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The "u.s.s. ronald reagan". joining me now, joel reuben, malcolm mance. malcolm, our thoughts are with these sailors and their families today, i want to start with you. why have there been so many incidents with the seventh fleet? what's going on? >> well, in fact, i think we're just starting to pay attention due to the collisions that we had earlier this year. accidents happen all throughout the fleet. throughout my 20 years in the navy, we've lost sailors on an almost routine basis on deployments. the ship accidents, on the other hand, are a sign of poor seamanship, closing of a naval univer...

An hour and a half. we just put out a release on the call, but we're talking very strongly about bringing peace to syria. we're talking very strongly about north korea and ukraine. >> and in fact, that phone call came the day after putin already had a meeting or met with president asaad in syria. what's russia's roll in this right now? >> it's a bit of a humiliating situation for the united states. russia is in firm control of the process on syria. >> they're taking the lead. >> they're taking the lead. russia and the u.s., we jointly control the air, but russia essentially has control of the ...

Deplete abdication of the united states' responsibility because we have been involved in syria since 2011 but also for our leadership in that region. this will give iran a solid arc of they call it the shia crescent going from lebanon to iran, and operating in cooperation with are tthe regim. any majority population that rebelled will have a future is over. thanksgiving to you both. malcolm, who's cooking in your house? >> i'm going to have a turkey sandwich down at the square. >> that doesn't sound so bad. thanks, guys. appreciate it. happy thanksgiving. steve bannon has a new strategy, a...

President's authority to use nuclear weapons. essentially, provoked by the uncertainty of what the president will do on north korea. so it's a very destabilizing time. and when you have that minor incidents like malcolm pointed out in north korea can become fig big flairups. we have to be very careful while we're watching this uncertainty to ensure that nothing destabilizing that really blows up the situation that takes place. >> what we have seen is the president making the decision to designate a state sponsor of terrorism. do you think it will increase pressure on the north? >> well, i thin...

Capacity. that is not putting anyone on notice. >> no, it's not putting anyone on notice. and more importantly, and i try to make this point every time i talk about isis, isis is the fifth generation of al qaeda. we have already been struck by people who were followers of this ideology. what you just now have is you just now have a younger, faster generation, with much more sophisticated propaganda techniques, and who have absolutely no qualms about operating as a tight, tactical team, and using whatever weapons that they have in hand to create mayhem. and right now, they've moved their battle...