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And women, young patriots who volunteered to defend this experiment overseas, and the question i wrote down to myself was will this commitment contribute sufficiently to the well being of the american people to justify putting our troops in a position to die. not in harm's way, not to possibly get injured, in a position to die, and i would look at the -- it sat right there on my desk. i hand wrote it and i taped it to my desk so that i would never overlook it, and then the deployment orders would come in twice a week, generally, and i would be signing off on them, and they're very sensitive in...

Drove home a point to me, mike, that comes to mind here. you all know what my primary job was as the commander, i coordinated military activities in the united states, across that tumultuous middle east. my real job was how do you keep the peace for one more year or what passes for peace in the middle east, one more month, one more week, one more day, one more hour to give the diplomats time to work their magic and try to make this a little bit better world so you write fewer of those letters home. you want the diplomats, always speaking from a position of strength. and that was why we have a ...

It's merely asserting the need for asylum, and often released into the united states. they await a lengthy court process. the court process will take years, sometimes. well, we are not releasing them into our country any longer. they will wait for long. of time. we have thousands of tents. we have a lot of tents. we are going to hold them right there. we are not letting them into our country. >> harris: meanwhile, fox news has deployment orders signed by defense secretary mattis showing the pentagon will not be building any tents for migrants and will only build tents for up to 2400 customs an...

Sending 15,000 people down there, you don't think is a bad thing. >> i didn't say that. i did not say that. i say it's not an illegal thing. is it a good thing? i don't know. there may be intelligence, and this is the important part, kate. there mail may be intelligence saying they're needed here. i have yet to see that. the early deployment orders where you have seen their course of action development that newsweek printed, it says there's a most likely course of action, which says here's what we think is going to happen, and there's a most dangerous course of action, and even the most danger...

A political stunt. >> the support that we provide to the secretary for homeland security is practical support, based on the requests from the commissioner of customs of border police. so, we don't do stunts in this department, thank you. >> the president also said the troops would be building tent cities for the migrants, not true according to the pentagon. their deployment orders expire on december 15. shepard? >> shepard: when the president said 15,000 troops, the pentagon calls that a stunt. when the president says we're building tent cities, the pentagon says that's not true. >> right now,...