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U.s. navy rear admiral john d kirby is joining us now. admiral, you and i spoke yesterday about this situation. we discussed this possible scenarios and outcome. we learned that this collision happened while most of the crew on board was asleep. what are your thoughts about this tragedy today? >> well, it is just absolutely heart rending. i want to start by offering my thoughts and prayers to everybody aboard "fitzgerald." all the crew and their families, of course in particular the families of ...

Is provinces where the coast guard is the principal law enforcement and national security agency to deal with what goes on there. at the moment, the coast guard, for example, is -- is intercepting at sea some 200 tons of drugs every year, 600 -- im sorry, 6,000 illegal my grants are collected at sea before they reach the borders. to take away the capability to make constructive progress in the very areas that youre looking to sustain makes little sense if youre cutting the agencies that are actu...

Makeshift morgue. >> joining me now is state department spokesman, retired admiral john kirby serving in the navy on september 11th, 2001. we have seen, all of us, my colleague jim miklaszewski of course responding in shanksville today. your recollections of that day. >> i was on a ship down in norfolk, virginia. we were getting ready for an exercise. had the tv on, of course, in the public affairs office as we normally would. when that second plane hit the world trade center i think we all knew...

They have contingencies in the eastern mediterranean right now. right? >> thats right, wolf. they have three u.s. navy destroyers in the mediterranean. now they have four. late last week they added a fourth. that was a decision by the six fleet commander to keep more assets in the region. and those ships have now moved farther east, closer to syria. thats interesting because they present the option, each arm, with up to 100 tomahawk missiles. these are long range missiles that are designed to hi...

Willing. carter ham is the joint force commander there with the fifth fleet commander. these are all u.s. forces. there is no brit or french or italian force that can command and control this size operation. then, once you take it over, are you going to have to put in this coalition willing ground forces? that becomes a difficult thing. we now have, as we all know, took us 21 days to get to baghdad. eight years later were still there that. is the danger. >>. >> geraldo: that is the danger, lets ...

Willing. carter ham is the joint force commander there with the fifth fleet commander. these are all u.s. forces. there is no brit or french or italian force that can command and control this size operation. then, once you take it over, are you going to have to put in this coalition willing ground forces? that becomes a difficult thing. we now have, as we all know, took us 21 days to get to baghdad. eight years later were still there that. is the danger. >>. >> geraldo: that is the danger, lets ...

Willing. carter ham is the joint force commander there with the fifth fleet commander. these are all u.s. forces. there is no brit or french or italian force that can command and control this size operation. then, once you take it over, are you going to have to put in this coalition willing ground forces? that becomes a difficult thing. we now have, as we all know, took us 21 days to get to baghdad. eight years later were still there that. is the danger. >>. >> geraldo: that is the danger, lets ...

Sailors dead, 7 died in june when the uss fitzgerald and a container ship collided off of japan, those incidents prompted removal of eight top navy officers including the fleet commander. this week an air force pilot died, another injured after their jet crashed in the us-mexico border. we will stay on top of this breaking news. heather: our prayers with those families, great to have you with us. 15 isil you recognize, partridge family star david cassidy has died at the age of 67. looking back a...

Colliding with commercial ships. a total of five ship accidents throughout the year. the fleet commander relieved of duty along with eight others. three of the crashes were deemed preventible by the navy, a result of widespread failures and mistakes. together, the incidents serious enough the chief of naval operations ordered a worldwide review of ships and staffing. but the pentagon insists its ships and aircraft in the region are ready to go in the face of an always dangerous north korean thre...

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