David Gergen actually said...

You're absolutely right, Anderson, and also sending in 500 troops on the weekend before the elections long before the marchers and the caravan ever reached the border. They don't need to be there this weekend. That's a ploy.

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David Gergen comments on President Trump's deployment of troops to the border as a political maneuver.

10/29/2018

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