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Politics and the Rights of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Americans.

Hello again, I'm R. and Alney, and this is To the Point.

During last year's campaign, Donald Trump promised to be a fighter for the LGBT community.

As president, he has other ideas. Last week, he shocked the Pentagon with a tweet saying transgender people should be banned from the military, including thousands already serving.

That same day, his Justice Department argued in court that federal law does not protect gays and lesbians

from being fired because of sexual orientation. That's an issue that goes back to the Civil Rights

Act of 1964, and it may be on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Later on today's talking point,

can a former general bring discipline to the West Wing? What about the president?

First, here's the news.

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I'm Warren Alney back with To the Point. President Trump's new policies on gender and sexual orientation are a far cry from his promises during last year's campaign.

We'll hear what they could mean at job sites and in the military. On our talking point later, the White House has a new chief of

staff, the former Marine General John Kelly. Anthony Scaramucci is out after just 10 days as

communications director. First, this news update. Yesterday's election in Venezuela brought more

deadly street violence while polling sites were quiet. The opposition

claims just 15% of the voters turned out, but the government says it was 41%. As results are a likely

step toward the world's newest dictatorship. Andrew Rosati is in Caracas for Bloomberg News.

Andrew Rosati, welcome to our program. Pleasure to be back. Tell us, first of all, if you will, what it was like yesterday while the voting was going on, did it in fact appear that it was very light? Yes, let me say, I've been on the ground reporting in Venezuela for five years. It was by far the lowest turnout that I've ever seen. You know, parts of the city were completely desolate, almost felt like a ghost town.

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