secretary of defense. can you believe this? here we are almost in a war and this guy decides to go away for four days and tell nobody. most importantly, his deputy. this country is rudderless right now. we have to win this election for the benefit of america. nikki haley can do it. >> neil: you talk about the environment right now. you think it was better when donald trump was in office? a lot of the republicans i talked to here say yes, it was. that's why we're voting for him. we want those days back. we want that guy back. >> well, let's go by the facts. the economy was booming. employment -- i have a lot of things i can find fault with donald trump. but i can also in fairness say he did a lot of good things. the tax bill, the border. our border today -- we let eight million people in. what are the odds that 50 of them are terrorists or 100 are