Don Bacon: “The more the White House pushes back on this, it's – it just looks bad, right?”

I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.

Keep the pressure on and say less. That would be my advice to the president.

This is going to be a tough fight, and we do not- we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

I think it was important for him to level with the American people. This is going to be a tough fight.