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Yesterday about the shanahan allegations. i asked him if that caused concern about the white house vetting process and denied any issues with the vetting process despite shanahan being one of multiple individuals withdrawing from consideration from a post after being announced. tonight president trump heading to florida to launch his re-election campaign. leaving behind turmoil as his acting defense secretary patrick shanahan announcing he's stepping down. >> i didn't ask him to withdraw and he walked had and said it is a rough time for him because of obviously what happened. but i did not ask...

Round up of millions of people. >> they know. they're going to start next week. when people come in illegally, they have to go out. everybody is seeing that. as you know, mexico has been doing a very good job the last four days. they haven't done that in 25 years. they're doing a very good job. i appreciate the job they're doing. guatemala like-wise is different. so we'll see how that works out. with all of that being said, the democrats should get together and solve the asylum problem, which is very easy to solve. they should solve the loop hole problem also very easy to solve. >> [question i...

The read on the above with the north carolina republican senator a key member of the senate armed services committee, tom tillis. good to have you back. >> thanks, neil. >> neil: the president and his comments particularly regarding the acting defense secretary who did not go through this confirmation process given the revelations, what do you think? >> it's new information. shanahan decided to step aside. the president identified somebody that i've had the opportunity to work with. esper will not miss a stride and will continue to do the good work under this administration. >> neil: so it com...