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We're the greatest military force ever assembled. chris: but we have deployed u.s. troops around the world for more than half a century in a is sense not to fight -- in a sense not to fight wars. 35,000 u.s. troops right now in germany. 26,000 right now in south korea. 55,000 in japan. chuck, what president trump calls a police force has been a decision that if the u.s. puts troops on borders as trip wires, if you will, then sometimes -- often times in some of these cases for decades it prevents wars. >> well, we have in the greater middle east about 60,000 troops. they're in places, a lot of ...

We're the greatest military force ever assembled. chris: but we have deployed u.s. troops around the world for more than half a century in a is sense not to fight -- in a sense not to fight wars. 35,000 u.s. troops right now in germany. 26,000 right now in south korea. 55,000 in japan. chuck, what president trump calls a police force has been a decision that if the u.s. puts troops on borders as trip wires, if you will, then sometimes -- often times in some of these cases for decades it prevents wars. >> well, we have in the greater middle east about 60,000 troops. they're in places, a lot of ...

Funds for things city and criticize the murder rate in the city. there's some hypocrisy there. >> you have to view him holding up chicago and baltimore as a political exercise. this reflects a world view the president has expressed in the 1980s that basically the problems of society are found in, you know, high crime very diverse cities where there is significant poverty and significant social problems. they come along with it. that's something -- one of the few areas where the president has been very, very consistent throughout his life. i would also say, you know, to sort of to margaret's po...

The director says the two entities have much different missions and do not interact. here is what he told pamela brown in an exclusive interview. >> there have been reports out there basically saying that donald trump kept his private security even after he was elected. is that true? >> well, first of all, let me just say that the secret service has the seoole responsibility o protecting the president, the vice-president, under u.s. code 1830566 we have the authority and mannen dadate to protect th individuals. this group you are referring to, they are not in any of our meetings or advance mee...

Authority and mandate and only the secret service has the mandate to protect. we work with law enforcement partners. the group you are referring to are not in our meetings and they are not armed. they are more of a staff function than security function. so we don't interact with them. >> if there was a threat to the president-elect, they would not interfere? >> that's correct. we have the plan to protects the president-elect and there's no interaction at all. >> no concern that there may be friction? >> no. no friction at all. >> he said the man who is considered trump's personal body guard wi...