Air force secretary under president obama was among the speakers at a womens Leadership Conference in washington, d. C. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. All right. Good morning. Honored to bem able to moderate you this morning. We will be talking about secretary janes new book. I have read it and listened to it. That is what we going to talk about. , first and foremost, to break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story . Throughout my life i have in the business of our National Security closer to 40 years. I have always been a civilian and i have worked in congress, worked in the pentagon for several tours and been in private industry always working on defense issues. , ile i was making my way up would always look up to the people above me and there were very few women at that point to look up to but there were a couple. And some men. I would wonder to myself about how their lives were perfect. And here was my life which had some successes b
Soldier in the u. S. Army about theident trumps words and resistance rolls on. We will look at how disability activist are staging a stork protest in washington and around the world to fight the republican effort to restrict health care from tens of millions of people. [chanting] amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a surprise announcement, President Trump tweeted wednesday he will than transgender people from serving in the u. S. Military. Trump made the declaration on twitter after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you. Trumps decision came despi
1964 does not protect members of the lgbtq community. We will speak to the first openly transgender infantry soldier in the u. S. Army about theident trumps words and resistance rolls on. We will look at how disability activist are staging a stork protest in washington and around the world to fight the republican effort to restrict health care from tens of millions of people. [chanting] amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a surprise announcement, President Trump tweeted wewednesday he will than transgender people from serving in the u. S. Military. Trump made the declaration on twitter after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous me
1964 does not protect members of the lgbtq community. We will speak to the first openly transgender infantry soldier in the u. S. Army about theident trumps words and resistance rolls on. We will look at how disability activist are staging a stork protest in washington and around the world to fight the republican effort to restrict health care from tens of millions of people. [chanting] amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a surprise announcement, President Trump tweeted wewednesday he will than transgender people from serving in the u. S. Military. Trump made the declaration on twitter after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous me
Were joined now from abuja. I guess in this emotional interview she was giving you people wondering where did she find the courage and why did she decide to share her story first hand with cnn . Well, she said it was three of them, it was her and two other friends. One friend actually, unfortunately, broke her leg attempting to escape. She said that she came on to trees and her friend just clung to first branch. She jumped from that tree, broke her leg and was picked up again by the militants. She was eventually found later in the forest in a bad state. They felt she was too heavy a burden to take on. You can understand being in that position and trying to weigh up that risk, where are they taking us, what are they going to do to us. In that moment it became very clear to her that she couldnt do that to herself. She couldnt take that risk for her family. So she jumped. And miraculously, she landed, she rolled, there were some cuts and bruises on her, but that was it. Then she hid in th