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When a mistake is made or there's something that goes sideways, you want the belief that your commanders will have your back, not just the company or battalion or brigade commander, but the commander in chief. i got so many texts from guys i served with saying i could have been clint or matt. we're fighting a vicious enemy, you know your country will have your back, they sent these guys to 18, 19 years of war and for the president to intervene is a huge morale boost. >> you see the boost from eddie gagallagher. he said there's no words to adequately express how grateful my family and i are to ...

Concerned. when my organization is saying there's some very serious concerns with this budget, we have to be concerned with how it's going to affect border security. charles: currently, how are the border agents handling, you know, the situation, the spotlight, and even news of additional caravans heading our way? >> our agents are doing a great job, and frankly, that is one thing that i'm very grateful to president trump for, is i'm grateful that he's given us the morale boost that we need to go out there and do our job. when i put on my uniform next week, when i go out and patrol the border,...

Be backpedaling right now. now twitter is full of people who said don't give him credit for going. what do you do? >> you can't win with the press. the fact is that press didn't pressure the president into going. it was a secret probably in the works, i can tell you from first-hand experience having planned these visits for president george w. bush that he wasn't forced into it. he was probably on a schedule all along. assuming that was very well needed and appreciated by the troops. the press can say what they want. the president of the right thing. it was well received, a good morale boost. ...

Could he win in any possible scenario? >> i remember the duck and cover alarm going off in baghdad in 2007 for thanksgiving. many of our friends in the green zone in baghdad during those years probably remember the alarm. it was not our friend. when the president comes or any of the senior leadership team in the cabinet, vice president, when anyone comes of any political party, it's a moment of happiness for the troops not just for the troops. we have people in the u.s. embassy, diplomats, thank you to all of them better serving. people from the intelligence agency, the fbi et cetera that are ...

[cheers and applause] [chanting u.s.a.] griff: airmen first class of the squadron ramp service was had this to say i'm just at a loss for words right now. true ofly amazing i took a selfie of melania as she touched me on my arm i told her it was an honor and it truly is that one of the several hundred members of our armed forces that was there and saying to sergeant in stripes what it meant to them it wasn't just a morale boost, pete, as you know. this is the commander-in-chief and is he getting an assessment of the conditions on the grounds from the leaders there that are still engaged in thi...