lieutenant colonel marsh your squad has done a tremendous job, tremendous. we appreciate it. the fight against isis is coming our way. it s coming our way. big, big difference. a lot of things have happened. they say we ve made more progress against isis than they did in years of the previous administration. and that s because i m letting you do your job. you re performing more than 1,000 missions over the skies of iraq and syria in the last four months. we re very, very proud of you. believe me, everybody in this country is watching and they re seeing and they re seeing positive reports for a change instead of the neutral and negative reports. it s all positive. to the coasties aboard the cutter rangel, welcome and happy thanksgiving. lieutenant ryan hudson, you and the entire crew aboard the rangel are doing incredible work in the arabian gulf, performing
country. he and the first lady visited the coast guard group to thank them for what they do day in day out. protection of our coast line and of him and his family while they stay at the winter white house which has the atlantic ocean on the east, the intracoastal on the west. he praised them for rescuing more than 1600 people this hurricane season. we went together to texas. we saw what you were doing. and you just followed that storm. right next to that storm. you saved so many people. you saved a lot of people. i just want to thank you. on behalf of the whole country and on behalf of us. reporter: it turns out this morning those coasties turned out to be a little shy. the president at one point offered up any questions he could answer. silence. not a word. perhaps they were a little star stuck by the president s presence in person. he did offer up also all of that
we re very, very proud of you. believe me, everybody in this country is watching and they re seeing positive results for a change instead of the neutral and negative reports. it s all positive. to the coasties aboard the cutter, welcome and happy thanksgiving. lieutenant ryan hudson. you and the entire crew aboard the rangel are doing incredible work in the arabian gulf performing theater security, defense operations and maritime infrastructure protection. thank you very much for your service. very important area. for each of you, i know it s hard to be away from home at this time of the year. we re doing well at home. the economy s doing really great. when you come back, you re going to see with the jobs and companies coming back into our country and the stock market just hit a record high. unemployment s the lowest it s been in 17 years. so you re fighting for something
phil keating live in west palm beach not far from where the president is vacationing. hi, phil. hi. happy thanksgiving to you as well. mr. trump getting into the holiday theme this morning of giving thanks. in particular with the military. aside from that 9:00 a.m. videoconference call with troops in afghanistan and iraq, turkey, bahrain and on board the uss monterey out there in that region, he also traveled from mar-a-lago, his winter white house south to rivera beach where he visited the coast guard s quarters to thank the coasties in person protecting the coastline and protecting him and his family while they stay at the winter white house. the turkey, bread and early morning feast you see on the big table was all provided by the president and first lady melania who was also on hand. for the second straight morning the president hit twitter first
world war ii vet hospitalized for 57th wedding anniversary. he dressed up in a tux and brought flowers to her bedside. now their love story going viral. they will be here live this hour. fox & friends. every day is like saturday we let all our cares away. you are looking live out on our applause. memorial day weekend. i m going to go out on a limb and guess that those folks are participating in fleet week. 1800 personnel. we have got marines sailors,and coasties invading new york city all weekend long. and i m going to guess that they are going to stay until there is some finished where be could you. because they want to eat. they are hungry, they work hard in this country protecting us. down in the hallway cooking up grills. fired up for memorial day