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President trump is approving the sale of billions of dollars of weapons to saudi arabia, the united arab emirates and jordan to push through the $8.1 billion sale, the president declared an emergency to bypass congress. we've seen this before. a u.s. official tells cnn that many of the troops will be engineers to support patriot missile batteries and reconnaissance aircraft. the sale comes on the same day he approved sending 1,500 troops to the middle east to deal with what the white house calls this rising threat from iran to troops in the region. here to talk about the sale and the troops is...

His voter base that i think the president is keenly aware that as he goes into a presidential cycle, people will be looking to him and saying, look, this was something that appealed to a lot of his voters and you sort of got nowhere with it, but in terms of this federal court in california ruling that he can't do it, the court properly noted that number one, the power of the purse belongs to congress, and congress has not allocated funds for this wall, and i think implied in that argument from the court is that this isn't even a situation where congress failed to take it up and now the preside...

He said he doesn't want to associate himself with wars he views as failures. defense secretary james mattis revealing he at times has advised the president not to go to certain places saying the president is the commander in chief and decides where he wants to go. there are times i don't want him in certain locations for his security and the troops' security. so don't worry about that. joining me now, retired lieutenant general mark hurtley, former army commandi ining gene and a cnn military analyst. you've said you're fine with the fact the president has not visited a war zone. why? >> i'm fi...

Council meeting at midnight just after the u.s. president canceled that summit to try and figure out what to do. and clearly this is the result of that. now, one key thing we don't know is who asked for this meeting. was it the north korean leader who pushed for it or the south korean leader who pushed for it. in just a few hours' time we'll have a press conference with moon and we're hoping to ask him that question. >> we will look for that, paula, when it happens. thanks for that report from seoul. let's continue this discussion on the on again, off again and possibly on again u.s./north k...

City built 3,000 years ago. they are destroying lives but also destroying the very fabric of civilization. >> what is their goal, thank you very much. let's bring in general mark hurtley. and mr. michael weiss, the co-arthur of isis inside the army of terror. this is we're told a very critical point in this campaign to take back tikrit. what has it taken to get to this point? >> well, good morning, first of all, chris. you have about 20,000 iraqi soldiers outside the city of tikrit. they fought up from a shia holy city to their south. they're heading toward mosul on the supply lines. tikrit is...