because why? what did you just ask me? you asked me about north korea. you didn t ask china s economic warfare on the united states or militarizing new islands in the south china sea. or their attitude toward taiwan. we have to put pressure on china to achieve our objective, which is a denuclearized north korea that can no longer threaten america. one other topic. i ve not seen you weigh in on the proposed transgender ban. you are a recent veteran of these wars of the early 21st century. where are you on this issue? waiting for jim mattis report that s going to come out early next year. he has since said no one serving in the military will be removed from the military. he s going to make the assessment. i think it s worth while. just like bob gates went through more than a year of analysis in 2009, 2010, rather than making a precipitous change. did you have a problem serving with a transgender? well, i may have. i don t know. i didn t go around asking that just like i may have
what we want law enforcement officers to be. they don t follow the rules they will have no problem ignoring federal court orders. they have no problem mistreating people in circumstances that end up getting them killed but they re great for keeping us safe. politically, what evan is just describing roughly, it reads to a certain part of electorate as a guy who is willing to do tough things you need to do to maintain. the old law and order message. it feels like trump has brought that back. so deeply racialized. i ve said has the presidency of hate. having to do with daca, the transgender ban. it has embold his call for law and order. donald trump imagines himself as a strong man who stands above the law, who executes it cruelly and sheriff sclark a great example of that. he thinks he stands above the
trump doesn t like and his base doesn t like is becoming policy. joe arpaio, transgender ban. i mean, it s not about moving forward with any policy. it s being anti-media, ant anti-elite, anti-academic, anti-everything. at one level a study of the trump presidency so far, you have to go back to the fall-back position and ask yourself does he really care about this? no. but does he really care about any of this? that s the question. the only policies that i have any evidence and we have any evidence in knowing that he actually gives a damn about tax reform. no. the wall? no. that stuff is all scams. it s all china s ripping us off.
worked with manafort. new york times, trump gives mattis wide discretion over transgender ban. here s their lead. president trump signed a long awaited directive on friday that precludes transgender individuals from joining the military. but gives defense secretary jim mattis wide discretion in determining whether transgender personnel who are already in the armed forces can continue to serve. robert, your pick. brian, where do you want to start? what a night. it is a real turning point for this white house. of course, my thoughts and all of our thoughts are with those along the gulf coast. but you re really seeing general kelly inside the west wing in camp david rethinking the staff and to have sebastian gorka, the ally to steve bannon who also departed recently on his way out of the white house. the president with the pardon for sheriff arpaio, this is a
i love his twitter. eric: i love his tweets as well. allen: it feeds the media cycle, you guys love that. eric: i want to know what the most powerful human on the plane that thinks when he wakes up. allen: tweeting out i am instituting a transgender man is not the way to go. instituting a transgender ban. kat: then he had to turn around and say you can t just tweet something and becomes a law. that s not exactly how it works. then we were talking about that. ann: that s basically what obama did with the executive amnesties. he doesn t have any constitutional authority to do it. eric: do you want this job, ann coulter? ann: i don t know what job you are talking about.