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Probably walk away. >> shannon: we talked about the leak report from the pentagon looking at the nuclear capabilities and what we would like to add to the arsenal with the flexibility. it talked about a couple of new things that would armed subs with different nuclear actions as far as missiles. we had a reaction from a former obama administration official who works with president obama. john wolf saul, heres what he said about the report. >> i think that the document goes off the rails by calli...

If we do not get that, he will probably walk away. >> shannon: we talked about the leak report from the pentagon looking at the nuclear capabilities and what we would like to add to the arsenal with the flexibility. it talked about a couple of new things that would armed subs with different nuclear actions as far as missiles. we had a reaction from a former obama administration official who works with president obama. john wolf saul, heres what he said about the report. >> i think that the docum...

Deployment had been scheduled for months. >> when we moved bombers across the globe, we send a signal. >> the b-2 is one component of the nuclear triad. the arsenal has not been modernized in decades. its missiles date back to the 1970s. this week, details of the pentagons long-awaited nuclear posture review leaked to the public and revealed the trump administration wants more flexibility to respond with nuclear weapons to an attack. the u.s. wants to develop a new low yield tactical version of ...

This pattern? >> aside from the immediate search and rescue and trying to figure out what happened and save whatever lives could be saved, aside from that, i think the navy is genuinely concerned about whether they have truly a systemic issue. systemwide, navywide issue with respect to training, readiness, perhaps even resourcing. i mean, the navy, just like all the services, have gone through severe budget cuts the last several years. maybe that played a role in here. we dont know. i do think t...

Being used are probably going to be limited. we still have a lot of the surface ships that can run that sonar equipment. so if they can get on station and start mapping what they believe is the aircraft wreckage, then the investigative process and of course the recovery can continue. >> as we look at the air assets versus the -- on the water assets, whats the difference in their ability to cover area and -- and the tool also that they have? can the air assets cover three types the s times the am...

Day, so let me ask you this. do you think president obama should go to congress and get some sort of affirmation for whatever he does? he doesnt probably constitutionally need to. would you like to see him do that? >> i think it clearly depends on what course of action that he chooses. as you indicated, there is a significant ramping up of intelligence activities for our benefit as much as for the benefit of the iraqi security forces. we have in the area moved a carrier battle group, we have sur...

There are other tools out there, rovs, auvs, and, of course, submersibles that have their depth limits that can be used in this particular circumstance in the right order and in the right fashion and only if we have tangible evidence of where to search. >> reporter: now were learning resources are pulling out of search. the royal navy today says the hms tireless, the only submarine in the search, is done. saying there is no longer any prospect of detecting black box pings. and now one of the sur...

Or change techniques, like using a towed underwater vehicle that could cover a larger area, but the passengers families arent convinced experts are doing everything they should. >> well keep going back to wanting to start over with the investigation. what they are doing now, searching in the ocean, is like continuing to try to bail out a boat when the hole in the boat hasnt even been found yet. >> meanwhile, surface ships continue scouring the seas for wreckage, search planes were curtailed toda...

Submarine, the "hms tireless," theyve got two surface ships, an australian and british one as well, the australian one carrying u.s. technology, which is designed specifically to try and track down underwater pings from black box flight recorders, such as the one that would have been carried on the malaysian 370 -- sorry, the malaysian airliner, rather, thats now missing. its moved under water, the search, but theyre still emphasizing the search from the skies as well. there are still a number o...

>> all right, stay with us throughout the morning. were going to bring you the latest breaking developments on this tragic shooting at ft. hood. now to australia, where planes and ships are out again this morning hunting for malaysia airlines flight 370. the search area moving slightly to the west, some 1,000 miles from perth, as crews try again to find any identifiable debris from this jet. the malaysian prime minister, he is now in australia. he insists they will figure out what happened. se...