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Top of the hour political radar today, the u.s. at the mexican border is expected to cost more. and more military active duty will be needed for security support. we're told about 2300 u.s. troops are at the border right now. the state department telling americans in no uncertain terms, do not travel to venezuela. the advisory issued a short time ago cites crime, civil unrest, poor health facilities and the arbitrary rest and detention of u.s. citizens in venezuela. the government there in turmoil as opposition leaders call for massive protest, demanding

Petroleum imports, but with the shale boom the u.s. is now the biggest oil producer in the world, currently, at the moment, i'm spitting out my words here, phil, and so that's raising some questions, do we really need saudi? the reality is, as "the post" writes, saudi arabia, as the president himself has crudely pointed out, would not survive without u.s. security support, has everything to lose from a break of relations, while the united states no longer needs the kingdom as much as it once did. phil, based on your reporting and your sources at the white house, do they see it the same way? >>...

>> in the marines corp. is see, capture and destroy. here in the opposite, subdue, quickly push them off. >> i'm going to go against marines. this doesn't sound smart. >> i'm not winning that. what types do you train for in embassies around the world? >> a lot of times people would think terrorism, there have been threats long before terrorism was a buzz word, whether or not it's natural disaster, protest, crime, we deal with crisis as they go up all the way including attack on embassy. >> we also provide security support when we have vip's traveling overseas, vice president of united states, ...

And capture. >> there doesn't sound smart. ♪ >> i'm not winning. >> what types of threats do you train for at embassies around the world? >> a lot of team people think hey, terrorism. but the reality is there have been threats before terrorism was a buzz word. whether it's natural disasters, protests, crime, we're prepared to deal with the crises as they go all the way up to and including an attack on the embassy. we provide security support when swe have v.i.p.s traveling overseas, president of the united states, vice president, secretary of state, providing those diplomatic representatives...

Mentions someone's eyeshadow in a joke and that's what the outrage is about? an outrage gap and i don't understand why we're focused on michelle wolf's comments and not on the president of the united states' every single day. >> david, rick, anne, thank you to you all. going to the white house rose garden now where president trump will take questions with the president of nigeria any minute now. nbc's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson is live there. hallie, tell us a little what we think the president and the nigerian president have been talking about, and then maybe a little bit ...