we don t have opposition activists getting poisoned by b biological weapons. in the united states a judge can rule against a president. this is interesting. we are built on a strong foundation. we are built on a moral foundation. yes, nobody is perfect. you testified in congress about things that the u.s. government wanted to could do o doing in terms of torture and you said it was wrong. sure. you know what? we have such strong institutions i can testify against the administration. i can testify against what my country is doing and then congress can act upon it and outlaw these techniques. we re not perfect, we make mistake, yes but to compare us to putin, that is probably the most chilling, the most un-american thing i heard any american president say. john, your comments on that?
intelligence works and there are a lot of people in the intelligence community, even high level leaders in the pentagon, former leaders in the pentagon talking about how this will hinder intelligence cooperation when we paint the brush with everyone in the countries. i want our television viewers to see part of an ad you released today, john. you lost the popular vote, having trouble drawing a crowd and your approval rate something sinking, banning muslims won t help, that s not the america i sacrificed for. keeping an eye on the left side of your screen where the president will show up shortly. john, talk to me about what you re hoping to achieve with that tell ligs meadvice message. we empower the voice of veterans and this veteran has a message for the president. the president shut the phone lines down at the white house and today he ll speak at macdill
looking at macdill air force base in florida. president trump s first trip, this is an important base, u.s. central command. the president has just finished having lunch with the troops at macdill air force base. his first major public visit to troops since his inauguration. joining me is former fbi special agent ali sufan and john saltz chairman of votevets.org. we re getting your stuff warmed up there. you recall when the president went to the cia there was all sorts of controversy over the fact that he seemed to be making statements that didn t have to do with the folks working at the cia. it s a little different because the troops are in uniform, they re more public than cia officials, but we are now getting used to the fact that when the president goes somewhere he discusses other things so at this point the hottest thing going on is the immigration ban. what message do you think should be heard by these soldiers at macdill? well, this is centcom and
and i saw those numbers and you like me and i like you. that s the way it works. i m honored to be here today among so many of our really and truly great heroes. i want to begin by thanking general votelle and general thomas for their distinguished leadership in service on behalf of our country, very, very outstanding people. i d also like to thank general dunford, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. that s big stuff when you have the chairman. where is he? joe, stand up for a second. this is one of the great people. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. also commander vogel and everyone serving at macdill air force base, quite a place, and we re going to be loading it up with beautiful, new planes and beautiful new equipment. you ve been lacking a little
reluctant to send american troops back into war in the middle easily. this poll today really caught me by surprise, i have to say, given the tenor of the political rhetoric and the media coverage of the last four days, perhaps not surprising, your reaction to that poll? i m disappointed, you know, by the polling and i understand people are scared, but in reality right now, the way the situation is in iraq and syria, you know, for instance, in iraq alone, the iraqi army has never conducted offensive combat operations. so we can go in there retake, you know, basically huge footprints of the country. the mosul sector, the tikrit sector, the anbar sector. we can occupy that land. it would take thousands and thousands of troops to do this. reinstall the iraqi army, and we re back to where we were in 2012. i don t think people understand when they re talking about putting troops back in the region, you know, we re basically back to where we started from, which is stuck there. and it s endl