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equipment. it's where they board the planes and head back to the united states. in between they get a little r and r. right now on the stage, you've got the cheerleaders for the washington redskins, two days ago the cheerleaders from the philadelphia eagles. they've had rock bands. it's a chance for those soldiers coming out of iraq to decompress a bit before they go home. there isn't a lot to do while they wait for their flights. they have been able to speed up protein ses. a couple weeks ago, this place was slammed and you might wait five to eight days if you were a soldier hoping ...

>> gregg: let's shifted to the focus of security here at home. in particular, scott, border security. >> we asked people what would happen, would it be safer assignation if you cut the military budget and use some of those savings to secure the border. 48% said the nation would be safer. only 9% think those military budget cuts will make us less safe. republicans are a little more enthusiastic than democrats and democrats tend we would be safer. part of a larger question about security profile, half of us would like to pull troops out of western europe and japan. >> heather: speaking of the bu...

Then there is scott pruett. they are asking about his security profile. the company's owner is a well-known friend and supporter of donald trump. and of course there is there is white house physician dr. reasony jackson. he is president trump's pick to lead the veterans affairs department. the white house continues to support jackson who is facing allegation ranging from drinking on the job to overprescribing medication that got him the nickname mr. candyman among subordinates. >> number one is improper doling out of prescription drugs. the second bucket is intoxication on the job. being dru...

>> three days ago the benghazi committee received chris steven and this morning on "face the nation," congressman tray goudy reiterated. she is just one part of this investigation. gowdy said the ambassador's e-mails are much more interesting to him than clintons. >> while violence was going up in libya, why was our security profile going down? it wasn't even staying the same. it was going down. i want to know why certain things made it to our inbox but pleadings that you put in place for more security never bothered to make it to your inbox. i think that's a fair question.

>> the american facility in benghazi was attacked in april of 2012. literal two months to the day later our facility again was bombed. they breached the wall. five days after that the british ambassador assassination attempt. the attack on the red cross. you have 300 documented attacks on western targets and aks of violence in libya. the requests for more help never came. in fact, they diminished the security profile. fast forward to barack obama, campaigning for the president of the united states saying al qaeda is on the run. yet days later, five days later, i believe it was, we had this att...