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Its not just the lying. its also the incompetence and not count on him somehow coming out with his hands up saying, oh you got me. >> let me read a couple of aaron blakes examples because theyre great. he attacked obama, in fact, obama does not read his intelligence briefings november does he get briefed in if person by the cia or dod. too busy, i guess. that was not true. he read them on his ipad yeah, and when he traveled -- some presidents have a different formula for when they travel, an ipa...

If you read all that stuff, youll go nuts, you know what i mean? >> well, on that point, we can probably all agree. if you were a member of the military, your son or daughter was deployed on a pretense that was said to be of vital importance, national security, just before the election, then seemed to disappear at least from the presidents mind after the election, suppose that could drive anyone nuts. remind he, dont miss full circle our daily interactive news on facebook. you can get all the de...

Had d.o.d. support in support roles along the border. when secretary mattis got in front of the deployed troops at the base camp, he had a simple message. put up razor wire and dont watch the news. >> theres all sorts of stuff in the news and that sort of thing. you just concentrate on what your company commander, your battalion commander tells you. if you read all that stuff, youll go nuts, you know what i mean? >> well, on that point, we can probably all agree. if you were a member of the mili...

Into direct contact with migrants. the question is what is this mission about? >> i think many of you are aware president wilson 100 years ago, a little over 100 years ago, deployed the u.s. army to the southwest border. thats over a century ago. the threat then was poncho villas troops raiding across the border into the united states, new mexico in 1916. and theres a more recent history of d.o.d. support on the border. it spans four administrations in both political parties. >> well, keeping hi...

Watch. [speaking spanish] >> that is a slang for "honduran." it is unclear how they will begin the process of applying for asylum or try to make their way into california. u.s. border authorities are now shutting down some traffic lanes leading from tijuana to san isidro and otay mesa near san diego. they are putting up infrastructure to "hard in the border," including razor wire and barriers. san isidro alone, 34,000 pedestrians cross the border every day. slowing that flow could hurt the econo...

Affairs units suggesting the pentagon knows this is more about messaging than reinforcing the border. neil? >> neil: thanks. pete flores is director of field operations. thanks for taking the time. >> good afternoon. >> neil: so what do we do when they start arriving? i know the very, very first front group has arrived. im told theyre not but about 100 but others are coming. can you explain the process, what we do on our end as they arrive? >> customs and border patrol is responsible for securin...

Shes clashed repeatedly with defense secretary mattis and even during the transition, she was serving on the pentagon transition team and tried to block a number of mattis picks after she, herself, could not get a job at the d.o.d. shes really been sort of an attack dog for national security adviser john bolton. sort of going after mattis, going after people in the white house. there are reports of her screaming at people. so she has, you know, really been aggressive and also created a lot of en...

Are trying as hard as they can. but when you dont have a cio, you cant overhaul that computer system. >> let me ask you -- one sec. so is that a senate confirmed position? or is that just a political appointment? >> its a senate confirmed political appointment. >> so they just havent nominated someone? >> they havent nominated someone. >> in two years? >> yeah, to be the chief information officer for the v.a. at a time when theyre trying to integrate the v.a. and the dods electronic medical reco...

Was serving on the pentagon transition team and tried to block a number of mattis picks after she, herself, could not get a job at the d.o.d. shes really been sort of an attack dog for national security adviser john bolton. sort of going after mattis, going after people in the white house. there are reports of her screaming at people. so she has, you know, really been aggressive and also created a lot of enemies in the white house. as weve seen, shes created an enemy in melania trump and i think...

System. >> let me ask you -- one sec. so is that a senate confirmed position? or is that just a political appointment? >> its a senate confirmed political appointment. >> so they just havent nominated someone? >> they havent nominated someone. >> in two years? >> yeah, to be the chief information officer for the v.a. at a time when theyre trying to integrate the v.a. and the dods electronic medical record and theyve left 80,000 veterans throughout with no forms of payment. something similar happ...