>> you would hate to think politics would get involved in something like this when you have service members putting their lives on the line and one navy s.e.a.l. sacrificing his life. >> i think this thing is completely and utterly ridiculous, that there's a political debate about a well-thought-out, well-planned -- and listen, if everything was perfect, this would be a different world. it's not. it's dangerous. this reinforces how hard the fight on terrorism is, when you're going to insert united states soldiers, special operators, into an environment like this. it's very, very difficult. not all of them come out perfect. and some notion that that whole military command is somehow ceded itself to some politics between obama and trump is nuts. and we better get over this in a hurry. i actually commend the president for saying, if my military advisers are telling me this is a good target, and by the way, they killed 14 al qaeda terrorists in this raid, and they collected intelligence, which means at some point, they