counterterrorism mission that the forces in iraq or performing be. >> joining me is a former cia officer and vice president of national security and foreign policy heritageoundation. hello, guys. >> hello. >> i'm going tock start with yo come president trump ever win? >> not in the minds of his critics. this was pretty astonishing. there were people, and i mean media organizations, who were just hammering the president in the hours leading up to his visit for never having visited any of our troops in a war zone and then the line afterwards were he shamed them so effectively in the days before. no, it takes weeks to plan a presidential visit. ben also the criticisms of his time there. anyone can see the video the troops are excited to see the commander-in-chief, but they're particularly happy in seeing trump, and i can understand why. people are saying well, the policy speech he gave wasn't enough for us too much or what was in political. he never gets any credits and this is not new. >> and speaking of making it political, you guys listen to this. >> it is a campaign slogan and that the campaign item.po i'm sure their bosses see that, t ey're not going t