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Visiting a combat zone as president , did just that. Boarding a secret overnight flight from maryland to iraq to surprise troops on the ground there and thank them for spending christmas far far from home. The reason im here today is to personally thank you and every Service Member throughout this region for the near elimination of the isis territorial caliphate in iraq and in syria. Two years ago, when i became president , they were a very dominant group. There were very dominant. Today they are not so dominant anymore. [cheers and applause] ed not so dominant. You hear the cheers, the selfie...

Joining me now is the author of that piece, bret decker. assistant professor of business at defiance college and coauthor of the book "the conservative case for trump." good evening, good to have you tonight. >> merry christmas, great to be on. >> ed: merry christmas. let's explain first, what you believe the president can and cannot do with his executive power? >> sure. that's the fundamental question. a couple weeks ago the white house put out a directive to the executive branch agencies asking if they could find pots of money they could use to build a wall and there's money all over the exe...