the pentagon papers estimated 280,000 communist fighters byr 1966. about 1,001,862. the insurers and he was very rapidly growing. there was also an act that uprising in south vietnam which included three monks who had set themselves on fire come images broadcast of america's living room. the u.s. under the opposition to it was rising. but they understand why there is opposition to the u.s. backed south vietnamese regime. but they thought the behavioral scientists could help them in and peered so one of these people at the pentagon in vietnam was used among psychotherapist to help understand the reasons for the growing resentment of the united states in the u.s. backed south vietnamese regime.e.so f so far to ink blotches has failed to yield any insights in the viet cong fighter. they asked the viacom decided to go throw the cards cards andnd identify something. then he asked anything that reminded him. nothing again. being interviewed by a man about a sex life in a separate dissent. they find pictures and they liked or didn't like. the imprisoned men most reluctant to

the pentagon is scrambling to figure this out. the secretary of defense is on vacation but all the other staff here was proceeding apace this transgender policy would go into effect, they would figure out some way to make it work. as you mentioned, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff just last month said there are transgender personnel, americans, serving honorably, already in the services. now, the estimates from the pentagon based on a study is about 7,000 current in the armed services on the upper end of the estimates, 7,000 transgendered individuals. last year, they were told they can serve openly and the pentagon would figure out some sort of way to accommodate them to be more closely identified with the gender with which they identify. there's another separate part of that, and that's the ones that are serving. the other side of the equation is new recruits. the pentagon has struggled on how to implement that, and that's something secretary mattis last month announced a delay on. here's the north star, though, for matti

navy ships as it was reported by the pentagon and u.s. navy and even within iran itself it's not the first incident of the kind because last year as many as four iranian vessels were accused of harassing the u.s. navy ships but there's also another pattern here all the incidents that i just mentioned they all happen in the very close proximity to the territorial waters and the borders of those respective states china russia and iran and you may think in all those cases given this proximity is who is actually the aggressor in all those cases and noticed every time one of these incidents takes place whether it's this one in the persian gulf or whether it's the ones we've seen between american and russian planes in the baltic in the black sea or with the chinese recently you noticed this is not taking place right off american territorial waters this is not a russian or chinese or indian ship or a plane. and challenging us fourteen miles off of norfolk or san diego this is american ships or right outside of the territorial waters of another po

had you heard those complaints at the pentagon? >> reporter: the military has not offered any comprehensive, if you will, evidence that there is a problem with a unit cohesi cohesive. they estimated maybe $8 million in medical costs compared to the $48 billion in the pentagon's health care bill. there's been no indication. could there be amicable evidence out there? yes. could there be people who object to this? yes. but again, the u.s. military operates by rules, regulation and military law. this may be the first time it's been told to operate by twitter, wolf. >> all right, barbara. thank you very much, barbara starr at the pentagon. eric swalwell is joining us. he's a member of the judiciary committee. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me back, wolf. >> let's get your reaction of the president's important announcement on twitter banning transgender americans from serving in the military. what's your reaction? >> it shouldn't matter who you are, wolf, only who you are for, and if you're for the united states, you should

is here at home you see according to the government accountability office the pentagon just got caught in a sting handing over one point two million dollars in weapons and equipment to a completely made up and fake law enforcement agency thanks once again to the ever lovely ever controversial ten thirty three program. aka guns absurdity c.n.n. and ten thirty three you know it's time to start watching the hawks now. it looks like. it's the classic. like you know that i got. it. this week so. well for watching the hawks i am so old that sometimes having a lot. of c.n.n. cannot get into the game nor news we can keep a straight face out there in the game and talk about arms dealing in this world because at the end of the day they don't do reporting on it very well in my humble opinion big.

oil and agents posing as policemen received over one million dollars worth of military gear from the pentagon and those stories and more coming up now. good afternoon it is wednesday july twenty sixth four pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part of phil and you're watching our team erica the house overwhelmingly passed a sanctions bill against russia iran and north korea on tuesday on the topic of russia lawmakers mostly based their case for sanctions on allegations the country interfered in last year's election of course without citing evidence as for iran and north korea they're being sanctioned for their weapons programs are sweet has the latest reactions to the passage of the house bill a whopping four hundred eighteen members of the house voted to pass a sanctions bill only three republicans voted against it one of the main reasons for the sanctions against russia is for the so-called meddling in the u.s. elections this even after new evidence surfaced from the d.n.c. ha was proven to be an inside leak however all three countries were still put into the same category i'm confident this bi

here at home you see according to the government accountability office the pentagon just got caught in a sting handing over one point two million dollars in weapons and equipment to a completely made up and fake law enforcement agency thanks once again to the ever lovely ever controversial ten thirty three program. aka guns absurdity c.n.n. .

defense secretary slammed the pentagon for the waste of taxpayer dollars and called for reform rather than minimize this report or excuse wasteful decisions i expect all department of defense organizations to use this area as a consulate 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 ago were port service that the pentagon buried an internal study that exposed one hundred twenty five billion dollars worth of administrative waste that was allegedly hidden amid fears that congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget and maybe that's exactly what should happen perhaps if the department wasn't blindly awarded hundreds of billions of dollars every year it wouldn't be quite so comfortable throwing it into the wind. r.t. washington d.c. . clashes broke out in jerusalem again on tuesday as a standoff continues between muslim worshipers and israeli police the unrest started over digital by israeli authorities to install metal detectors at temple mount which is known to m

she's at the pentagon. e been wondering, barbara, what type of response there would be from the u.s., from south korea. now we may have our answer. what's going on? >> reporter: hi, brianna. it's early morning now in south korea and we are getting statements from the pentagon and from the army out there. they have just conducted an exercise, if you will, between the u.s. army and the south korean army and we want to show this video. this is a missile that they are firing into south korean territorial waters off their eastern coast. this is called the advanced army missile. and it's designed, as we bring up that video right there, to show a response. this is a deep strike weapon. precision all weather aimed at being able to prosecute targets in north korea if it came to that. you could fire it from south korea into or targets in north korea. it's designed to be very time sensitive, all-weather. you could go against a fixed target. you could potentially even try and go against targets with some mobility. but i

than undercover operation exposes how the pentagon more than a million dollars worth of military equipment to fake policeman. you wherever you're watching it's nine pm on wednesday. welcome to the program first for you this hour the e.u. has issued a stern warning to washington over the latest anti russia sanctions after they were passed by the u.s. house of representatives the european commission president thinks they could damage your obscenity sector the u.s. bill could have unintended unilateral effects that impact the energy security interests america first mean that europe's interests come last russia has given its reaction to the latest u.s. bill expressing disappointment in terms of the bilateral relations. in terms of russia u.s. relations and their development perspectives. sad and no less disappointing regarding international and trade relations the new u.s. sanctions threaten to punish companies doing business with russia's energy sector and that's causing concern for the e.u. one major joint project with russia the north stream to pipeline it's aimed at bringing gas from russi

undercover operation exposes how the pentagon gave away more than a million dollars worth of military quip to fake policemen. good afternoon my name is kevin zero in this is r.t. international in our top story the one from moscow the u.s. house of representatives has voted for new sanctions against russia as well as a random north korea they come in response to what officials call dangerous actions undermining america and its allies during the hearing legislators repeatedly raised the claims of russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election last year. finally rushing gaijin an unprecedented attack against our democracy when it interfered in our two thousand and sixteen elections left unchecked russia is sure to continue its aggression russia engaged in a blatant effort to meddle in our domestic affairs and specifically our democratic process is currently on clear whether the package will get the approval of president trump because it prevents him from lifting only a sanctions with congressional approval russia's deputy foreign minister has already slammed the move is defying commo

let's go to hans nichols at the pentagon. hans, here we are, american heroes week and it sounds like the president has just defined who he now believes are heroes. >> this has been a complicated process for the pentagon to work through. there are about 250 currently transgendered individuals that have indicated they want to go through some sort of transition process. just at the end of last month, there is sort of asked for a delay from the navy, the pentagon, the army, the air force, asking for a delay for new recruits, those that identified as transgendered and haven't -- actually want to join the military, want to serve the country, but they're trying to figure out a way how to do that. it appears that president trump is going to put all these discussions on ice. right now the discussion is still at the pentagon between the deputy secretary of defense and the service chiefs. we'll see if president trump's short circuits all this. just to give you a quick overview, it was the previous secretary of defense, ash carter, last f

they want to coordinate together with the pentagon. do you believe the president's tweets constitute a lawful order, at least right now? >> it's not really directed to anybody, so it doesn't have the nature of an order. and obviously it's something that can't be implemented right away because it hasn't been developed to the level of detail where you could actually implement it. it's like saying, build me a house, you can't go build it until you have architectural plans and done the basic leg work to figure out how it's going to affect whom. obviously not a military decision, first, because the president isn't qualified to make that kind of decision. and second, because it interrupted the military's process for making a military recommendation to the president that then would have been a military decision. so this looks like he's just trying to change the topic as russia starts to strangle him more and more. >> i was going to say, he is the commander in chief. it is his constitutional right to make these kinds of decisions. >> i'm not sa

for that meeting, when the people from the pentagon could have gone to the white house, it shows thating it seriously, going to that military center, having all the assets and information in front of him, i think he is going to be sure that we are making great progress on the battlefield, it is going well, but we are going to have a long fight against isis, they are transitioning now from a base that has geographic locations and a mindset and an ideology like what you see with al qaeda. >> sandra: so it sounds to me like you are thinking that the strategy currently is working, lawmakers will be briefed later today, mattis will be in that brief income of the strategy going forward, where is the discussion right now? >> so, yes, the strategy is working, and i think ultimately, it may take six months or year, or it may take longer, isis will be totally defeated, the thing is now as it is becoming what al qaeda was, which is getting more spread out, they are getting locations in afghanistan, libya, and elsewhere, i think we have to understand that we are in a generational fight against a

the pentagon is refers us to the white house for official statements. they don't look at it as official policy yet. they think of it as aspirational how will they do that, because there is a justice argument for those americans serving their military, told by their commander in chief that they could come out, be honest, and identify with the gender they relate to. that is an issue separate from the readiness one and one that i expect will be discussed here in quite a bit. >> one member said i think i just got fired on twitter. so another bit of uncertainty. kristen welker at the white house, thank you many thanks to all of you. in any moments, we'll see the first press conference briefing. sarah huckabee sanders, the president's nonstop twitter attacks. chances are, the last time you got a home loan, you got robbed. i know-- i got a loan 20 years ago, and i got robbed. that's why i started lendingtree-- the only place you can compare up to 5 real offers side by side, for free. it's like shopping for hotels online, but our average customer can save twent

as a precursor to a larger intervention elsewhere in syria again i think the pentagon really believes that they are going to be or to stay in syria perhaps still the goal will be regime change ultimately against the assad government but minimally to have a zone of influence within so why would they believe anything else if you know we've been at official and at war in afghanistan for years now we still have troops there it seems the military just gets to stay wherever it wants but twitter and the mainstream media have framed friday's meeting between trump and kootenai as a victory for the russian president saying he quote whine is that a mature way to view international diplomacy and how much do you think that reaction comes from the media's inability to accept the u.s. as an empire was largely checkmated in syria indeed and i think the criticisms of trump i mean trump is doing here presumably as we've just talked about the same thing that obama and kerry seemed to be doing in september two thousand and sixteen . obama was not lambasted for trying to come up with an end to the syrian

according to the pentagon it was quickly detected. the u.s. has satellites and other intelligence gathering systems that can quickly detect ballistic missile launches, especially out of north korea. there had been a lot of indicators that they might be getting ready to launch. what we're looking for now is the announcement by the pentagon about what kind of ballistic missile this was. there is a good deal of concern it might have been yet again an intercontinental range ballistic missile. something designed to eventually be able to hit the united states with a nuclear warhead. this is the kind of missile they fired on july 4th for the first time. that -- here's an interesting indicator. that missile on july 4th flew something between 37 and 40 minutes and the japanese have already said, this missile today flew 45 minutes. so a good deal of concern that what we are looking at is a potential announcement that this was another icbm long-range missile launch. that is not confirmed. they are still looking at all the data. we expect an announcement

amy: in a move that shocked even the pentagon, president trump has barred transgender people from serving in the military. meanwhile, the justice department is arguing the landmark civil rights act of 1964 does not protect members of the lgbtq community. we will speak to the first openly transgender infantry soldier in the u.s. army about theident trump's words and resistance rolls on. we will look at how disability activist are staging a stork protest in washington and around the world to fight the republican effort to restrict health care from tens of millions of people. [chanting] amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in a surprise announcement, president trump tweeted wewednesday he will than transgender people from serving in the u.s. military. trump made the declaration on twitter -- "after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. our military

eastern time, the pentagon is still assessing the results. it is the second lots lunch launch since july 4th, flying some 1700 miles into space, seven times higher than the orbit of nasa's international space station, officials say that they can hit alaska, japanese media says a reentry vehicle may have landed near japan, yesterday in washington, general mark millie talked about the dangers the u.s. faces with north korea. >> a war on the korean peninsula would be terrible. however, a nuclear weapon detonating in los angeles would be terrible, we are at a point in time where choices will have to be made, one way or another. none of these choices are particularly palatable. it north korea normally likes to time their lunches with important dates, this is no different, on july 27, they celebrated the 64th anniversary of its armistice day, ending the korean war, they say that the bad whether it was bad the test. the defense agency is planning to test its antiballistic missile for the second time this month, it has already been deployed to south

the junior. jr o.t.c. is a pentagon program. funded feel. not for arcanite speak right from the head young. six year old three year olds not. upright you're born without price. and. america has pledged to turn these children into heroes these junior troops include five hundred thousand minus across the united states they're the hope of a fearful country they're destined to defy tera the first generation post nine eleven. at this public school in chicago's south one in five students opted for the army an hour of classes a day five times a week taught by retired service members i was. i i. these youngsters are in year eight and then new to the program they'll receive their uniforms today. take seats. in the u.s. army is teaching it more than three thousand public schools students who opt for the army are exempt from physical education. the biggest thing a look at as just make sure your hair does not touch your ears you're. facing a four year program created unfunded by the pentagon parts of fingernails right here what is authorized colors. let me see your nails all right now hold them up righ

so i covered the pentagon through the years when secretary gates was there. and he told us early on, he did not want obama to get the credit or blame for the don't ask, don't tell repeal. he didn't want it to be pinned on obama because any opponent could just say, ah-ha, it was his thing. so it took a couple years. and the gay community was not happy with it. but it took a couple years for gays in the pentagon to have a full year-long study by the general counsel, jeh johnson at the time, a four-star commander from europe, and saying we've done the research, there seems to be no worry. with the full buy-in the military. they still needed congress. it was up to a really remarkable speech by admiral mullen that changed the mind of congress and got it through. what happens today is the complete opposite of that. so trump's tweet is still not policy. but it basically gets all of the generals in the military and secretaries offer the hook. we don't know what they think, what the army thinks, what the marines think, what the service secretaries think if this contin

and as you already told us, the white house and the pentagon are going to have to lawfully implement that. typically when you have an announcement of this magnitude, all of that work has been done at the procedural level between the bureaucracy of the pentagon and the white house. why wasn't any of that work done and why was the pentagon caught so surprised this morning by the president's tweets on that. >> as i said before, the president's national security team was part of this consultation. you mentioned yourself that there have been ongoing conversations. >> about this one particular small issue, not a whole ban. >> when the president made the decision yesterday, the secretary of defense was immediately informed, as were the rest of the national security team that had been part of this ongoing conversation. >> but you can't answer the question of what's going to happen to transgenders who are in the military now. shouldn't you have been able to answer that basic question with a policy of this magnitude? >> look, i think sometimes you have to make decisions and once he made a decis

they're facing a four year program created unfunded by the pentagon rights of fingernails right here what are some of the rising. let me see your nails right now hold them up right now tomorrow. if she doubt her nails like this right here she's got a little sports let me see goals come from so we come from structure to it and we know what it takes to create a structured environment regular teacher is a graduate just a terrific and then they start teaching but i don't think they really understand classroom management or demand into large groups of people. different. different ways of doing it like we do this and maybe that's why we can get the kids do push ups but a regular teacher could you know as i want to you know become more of a better citizen in the country well i just want to become stronger physically and mentally last time opposed to. listen respect. just like i was it's risky. business interests. will cause i would like to say stuff like this as well but any question soul for. the j r o t c program was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixteen. one but over time its influ

war in afghanistan they need volunteers but there aren't any due to the impending war officially the pentagon calls it a contribution to the development of youth in chicago colonel retired off to serving thirty three years in the army supervises junior cadets well the junior r o t c. program is really about sosa and ship that's about. teaching young boys and girls high school age you know young men and women about service and you know. what they can do to better themselves but i have nothing to do with it it's a distinct difference and it's a very important point because a lot of people a lot of teachers don't understand it they think that we are. you know we almost. have to explain that we're not on a regular basis in chicago the program is widespread the army teaches that one in four schools are training more than ten thousand adolescents the authorities accept this militarization of education as especially useful for fighting gangs. of neighborhoods harlan high school another one finger in south and west ten an era to be the. what i would call the we give great after. a lot of fun and give

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the pentagon is not a business. but it requires business-like functions to support this huge enterprise. it is the largest of its kind in the world. you know, it manages real estate. you know, it manages motels. it manages installations, training bases, shipyards and i could -- airfields i could go on and on with that. some of that is frankly not done very well because we don't have really good business people doing things like that. we have civil servants who do that and much of them don't have the kind of experience and motivation that are driven by profit and loss out in the private sector. so yes, the strength of the united states military is our capabilities and the people who use those capabilities in our ability to win -- our ability to win. the problem with the united states military is its bureaucracy, its business like functions and they could dramatically be improved and there is a lot of money we could save for that. >> we have a business president. leland is right next door to the gerald ford. i understa

we'll review it. >> reporter: the pentagon referred questions to the white house. the pentagon won't release numbers but there are between 2500 and 7,000 transgender service members in the active duty military and up to 4,000 in the reserves. navy lieutenant commander blake serving as a man for three years called the decision disaappointing. >> transgender people are already serving in all aspect. military and have no impact to readiness and the lethality of our mission. >> reporter: there is no word on what will happen to those currently serving. mola lenghi for cbs news, the pentagon. >> reaction is pouring in from around the bay area on the military transgender statement. kpix 5's jackie ward has that part of the story. >> reporter: moments after president trump tweeted this morning there was an overwhelming amount of backlash from people across the bay area even his gop supporters here in san francisco wish he did things differently. >> we have honorable people transgender, gender, nonconforming individuals who volunteered to serve our nation, putting their liv

it came on the day when the defense secretary is on vacation, and the pentagon s saying essentially, if you have questions, ask the white house. the unexpected move brought immediate outrage, especially after promises made by then-candidate trump. abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, lea leading us off. >>eporter: as a candidate, donald trump promised to protect gay, lesbian and transgender rights. the first nominee ever to make such a promise at a republican convention. >> as your president, i will do everything in my power to protect our lgbtq citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology. believe me. [ applause ] >> reporter: but today, a sudden reversal. the president surprising even his own top advisers with a major change in military policy announced via twitter. "please be advised," he declared, "the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. our military cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military woul

let's go to the pentagon. that's where we find our barbara starr. rbara, you got your hands this morning on a fascinating memo from the chief of naval personnel to everyone below him saying what? >> well, he is beginning to lay out like the other services are the questions at hand. and that's why the pentagon is asking the white house for some direction. what is the real intent of the president's tweet? military policy by twitter is not really the way the u.s. military works. they want specific direction from the commander in chief. they want him to put pen to paper and say what his intent really is. and one of the key questions that we're seeing emerge now is does the president intend for transgendered persons who are currently serving to forcibly be pushed out of active duty, to be pushed out of the military. will they get honorable discharges if that's what he wants so they can continue to get retirement and medical benefits based on their years of service. so, the chief of naval personnel, and i think we can assume the other personnel chiefs pret

barbara starr at the pentagon. tional security analyst, thank you for being here. general, let me begin with you. we have not heard what the president's strategy will be in afghanistan. we have heard he's considering the range of 3,000 to 5,000 troops in afghanistan. he deferred a lot of it to secretary mattis. should we expect an update soon, do you believe, on that front? >> we should, absolutely. let's review for a second where we are. we have an afghan military that's not as large, not in sufficient numbers as and as professional and mature as they need to be. that is growing, incrementally. probably need to pick up the pace there. secondarily, the taliban increased presence in the country beyond where they were at 9/11. keep that in mind. the taliban is creeping back in as the united states has departed, it has regained strength. the third thing is we have to get tough on pack tan. there has to be an outside in strategy. they need to create a strategy that articulates why this is important, why the united state