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And that incident led to this sort of amazing formal statement from the pentagon at the time. quote, because the vessels' intentions were not known and the impeccable sprayed its fire hoses at one of the -- excuse me -- because the vessels' intentions were not known, the impeccable sprayed its fire hoses at one of the chinese vessels in order to protect itself. the chinese crew members responded by disrobing to their underwear and the vessel continued closing to within 25 feet. so think about this. our ship is surrounded by five of their ships. our ship is a u.s. navy ship. it's identified as ...

To the white house. welcome, mr. president. hope you enjoy your time. and when that happened in march 2009, that very dramatic incident was widely described as the sort of wooliest event between the american military and the chinese military since -- since, well, come to think of it, since the last time we had a brand-new president just taking office. that street fight in the south china sea with the fire hoses and the chinese dudes in their underwear and the grappling hooks and all the rest of it, that happened in the spring of 2009 when we had a brand-new president obama. exactly eight years...

Five ships and the fire hoses and the trying to steal the sonar array. and then back home in washington we've got this brand-new president. heck of a test for a new president, right? he's been in office all of what, six weeks at this point? and what the new president decides after this incredible confrontation, what he decided to do was to send the impeccable back. the impeccable had left, right? under these very difficult circumstances. the new president decided to send the impeccable back to the place where that confrontation happened but this time he sent the impeccable with a friend. presi...

Bush was sworn into office, this little ship, the bowditch was in china, in the yellow sea, like the impeccable, the bowditch is an unarmed. yes, a u.s. navy ship. a research vessel. a civilian crew. right after george bush was sworn in in 2001, the bowditch was doing its research in the yellow sea when it was -- say it with me now -- intercepted by a chinese frigate, this chinese naval ship zoomed over to the bowditch, came within a hundred yards, told it had to leave the area. now in that incident nobody ended up taking their clothes off or shooting anybody with a fire hose, but the bowditch...

Is unarmed ship. i don't know if this is protocol or they macgyvered this because they didn't know what else to do. they got out the fire hoses on board. they got out the fire hoses on board the "impeccable" and they literally shot the chinese ship with fire hoses to try to get them to buzz off. and that incident led to this sort of amazing formal statement from the pentagon at the time. quote, because the vessels' intentions were not known and the impeccable sprayed its fire hoses at one of the -- excuse me -- because the vessels' intentions were not known, the impeccable sprayed its fire hos...