we'll ask colonel cedric leighton.t," i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. it is 30 minutes past the hour this tuesday morning. after months of planning, president trump has unveiled to the nation his new vision for the u.s. war in afghanistan. the president breaking from his campaign rhetoric when, of course, he promised to pull out of afghanistan. keeping with his "america first" theme saying the days of nation-building are over. the strategy, light on specifics. the president reaffirmed he does not want the enemy to know his plans. and a hasty withdrawal like the one in iraq is not an option. >> the vacuum we created by leaving too soon gave safe haven for isis to spread, to grow, recruit, and launch attacks. we cannot repeat in afghanistan the mistake our leaders made in iraq. >> the president signaled the u.s. would increase troop levels in afghanistan but offered no numbers by design. president trump also put no end date on america's longest war. >> retired air force conditional cedric leighton, military ana

i want cedric leighton to weigh in as well. the regime of kim jong-un warrant respect and make sure they are protected, that regime, that nuclear capability, seen by the north koreans, the regime, as the basis of that protection. so what makes anyone think, cedric, that the north koreans will give up that nuclear capability? without it they worry their days are numbered? >> absolutely, wolf. they will not give up voluntarily. we have to make a choice. either we are concerned enough about their capability that we want to eliminate it, requiring, in my opinion, military action, direct military action against their nuclear capability. or we agree to live with it and have an international inspection regime as general marks mentioned. that could then be one way to do that, but if the north koreans are unwilling to accept an international inspection regime, we may finds ourselves in one of those quandaries where we really end up in a place we don't want to be, and that would be a war that would require a lot of sacrifice on the part

retired air force colonel cedric leighton, cnn military analyst.morning to you, colonel. >> good morning. good to be with you. >> and you. let's start with the "uss john s. mccain" colliding with the oil tanker more than three times its sides off the coast of singapore. five injured, ten are missing. most importantly is what you see on the screen. this is the fourth such incident this year. what is happening here, colonel? >> it looks like there's real problems from a training and operations perspective. so this is very serious. when i was in the region, when i served in the pacific region, i did spend some time with the u.s. seventh fleet, the same parent-numbered fleet that is responsible for this area and for the accidents that happened on its watch this year. so we have a training issue, an operational issue. it looks as if there are issues with how u.s. navy ships in this part of the world are dealing with merchant vessels. there have to be procedural changes to make sure this doesn't happen. >> these are some of the most sophisticated ships,

. >>> we want to bring in cnn military analyst cedrick leighton joining us from the lovely town of san antonio, texas. >> good morning. >> thank you very much for being with us. >> this has been an odd week for north korea. you get a 15-0 vote at the u.n. with both china and russia agreeing with the rest of the world that this has to be stopped. the president takes the rhetoric to this level threatening the north koreans that if they continue to threaten the u.s., the u.s. will act. does this undo, undermine, stop any sort of diplomatic abilities that the u.s. and its allies have in the region? >> well, miguel, it certainly limits them. that's a huge problem. you want as much room for maneuver as you possibly can get when you engage in diplomatic activities, specially with a regime like the north korean regime. the type of rhetoric that would have been best employed at a time when the north koreans had actually done something or were threatening to do something. the fact that it happened on the basis of a press report of an intelligence document of an intelligence assessment makes this

joining me now is cedric leighton, former member of the joint chiefs of staff. might be remarkable for you to watch here, cedric. to see this happen multiple times, not just twice in the last two months, but four times in the last year. what could possibly explain that for the world's most capable naval forces? >> jim, i think it's one of those areas where there are going to be a lot of issues that immediately come to the forefront. when i look at it, one aspect is what ryan mentioned in his reporting. that was the training factor. there's clearly something going on here where -- whether it's just within seventh fleet or a navy-wide issue. seventh fleet having the responsibility for asia in the u.s. navy. that becomes the most important thing to look at. but then you have to look at the operational aspects. how is command exercised on board the ships? i served briefly with the navy on the "uss blue ridge" the flagship of the seventh fleet. the procedures at the time were quite tight. you wonder if the procedures used to navigate and steer the ship through variou

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indirectly over and over and over again it's i mean it's this is foreign policy internationally leighton's one o one go ahead joe there's no doubt that the american invasion here in iraq in two thousand and three helped iran's position regionally but it also led directly to the existence of islamic state in iraq many of the bath party officials that were kicked out of power joined that group and are trying to get back to power they're almost defeated now in mosul but they'll continue as an asymmetrical warfare throughout iraq so that they're not going to go away but if you look from a western point of view if you're in brussels or paris or san bernardino or very land or any of the places that have been hit by either orchestrated or inspired attacks by the islamic state are you looking at iran as being a danger to western cities what is the last remaining and back terrorist group that attacked a western city this is a sunni backed saudi inspired and paid for in many ways groups i'm not saying this direct relationship between saudi arabia and those attacks they've certainly been supporting i

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also back with us, military analyst colonel cedric leighton. thank you both for being here., given the stakes, given the k bellicose rhetoric from the president, they just had this huge diplomatic achievement at the united nations, getting russia on board, getting china china on board. do you believe the president boxed himself in, ifn a sense, with the choice of words he used yesterday? >> i think the president underscored the terrain we are on, not only with the nature of this crisis with north korea but the crisis of his leadership. i don't know we've had an international crisis of this magnitude at a time we have a president facing such doubts among the american public and for that matter the leaders of most of our allies about both his judgment and his veracity. if you look at polls, again, cnn poll out, 60% say they do not believe he is honest and trustworthy. 60% or more in other polls saying they don't consider him level-headed. i think it is a challenge for the president to reassure the country and the world that in fact this genuine real challenge is being dealt wi

. >> colonel cedric leighton and john park, thank you both so much. >> you bet, brooke. >>> let's getas here. record rainfall pushes levees to the brink there. officials warning, get out now. more than 9,000 people are now in shelters in houston and that number is growing quickly. we're going take you back to houston where those rescues are under way. where are we? about to see progressive's new home quote explorer. where you can compare multiple quote options online and choose what's right for you. woah. flo and jamie here to see hqx. flo and jamie request entry. slovakia. triceratops. tapioca. racquetball. staccato. me llamo jamie. pumpernickel. pudding. employee: hey, guys! home quote explorer. it's home insurance made easy. password was "hey guys." >>> let's get you back to houston to our breaking news here where frantic rescues have not let up. so many people remain trapped from all the heavy flooding and the worst part of all of this is that it is still not over. more rain is coming. harvey set to make landfall again, could drop up to 15 or so more inches of rain. the rainfall h

i think of john leighton steward or founded a university and build it up, fun raised for it -- fundraised for it and respected in the united states and china. he understood he had to be able to relinquish administration over the institution to the chinese. that is ultimately where it had to end up and was really struggling against that. the ideal and actual practice put some missionaries into tremendous difficulties. >> one of our northwestern university's. the question has to do with the reception of the missionaries within washington. my sense of it is they have such a voice because during world war ii they are from the perspective of the state department, really the only people who can be credibly -- who can credibly testify the conditions in thailand. the assumption on the part of the state department officials you can't ask a chinese person, or japanese person. the missionaries in this race is no you become really important become brokersu between the nonwhite world and the official world. i imagine that breaks down and in some ways the loss of influence the missionaries is not diffu

ileana ross leighton. shall we encourage being so grateful what they're doing?t doing the right thing. marco rubio can sit down, talk to his children and they will know he's doing the right thing. they will be proud of him and see that jerry moran. as you said, cory gardner being as clear and unequivocal as the entire republican party needs to be. >> as you say, though, this is a low bar for courage. this is the easiest bar you could ever clear, condemning the ku klux klan and the nazis marching through the streets of charlottesville. this should be an easy one. kasie hunt, i can't believe there is even a calculation on this for republicans in congress, who are on home recess, what is stopping any of them there from we have been very used to talking about a divide in washington where both sides are the problem and there's gridlock in congress and this is just so farnd and i think that is the great moral challenge for our government going forward in the wake of this. are people going to be able to get past those old both sides to tell the president there are no b

but a brings that'll hold new in leighton and. so let's talk about love this woman making $30,000 a year. is she out there marching? a couple of women in lansing it in d.c. and london? i have to say that we did see a historic day following the inauguration that was impractical and powerful to say there has been a bit of a struggle to maintain momentum when their luck at what is going on in the cat web baltimore to has done so with spee and equity to we have very potter finance in the house? -- harry potter fans in the house? [laughter] so in terms of pay inequity. he changed a regulation of obama put in place to show how they pete -- how they pay people by race and gender that is how pay inequity thrives. snowmaking freetown's now well suffer even more. that there has been the calibration of strategy and electing more women to office. and i think that is good but you need the year ended the inning to infiltrate this system. but we still need those people in the streets to do pressure to do the right thing. >> does simple way that