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Is the chinese dry wall. and so what we have seen is that we stopped our production, we stopped our manufacturing, we were so happy to try to have these relations with china, but they could not be trusted and you know about the theft of our intellectual property and the forced technology transfers to the point now, look at what theyre doing in the south china sea. south china sea where they have built the man-made islands and fortified them with military weaponry, thats 40 to 45% of the commerce...

Is the chinese dry wall. and so what we have seen is that we stopped our production, we stopped our manufacturing, we were so happy to try to have these relations with china, but they could not be trusted and you know about the theft of our intellectual property and the forced technology transfers to the point now, look at what theyre doing in the south china sea. south china sea where they have built the man-made islands and fortified them with military weaponry, thats 40 to 45% of the commerce...

They still dont have power in large portions of the island, dont have potable water. what more should have been done? >> well, we could have responded quicker. theres a lot of excuses about being an island surrounded by water. but the united states military got capacity to open ports, we have capacity to open airfields. none of that was used. we waited on fema to call forward contractors. we never got passed 100 clor helicopters in puerto rico. remember, puerto rico is about the size of connecti...

Weakness, weakness. rob: he has a lot of fans in indiana. he spoke about several foreign-policy issues including the cost of the new embassy in jerusalem, imposing steel and aluminum tariffs. jillian: threats from the sky becoming a danger over us military bases. james mattis saying the military may need to shoot down unknown drones. >> this could become an increasing problem. we track every overflight of our bases, ships, airfields. i was surprised to see how much of this is being dealt with. i...

Confused." the white house official says that since then, kudlow has apologized to haley. some administration officials say haleys original comments surprised them. they say in the past she has pre-cleared such remarks directly with the president to avoid publicly contradicting him. senior citizen has learned the -- cnn has learned the air strikes over syria proceeded despite questions over whether they had used sarin to attack civilians. witnesses said there was enough evidence for military o...

Striking those airfields. >> there was a bit of confusion, so to speak. maybe they werent on the same message, who knows. the president saying it was a sustained attack. secretary mattis said earlier no additional attacks planned, this was going to be a single attack unless assad didnt get the message. a one time strike like this and saying its a one time strike, why telegraph when theres been so much criticism especially from this particular president about telegraphing to the enemy what were g...

Were hoping to get more information on that picture. targets were also chosen because there was no presence of russian forces. that was a concern of military planners. they wanted to make sure they did not kill any sins or russian troops potentially escalating the situation. >> do they have a second list for potential further attacks should they occur? >> they did he lay out the fact that they will be looking at the regimes behavior, seeing what it does. there are of course, additional targets t...

Lets talk about more about the equipment used. again we -- you mentioned the one u.s. navy warship and the b-1 bomber and im asking you that -- located in the red sea. as you said a little over double the weapons this year as last year. talked to us about that. >> the key thing is -- if we go to -- to this map here -- let me stay on this map here. what happened last year is we attacked this location exclusively. one airfield and we went after many pieces -- many aircraft which were in covered bu...

Were an increase russian presence. if they can put the aircraft amongst a russian contingent. there would be less chance to be struck. we only struck two airfields. involved in the chemical attack. not only did it gif the syrians and the russians a chance to move things around, it boxed the president in. once he said he was going to do this he had to do something. we saw this drama play out. in washington. between the chairman of the joint chief and the secretary of defense. who i believe were c...

Deplete the capabilities of the syrian military in any way. it doesnt seem as though airfields have been hit. it doesnt seem aircraft has been hit. it seems these strikes were indeed very, very limited. bianca. >> fred, i suppose there wasnt much of an element of surprise because president trump was telegraphing this last week. perhaps the only aspect of this that might seem a little surprising is the fact that arent there proerfessionals fr the chemical watchdog in serial investigating this all...