time to do it. griff: general, in addition to the morale boost, having the commander-in-chief there getting a realtime face-to-face assessment of the conditions on the ground after such a big move like the withdraw in syria, can you speak to that and what he has gained by this trip? >> yeah. i think it was very important for the president to go over there and articulate his strategy in syria and mainly because, you know, you get some news over there and, you know, you get a lot of cnn and other stuff. you get all this fake news that is spun in different ways. and for the president and first lady to go over there and articulate their messages about syria and families, it was so important. and, you know, syria, i think, is the exact right call to get out of syria and perhaps put some private military contractors in there, have an over the horizon force and allow for investment in to come in there and clean up oil