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ready. have supplies for five, seven days. having everything you need, medicine, food, water. you have to take it serious. >> we have activated the florida national guard. they are activating 2,500 guards men at the moment. and if there is a need for more, we could do more. >> we have meteorologist standing by in the weather center. we saw that 5:00 a.m. update, now officially a hurricane. what is the latest on ians track across the caribbean toward florida here. >> the system has ever...

Does it sound like to you that he is holding a classified document? >> well, it sound lieks hes holding something and showing something. i dont know what it was. i think earlier it was reported some time ago that it was a four-page document, which would not have been what dod typically prepared. what we usually prepare was a one-pager that included targeting options and escalatory measures, thing lieks that. i outlined in my memoir for everybody. something like that would be a document that woul...

Has with russia consistently warning mr. putin for not using nuclear weapons, financial times yesterday reported that european diplomats have the same sort of back channel and warning him as well and taking it seriously is there are worries in the west that he could resort to such a step. question is what could he do? could he use a tactical nuclear weapon to send a signal? shooting into the black sea and basically show hes not bluffing first? thats a question that experts arent sure of. and the...

Countries. neither one is american, neither one has the same interest as we do. why is it one to support -- wrong to support one and not the other? whats wrong is to support either one of them. their interests are not the same as ours, they are very different. he doesnt care. "arm the ukrainians, prepare for guerrilla warfare!" only a man completely insulated from the consequences of his blood lust could talk like that. there will always be another think tank job for him and people like him. but...

Many times in history, conflicts with started by accident, by escalatory measures. >> they have been following an excellent strategy so far, meeting the original provocations with some firmness, displaying military might, shoring up our allies, south korea and japan, signaling that this thing could get out of control. and now you see the u.s. taking a more diplomatic stance, not meeting fire with fire. not meeting kim jong-uns bluster with our own. get china on board so both of them as the secre...

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