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Stationed as a security guard. >> i arrived on the island on the 3rd of july, 1970. i was 17 1/2 years old. >> reporter: at age 57, this is the sergeant now. he has had colon cancer twice, is nearly blind and needs an oxygen tank, he has lou gehrigs disease, crippling back problems and sometimes needs a wheelchair. >> this is where we lived. this is the actual camp site. >> reporter: he says he has been sick ever since he was stationed on the island. during that period of time did you ever think...

Works here. the president just said u.s. troops might help build a wall on military-owned land. >> we have to have strong borders. well have the wall. we started building it and fixing miles and miles of wall up and fenced. were going to have our wall and were going to get it very strongly. the military will be building some of it. >> he was referring to the berry goldwater air force base and firing range in southwest arizona. that military base runs along 31 miles of the 2,000 border and serves...

Ringing in 2018 by simultaneously offering talks with south korea about his country hopefully being allowed into the olympics next month. and hes announced, quote, the entire u.s. territories are within our firing range and the nuclear missile button is right there on my desk. this is not a threat, but reality. president trump responded to that tonight by saying, quote, north korean leader kim jong-un just stated that the nuclear button is on his desk at all times. will someone please inform him...

Works. that tweet responding to kims annual new years speech where he claimed that the entire u.s. is within north koreas firing range, that the nuclear button is always on his desk. the presidents apparent threat igniting alarm online. some even questioning his mental fitness. whats striking, stephanie, here aides at the white house that ive spoken to say that the media per usual is blowing the presidents tweet out of proportion, that sometimes a tweet is just that, a tweet. >> sometimes a twee...

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Many state-owned channels ive watched in other countries. >> hes given up on the free media and making his own media. >> wow. lots to talk about this morning. north korea as we start out lashing out over the angry sanctions defiant recalling the punishment a heinous u.s. plot as you heard adding it will launch thousand-fold revenge against the united states and warning you as we show you on this map, it has demonstrated that the entire u.s. mainland is in its firing range according to north kore...

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