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Military base in his country but that name and the military base while they remain a suggestion tonight today polish president due to visited the white house and he and president trump they did confirm one major purchase poland is buying. 30 f. 35 fighter jets there we go a move intended to bolster poland and natos eastern european defenses trouble also confirm today that the u.s. will station a 1000 more troops in poland the polish government has been lobbying the trumpet ministration hard for ...

The acting deputy commissioner for customs and border protection told reporters, quote, the governor has determined that what we have asked for so far is unsupportable. it is gone to the process and we have gotten a single from the governor that he is not participating. the governors deputy president terry told foxnews federal officials must have court just gotten around to reading or commenting on the governors response he sent to the trump administration. she had a, quote, there have been no n...

Where an increasing bluster from president trump about a caravan of around 1000-1500 immigrants from central america. the group traveling through mexico toward the u.s. border and the president says it must be stopped. hes considering using the u.s. military, he says, along the southern border, to do it. this occurs as new concerns grow about u.s. troop commitment in syria and a possible trade war with china. chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off tonight from the north lawn ...

Administration took the public relations hit of obama looking weak and being broadly criticized for not being forceful enough on syria they decided that was still preferable to potentially being drawn into a quagmire. potentially being drawn into a broader war that would require troop commitment that we couldnt get out of and make the situation worse. this administration doesnt have answers to those questions of how you avoid those outcomes. >> whether its a one off or not youre throwing a punch...

We send 23-year-olds, and they lose limbs. and some dont come back. >> obama also wanted to apply that logic in afghanistan. >> fire! >> his generals wanted a large new surge of troops. but he insisted on something smaller. >> he took on this idea that the commander in chief is not the commander in chief. that somehow the commander on the ground should be the person who gets everything he needs as determined by him. >> and he demanded a deadline. >> a time frame. >> for when the troops wou come ...

Passage in afghanistan. his generals wanted a large new surge of troops. but he insisted on something smaller. >> he took on this idea that the commander in chief is not the commander in chief. that somehow the commander on the ground should be the person who gets everything he needs, as determined by him. >> and he demanded a deadline for when the troops would come home. >> our troop commitment in afghanistan cannot be open-ended. >> consider this. in january, 2009, there were 175,000 troops in...

New surge of troops. but he insisted on something smaller. >> he took on this idea that the commander in chief is not the commander in chief. that somehow the commander on the ground should be the person who gets everything he needs as determined by him. >> and he demanded a deadline. >> a time frame. >> for when the troops would come home. >> our troop commitment in afghanistan cannot be open-ended. >> consider this. in january 2009, there were 175,000 troops in afghanistan and iraq. as of dece...

>> and he demanded a deadline. >> a time frame. >> for when the troops would come home. >> our troop commitment in afghanistan cannot be open-ended. >> consider this. in january 2009, there were 175,000 troops in afghanistan and iraq. as of december 2016, there were around 15,000. but barack obama was no peacenik. he had a dramatically different approach to war compared with his predecessor.

New surge of troops, but he insisted on something smaller. >> he took on this idea that the commander in chief is not the commander in chief. that somehow the commander on the ground should be the person who gets everything he needs as determined by him. >> do it, do it, do it. >> and he demanded a deadline. >> a time frame. >> for when the troops would come home. >> our troop commitment in afghanistan cannot be open-ended. >> consider this. in january 2009, there were 175,000 troops in afghanis...

But he insisted on something smaller. >> he took on this idea that the commander-in-chief is not the commander-in-chief. that somehow the commander on the ground should be the person who gets everything he needs as determined by him. >> do it, do it, do it. >> and he demanded a deadline for when the troops wld come home. >> our troop commitment in afghanistan cannot be open end ed. >> consider this -- in january, 2009, there were 175,000 troops in afghanistan and iraq. as of december, 2016, ther...