that the number one job for you, lieutenant west, is to take care of your man and especially when you go into combat. >> in your lifetime just so that we get the record straight you've never, ever seen a president do that you're suggesting that the president should do, never, ever once. >> if you want to go back and forth with this you continue how you feel how it should be done but i'm sticking with my guns in saying. >> okay. >> that sometimes you have to have a different style of leadership and i think that our men and women in combat require individuals who are willing to go out there and be with them in harm's way at times, and understand this no one is going to allow the president of the united states to be in a dangerous situation. >> all right, i'll take that as your apology. i'll take that statement as your retraction. congressman allen west, tea party republican of florida, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> you have a great night. >> thank you. next, we'll talk about the new normal for the democrats in the house. do minority leader pelosi and the rest of the dems have a plan to derail house republicans? and later, republicans take control of the house today. will the next stop be the white