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The man who represented the 9/11 threat is now gone. thanks should be the order of the day always to the s.e.a.l.s, their admiral, their commander, all the intelligence people and the support troops who made their efforts possible. the years of work before those magic moments in that night. some are surprised that the president would attack the osama bin laden effort or admiral mcraven because trump loves the veterans so much. says who? trump? we only know what we can show. he gave them a race, true. so have others. he's left 15,000 active troops in afghanistan after saying he'd bring them hom...

And then you heard from the president on this part of it. let's watch. >> we aren't going to put up with that. they want to for rocks of our military? our military fights back. we're going tosider -- and i told them consider it a rifle prayed when they throw rocks, like they did at the mexico military police, i say "consider it a rifle." >> harris: so, is he handing his critics something to chew on, a talking point forecasting that they will be a problem? or is that reality? >> dagen: as he often does. he often beats the media to lose their minds over some phrase he uses. i will just point peo...

Down at the border. i think the numbers they're getting ready to deploy in the next few days will take you to around 7,000, but i take the point. certainly, the numbers are striking. but i think, poppy, it's really important for us to remember that the types of troops are different here. we have low numbers in places like steer yeah and iraq because we don't need high numbers because these are advisers and trainers. because it's the iraqi security forces that really going after isis there and those kind of missions. the troops that are going to be going to the border or near the border are goi...

They are support troops. they are national guard. we don't know exactly what president trump has in mind. but whatever he has in mind, it doesn't seem to be justified by anything other than maybe political opinion. that is to say, the apparent pressure on the border has declined, the number of illegal immigrants have declined. there are record deportations run by immigration and customs enforcement agency. so by all sort of objective measures, the situation on the border seems to be better than it's ever been. so we don't really understand this in any terms other than political. but i would sa...

So it would send contractors that would cost three times as much. so you could have a slight plussing up of troops, but a lot of supports being support troops that will save the american taxpayer money. you will see that argument. >> we will find out tonight. 9:00 eastern time. cnn will cover this address live. thank you very much for being with us. travel is expensive. just ask the secret service. they're out of cash to pay their agents partially because of all the president's travel to his properties and his children as well. confederate statues come down at the university of texas. one ...