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Visit the texas border and called on governor rick perry to rally republicans to pass his emergency funding request. take a listen to what he had to say. >> is congress prepared to act to put the resources in place to get this done? this isn't theater. this is a problem. i'm not interested in photo-ops. i'm interested in solving a problem. >> as i recall, president bush got chastised greatly for not showing up in new orleans when katrina occurred, so it's about the message of i see what's going on, i care what's going on. this issue is one of trust, and the american people do not trust this pr...

Needs to move forward with air strikes? >> well, we don't want to see -- we don't want to see u.s. boots on the ground in that -- in iraq. what has been requested by the government in iraq, but also by our embassy in bagdad, is that as these columns of al qaeda offshoot soldiers move, that we use predator drones above them in order to look down and you can see the ski masks and the black flags and to hit these columns and take these columns out because that has proved to be a pretty effective strategy in the past when you're dealing with al qaeda offshoots like this. so that has been the criti...

Was primed to explode, and other types of deadly traps. fortunately, the bombs failed to explode in those situations, but they were too close for comfort. other soldiers, as we know, were not so fortunate. all of us commonly understood at the time that bergdahl had walked off his post after a guard shift into a local afghan village. we knew, though, we had to do whatever it took to find him. and that was fine. but i have to tell you, all of my men, me included, were absolutely furious and resent of, frankly, that a fellow american soldier had put us into this position. but i'm confident saying...

Vehicles latrines and also the afghan military post that was at their base. they confirmed that bergdahl was nowhere to be found. this is where you really see the military pull out all stops on that day and in the weeks to come to try to find him. the order comes down all military assets are to be focused on the dust one situation. status, for duty, whereabouts unknown. within a few hours, you have got two predator drones covering the area, multiple platoons are deployed to search for him. including a team with tracking dogs and a rain is running to intercept taliban radio transmissions. this ...

To do a search of all their vehicles latrines and also the afghan military post that was at their base. they confirmed that bergdahl was nowhere to be found. this is where you really see the military pull out all stops on that day and in the weeks to come to try to find him. the order comes down all military assets are to be focused on the dust one status, whereabouts unknown. within a few hours, you have got two predator drones covering the area, multiple platoons are deployed to search for him. including a team with tracking dogs and a rain is running to intercept taliban radio transmissions...