secretary of the navy to strip achievement medals from the military prosecutors handling the case. a former pentagon spokesman questioned the move, tweeting that authority resides at a relatively low command level. reporter: and the president is defending his decision to impose new tariffs on china, saying the costs of those tariffs will not be passed on to american consumers, but that s not true. multiple studies have shown the cost of those tariffs are, indeed, passed on to u.s. consumers. and wolf, the announcement of those tariffs is an acknowledgement that the president s trade talks with china s xi jinping have collapsed and for now his trade war is not working. wolf? you re right. jim akcostaacosta, thanks very . the democratic 2020 hopefuls are back on the trail after this week s cnn debates. they turned on one another on the debate stage, but some of them also turned against former president barack obama. let s turn in cnn s jessica dean. joe biden, he s hitting back tod
the command level in the 1960s. you talk to the military, young military, aspiring leaders, mcmaster is a hero. he s a person that spoke up and talked about the errors of foreign policy and how they were played out in military decisions. when you hear rex tillerson say the assad era is coming to an end like he did yesterday, what do you hear in that? that can happen a few different ways, from the syrian people somehow, russia leaning on him convincing him to leave power. i don t see any incentive for him to do that. or come from western coalition led by umbrellas removing him from power. what does that mean to you? i think back to four years ago at home springfield, illinois it s sunday night and i get a phone call from president obama. what s up, president? well, we see some chemical weapons in syria. i want to come to congress and ask you as a member of the foreign relations committee to vote for a resolution and give me authority to do something about it, which i did. and a nu
service should preclude them from serving. that was his first week on the job. defense secretary said that in february. well, tonight, the pentagon has announced that it is moving toward opening the door for transgender troops, the same way the pentagon opened the door in the first term of the obama administration for gay troops. secretary of defense ash carter has ordered a six-month study to review the military s policies on transgender service members and to consider the effect that changing those policies would have. this is really interesting. while this study is going on, openly transgender people still will not be able to sign up for the military. but decisions on whether or not to kick transgender people out of the military will now get made by ash carter s undersecretary for personnel. it means those decisions about kicking somebody out of the military because they re transgender, those things will not happen at the local command level anymore, they will get made right at the
way of building comradery. sure there should be open conversations about race. you should not be able to say racial epithets as a way of building moral. it s ridiculous. the u.s. army has been advanced in accepting african-americans, other minorities. tremendous strides. i m shocked that this is i hope this is isolated. i hope this is not indicative of anything widespread. getting transparency on it and certainly we hope the department of defense and leadership of the army will immediately investigate and take appropriate disciplinary action against those, because this seems to be a problem with some command level that is not only but encouraged in some perverse behavior. john in another part of the country, you re seeing some
that s where the helicopter was based. victor i know you have some new information on the investigation. what are you learning? reporter: new information from both the officials at camp lejeune in north carolina and from the officials there at eglin air force base. the only glimmer of good news in this entire story, that the weather is starting to clear there in the search area. the fog had been such a major problem hampering the coast guard efforts. the effort to find the victims of this now-determined still missing, some officials believe they re all presumed dead there. we also know that from official there is in camp lejeune that the relatives of the marines who were on board that blackhawk that went down they are in the process now of being notified and a command level official is en route from camp lejeune to eglin air force base. of course this all happened on a foggy night, last night, during a training mission involving two blackhawks from this station here at louisiana