the president is claiming, the fbi may have had very good reasons to take a closer look at trump aides. for example, we know the informant talked to carter page who boasted open lly about his russian ties as far back as 2014. we also know the informant met with george papadopoulos who said a russian contact told him about stolen clinton e-mails in the spring of 2016. also speaking to the third trump aide who had been looped into attempts to set up a meeting with russian leadership, and as far as we know, all this happens before this informant started reaching out to the aides, so maybe he had a reason. never theless, the justice department is agreeing to the preside president s demand, sort of. now asking the inspector general to expand the ongoing review of the fisa application process to see whether there was, quote, any impropriety or political
military. but i would say this i believe the military s decision is about combat readiness. everyone in the military knows that. but just because you don t know them doesn t mean they don t exist? no. and i think the president knows they exist. admiral kirby, is that right? let s remember, the policy of allowing transgender members to serve open lly has been in plac for about a year. there s been no detriment to the operations the military conducts all around the world. it was simply a six month extension so the secretary of defense could study the recruiting aspect. not whether they could serve or not, just the recruiting aspect of it. and now we ve gone from that to a leap ahead, to abandoning them