Will they get picked out . Today, no answers to that question. Sarah Huckabee Sanders could not or would not answer questions about whether Current Service members will be removed. The president has a lot of support for all americans and certainly wants to protect all americans at all times. The president has expressed concerns since this obama policy came into effect. But hes also voiced that this is a very expensive and disruptive policy, and based on consultation that hes had with his National Security team, came to the conclusion that it erodes Military Readiness and Unit Cohesion, and made the decision based on that. The decision is based on a Military Decision. Its not meant to be anything more than that. At a white house event an attempt to get clarity from the president later went ignored. People in the military . Shes very rude. So all we have on this Policy Change that will profoundly affect thousands of Service Members lives are the president s three tweets, which mention th
down. we have been trying to peal that back. get to the truth, we re having that conversation right now. we ll see where we go. bret: okay. we re going to stand up for the american people, bret. that s our job. bret: we ll have the other side on little bit later in the show and we appreciate your time. thanks, bret. bret: joining me now brit hume. have you ever seen anything like this. brit: no. i never have. look, this does have a similarity to situations mostly seen them in the senate where on a very close vote a single member or a couple members will have the leverage that their vote is needed and will use it to extract concessions from the majority. this happened and we have seen things like this happen in the house where, you know, enough people will block a spending bill or an increase in the debt limit to try to leverage, you know, the repeal of obamacare. that was tried, you may recall, the government shut down. it didn t work. it was a complete failure. so, i mean,
he broke both of those promises that he made to her and that s more upsetting than getting followed into a bathroom. trace: people echoed that. we re waiting for the opening statements to begin in the hearing of the facebook whistleblower. when that starts we ll get to it. this is from wall street journal bill mcgurn. in the same way john mccain was hailed as an independent against voting for republicans priorities including the decisive vote for the repeal of obamacare. if sinema tanks the there is a new maverick in town, that is countered by the new york times quoting but what really makes her different from mccain is nobody seems to know what she stands for. there is a difference it turns out between being a maverick and being a narcissist. mark, your thoughts. first of all, senator sinema is representing her state. and if this is not what her
this has to get through, and the trump administration called all the republican members to the white house for a big celebration about the repeal of obamacare, and there s an awareness of not trying to spike the football, and also a need for acknowledgment about what a victory this is for the president, and it s not just a victory for the projects that will be funded with this and also the bipartisanship and the ability to show that the republicans and democrats can come together and work together on something big. it was such a key promise of his campaign and it s been a theme he has tried to hammer home in the first few months of his presidency, and now you see it finally playing out, and that s something they will try to get through as well as be acknowledging it s not over
leaving for japan, the president reviving his feud with late senator john mccain, again criticizing his vote against a repeal of obamacare. we needed 60 votes. and we had 51 votes. and sometimes, you know, we had a little hard time with a couple of them, right? fortunately they re gone now. they ve gone on to greener pastures. or perhaps far less green pastures, but they re gone. very happy they re gone. reporter: jake, one more note about the meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump, a senior administration official tells cnn there is no formal agenda and they ll discuss syria and iran and ukraine but as far as election meddling president trump has already made his feelings well-known and he s not going to be repeating them, jake. boris sanchez at the white house. thank you. the attorney general has a hidden talent. what is it? that s next. wireless network claims are so confusing.