they don't like this idea, using the president will back off? >> melissa: it's tough to say because he doesn't like to back off. i do think his heart was in the right place. i was with brian kilmeade saying why not visit 20 bases in 20 days. it would be easy for someone to come up with something to replace this, to allow the president to save face and to what it is that he wants to do. i do believe it's not about being a show of force so to speak. is not all these things that people are saying. it is about showing that we really support the troops and you don't understand unless you serve. i heard general jack keane say we train, we fight, we don't parade. in that kind of summed it up for me. >> harris: you and i are both military dependents formally and i was born on an army base and i remember when troops would come home and we would have a celebration. these were our dads and our brothers and guys were coming home and they were torn up, and we just wanted to love on them. we were in a stage now as you