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Aging ships, with long repair delays and sailor deaths by suicide. most notably, america's naval fleet is set to become its smallest in 100 years, as china becomes the largest navy in the world. but one thing the chinese don't have is nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. the uss nimitz is breathtaking to behold, a floating city of 5,000 sailors. when we first landed on a c2 greyhound, we watch hundreds of sailors. their uniforms color-coded, red, yellow, green, purple, and brown, each defining critical jobs to refuel, arm, and launch aircraft. we met america's best-trained pilots, who say this m...

Now, with the trump defense buildup. and why are they doing that? because the united states and the asia pacific region has been a dominant military power for years. they want to at least have parity with us because that will give them leverage over all of our allies in the region. they don't have any allies in the region except laos and cambodia and north korea. the countries out there are aligned with us, and they are he putting significant pressure op those countries. the capabilities is much greater than bombers. they've got long range missile from mainland china can reach every one of our...

Very strong statement directly to north korea, but i think what the president was just reaffirming is the united states has the capability to fully defend itself, from any attack and defend our allies and we will do so. so the american people should sleep well at night. >> secretary of state rex tillerson trying to calm nerves this morning. 3:00 this morning on the way to guam after ominous threats from both president trump and north korea. joining me now, juan zarati, a deputy national security adviser for george w. bush in the white house. thank you very much. >> great to see you. thank you....

Like 12 to be able to project the kind of power they want all over the world. and the united states is really the only navy in the world that can project power in what they call blue water. far far away, and the chief of naval operations was talking about just how stressed they have been. the gerald ford from here will head out to sea next week. that's when they are going to begin to launch aircraft on and off of it as part of their sea trial, testing out the electromagnetic catapult and then it will be a couple more years to test all the new systems on here before it actually goes out on a de...