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Investigation again they're not looking at terrorism. the ntsb which usually takes the lead in commercial airline crashes because they're looking at all kinds of things of maybe maintenance problems or mechanical problems they're not taking the lead they may not send a crew because it doesn't look like there's anything more to this than a man whose suicidal and not able to fly a plane. trish? trish: dan springer thank you very much joining me former uss commander and private pilot, kirk liphold. good to have you here, sir. how does this happen? given what we've been through, given 9/11, how co...

There are systemic issues. the statistics are overwhelming. in 2017 non-combat related deaths due to aviation action are up 130%. almost doubled. the number of crashes are up 40% and appear to be on a pattern we're on right now. listen, we know the force is stressed. we know we have maintenance problems. but even when we had full budgets you are going to have accidents. why is that? well, the military flying is so different because even when you are in peacetime you are training for war. you're simulating. our accident our pilots to get out on the edge and maintain an absolute skill add vantag...

And so, and this is necessary. we have already done. this we have authorized it. and a lot of people don't understand how that works. but it's got to be appropriated. it's got to be in this bill. and it will be. we got to keep in mind, jon, a lot of people don't know what obama did to the military. i don't really say this critically of him because he is, you know a very proud liberal and liberals really don't care that much about the military. but we went down to the point at the end of last year only 33% of our ground brigades, i'm talking about the u.s. army now, could be deployed because of...

Many maintenance problems. the second thing is, maria, we have the smallest military we have had in 75 years, yet we have global responsibilities that are significant, there for, we're stretching that military, stressing that military and we've got to start growing it. what am i talking about? more people, more airplanes, more ships, and we've got to also increase our future capacity. the russians and the chinese have caught us. we no longer have the technological advantage we used to enjoy for multiple generations, that's over. we've got to get back out there with increased capability over ou...

Capitol city within two weeks. >> how do you fix that? >> it's a great challenge. >> rebuilding the grid from scratch largely falls on the ceo of the power authority which went bankrupt after allegations of corruption and a long history of maintenance problems. >> this is extremely old technology. power plant with boilers burning at bunker fields. that is unheard of. >> for ma ram ireasy, skepticism. the government hasn't lit up his neighborhood, so tonight it's up to him. gabe gutierrez, nbc news san juan, puerto rico. >> we'll stay on this story as we've been doing of the we were together on...