Page 26 - B 2 News Today

Scheme of things, im prepared to wish president trump well that his overall posture towards korea a even though at times it scares me a little, may actually have created a sense of greater focus among some of the interested parties. and they, therefore, applied sanctions more tightly and, therefore, north korea is a little bit more prepared to talk. all that is possible. and so i think, you know, i wish the president well. im not going to get into a debate about how much credit he deserves becau...

Well, thats a tough question to open with. of course, its always hard to try to figure out where donald trump mighting coming from with a comment like that. i think what he is trying to do is show a little bit of reagan-like optimism about the strength of the united states and, you know, obviously any politician is going to claim a lot of credit for what changes he or she has made. so donald trump is not unusual in that. he has been in office for 12 months. there have been some modernizations th...

>> julie: right. >> obviously now everything is on thin ice and people are very nervous about every move. i think the united states is trying to remind everyone just because these talks between the north and the south in korea are a little bit helpful. we are not going to let down our guard. they should not let down their enforcement of sanctions. a combination of trying to remind people of not trying to get hopes too high and relatively normal signaling behavior by the united states in this kin...

Some of the budget caps wont be amended next month but not completely repealed. patty ann? >> so what is the impact on the military if the cuts remain? >> a few examples. last month, the head of army aviation says his pilots are flying at the lowest level in 30 years. 70% of jets and helicopters cant fly. in the navy, out of 542 super hornet jets, half of them cant fly. according to the head of naval aviation, only 31% are fully commission capable. when the navy deployed three aircraft carriers,...

This year. its an indication either that international pressures having an effect or that kim is waiting to make a bolder statement. president trump is in the region to meet with leaders of japan, china, south korea. the president has already suggested arming japan and is called pyongyang a "threat this was world." three u.s. aircraft carriers are now in the pacific region for the first time in more than a decade. those carriers are joined by a fleet of destroyers and submarines, not to mention ...

Be. the u.s. remains focused. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joe dunford, meeting with counterparts in hawaii. defense secretary james mattis with the south korean defense chiefs thing the u.s. is preparing military options. >> i cannot imagine in light of kims expanded outlaw activities that we have observed over the last year or two, cannot imagine the u.s. accepting north koreas nuclear power. >> the air force sending b-2 stealth bombers over the pacific to keep the aircraft a...

Will. these -- if trump was a start-up pitch, he would be harvey haoeupbstein. trump is now sitting with our nuclear weapons, and using b-2 bombers and the fate of the world as his therapist. we cant resolve his daddy issues through tweet storms that may lead us into nuclear winter. when you have somebody who is so wounded trying to use the prospect of war to distract from his own demons and from russia investigations and everything else, its very scary. one further point. i think were starting ...

"even when they are not yet inside the airspace border of our country." and yes, we all know that the north koreans make threats against the united states all the time. they have trademarked bill ko e bellicosity in international relations. but u.s. warplanes fly near to north korea as a matter of course. just because weve got 35,000 u.s. troops based in south korea but also because every time north korea does a new test or issues some new threat the way we typically respond now is by sending st...

That -- strategic bombers to go buzz them. we went through news stories weve seen this calendar year of president trump presumably ordering b-1 or b-2 capable bombers to fly near north korea. march 22nd, may 2nd, may 29th, june 8th, june 20th, july 6th, july 8th, july 17th, july 19th, july 30th, august 7th, august 31st. it happened this weekend on saturday. nuclear capable bombers buzzing north korea. i mean, the way we respond to their threats and their threatening rhetoric now is by sending st...

Homeland and deliver american justice to anyone who dares to threaten our people. from the earliest wooden biplanes to the high tech uavs and awesome power and stunning beauty of the f-35, b-2, f-22 and i saw a lot of them today, the f-16, the f-18. i dont know which one i like the most. but our aviators have given america total dominance of the air and space no matter where we fly. now when our enemies hear the f-35 engines, when theyre roaring overhead, their souls will tremble and they will k...