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Five ships and the fire hoses and the trying to steal the sonar array. and then back home in washington we've got this brand-new president. heck of a test for a new president, right? he's been in office all of what, six weeks at this point? and what the new president decides after this incredible confrontation, what he decided to do was to send the impeccable back. the impeccable had left, right? under these very difficult circumstances. the new president decided to send the impeccable back to the place where that confrontation happened but this time he sent the impeccable with a friend. presi...

The "impeccable" looks like s d sander block, its strange, awkward shape, part of what accounts for its design and shape is because it's meant to drag behind it this thing that listens to the ocean. what that sonar array that it drags behind it, most of what it's listening for is submarines. but that is what explains the awkward visuals here of this ship. the "impeccable" is about 300 feet long. it's very slow. at the best, goes 15 miles per hour. while it is towing its sonar array it only goes about 3 1/2 miles per hour. it's very slow. it's unarmed. even though it's a u.s. navy ship it doesn...

Pulling away from the confrontation, the chinese sailors grabbed like -- do you see like a straight line off the ship there off our right, the left side of the ship there underneath that guy? chinese sailors grabbed -- they were like poles or maybe grappling hooks or gaffes. there's some conflicting reports about what they were using, but these long tools off the deck on one of these boats to try to grab on to the impeccable's tail. they used these grappling hooks or whatever it was they had to try to grab the sonar array out of the water that the impeccable was towing. they tried to grab the ...

Up. it launched a small boat, and then chinese sailors in the small boat grabbed the u.s. navy drone and stole it. they apparently didn't need grappling hooks this time like they did with the "impeccable county "and its sonar array. they're just six feet long, so they were able to grab it out of the water when it came up to the surface. but then they took it. this is not good. the u.s. military says, quote, it is a sovereign immune vessel clearly marked in english not to be removed from the water. clearly marked that it is u.s. property. pentagon spokesman was very blunt. quote, it is ours. it...

There, they threw junk into the sea, a bunch of pieces of wood and other debris into the ocean right in front of the "impeccable" which almost caused to crash. this is big enough stuff that it could have conceivably damaged the ship, sunk the ship. they had to do emergency stops and take emergency maneuvers to avoid this junk that the chinese ships had offloaded into the water. ultimately as the impeccable was pulling away from the confrontation, the chinese sailors grabbed like -- do you see like a straight line off the ship there off our right, the left side of the ship there underneath that...