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>> unfortunately, with the coast guard, a lot of people dont realize that they are a military branch. so this issue and us not being the only military branch not being covered by the dod -- or being funded by the dod -- basically has fueled that problem. so yeah, i have gotten messages. i have gotten comments. you know, to tell me husband to sign up for other services, that hes not a real branch, that hes not military. so you know, on top of dealing with all of this, were dealing with that. >> a...

Homeland security. but you did that. nothing happened. why were you one of the few who was willing to break with the party in order to get people paid? >> i cant speak for everybody else in terms of their decisions for making -- for taking whatever vote they take on that issue. i will say this, to the extent we can release hostages out of the negotiation, we ought to do that. but i also think, you know, because coast guard now falls under homeland, used to fall under dod, then i think we need to...

Given all of our foreign entanglements in afghanistan, syria, and the ability of our golf, both democrats and republicans to get updates from our troops to deal with whether the department of homeland security and dod and others who are dealing with reduced staff, you know, we talk about essential staff, versus nonessential staff. but the reality is, many of our -- whether it be our diplomats, whether it be our policy folks who are working both with the troops or other folks, right now working w...

It. its a mess. >> tucker: if you believe in socialism and want to impose it on the country, make the case for it these people are so stupid and emotional, so overraught they think the key to running the country is a endless series of gotcha stories criminalizingi political disagreement. the least straight forward way to run a government i would say. let me ask you about the original topic we wanted to talk to you about tonight. border security. you heard the new speaker of the house say the oth...

Syria claiming 19 lives according to the syrian observatory for human rights, that monitoring group. as we understand from the department of defense, four americans lost their lives, two u.s. service members, a d.o.d. contractor and d.o.d. civilian in addition to three u.s. service members who were wounded in this attack. isis claiming responsibility saying it was one of their suicide bombers who carried out the attack. now, the unfortunate timing of this happening at the same time as vice presi...

>> i wonder if you and your husband, your family feel left out by the government, by the president. >> i think forgotten is the word that i want to use. you just feel forgotten. the coast guard is an armed services branch. while the d.o.d. remains funded the coast guard doesnt. their mission doesnt stop. they have to continue to go to work every day. just to not have the talks there of funding the coast guard, it hurts. >> i get it. listen, i dont want to put you in the midst of the politics her...

I saw this in iraq. and you aim now sim now seeing. >> some of the video may be disturbing here. jomana karedsheh is live in istanbul with the very latest. and it takes the military maybe 24 hours at least to notify next of kin, this story is just terrib terrible. >> reporter: truly devastating attack, christine, in downtown busy commercial area. you had a total of at least 19 people killed according to a monitoring group that includes civilians, kurdish fighters that are backed by the united st...

Hes got sound from who was supposed to be on this trip and we should be able to play soon. here is the thing. the speaker did the original layout of the state of the union should not go forward because of security. we didnt hear from the president. but now we are hearing from the president. he is making his feelings clear through this move. >> dana: she does have the right to invite, but she didnt relate to some bite. one of those things i think it would be better mr. president to change the day...

Courage and sacrifice of our armed forces, were now actually able to be able to hand off the fight against isis in syria to our coalition partners and were bringing our troops home. the caliphate has crumbled and isis has been defeated. >> isis has been defeated. that was vice president mike pence hours after a deadly attack in syria today that took the lives of four americans. a warning, the video were about to show you is graphic and upsetting. isis has already claimed responsibility for the a...

United states walk out after one meeting saying i agree with him. not intel officials. >> that was bad enough but what i worry about in a case like that, that was a long meeting. lots got talked about in the meeting. those read outs for important for a couple of reasons. one it allows you to see where the president is going and b, youre allowed to take that information compared to what we know from intelligence collection to help better guide in the future on all things russia. that piece is gon...