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Fighter jets can't fly. and john mccain saying this is a self-inflicted wound. $54 billion, is that enough? >> i think there's two components to this. one is overall management of the pentagon which is always an ongoing issue. >> the president is the commander in chief. >> and he's only been there for ten months, though. this is the biggest agency with discretionary funding in the u.s. secondly, there is this issue of the u.s. navy pacific fleet which is a serious problem which has had event after event after event that's caused casualties. ships crashing, planes crashing. famously, the pacifi...

Blockade. we could bring in japan, south korea, australia, new zealand, singapore from asia. i am quite confident nato members would come and participate in this. we need to get this conversation off the u.s. versus north korea and make it the world versus north korea, a maritime operation would be the way to do that. as to the second point i'm quite confident that the navy will get to the bottom of these two terrible collisions we've had and emerge stronger on the other si side. good thing about ships, mike, you know this as a former marine yourself, you can flow them. we can replace the ship...

We got the entire atlantic fleet led by the aircraft areaier that's leading the search and rescue mission. as well as do a grid system. it's organized. they are coming in big. the army committed 9,000. troops. and 3,000 trucks standing by to come to florida. so the effects of the change in one storm, they have leaned forward and troops are on the way and the ships are following this storm in. we should see the first light tomorrow morning going into key west. >> that will be a welcome sight for a lot of folks in key west. the damage is still trying to be assessed. very difficult to do it now t...

He has been very threatening beyond a normal statement and they will be met with fire fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before. >> want is hoping edison air force base and thousands of troops 2000 miles southeast of north korea and arms with the us's high-tech missile-defense system, the commander of the atlantic fleet says this is not a drill. >> i can assure you our headquarters in hawaii, headquarters on the peninsula are operating forces in the area have looked closely at the specifics of having to attack. this is not a drill. this is very serious and chin...

Retired u.s. navy admiral, former commander of the atlantic fleet. he joins us. this is a tensions situation. >> they have developed missile delivery system. and test of an icbm. it had a high trajectory. the apex was 1600 miles or so and they probably did that on purpose so as not to violate airspace of japan. >> bret: as far as the timeline of being able to be effective in the other component, miniaturizing a nuclear bomb on the missile. do we have a timeline. >> i would say it's short, if not immediate. my take is they tested five nuclear devices successfully.