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And in fact, if you listen, you can actually hear the water. and onboard, there is one more powerful weapon. the torpedo. >> as a captain, you always want to be ready. >> reporter: so this one here? >> right. >> reporter: they have eight of them. one of them already loaded. captain burton is the commanding officer of the "uss florida." you just look at the region, and you've got isis in northern africa, you've got what's going on on the turkey/syria border right now. the fact that you're here, in the mediterranean, does that give you a set of silent eyes for the u.s.? >> absolutely. it gives t...

>> david? >> this is kind of a torpedo to one of their many arguments here in the last 24 hours in reaction to ambassador taylor's testimony, the argument has been really can't be a quid pro quo unless the ukrainians knew that, you know, that this -- this funding was being held up, if they knew, you know, and you know, what's very clear is they knew for a long time what the president wanted. they -- they were aware, as we've seen in other reporting that this aid was being held up, and it doesn't take a genius to put all these pieces together. they were being pressured and they were being -- an...

Doing her show when limbaugh comes on, i would like to just ask you to tell her the story that you told on rush limbaugh's show about how they got to tehran and how crazy that was. >> bret: it was. so fdr gets on the uss iowa the newest battle ship in the u.s. navy and they head over in u boat infested waters and they have a training exercise and a torpedo goes off and aims towards the uss iowa. they barely miss and they -- it explodes about 1,000 feet away. >> jesse: wow. >> bret: fdr is on the bridge clapping because he thinks it's part of the exercise. they almost took down the 32nd preside...

Of the united states how good they are at the u.s. navy. the next ship, the william s porter, simulating an exercise, accidentally has a firing mechanism in one of the torpedo tubes and fires a live torpedo at the uss iowa. the captain turns the uss iowa towards the torpedo and the thing misses the bow just barely and explodes about 1,000 feet off. fdr is thrilled. he claps. but the captain realizes that he could have lost the president and all of his joint chiefs of staff on that one ship. that's just one of the little nuggets.is >> tucker: that's just remarkable. i have to ask you. do you th...

Of the united states how good they are at the u.s. navy. the next shift, the william s porter, simulating and exercise, accidentally has a firing mechanism in one of the torpedo tubes and fires a live torpedo at the uss iowa. the captain turns the uss iowa towards the torpedo and the thing this is the bow just barely and explodes about 1,000 feet off. fdr is thrilled. he claps. but the captain realizes that he could have lost the president and all of his joint chiefs of staff on that one ship. that's just one of the little nuggets. >> tucker: that's just remarkable. i have to ask you. do you t...