access, the same rand corporation study found that the cost for providing medical care would be negligible. we have seen that across the board when we see inclusive health care instituted. these are people who want to serve. they want to provide for their family. they deserve healthcare just like everyone else. at the end of the day, this isn t just about health care. this is about not alas vegas transgender people to serve at all. we have seen bipartisan rebukes from members of congress after the announcement. it was clearly an ill-advised announcement, something that was done spur of the moment maybe even. it s undermining, i think, our national defense. i have a question about that. the pentagon at first was taken by surprise. later, as barbara reports, secretary mattis was consulted on president trump s plans to announce can you read into that for me? does consulted mean he advised and agreed with the president s decision on this? consulted simply it could
strikes at the heart of the afghan government and at the heart of the effort by so many nations to help this country get on its feet. kate? it s just amazing when you see the video and the perspective you re offering. seven americans, barbara reports, among those injured in that massive attack. this comes as the trump administration has been thinking about considering contemplating sending more troops to afghanistan. how could this brazen and horrific attack affect that decision? let me bring in diplomatic analyst and retired rear admiral ron kirby who worked at the state department and the pentagon for many years. good to see you. thanks. good to be here. thank you. we know that the pentagon has asked for up to 5,000 additional troops to go to afghanistan. this is yet another decision that the white house has been really mulling over and divided on. folks have described it as a mini surge. do you think today s attack changes the calculation? i don t know that it will change th
candidates said they will. then the president of the united states has to decide how many troops does he want to leave there? the ranges that you hear are anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000. but this is a decision that the president needs to make only himself and probably fairly soon, because there s about 30,000 troops there and most of them are going to pack up and go. that s going to be a pretty major muscle movement for the u.s. military right now. so they need to get some of this sorted out. they need to basically find a way ahead over the next several months. candy? barbara, stay with me a second. i want to bring in our white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, barbara is perfectly right, i m not sure if you heard it, this is huge for troops when this particular war has not been in the headlines and yet, there are thousands and thousands, as barbara reports, 30,000 of them, still over there, still fighting. but it also begins what s going to be a pretty big week for the