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Visit to a combat zone was with ahe first lady and give him chance to hear directly from commanders on the ground and the president noted the remarkable job u.s. forces have done, taking the fight to the islamic state terror group. with the near elimination of the isis territorial caliphate in iraq and in syria. the timing of the trip comes as the secretary of defensel d the special envoy for the correlation to defeat isis have both resigned. defense secretary jim mattis is out at the end of the year after being critical of the president s foreign policy and brett mcgurk was planningar to leave in early 2019 but turned in his resignation and protest of the president s plan to pull u.s. forces out of syria. the president invited the iraqi prime minister to the white house next year and we are told he accepted the invitation.. i should note, air force one has touched down in germany for a refueling stop where the commander in chief s meeting with more u.s. military personnel. tammy? ....
Institution of the presidency not for myself personally. i had concerns for the first lady, i will tell you, but if you would have seen what we had to go through, with the dark in the plane, with all windows closed, with no lights on whatsoever anywhere. pitch black. i ve never seen that. reporter: the president spent more than three hours on the ground with the troops, posing for selfies and signing autographs. at a refueling stop in germany on the way home, the president addressed another group of american troops. the christmastime visit to troops coming after perhaps the most chaotic week of his administration. the withdrawal from syria came as a shock to even his strongest allies. that prompted widespread criticism from some of the president s staunchest supporters in congress and the resignation of defense secretary jim mattis. all right, jonathan karl joins us now from the white house. and it is notable, jon, who the president traveled with, but also who the president didn ....
Pastor andrew brun son. we hope to hear from him live later today if his medical examine goes live in germany. he will be landing in maryland sometime in the early afternoon. that, of course, will be live on the fox news channel. he put out this statement, the pastor, in the meantime written one. this is the day our family has been praying for. i am delighted to be on my way home to the united states and, by the way. in court yesterday, when he finally got word that he was going to be headed home. there was another pastor there who has been supporting him from new york. and has been there for every court proceeding to show strength for him. and this pastor told us yesterday that pastor brun son started crying when he finally learned he was coming home. when you saw that image of him when ambassador ric grenell handed him the american flag, our ambassador in germany. he just simply kissed it. pete: really powerful image. welcome pastor brunson and his wife to germany on refueling stop. ....
To a more intensive situation, an environment for the rest of the way home which involved a refueling stop in ancorage. they easily had another 15, 16 hours ahead of them. carol, were you able to watch the moment when they landed here? i saw their plane our plane the secretary s plane was parked about maybe 300 feet away from where their plane got off and where president trump was waiting to meet them and secretary pompeo got off of our plane immediately and was whisked over there. i could see it from afar. you wasn t able to see so much. i m going to have to watch tv this morning to see what happened literally before my very eyes. any knowledge on the more trivial side, were there any comforts provided to them? was there anything that they had ready assuming that these men ....
Major breaking news night once again. this is a coup for president trump as his new secretary of state mike pompeo is coming home from his second secret trip in recent weeks to north korea with a major foreign policy victory in tow. this caps a dramatic day of diplomacy, a short time ago the three previously imprisoned americans landed with pompeo in anchorage, alaska, for a refueling stop. then quickly got back in the air. they are now on their way to joint base andrews. right here in the washington area. they will land in the middle of the night after a day of ups and downs. there was some uncertainty about whether this was really happening after the secretary of state spent 90 minutes meeting with kim jong un and then returned to his hotel. reporters traveling with the secretary asked pompeo if the americans were coming home. and he crossed his fingers because he was still not sure. it was a done deal. north korean officials soon arrived to say these americans were freed. tony kim, ....