the president's direction to reinforce the department of homeland security because they have capability and capacity short falls. so that extent, we hav

the defense department is a $700 billion budget. the defense department has a responsibility to be transparent with the american people and with congress about the decisions that are being made, and about the crises that they are having to deal with, and how those funds are being used. in my experience, my predecessors provided briefings to the press. bob gates provided a briefing to the press with the chairman of the joint chiefs. i continued that tradition on a regular basis. going down to the briefing room with the chairman of the joint chiefs and summarizing some of the more serious issues that we were working on. we were involved in a war in iraq and afghanistan. we were doing counterterrorism operations. i think it is important, obviously, to make clear to the public what we are doing. look, obviously, there are classified areas that you are not going to share, but, at the same time, i think the public is entitled to know what is taking place. it is the men and women in uniform that you are putting on the line, who are putting

for publishing classified defense department documents on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. and state department documents and even the so-called diplomatic cables that exposed to the ugly side of american foreign policy this past week was proven wrong. however the indictment released by the u.s. department of justice does not as many put a charge under the espionage act for publishing classified information such a prosecution would have opened the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations including mainstream media outlets that published his material instead the d.o.j. has charged under the computer fraud and abuse and accusing him of proactively helping his source chelsea manning log in to the defense department computers to get the documents in question. regardless of which law u.s. authorities are charging essential press freedom advocates of war the criminalize ation of what essentially does stand accused of such as the use of encrypted messages concealing a source inside and using secure drop boxes all common reporting practices precedent setting impl

for publishing classified defense department documents on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. and state department documents and the so-called diplomatic cables that exposed the ugly side of american for. and policy this past week was proven wrong. however the indictment released by the u.s. department of justice as many putting charges under the espionage act for publishing classified information such a prosecution would have opened the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations including mainstream media outlets that published his material instead the d.o.j. has charged under the computer fraud and abuse accusing him of proactively helping his source chelsea manning. defense department computers to get the documents in question. regardless of which. charging a. press freedom advocates of the criminal. such as the use of encrypted messages concealing sources and using secure drop boxes all common reporting practices precedent setting implications for journalism in the u.s. and beyond. let's start with the context and the question why now given that ecuador. i

for publishing classified defense department documents on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. and state department documents and even the so-called diplomatic cables that exposed to the ugly side of american foreign policy this past week was proven wrong. however the indictment released by the u.s. department of justice does not as many putting charges under the espionage act for publishing classified information such a prosecution would have opened the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations including mainstream media outlets that published his material instead the d.o.j. has charged under the computer fraud and abuse and accusing him of proactively helping his source chelsea manning log in to the defense department computers to get the documents in question. regardless of which law u.s. authorities are charging essential press freedom advocates of war the criminalize ation of what essentially does stand accused of such as the use of encrypted messages concealing a source inside and using secure drop boxes all common reporting practices precedent setting i

defense to have that support made available. no we do not have, clearly, there will be a significant increase in the effort, and quantified at this point, until the department of defense, coast guard assessment teams have been on the scene, and come back to us, it would be ill advised. we are making that assessment and putting the program together. once we have it together in the not-too-distant future, within days, we will be at back to you. the important thing to recognize, we will have a complete program put together early next week, he will then begin to deploy it as it makes sense. we are not going to put people up there until they are equipped and trained and ready to do it. thank you very much. >> reporter: federal statutes, [ inaudible question ] the dod, a national emergency, you discuss the possibility of smack >> is a major civilian disaster and is being treated such by the president. it's not a national military disaster that would call for the militarization of the coast guard. thank you. >> today we continue our investigation of. and environment history to the lens of nuclear testing. yesterday we had our first conversation about the savage dr

if you look at countries in the pacific the current defense department if you look at countries along the road trajectory they don't want to have to make a choice between the united states and china. they want to benefit submittal countries have far more freedom of maneuver than they did in the cold war. that is the optimistic point i wanted to open my rocks with. i don't think we are embarking on a new cold war. i don't think the competition but we have to be candid and i think an important a vital part of the conversation like this one is that we need candor and the more candor we have and conversations between american and chinese policymakers, students and business officials the better the long-term relationship will be. i am worried about the u.s. china relationship and as dr. robert sutter said in his opening remarks we have seen a large deterioration in the relationship in recent years. i have personally been quite shocked at how rampant rapid the downturn has been. the united states increasingly if you look at the national defense strategy the language of china being a complex

the justice department has charged julian assange with conspiracy to hack into the defense department computers, here is what the president said about wikileaks during the campaign and then this week. >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. wikileaks is like a treasure troll. i love reading those wikileaks. i know nothing about wikileaks, it's not my thing. chris: how can the president say and does he regard julian assange as villain or >> look, clearly the president was making a joke during 2016 campaign, certainly we take this serious, in fact, our administration is the only one that's done anything about it. let's not forget that the reason julian assange is being looked at is because of engagement with chelsea manning, that individual is that the person that obama administration commuted their sentence, only ones that have taken this whole process seriously and actually doing something to solve the problem. chris: okay. >> the president was making a joke during the campaign and talking about the specifics of the case at that moment. chris: a joke he made over and over again, in any case l

the defense department has stopped refueling as a matter of policy. this measure would do so as a matter of law. the defense department also says that the united states is not engaged in hostilities when it comes to this war. well, the defense department is entitled to its opinion, but congress is a co-equal branch of government and only we say and decide when the united states is at war. we don't look to the executive branch to explain the war powers that reside in this body or for permission to exercise that power, the power the framers gave to congress. this measure is written very narrowly so it won't tie the hands of the executive branch or set new precedents or, of course, unintended -- or cause unintended consequences when it comes to other agreements around the world. it does nothing to expand or modify the authority provided under the authorization for the use of military force this body passed in 2001. instead, it focuses on this particular tragedy and sends the message that enough is enough. madam speaker, the house is not in order. the spe

secretary pompeo: when you say target, you are talking about the department of defense does. i'll allow them to respond to that question. [indiscernible]reporter: how does this affect e.u. trade? since the irgc is involved in most parts of the iranian economy, the question, including banking and everything else, how does this affect those relations? number two, if you -- you said often you want to bring iran to the -- this is aimed at forcing iran back to the negotiating table. do you believe this would help bring them back? or is that no longer your aim here? secretary pompeo: we want iran to behave like a normal nation. we said 12 things they needed to do back in may of last year. that's the mission of this designation as well. so that's our purpose. if you said what's the intent? to achieve the outcome we laid out back in may of last year to do the simple thing like not launch missiles into saudi arabia and risking lives. reporter: how does this affect things on e.u. trade? secretary pompeo: here's the simple question to that. if you're a general counsel for a european ins

people from service and blocks them from health care if they transition to another gender the defense department says transgender people may serve it if they do so in the sex assigned at birth. tweaked about britain's opposition labor party is urged the government not to extradite wiki leaks founder julian assange to the united states a sign she was arrested on thursday in the ecuadorian embassy in london after ecuador were drew his right to asylum he's wanted in the u.s. for revealing state secrets but his supporters say he will not be given a fair trial. german shows on america has vowed to stand by ukraine in its effort to maintain territorial integrity america's pledge came during talks in berlin with ukrainian leader petro poroshenko but the meeting was overshadowed by another issue for shanker his bid to keep his job in a closely fought election back home. sometimes it's not about who gets. an invitation but who doesn't the head of ukraine's presidential election runoff german chancellor angela merkel drew criticism for welcoming ukrainian president petro poroshenko and then not his conten

you need the ultimate onponsibility for what goes at the department of defense, the decisions that are made, and the implementation of those decisions. but just as the president delegates authority to me as secretary of defense, i in turn delegate authority to my military leadership to implement those things. but we all need to know what is going on. and there is no excuse for hide serious to mistakes that have been made. i made very clear to the people at the pentagon that i will be honest with them, that i expect them to be honest with me. and if i find that the are not honest with me, then that is a serious moment in terms of whether or not they will retain their job. alice: speaking of transparency, then, this administration and this particular dod is under pressure right now because it has been over 300 days since a political official appeared on camera in the briefing room and then there are other examples of the dod reducing transparency engaging with the press less often. tookhas been reduced, they over the deployment numbers iraq.afghanistan and do you think the dod is making

. >>> the defense department identifying two u.s.rvice members killed. 22-year-old army specialist ryan riley of richmond, kentucky, died saturday in iraq. the defense department statement says he was supporting the efforts against al qaeda in operation inherent resolve. they did not disclose further details about the incident which is under investigation. the department also announcing 24-year-old staff sergeant albert miller of richmond, new hampshire, died friday in qatar. the death is also under investigation. >>> ahead, the oakland a's center fielder taking a home run away with a spectacular grab, but that's not what makes one of the most amazing plays you'll ever see coming up. ial we see two travelers at a comfort inn with a glow around them, so people watching will be like, "wow, maybe i'll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com." who glows? just say, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com. ♪ corey is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body.

it's interior, homeland security, the defense department, the u.n., mick mulvaney. he has an acting chief of staff. he could just remove the word acting there. so he has a full acting-level cabinet here instead of a permanent legacy. what does that mean? >> it keeps the actings on their toes. they have less job security than they would otherwise. suggests no position where you are advising the president is permanent. on immigration we need to see whether he's going november forwa -- move forward with a permanent nominee or will look for a czar position and who that will be. perhaps someone if they didn't need to go through the confirmation process could be maybe a little bit more polarizing or less of a consensus candidate. >> start with an acting czar maybe. thanks for being with us. alisyn? >> the battle over president trump's tax returns is intensifying. acting white house chief of staff telling democrats they'll never see the president's taxes. cnn's lauren fox is live on capitol hill with more. how about never? that's the time frame. >> reporter: the president'

he said -- >> a former head of homeland security and defense department general counsel told "fox and friends" that the legal picture is complicated. >> there may be a claim that what he was doing was legitimate journalist activity and what constitutes a journalist is a more complex question in the age 0 the internet. >> it's also important to know on the campaign trail, the president said multiple times or praised multiple times, wikileaks and the release of the e-mails, shep. >> as luck and fate would have it, the president who often used to say i love wikileaks has just commented again on wikileaks. as is the case most often, the white house pool is in there for this and they're hearing it and recording it. they are play it out. when they do, we will play it for you. first, an arrest of the first prominent democrat as part of the mueller probe. president obama's one-time white house counsel, greg craig, seen here indicted in a case that stems from the special counsel's russia investigation. the justice department charges the high profile attorney with making false statements while

, the department of defense and the department of defense contracting officials and after multiple trips to afghanistan by members of this committee, this committee determined that more than 66 million in taxpayer dollars were paid to a contractor provided unserviceable munitions. three years later this committee opened up an investigation about the department of defense's out source for supplies in afghanistan to questionable companies and providers that revealed a vast protection racquet run by war lordz, not only did the system run afoul, it also risked undermining u.s. strategy or achieving our goals in afghanistan. so after more than 18 years of war in afghanistan, in support of operating freedom and operation freedom seen continuenal more than 14 thundershowers troops are deployed in the region. we have allocated more than $750 billion in taxpayer funds to pay for the war in afghanistan. that's in addition to the $132 billion contributed towards efforts to stabilize the country. the american people deserve and remain -- to remain informed on the progress or lack of progress o

the department of defense is prepared to send more troops to the southern border good evening i am in for elizabeth mcdonald and the evening at it starts right now. at 6:00 this friday night the work is not over meeting with the japanese prime minister at the white house expected to discuss north korea and trade the meeting talked about gdp growth giving the president another! that the economy has never been better. and we are live at the white house with the latest. >> holding down the fort at the white house. the japanese prime minister is lasting longer than expected officials say they are talking about national security what to do next with north korea and trade. that is a big one for the white house specifically because us farmers are about the only people in the world paying high tariffs on agriculture now the agriculture secretary says the industry is squeezed out that's very high on the presidents min mind. >> we will be discussing strongly access to health care as the prime minister knows of the tariffs on agriculture going for many years. >> earlier in indiana the president

you don't like the department of defense. the coast guard is nondefense discretionary spending. we continue to find ourselves on the outside looking in when it comes to material operations and support plus ups. in 2017, 2 department of defense received funds while the coast guard increased a 4% coast guard. every year we probably spend out $1 billion in support of the combat and commanders. it has not changed in more than 18 years. as an example of our growing, defense portfolio, he is supporting the endo pacific in the south china see and forcing u.s. actions. protecting and advancing the u.s. interest. though, we strive for relentless resilience, our purchasing power has declined. >> fe we continue to do that including short infrastructure, we will lose the fighter from evolving threats. >> sbess spite these challenges i am extremely proud of the coast guard's contributions. in 2018 as part of the department's security strategy and joining the task force -- h, our aveyathes metrics our naunl security cutters have . ceeded performance we have 25 capable off-shore patrol cutters.

not integrate of toolkits well and much the response on gray zone challenges is beyond the defense department and military. we are rhetorically in the right place, very little action happening. a lot ofa lot of things to be cd the success and importance of deterrence in defense of the u.s. and allies. not, dave trachtenberg said it but i could have said this in the obama administration, let me give you a for instance. south korea worried that if morth korea had an icb capability that could reach of the u.s. that the u.s. would not come to south korea plus's -- south korea's defense. we did several things to say that was not true. first we took sight of our missile defense. we said this protects the u.s. but we want to make sure that north korea, not russia or china come about north korea cannot hold the u.s. at risk and that is why this missile defense. also remember the u.s. has been at risk from far more ballistic missiles in its history with allies than we ever will be with north korea. still weeks into deterrence with allies. think about russia. the soviet union has many more and they sti

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chelsea manning in which a stand is alleged to have helped manning get the information out of the defense department computer system if that's true how problematic would that be for a centrist is the point i think is important about the charges is that while the accusation is about compute conspiracy to commit computer crime so in india a headline hacking if you look at the factual allegations what it amounts to is a discussion about how chelsea manning could protect her identity while accessing material she already had access to. material manning had already provided wiki but a savage was looking for more telling his source curious eyes never run dry. what happened next is central to this case manning had security concerns fearing that if she went in for more she would be traced the sand suggested a different route into the system by cracking another password thereby covering managed traps his lawyers say he was simply protecting his source others don't see it that way. journalists will often tell sources to you know hide their you know identity by using signal to communicate by using tor to access

we've already expressed our concern over the defense department's misuse of science to justify dischargingcally necessary care. quote, here we note there's a global medical consensus that the need to undergo gender transition is not a deficiency or defect that stigmatizing transgenders in this way is inappropriate and scapegoating and denial of medical care will compromise the well-being of transgender. i wonder how usee any parallels or lack thereof in terms of how this policy is being implemented and the type of discrimination it means. how is this going to work in terms of grands fauring people in who came out under the previous policy when the previous type of discrimination of this kind was dropped by president obama? >> yes, so there were about 14,700 transgender troops today and about 1,000 of them have received diagnoses of gender dysphoria since inclusive policy was put into place. >> given the supreme court ruling that effectivally allowed this to happen today, i think the number of transgender troops who are serving openly and proudly and benefitting the military is going to cre

unlike the department of defense, coast guard is cat gorized as nondefense discretionary spending. we continue to find ourselveses on the outside looking in when it comes to material operations and support plus ups. in 2017, the department of defense received a about a 12% boost in operations and support funds while the coast guard received 4% increase. yet the coast guard's military contributions are immutable. every year we expend over $1 billion on defense-related activities in direct support of the combatant commanders but the $340 million of defense readiness numbers we receive hasn't changed in more than 18 years. enforcing sanctions against north korea and protecting interests. though we strive for relentless resilience to execute operations, our paur which ising -- purchasing power has declined. if we can't to neglect our growing backlog of deferred repairs, including shore instrasfruck -- infrastructure, we'll lose ground in the fight against evolving threats. despite these challenges i am proud of the coast guard's contributions. in 2018, as part of the department's layere

secretary stewart, i appreciate you listing out the reason why department defense feels the selective service system is a low-cost insurance policy. i can tell you over the last 18 months of our existence, multiple conversations with various members of the department there seems to be a lack of any support to any of the arguments provided them whether their stock imitation of it actually being a adversary, how it narrows the civil military divide when 75% of registrants use passively and don't even know that they registered, or how many actual sanctions, out that are generated by the selective service system. additionally in 2012, the gao recommend dod update their requirement for selective service which as you mention currently that selective service system provides one of thousand inductees by day 205. do you not agree to update the requirement back in 2012. they need to have by december 2012 but failed to do so. the gao reiterated its recommendation that dod update the requirement to the review of the 2016 dod report to this commission. dod again concurred that it should update the

him can you help me crack this because if you can then i can use this password to get into a defense departmentomputer pretending to be somebody else and that will cover my tracks. now the indictment says that julian assange wasn't able to help him do that and, therefore, no documents were obtained by that so it's not about publication they say for two reason. just about the hacking which wasn't successful and didn't yield any documents that were obtained. turned over to wikileaks or published. they say this is not about trying to criminalize journalism and this is the distinction they draw between what they say is strictly computer hacking and trying to criminalize publishing these documents. >> our colleague tweeted the lesson for journalism students it's generally lelito publish classified information or at least to ask for classified information but not okay to try to help somebody get that out of a defense department system, for example? >> i would say it differently. it's never been pro secuted. whether it's legal or not. the espionage laws are not clear about that. it's not just acceptin

quote, we are troubled by the defense department's characterization of the need undergo gender transitionficiency, and by the addition of gender dysphoria. it includes bed wetting and disturbances of per session, thinking, emotional control or behavior. we've already defense department's misuse of science to justify discharging and denying medically necessary care and here we note there is a global medical consensus the need to undergo gender transition not a deficiency and destigmatizing is inappropriate for u.s. government entity and scapegoating and denial of medical care will compromise the well being of transgender service members who are otherwise fit and available for duty. joining us now is aaron bel kin, author of how we won, progressive lessons from the repeal of don't ask don't tell. appreciate you making the time. given your previous involvement in "don't ask, don't tell" fight, i wonder how you see any parallels or lack thereof with how this possibility is implemented and the type of discrimination it means. >> this is don't ask don't tell for transgender troops and a day of

he did serve as special counsel to the defense department during the obama administration. chief at "just security." thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> i'm working off your work here. i didn't know this story about this olc memo until you wrote about it but it was fascinating to get back into that history. let me first ask you if i screwed any of that up in telling that story. >> no. i think you laid the political context out extremely well, too. >> so one of the things that we learned from you resurfacing this story from recent history is that william barr has been doing this for a long time and that he is -- we knew he was an experienced washington official. this tells us something specifically about his experience but it also raises the question as to whether or not he might ultimately feel constrained in putting out a summarized or redacted version of a document if he knows that the ultimate document, the original document, is ultimately going to come out. how did you come i away feeling about that looking at this issue? >> i think that's one of the most importa

he was according to charging documents today helping chelsea manning break defense department passwords. very different than a journalist. that's what changed the game. the case is potentially not even over, the justice department has 60 days to file a formal extradition request. they could charge him with additional charges here, and we already know there's a grand jury empaneled, ready to go. >> do you think, anthony, there are more charges to follow? >> i actually don't. i don't think there are any more charges. i think there was a lot of discussion in the halls in department of justice how to carefully approach this matter, and i think it is very clear that julian assange took active steps to participate in the theft of the information and then disclose it. >> it has been a long time since this happened. why now? why do you think they want their hands on him now? >> they always wanted their hands on them. today is a good die in the united stat -- good day in the united states and united kingdom. during both administrations i received phone calls from the west wing, asked me to reach