they re not just stopping recruitment, but a ban on all transgender people. you served in the military for how long? 30 years. will this be disruptive? it will result in enormous military costs? i think it s abominable. i fully supported president obama s move to lift the ban. i think anyone who s qualified and meets the requirements, sexual genders should not figure into that. rand did a study, the estimated medical costs, they estimated between 2 million to $8 mi$2 m n million, that most people would not avail themselves of that. there are upwards of 6,000 members who are transgender,
tomorrow. senator, thank you for joining us today about this very important topic. who do you want to take the lead on the action on paying for this? well, richard, as a member of the senate foreign relations committee, i think our committee should be taking up and debating the authorization for the use of military force or the aumf that president obama sent up to us early this year, last february. and then the senate finance committee should be coming up with a way to specifically pay for this conflict. as i said in my editorial, we shouldn t be declaring war today and declaring bankruptcy tomorrow. if we look back at the iraq and afghanistan war, the office of management and budget projected that iraq war would cost $60 billion. and all told, including all the military costs and the human costs for the va for our veterans, there s an estimate out there that it s $6 trillion for the wars in iraq and afghanistan, 100 time what was
go back and really want to work. it is going to create tremendous numbers of jobs. one of the other things that i m coupling this with is if i become president i m going to renegotiate our trade deals. because our trade deals are not sustainable by this country. not sustainable. we cannot continue to let our jobs go to all of the different countries. there s not a country that we negotiate with that doesn t make a better deal. everybody. we lose money with everything. i m also going to renegotiate some of our military costs because we protect south korea. we protect germany. we protect some of the wealthiest countries in the world saudi arabia. we protect everybody. we protect everybody. we don t get reimbursement. we lose on everything. we lose on everything. so we re going to negotiate and renegotiate trade deals, military deals, many other deals that s going to get the costs down for running our country very significantly. i m not showing a big number in
it s going to create tremendous numbers of jobs. one of the other things that i m coupling this with is, if i become president, i m going to renegotiate our trade deals, because our trade deals are not sustainable by this country. not sustainable. we cannot continue to let our jobs go to all the different countries. there s not a country we negotiate with that doesn t make a better deal. we lose money with everything. i m also going to renegotiate some of our military costs because we protect south korea, we protect germany, we protect some of the wealthiest countries in the world, saudi arabia, we protect everybody, we protect everybody, and we don t get reimbursement. we lose on everything. we lose on everything. so, we re going to negotiate and renegotiate trade deals, military deals, many other deals that s going to get the costs down for running our country very significantly. i m not showing a big number in that, but i believe that if i
report on iraq has just come out, and it provides the cold, hard truth. $60 billion was spent on iraqi reconstruction with almost nothing to show for it. $767 billion was spent on the iraq war, including military costs, 4,786 soldiers were killed between 2003 and 2012. this is all part of dick cheney s legacy, and he would do it all over again. let s turn to barton gellman tonight, time magazine contributing editor at large and author of angler: the cheney vice presidency. good to have you tonight. are you astounded by this? the thing i like about this film, and i am interviewed in it as well, that cheney lets down his guard a little bit. he is sort of more cheney than the cheney we knew. lots of things we always suspected he thought or knew he thought but he never said out loud, he says here.