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More than $185 billion. we plan to double this number. we have a lot of investments in the u.s. we trust the economy here. we do a lot in the infrastructure and we are planning to do more investment. yes, we are working very closel closely. you are welcome to visit the base any time, mr. president. i really enjoy the personal friendship with you. thank you very much. >> president trump: thank you very much. i would say the base is incredible. what they have done there is -- and a great place to have it. right in the middle of the middle east. so it's obviously a very important location. so tha...

We're going to be signing a document today, a very large transaction. you're going to be invited to the signing. it's a transaction that will be purchasing a lot of boeing jets and a lot of money spent in our country and that means a lot of jobs. so we just appreciate everything. we have a great operation, military operation right now in qatar. they built one of the great military bases, i would say anywhere in the world. it's just been expanded with runways and everything else. it's been really a great honor to work with my friend. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you, sir. mr. pr...

None of those troops have arrived at the border. they are still at lackland airbase in san antonio. the pentagon, not dhs will pay for this deployment of troops and the comptroller is working on this. it's illegal to simply reprogram the defense budget without going to congress. in the past dhs has reimbursed the pentagon when troops were sent to the border but bottom line, is it expensive, when the pentagon sent u.s. troops to the border it cost $185 billion. a senior u.s. official tells me that in addition to the 5200 or so troops order to the border, an additional 2,000 active-duty u.s. tro...

Affairs. i worked at the v.a. from 2009 to 2012. it's a $185 billion budget. this is not something he has the experience to do. you got to remember that previous v.a. secretaries, one was an arm a chief of staff, secretary mcdonald was the former ceo of procter & gamble and they faced a lot of serious challenges with this. you're going to take a guy who is the white house physician and never managed more than a few dozen people at a time in his life and throw him in that crucible. not only are you setting him up for failure butt 20 million veterans in america up for failure. >> do your other v...

Should consider moving him from his job because of his leadership capacity. and the white house didn't remove him. we know that multiple presidents have again liked him being their doctor both obama and trump recommended he get navy promotions still serving as the white house doctor. but this nomination to lead the veterans administration would be a very different job in a very different promotion the va has a budget of $185 billion. become. it has 360,000 employees. it streets 9 million veterans in terms of their health care. it's one of the hardest jobs in government. however well people lik...