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Probably walk away. >> shannon: we talked about the leak report from the pentagon looking at the nuclear capabilities and what we would like to add to the arsenal with the flexibility. it talked about a couple of new things that would armed subs with different nuclear actions as far as missiles. we had a reaction from a former obama administration official who works with president obama. john wolf saul, here's what he said about the report. >> i think that the document goes off the rails by calling for the development of not one, but two new types of nuclear weapons that would be deployed to b...

If we do not get that, he will probably walk away. >> shannon: we talked about the leak report from the pentagon looking at the nuclear capabilities and what we would like to add to the arsenal with the flexibility. it talked about a couple of new things that would armed subs with different nuclear actions as far as missiles. we had a reaction from a former obama administration official who works with president obama. john wolf saul, here's what he said about the report. >> i think that the document goes off the rails by calling for the development of not one, but two new types of nuclear weap...

Deployment had been scheduled for months. >> when we moved bombers across the globe, we send a signal. >> the b-2 is one component of the nuclear triad. the arsenal has not been modernized in decades. its missiles date back to the 1970s. this week, details of the pentagon's long-awaited nuclear posture review leaked to the public and revealed the trump administration wants more flexibility to respond with nuclear weapons to an attack. the u.s. wants to develop a new low yield tactical version of the trident missile launched from summaries. an arms-control expert who worked for president obama ...

This pattern? >> aside from the immediate search and rescue and trying to figure out what happened and save whatever lives could be saved, aside from that, i think the navy is genuinely concerned about whether they have truly a systemic issue. systemwide, navywide issue with respect to training, readiness, perhaps even resourcing. i mean, the navy, just like all the services, have gone through severe budget cuts the last several years. maybe that played a role in here. we don't know. i do think they're going to take a hard look at how they are manning, training and preparing themselves for wat...

Being used are probably going to be limited. we still have a lot of the surface ships that can run that sonar equipment. so if they can get on station and start mapping what they believe is the aircraft wreckage, then the investigative process and of course the recovery can continue. >> as we look at the air assets versus the -- on the water assets, what's the difference in their ability to cover area and -- and the tool also that they have? can the air assets cover three types the s times the amount of space in the same amount of time? >> with the aircraft and the type of equipment, you have ...