from the supreme court. pete williams is there. it s a decision or an announcement from the supreme court on that transgender military ban. right. this is the one, remember, that president trump announced by tweet last year. saying he wanted to ban transgender military service. the pentagon modified that to say you could stay in the military basically if you served in your own biological section and did not seek reassignment surgery. three courts put that on hold saying it was discrimination. the trump administration came to the supreme court and said we want you to let us enforce this ban while it playing out in the lower courts. today the supreme court granted that request. so if it chooses to do so, the pentagon can now start enforcing the transgender military service ban. we ll have to see whether the pentagon chooses to do that. obviously, this case will not be heard until next year.
secretary mattis tonight, the training mission is the nato mission. that is the partner mission that secretary mattis keeps going to the nato allies and saying this is why we need to stay in this mission. we need more money and fund the training. so if the u.s. is going to pull out of that as well so when i was when i was reacting like everybody to this news from secretary mattis, immediately read the resignation letter and saw the way he articulated that and jotting notes to myself, what are all of the things on which we ve seen secretary matt is either explicitly or implicitly agree with the president on. it is everything from the president talking smack about nato and talking down nato and wanting a military ban and the ban on transgender and the space force debacle and he told the president no on arming the u.s. troops sent to the border to basically to enforce immigration
quiet about this entirely. there was a statement from the white house yesterday that said it is largely based on a scenario, worst case scenario, and it started under the obama administration, so they want to give some more time if you will to have a better sense of this. the reality is the evidence is by preponderance that the climate is changing and the economic argument is a strong one, one we don t hear the president talk about in terms of effect on the economy of changing climate. we ll see if the president says anything. as of today, he has not said a word. he is enjoying warm weather in florida now. one has to wonder if he got a heads up that the conclusion was coming. meantime, jeff, the president has also asked the u.s. supreme court to take up his transgender military ban after blocked in the lower courts. is it likely the supreme court
democratic leader nancy pelosi hitting back at president trump today. she calls his transgender military ban, quote, a cruel and arbitrary decision designed to humiliate transgender americans who have stepped forward to serve our country. this comes as the president tries again to bypass the federal court of appeals. the white house has asked the u.s. supreme court to immediately hear a challenge to trump s controversial policy that bars most transgender individuals from military service. the president first announced that policy back in 2017. district courts across the country have blocked it from going into effect. pressure on facebook cease ceo is mounting as problems pile up for the social network. recently, the company has come under fire following reports that it tried to ignore and conceal russian interference on its platform.
control in some ways. we now see two years in the impact of having a president that does all the things we ve been talking about. embrace autocrats, disparage our allies and you still, two years in, have a white house who has to two years inside the white house, you still have to learn from the president s twitter feed what he wants to do. we have used the term reverse engineering, that s one of ten trump stories, where you write about behavioral patterns from the beginning. those who work in the west wing and throughout all the branches of government, it s tiring to the entire country, that you re talking about one thing one day and the next day the president is on to the next thing. you never knew that a military ban was on the table. it creates that atmosphere where the public has a hard time