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Going. i also expect you will see some mention of the executive order he signed on our rules of engagement ordering the national security council to take a look at the very restrictive handcuffs that the obama administration put on a lot of our soldiers overseas in the conduct of their operations. so i think you'll just more broadly see a thank you to the commands that have been at the pointy end of the spear in managing these wars over the last 15 years. and frankly i think kind of a reset of the relationship of the white house with the military. you had under the obama administration three s...

They sometimes -- if you talk to police, for example, who are at the cutting edge, at the pointy end of the spear in the communities doing policing they have the same sort of risk as we saw the military people today. they're not behind barb wire. there aren't people on the gates checking people in to see whether or not they're armed and so on. so that's the first thing. it's extremely difficult -- there's a sense that you're at the front of the line but that you're not being -- you're not able really to protect yourself. and at the end of the day, that's their business. their business is to be...

>> no, but we can do it through the process of elimination. given the fact that we have an eye on the region and we can have a missile launch, it is true, as far as we know, the ukrainian separatists do not have the capability to shoot down an aircraft at a distance of, what, six miles? that's the altitude. that doesn't include the slant range, the distant from the ground to the aircraft. it could be in excess of six miles. i think it's a general consensus that the separatists don't have that capability. the russians do and the ukraines do. but the conclusion that one draws is that it's in nei...

Bow, and this is the pointy end where jack was king of the world, the mast, some of the openings here. >> you can get this from one pass. >> just one pass, yep. and sometimes we go over it two or three times to make sure we don't miss anything. >> what kind of a vehicle took this? >> this is the rema 6,000. we used two of them. it is very similar to the type of vehicle the bluefin-21 is. >> does it go deeper -- >> it is made for deeper water work. >> incredible. one other image of "titanic" again. this is extraordinary. >> this is actually an optical image. many, many. you can see the size of ...

That's the bow of the "titanic" here. it broke in half. this is the stern of the "titanic." six football fields away. all of this is a debris field. this is the kind of thing when you look at an aircraft on the bottom, all of these things are everything from pieces of pottery and lights. >> all of this. >> all of these speckles and bigger pieces inside of here. >> so the "titanic" had a wide debris field. >> stern especially. the bow not so much. the "titanic" had a huge debris field associated with it. >> zooming in on the bow. it shows how powerful sonar can be. >> incredible. >> this is one...