we ve seen how it is changed from the revolutionary war. it s change in a lot of ways in terms of put recruits, who it attracts. still, we have the finest fighting force the world is ever known. part of that is that we need soldiers to make that true. tucker: that is just logan s beard military, the army is now saying that female soldiers have to get used to it. they are not allowed to complain about seeing naked men in the shower because if you identify, self identify without going any physical changes, as transgender, the military has to accept your gender designation. if you say you are woman, you are woman, and other own have to deal with it. whatever you think of that, how does that help the war in afghanistan? right now there are between 3,009,000 individuals who are transgender currently serving in the military. and they served with excellence. they served pride, they serve with dignity. these are the people who despite all sorts of obstacles, all sorts of prejudices, they w
his agenda which is your job, or you can resign. would you take the same position if soldiers didn t respect the chairman of the joint chiefs and turned their guns against him? he would say no, you work for the military. you protect the country, you do what you re told. if you don t want to, you leave. it s not a matter of earning the respect. they are undermining national security because they don t like him. i think you make a very important point. there s a lot of leaks that are coming from within the white house that these are the people that he has handpicked. they are the only ones in the room at times he makes a call to a foreign leader. a lot of the leaks are also coming from within his administration, within the people he has chosen. has come he, look, a lot of leaks are coming at a very high level that are people that are in the room that are coming from the administration. you and i both know that. you work in media. tucker: slow down for a
of wildlife habitat. people make a difference. tucker: 500 million people by the end of this century. so if you are watching, your children will live in a country with 500 million people. that s a remarkable number. professor, i hope you will come back. i m sure you take a lot of for saying stuff like that on the left, but good for doing it. i appreciate the opportunity to come on. thanks. tucker: any time. u.s. military is moving ahead with policies for integrating transgender soldiers into the army chemic armed forces. why is the question. social engineering or will it make our military more effective in fighting foreign wars? we debated with a former member of the obama administration nex next.
concentrate on the breadth of today and making sure that our force is ready and able to fight and win our nation s wars. that s the mission. at the same time with the elect of the and make sure that we recruit from the broadest possible pool of america s best. we have an all volunteer force. we have to draft, we have to recruit from a number of different communities throughout the country. in the past you ve seen how the military has expanded to different ethnicities, different races, women in combat. tucker: you re not answering the question. what you re saying is this is a massive social program designed to affirm different communities to put political pressure on the white house. that s fine. but the pentagon ought to be only concerned with winning wars and securing our safety. how does this advance that in any way? give me make me feel better. the way the country wins wars is that we have a military that constitutes america s best, reflect america were people want to serve.
which is of course stated model for a lot of the protests we are watching pete how do they compare? first of all let me just say, i was involved in the civil rights movement even in the mid-50s when i was stationed in the military in the south, and i was the subject to police intimidation and for three years after i was discharged my heart would race when the police officer was behind me. but i also was a veteran of the civil rights movement led demonstrations in west chester pennsylvania. i realize that what is happened over the past few years is that the civil rights movement has morphed into a race grievance industry. it s also it s hypocritical in that they are using race to justify the generation of iniquity. we demonstrated in the 60s, we did so for the purpose of