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Unambiguous, very clear. i have worked personally on an arrangement with mexico. now a week and a few days ago. i am confident that we will get this under control and it is important for american national security that we do in fact achieve this. thank you all. >> melissa: okay, that was secretary of state mike pompeo at centcom in florida. he was talking about, among other things, the additional troops heading to the middle east as a result of rising tensions with iran, saying that the goal now is to reestablish deterrence with respect to iran. that this is not about the past two years or fiv...

Increased military presence near iran. that's very unfortunate, because the problem isn't directly challenging iran with some of their misbehavior. the problem is getting into another afghanistan and another protracted military campaign -- >> melissa: why do you think that's what this is? >> kennedy: because that's what we've seen. we haven't seen the opposite and we haven't seen any administration be able to do something surgically and short term and then get us out of there with better results. we are still in afghanistan. it's 2019. it's been quite some time. there are people like charlie o...

Those attacks, i think they're supported by the pakistanis. they have a safe haven inside of pakistan, the united states policy is trying to push back on the pakistani. this is likely something of a reaction to that before the spending offensive begins. in other words, it puts you back on u.s. policy. lea: i recently spoke with a source at centcom who told me that a lot of the air assets that were working on syria have moved over to take the same strategy in afghanistan. in syria they were going after the oil, and in afghanistan now they'll go after the drugs that's creating revenue. what do y...

>> melissa: i know somebody who isn't tired after the super bowl last night. jon scott. fired up. what do you have coming up? >> we're awaiting an address from president trump at centcom in florida today. the president's interview with our bill o'rielly making lots of news. we'll have the latest on that, including a response from russia. also a prominent reporter from "newsweek" argues the media are not treating president trump fairly. are they out to take him down? is he right or just trying to get access? we have that coming up for you "happening now." >> melissa: the new england patriots wi...