Thread by @jseldin

Praise for #Colombia & #Brazil from @Southcom Cmdr Adm Craig Faller during briefing for @POTUS on counternarcotics ops - "On the field to compete...you want the best players with you & we certainly have those winners with us here today"

Faller says both countries paying to help

.@Southcom's Adm Faller specifically points out to @POTUS a brigadier general from #Colombia

"President Duque has sent us his best, & paying for it" Faller tells @POTUS "He comes here fully paid by Colombia & her works for me"

Faller also commends #Brazil for sending a major general - "one of the sharpest in the Brazilian armed forces" - to work on counternarcotics

"Again, Brazil is paying for him to come here & work for me" Faller tells @POTUS

"The wall is coming along very well" @POTUS says after remarks at the briefing by @DHS_Wolf

Trump then tells @EsperDoD "that's been really one of your pet projects"

re #borderwall #Pentagon

"That's real wall. That's wall that you don't get through-tough stuff" per @POTUS

"That turned out to be very lucky for us that we had the wall or else we would have been inundated" he adds, referencing #COVID19

"We have the best equipment anyone has, as a military" per @POTUS "We have things under construction that we're going to take a look at one day soon where we have missiles, I hear, that go 17 times faster than any other missile"

"It's something that nobody has anywhere in the world. 17 times faster, so it's a little hard to spot it when it's goes that fast because by the time you spot it, it's gone" says @POTUS