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Joining me now colonel jack jacobs. when we look at times we've had threats of shutdown, is it an individual saying politically charged comments in a situation like that, is that surprising to you? have you seen it before? >> it's unusual. i've been through, when i was on active duty, government shutdowns and listened to speeches but they've never been juxtaposed like that. so it's not particularly helpful for the vice president to make comments like that in front of the troops serving. >> it makes it no doubt difficult for those in attendance, some of which may come from the communities he's ...

>> that was vice president mike pence earlier today with extraordinary comments to men and women in uniform in jordan. joining me now colonel jack jacobs. when we look at times we've had threats of shutdown, is it an individual saying politically charged comments in a situation like that, is that surprising to you? have y seen itbefore? >> it's unl. i've been through, when i was on active duty, government shutdowns and listened to speeches but they've never been juxtaposed like that. so it's not particularly helpful for the vice president to make comments like that in front of the troops servi...

Somalia, the troops serving is on the rise. following gains in isis in iraq more have been deployed. the u.s. military double strikes than a year ago. there are now more than 500 u.s. troops on the ground in somalia. up from 2 dozen in 2014. >> i don't think there's a ramp up. but the density is such that there's opportunity to do the strikes. i wouldn't call it a build-up. i think it is a flow of forces in and out and different organizations come in. they may sized differently. >> the u.s. military is conducting air strikes this six countries around the world. libya, somalia, yemen, syria and

Somalia, the troops serving is on the rise. following gains in isis in iraq more have been deployed. the u.s. military double strikes than a year ago. there are now more than 500 u.s. troops on the ground in somalia. up from 2 dozen in 2014. >> i don't think there's a ramp up. but the density is such that there's opportunity to do the strikes. i wouldn't call it a build-up. i think it is a flow of forces in and out and different organizations come in. they may sized differently. >> the u.s. military is conducting air strikes this six countries around the world. libya, somalia, yemen, syria and

Someplace. the timing couldn't be better because the white house has been taking a great deal of flak over the va mess. this may demonstrate to the troops that the chain of command really cares about them and their contribution. this has been under planning for at least a little while before he went over. >> talk about that. put this in perspective, jack. i had on california representative john garamendi. he said you have the president and he's there and bringing up the morale of the troops serving, but you've got 40 years of looking at dealing with issues of the va system. those seem to be --...