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President could clear the deck for september and -- first of all, get harvey relief funding, kick the can down the road for the debt ceiling, that then you can focus on tax reform. what do you think of that plan? >> of course it's important. we've got to put money in fema immediately. yesterday the house passed a bill to do that. that is absolutely true. but i don't like the kicking the can down the road for any purpose if kicking the can down the road means greater danger, more maintenance problems for our military. i'm for tax reform, but in the meantime men and women who serve our nation ar...

Much of a blow it was to syria's overall capability, and general, we're in the process of isolating raqqa right now. does the coalition and our partnered forces there have what they need to begin the offenses on raqqa, and what more resources do they need? >> yeah. the syrian air force is not in good shape. it's been worn down by years of combat plus significant maintenance problems. we thought it was -- i thought it was about 20%. i think it's around 20 aircraft were taken out which probably equates to about that, although i probably shouldn't have used the 20%. we're trying to provide inform...

Capabilities and general votel, we're in the process of isolating raqqa right now. does the coalition and our partner force there's have what they need to begin the offensive on raqqa and what more resources do they need? >> the syrian air force is not in good shape. it's been worn down by years of combat, plus some significant maintenance problems. we thought it was -- i thought it was about 20%. i think it's around 20 aircraft that were taken out, which equates to that. i probably shouldn't use the 20%. we're trying to provide information as it comes in. this is one of the challenges of tryi...

How much of a blow it was to syria's overall capability? and general, we're in the process of isolating raqqa right now, does the coalition and our partnered forces have what they need to begin the offensive on raqqa and what more do they need. >> it's been worn down by years of combat plus significant maintenance problems. we thought it was -- i thought it was about 20%. i think it's around 20 aircraft were taken out which probably equates to about that, although i probably shouldn't use the 20%. we're trying to provide information as it comes in and this is one of the challenges of trying to...

Transportation ministry spokesperson. i understand they are giving updates in jakarta. we're trying to learn exactly what it is they're doing, what they might have suspected could have gone wrong. we know we're being told it was bad weather, that the region is very remote. the questions that are going to be asked is anything else that could have contributed to any possible problems, was it potentially over crowded, were there maintenance problems. these are the questions people are going to be wanting to ask of the authorities as they wait until the morning to continue their search. >> have we...