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And women, young patriots who volunteered to defend this experiment overseas, and the question i wrote down to myself was will this commitment contribute sufficiently to the well being of the american people to justify putting our troops in a position to die. not in harms way, not to possibly get injured, in a position to die, and i would look at the -- it sat right there on my desk. i hand wrote it and i taped it to my desk so that i would never overlook it, and then the deployment orders would...

Drove home a point to me, mike, that comes to mind here. you all know what my primary job was as the commander, i coordinated military activities in the united states, across that tumultuous middle east. my real job was how do you keep the peace for one more year or what passes for peace in the middle east, one more month, one more week, one more day, one more hour to give the diplomats time to work their magic and try to make this a little bit better world so you write fewer of those letters ho...

Its merely asserting the need for asylum, and often released into the united states. they await a lengthy court process. the court process will take years, sometimes. well, we are not releasing them into our country any longer. they will wait for long. of time. we have thousands of tents. we have a lot of tents. we are going to hold them right there. we are not letting them into our country. >> harris: meanwhile, fox news has deployment orders signed by defense secretary mattis showing the penta...

Sending 15,000 people down there, you dont think is a bad thing. >> i didnt say that. i did not say that. i say its not an illegal thing. is it a good thing? i dont know. there may be intelligence, and this is the important part, kate. there mail may be intelligence saying theyre needed here. i have yet to see that. the early deployment orders where you have seen their course of action development that newsweek printed, it says theres a most likely course of action, which says heres what we thin...

A political stunt. >> the support that we provide to the secretary for homeland security is practical support, based on the requests from the commissioner of customs of border police. so, we dont do stunts in this department, thank you. >> the president also said the troops would be building tent cities for the migrants, not true according to the pentagon. their deployment orders expire on december 15. shepard? >> shepard: when the president said 15,000 troops, the pentagon calls that a stunt. w...

Gearing up to send hundreds of active duty troops to the southern border as a migrant caravan moves through mexico. where does this stand? >> reporter: secretary mattis is expected to sign deployment orders authorizing hundreds of additional troops to the southern border. these images show some of the nash tkpwharld troops sent earlier this year by the president. the u.s. official tells fox at least 800 additional active duty troops are part of the new forces heading to the southern border. the ...

To throw that against things they disagree with or dislike altogether, what are we supposed to do with that? as this election showed everybody in 2016, a lot of these college students arent crazy about whos controlling the levers of power today. >> come back soon. thank you. a new pentagon report says chinas air force is taking aim at the u.s. and thats not all theyre doing to challenge our military. what is the trump administration doing in response? stick around to find out. >> cooperate with ...

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Paratroopers are being send to afghanistan even though we know the 82nd airborne is next up to deploy there. the army says theyre still awaiting deployment orders. what we know is the president has given secretary jim mattis the authority to send up to 4,000 troops to afghanistan. some could be arriving in the couple days and week. >> shepard: i know of a couple deploying myself. new photos show that north korea is advancing more ballistic missiles. state media released the images which appeared...

>> we understand that. >> in this particular case, but ptsd and so-called invisible wounds of war is something we do take seriously. we have to take it seriously. we owe to our wounded warriors, 15 years now, including today and one of the most serious things i do is sign deployment orders and execute orders that send people into harms way. so it matters a great deal to me that we take care of wounded warriors and the mental wounds are very real. >> and do you think weve done enough? >> we keep ...