mola lenghi reports from the pentag pentagon. >> reporter: rudy is a transgender. it said it was painful when trump tweeted he will not allow them to serve. >> we're here to serve like anybody else and we're mission-ready and capable. >> reporter: there are between 2,500 and 7,000 transgender on active duty, 7,000 more in reserves. the future remains unclear. the penalty gone has questions for them. >> this is about military readiness, cohesion and resources within the military. >> reporter: in his tweets president trump said it would burden the military with tremendous medical costs, but a 2016 study found that transgender would add of 1%. on the campaign trail he promised he would defend their rights but at a rally in san francisco wednesday, activists said they would never believe him. >> i'm appalled by what he said and what he's doing. >> mola lenghi, cbs news. >>> health care votes in the senate are expected to continue for the next few days, but a plan to repeal the affordable care act so far have come up empty. yesterday the latest measure, the plan was rej

we are shooting planes into the pentag pentagon. but, you know, what are we going to do? to be nice to everybody? >> i asked him about his past talk on nuclear weapons. he said he wouldn't rule out using it. >> your most controversial was don't take nuclear weapons. >> don't take what? >> nuclear weapons off the table. i have been trying to think how we can use a weapon in fighting isis. where can you -- and why put it on the table if you can't imagine -- >> i didn't say don't take it. i said i would be very very slow and has tant. >> why wouldn't you just say i don't want to talk about it? >> we were talking about nato -- >> but you got hooked into something -- >> i don't think i -- well, some day maybe -- >> might be? >> yeah. >> excuse me -- >> where wiould you -- >> no. you can't say. first of all you don't want to say take everything off the table -- >> just nuclear. >> look, nuclear should be off the table. would there be a time line it should be used? >> the whole world heard it. they are hearing a guy running for president talking of maybe using nuclear weapons. n

every time i ask about pentag pentagon -- about options here at pentagon, i'm shunted away and there's clear diplomatic solution to this. i talked to one official and he said the remaining options available and he paused on the diplomatic side. that's a clear message today and just the way they're signaling with tillerson taking the front on this as well as nikki haley. they didn't want this to turn into this what military capabilities are. >> jeremy bash, let me ask you to wear your cia hat, former chief of staff to the cia hat, since hans is waving us away from grim and dire military options. you have kim jong un who was taunting america and our president by basically according to north korea state media calling it an independence day gift. coyou have our -- you have our new president who spends unprecedented amount of time on social media. i wonder if you can take me inside the psychological war between their unpredictable, homicidal leader and our -- what you would describe modern day president who uses social media in a way that suggests that every presidential statement isn't alw