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Afghanistan is the afghan army is taking the brunt of the fight against these transnational terrorists and the tally ban. we are working with our -- taliban. we're working with our allies to have a more effective strategy, what are option weiss can bring to the president to be more effective in meeting the objectives in afghanistan, and what more can we ask our allies to do which we're asking them now. this is going to be consistent with the president's guidance to us. >> there should be thousands more troops? >> the president hasn't made a decision yet on the course of action. what we have do...

Readiness crisis in naval aviation. more than 60% of the super hornet, the f-18 on the fleet are not ready to fly today. when he said we're going to put a very big order with boeing, maybe, he's negotiating both with boeing and lockheed martin, which makes the f-35 at same time. he's pretty sh rude in that regard. when he finishes by saying, god bless boeing. i agree with dana, that's what we like the president to say. but if connects up to the 77 minutes yesterday when he talked about the mess he inherited. jim mattis -- general mattis, secretary mattis, made the same point in europe yesterda...

Times. that clearly is not effective. we need a leader and a policy behind it, a warrior that doesn't want to go to war but if he's tasked to go to war we're going to go war to win. >> here is what he said last night congressman and what he said repeatedly while running for the white house. here is donald trump. >> i love the generals. i know more about isis than the generals do. believe me. >> they don't much because they are not winning. >> i mean, this is a totally stunning change, right? do you think the president elect truly respects mattis and the other generals in this country? >> well ...

If i want to steal from you, i have to figure out how to get in take what i want and get out. if i want to attack you all i have to do is figure out where you congregate and i go there and attack you. it's much easier. >> colonel, a last word or anything you want to add to that concept of how anyone is to go about their business on a day-to-day basis and try to protect themselves? >> i just want to underscore as jonathan said how difficult this is to defend against because you can't be everywhere all the time. you can't defend every target and as you shift your focus of what you're going to de...

Information and every time something comes into the bucket, it's adding to your analytic picture. it's adding to your knowledge of what's going on. and you get a better idea of honing in on possible alternatives. and you're also excluding possible alternatives, as you add more information into the problem set. >> the transportation administer of malaysia says all of the objects spotted earlier in some of those other satellite images, french, thai, chinese, australian, they could still be parts of the plane, because ocean currents have pushed them in various directions. do you buy that? >> well...