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know when the media reports where we have troops. some of it was very surprising. i would not have come anywhere close to a number like 144. are we supposed to know all this stuff? and i guess there are people like john mccain who should know things because he's chairman of the armed services committee maybe the rest of us don't know. does it come as a surprise how many places we have u.s. troops in? >> i tend to follow it pretty closely. it doesn't surprise me, but specifically with africon. there's 53 nations in that area of responsibility. 15 of the top 25 weakest states are in the africon area of responsibility. in niger alone, 400,000 displaced people. so the reason that there are u.s. troops doing these advisory missions and trying to build partner capacity is because they see it as the best way to stabilize those places so that the next time we face isis it won't be in niger. you know, as you know, they

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