pete: president trump is taking action to help -- signing an executive order creating a task force to come up with solutions to end the problem of suicide amongst veterans. still too big, still ongoing. joining me now retired u.s. army sergeant nic armondaruis and robert muscle. thank you for joining us this morning. sergeant, let me start with you. you were at that ceremony. the stat is well-known, 22 veterans previously. we don't know how many committing suicide every day a huge epidemic. are we doing enough at the white house to confront this? >> absolutely. i think that this is a first step and it's a major step to be taken in the right direction. it opens up a lot more pathways and a lot more doors to this crisis and this kind of epidemic that's going on throughout the country. they are doing great things. pete: it was a crisis then. it still is sergeant first