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>> our pabl now, colonel jack jacobs. we have the associate editor and senior couldnrrespondent for "t washington post." and also our guest from liberty group. we're getting the information, the uss nimitz moving into the red sea, we have the developments of the nato chief saying he has information. he feels personally there has been an attack using chemical weapons. >> the very fact we're taking our time making the attack, you could argue militarily puts the flotilla of missile guided cruisers in the mediterranean at risk for just about any attack from anybody. so we move in a carrier task fo...

Chance. the book let me walk in his footsteps a bit which was a wonderful experience. >> and your father was killed november 28th, 1979, in a fatal mission precipitated the iranian hostage crisis. >> his carrier task force back in the philippines and on their way home when the hostages were taken and carter it turned around the task force as one of those classic shows of strength and they were practicing missions for a potential attack on tehran or something like that. it was a regular training mission. one of the things i got to do in the book is try to investigate his accident and come to gr...

Strength, cutting back a carrier task force, possibly another brac, i think these are some pretty drastic cuts. we're talking about, we don't use defense to create jobs. but we have to understand that jobs are a side benefit. we have a strong workforce that builds the things that our military needs. an we have civilians working the defense department. we have the military uniform personnel. we're looking at with the cuts that are already being brought forward next year. almost half a trillion dollars we are looking at probably in excess of 600,000 jobs. that in our economy the way it's running...

Strength, cutting back a carrier task force, possibly another brac, i think these are some pretty drastic cuts. we're talking about, we don't use defense to create jobs. but we have to understand that jobs are a side benefit. we have a strong workforce that builds the things that our military needs. an we have civilians working the defense department. we have the military uniform personnel. we're looking at with the cuts that are already being brought forward next year. almost half a trillion dollars we are looking at probably in excess of 600,000 jobs. that in our economy the way it's running...

Chernobyl even if it were a complete meltdown because a lot of the radioactivity has been captured in the water, in the basement of the reactor. but there's still a lot coming off -- the fact that the carrier task force off of japan was -- sensed a thousand times higher than normal dose rates is quite troubling at that distance. >> frank, i think a lot of people are looking at what happened in japan at this nuclear power plant and asking could this happen to us here in the united states. the u.s. has 23 plants that have a similar type of design or build to this japanese plant. does that worry ...