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There have been occasional crossings across. by the way, from the south into the north strangely enough. so i would be much more concerned if there's sort of mass defections of entire divisions or platoons or brigades. >> or senior leadership. >> thaekt. >> thanks very much for putting that into context for us. one programming note. tonight at 97:00 eastern time, will ripley gives is a rare glimpse of the secret state taking us inside north korea. it's a must watch. meanwhile, the president is taking his feud with the father i've ucla basketball player to yet another level. calling him "an ung...

United states not only is for punishment, but it's also as a terrence. so for future platoons, it makes people think twice about deserting, because if platoon isn't only as strong as the weakest link. if you are out there, they take this very seriously in the u.s. military come desertion. extremely seriously. when people think about it, doing it again? hey, get a slap on the wrist, no jail time. not as stringent as it used to be in this country. >> general jack keane when he was on fox a couple weeks ago, we were talking about bowe bergdahl. he said early on, kimberly, the military -- at least...

I also swore an oath to protect and defend the constitution both as a united states marine and a member of congress. i understand free speech is protected. make sure we're talking about the right things. >> congressman served four tours in iraq, one of the first platoons into baghdad. he knows of what he speaks and he also got married last weekend, romantic 36-hour honeymoon we're told and getting married last week elise jordan. >> wow. >> congratulations. >> not to each other. >> wow. >> important to point out. you had a question for the congressman? >> you're in the house armed services comm...

Prim -- perimeters to get through. >> you know, we had a job to do. i'm not going to listen to people who want to talk about hate and, you know what, if they didn't get in, that's a good thing because their message isn't what we want to hear. >> what about the people -- [inaudible] >> again, if you looked at us, we pedaled bikeses 20,000 people, real soft, we got in here in the parameter. we had officers with soft hats. until we weren't able to get wagons that we had to bring the public order platoons to get them out safely. i thought that went really well. there was a lot of pushing and shovi...

15,000 now and that's huge, we could see even more, so keeping those two groups separate, how are law enforcement going to be able to accomplish that? >> well, the first thing they're going to do is use the training that they've been filled in on and the tactics that they know very well, because they've managed a bunch of events like this, to keep those crowds separate. they have public platoons, officers, large numbers of officers if it's necessary in the event and to push crowds in one way or the other. they have quick response teams that are out there. the guys that you saw on bicycles are ...