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Using criticisms are about no better. >> mcmahon, devos, and mnuchin enjoy a wealth -- in excess of 14 million, playing for the private flights, presumably wouldn't be much of a problem. bret? >> bret: james, thank you. back with our panel. jason, your thoughts on this? >> i am not impressed with secretary price's defense of not flying commercial. shortly after he became secretary, he missed an event because of backups at an airport, like all of us have been through, and now feels the need to fly on private planes. i think if secretary price cannot fly except for, you know, taxpayer funded pri...

Make. it is unusual for a plane like this to crash midflight. normally, crashes occurred during takeoff or landing. rain aircraft has had a trouble history as of late paired we were surprised to learn after visiting units that 70% of marine strike aircraft cannot fly due to a short of gimmick to make shortage of parts. they have been aging and not refurbished after years of war. the marines are conducting an investigation and have not released the name of those killed. this is the worst marine crash since 2005. 15 marines and one sailor. spoon it is heartbreaking. something else that is making...

Not just talk numbers, but what those numbers buy you. >> we are now other than operations and maintenance, where are the biggest deficiencies? are they in the readiness of the army or the maintenance of the aircraft? or do we need to build more ships right away? >> i think maintenance is the moist immediate and pressing issues. half of the planes the navy has cannot fly today. more than half of the planes they said the navy cannot fly. out of 58 brigade combat teams in the army, only 3 of that number are at the highest level of readiness. the air force is short 1,500 pay plots and 4,000 maint...

Foreign affairs, s s et cetera? >> for the time being it's going to be, particularly top republican side. 11 months to go until the general election, we know how the agenda can change pretty rapidly. for the time being and for the initial caucuses and primaries on the republican side, i think you're going to see a lot more discussion about national security and foreign policy than you will about domestic policy. >> larry sabato, thank you so much, from charlottesville, virginia. straight ahead, americans on the u.s. terror watch list cannot fly, but apparently can buy a gun. senator chuck sc...

The popular gun measure once it landed on his desk. a few hours ago he made his decision. he vetoed it. background checks bill, but the governor said no. now, two time zones east of nevada, in the great state of new jersey, republican governor chris christie faces the same kind of decision there. the nationally ambitious governor christie said that he would be interested in doing something about gun violence. so the new jersey lecture elec sent him half a dozen bills to sign. they passed the most popular stuff. stuff like expanded reporting to help with background checks. stuff like banning pe...