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Investigation again theyre not looking at terrorism. the ntsb which usually takes the lead in commercial airline crashes because theyre looking at all kinds of things of maybe maintenance problems or mechanical problems theyre not taking the lead they may not send a crew because it doesnt look like theres anything more to this than a man whose suicidal and not able to fly a plane. trish? trish: dan springer thank you very much joining me former uss commander and private pilot, kirk liphold. good...

There are systemic issues. the statistics are overwhelming. in 2017 non-combat related deaths due to aviation action are up 130%. almost doubled. the number of crashes are up 40% and appear to be on a pattern were on right now. listen, we know the force is stressed. we know we have maintenance problems. but even when we had full budgets you are going to have accidents. why is that? well, the military flying is so different because even when you are in peacetime you are training for war. youre si...

And so, and this is necessary. we have already done. this we have authorized it. and a lot of people dont understand how that works. but its got to be appropriated. its got to be in this bill. and it will be. we got to keep in mind, jon, a lot of people dont know what obama did to the military. i dont really say this critically of him because he is, you know a very proud liberal and liberals really dont care that much about the military. but we went down to the point at the end of last year only...

Many maintenance problems. the second thing is, maria, we have the smallest military we have had in 75 years, yet we have global responsibilities that are significant, there for, were stretching that military, stressing that military and weve got to start growing it. what am i talking about? more people, more airplanes, more ships, and weve got to also increase our future capacity. the russians and the chinese have caught us. we no longer have the technological advantage we used to enjoy for mul...

Capitol city within two weeks. >> how do you fix that? >> its a great challenge. >> rebuilding the grid from scratch largely falls on the ceo of the power authority which went bankrupt after allegations of corruption and a long history of maintenance problems. >> this is extremely old technology. power plant with boilers burning at bunker fields. that is unheard of. >> for ma ram ireasy, skepticism. the government hasnt lit up his neighborhood, so tonight its up to him. gabe gutierrez, nbc news ...

President could clear the deck for september and -- first of all, get harvey relief funding, kick the can down the road for the debt ceiling, that then you can focus on tax reform. what do you think of that plan? >> of course its important. weve got to put money in fema immediately. yesterday the house passed a bill to do that. that is absolutely true. but i dont like the kicking the can down the road for any purpose if kicking the can down the road means greater danger, more maintenance problem...

Much of a blow it was to syrias overall capability, and general, were in the process of isolating raqqa right now. does the coalition and our partnered forces there have what they need to begin the offenses on raqqa, and what more resources do they need? >> yeah. the syrian air force is not in good shape. its been worn down by years of combat plus significant maintenance problems. we thought it was -- i thought it was about 20%. i think its around 20 aircraft were taken out which probably equate...

Capabilities and general votel, were in the process of isolating raqqa right now. does the coalition and our partner force theres have what they need to begin the offensive on raqqa and what more resources do they need? >> the syrian air force is not in good shape. its been worn down by years of combat, plus some significant maintenance problems. we thought it was -- i thought it was about 20%. i think its around 20 aircraft that were taken out, which equates to that. i probably shouldnt use the...

How much of a blow it was to syrias overall capability? and general, were in the process of isolating raqqa right now, does the coalition and our partnered forces have what they need to begin the offensive on raqqa and what more do they need. >> its been worn down by years of combat plus significant maintenance problems. we thought it was -- i thought it was about 20%. i think its around 20 aircraft were taken out which probably equates to about that, although i probably shouldnt use the 20%. we...

Transportation ministry spokesperson. i understand they are giving updates in jakarta. were trying to learn exactly what it is theyre doing, what they might have suspected could have gone wrong. we know were being told it was bad weather, that the region is very remote. the questions that are going to be asked is anything else that could have contributed to any possible problems, was it potentially over crowded, were there maintenance problems. these are the questions people are going to be want...