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Decided he wanted to do that anyway to smack her back about the state of the union or something. and because he wanted to make as big a deal as possible about him cancelling that military transportation, the president also today publicly disclosed for the if ifirst time that tha trip was supposed to happen, which means even if nancy pelosi and other members of congress did find alternative means of transportation to go take that congressional delegation to go visit troops in afghanistan, they now, of course, cannot. for security reasons. because the president blew that up. there's a reason whe...

Something. and because he wanted to make as big a deal as possible about him cancelling that military transportation, the president also today publicly disclosed for the first time that that trip was supposed to happen. which means even if nancy pelosi and other members of congress did find alternative means of transportation to go take that congressional delegation to go visit troops in afghanistan, they now of course cannot for security reasons because the president blew that up. there is a reason when high-ranking american officials are flying into an active war zone, we don't find out unti...

Message. which is i'm not afraid to go visit troops. this was starting to be a real question after two years without a presidential visit anywhere. secondly, he has damaged his political base. by firing secretary of defense jim mattis. i think he felt the need to show some port fsupport for the mili broadly speaking. he's trying to justify this withdraw from syria. which i and others continue is a bad move because it tactically opens up a lot of battle space for the islamic state. it opens up the political space for iran, turkey and russia. so what the president's trying to do is show he does ...

To explain the change in course. >> let's bring in elise labott. from a diplomatic perspective, how does this play out to choose iraq, how do you think our partners and our enemies in this region will respond? >> well, i mean, as we've talked about, it customary for a president to go visit troops. usually they'll meet with some iraqi commanders or iraqi leaders and talk to them about the situation on the ground. we haven't talked that much about what's going on in iraq right now. yes, isis has been, you know, severely degraded in iraq, but this is not -- this isis conflict is not an iraq or sy...

His voters about isis and has not been able to deliver on. whether or not it's the best decision or the most well informed decision, he wants to double down because he can lean in on that, just like the wall. something he campaigned on and has to push through despite being no support for or significant support from the base. >> i'm not even sure -- i understand he wants to be out of there but there's not a clamor from the base to withdraw the troops. it's a small number of troops. you don't have to go visit troops to understand that your policy makers, your republicans in the senate and the ho...