it becomes known as the washington navy yard again. we'll talk about the model basin which is today known as the old work gallery, and the history behind that place to. we are going to head out the door's right over there, and stop outside of the canada. the building you see behind you here, the taylor building, it was during the 1890's that a lot of missions were changing within the navy. how many of you have heard of the uss maine? it was blown up and have on a harbor. -- in havana harbor. do any of you know who designed the maine? it was a british design. we bought the rights to the design of that ship. well, it was during that time that we started realizing it didn't make sense to buy rights for designs from other countries . we did pretty well at designing our own ships before, so why not continue doing that? so facilities were built here in the navy yard to help again with ship and hull design. this was one of those first buildings. building, or the , and iship model basin have a small photo to show you what it looked like on the

. >> reporter: as navy divers search the flooded sleeping cabins of the uss fitzgerald on sunday they discovered the remains of several missing sailors. >> we have found a number of -- the remains of a number of our missing shipmates and our deepest sympathies go out to the families of those shipmates. >> reporter: he declined to say how many bodies were recovered, but the search for the ship's seven missing sailors has ended. >> it was traumatic. as to how much warning they had, i don't know. >> reporter: many crew members were sleeping early saturday when the destroyer collided with a much larger filipino container ship. two sleeping areas where over 100 crew members were severely damaged letting water flood inside. the crew fought to keep the warship floating as tugboats towed it back to shore. >> the heroic efforts of the ship's crew, they prevented the ship from sinking last night. >> reporter: three people on board were medically evacuated, including the ship's commanding officer bryce benson, who is in stable condition. the collision took place in one of the world's busiest wat

. >> reporter: as navy divers search the flooded sweeping cabins of the uss fitzgerald on sunday, they discovered remains of several missing sailors. >> we have found a number of the remains of our missing shipmates and our deepest sympathies go out to the families of those shipmates. >> reporter: vice admiral joseph aucoin declined to say how many bodies were recovered but said the search for the ship's seven missing sailors has ended. >> it was traumatic. as to how much warning they had, i don't know. >> reporter: he said many crew members were sleeping recall saturday when the destroyer collided with a much larger filipino container ship. two sleeping areas for over 100 crew members were severely damaged letting water flood inside. the crew fought to keep the warship floating as tugboats towed it back to shore. >> there's the heroic efforts of the ship's crew. they prevented this ship from foundering or even sinking last night. >> reporter: three people on board were medically evacuated including the ship's commanding officer, bryce benson, who is in stable condition. the collision

as a long history. it goes back to the romans. the british navy stymied the german fleet using code breaking. but on the eve of world war ii, as practiced by the american army and navy, criptnalysis was -- yes, sir? you want me closer to the mic micropho microphone? okay. i'm going to bloom it out. the american military had barely entered the crypt logic arena no more than 12 years earlier. is that better? and for many officers, admirals, generals, this activity was new. it was not only new, it was strange and a little fuzzy. and a lot of them regarded it as a kind of novelty, an activity that would probably never yield timely intelligence in a combat situation. so cryptal sis was not really much of a magnet for ambitious young officers. excuse me. in fact, the field was considered a career killer and only a few souls wanted to have anything to do with it. the way to get ahead in the navy was to join the gun club, adopt a specialty in gunnery and that was the way to arise in the navy. code breakers reputation of cryptal sis wasn't helped by the attack on pearl harbor. a lot of the skeptics won

during world war 1, the british navy stymied the fleet using code breaking. even in world war 2, as practiced by the army and navy, it was barely in its adolescence. >> could you get closer to the microphone? >> closer to the microphone. >> louder. we can't quite hear you. >> okay. i will boom it out, okay? the american military had barely entered the cryptologic arena no more than 20 years earlier. is that better? >> yes. and for many officers admirals, generals, this activity was new. not only new, but strange and a little fuzzy. a lot of them regarded cryptoanalysis a novelty that would probably never yield combat intelligence in a situation. it was not really much of a magnet for ambitious young officers. in fact, the field was considered a career killer. and only a few very "intrepid" souls wanted to have anything to do with it. the way to get ahead in the navy was to join the gun club, adopt a specialist in gunnery and that was the way to rise in the navy. code breakers, reputation of cryptoanalysis, wasn't helped by the attack on pearl harbor. a lot of the skeptics in the off

it shattered america's and of itself as confident, optimistic, safe and superior. it shattered the reputation of the navy is unmatched and unbeatable as the best navy in the world, the navy was a bigger presence in the public's eyes than it is now. newspapers routinely covered the changes of naval command, big stories when admiral x was replaced by admiral why. even in peacetime reporters went out to see to file long, detailed reports about the complex exercises of atlantic and pacific fleet. the navy was the newspaper that landed on the front steps of homes in honolulu on sunday morning, december 7th, it was sitting there when the plane showed up overhead. the newspaper had a front-page announcement that santa claus would be in the newspaper bobby starting at noon like he was every year. ready to hear christmas wishes of the children of honolulu. i never did find out whether santa claus showed up that day, i suspect not. we also need to remember this was the age before spy satellites. there were no cameras in the stratosphere up there snapping photos as you would have today as 30 japanese warships silen

i would advocate that as we grow the navy we have to grow it in balance. certainly there is a fundamental role for capacity, more ships and as we do that we will need to make sure to the point very clearly made today we buy the infrastructure to support those ships. the space and the power that's needed. the cruise to man them the maintenance programs, if there's an aviation component to that that we need to buy the aircraft so it's maintaining the balance as we grow. otherwise will have a large and potentially hollow navy. >> i think they captured it well. i can describe the cbo has put out a report that describes the cost and i think they have captured some of this cost so we can go into this with eyes wide open. building that maybe you describe going to a 355 ship navy. were not there yet. we don't get to 308 ships until 2022. were building up the manpower and infrastructure. what we need to be doing is planning on those additional elements that go as we continue to grow the size of the force. it will be the marine corps elements and when you take the 35

i would advocate -- as we grow the navy, we have to grow it in balance. secretary stackley: certainly there is a fundamental role for capacity, more ships. but as we do that, we have to make sure that to the point it has been clearly made today, we buy the infrastructure to support those ships, the power, everything that we'll need to dock those ships, the crews to man them. the maintenance programs. if there is an aviation come pont to that then we need to buy the aircraft. it is maintaining that balance. it will be absolutely critical otherwise we will have a large and potentially hollow navy and need to maintain that. secretary stackley: i can describe that the c. bmpt o. has put out a report describing the cost for a 355-ship navy and captured the costs to go into this with eyes wide open. in the near term, building that navy.o a 355-ship we don't get to 308-ship navy until the 2022 time frame. we are building up the infrastructure and manpower to support a 308-ship navy and build on the elements as we continue to grow the size of the force and that's

navy's original code breaking arm. sanford wanted rochefort to run a field station at pearl harbor. joe took the job and later game fame as station hypo. rochefort did not break imperial navy codes. -- by himself. he had a lot of help. he used leaders in cryptology to do most of that work. twooutfit consisted of dozen officers and enlisted men. these gentlemen were a motley crew, a salty mixture of crypto analysts, language officers, and cryptologic mavens. by rochefort's definition, they were odd characters. they were people who, in rochefort's words, would not generally conform to accepted ideas. if you desire to be a real crypto analyst, being a little nuts helps. charactersort's odd did their work in a dreary place, a drab windowless basement in the navy administration building in pearl harbor. this is what it looked like in 1942. this is what it looks like today. >> [laughter] oops, got ahead of myself there. that little space there is the worsthat led down to this -- to this basement work area. this is the staircase that led to it. it was usually full of burn bags from discarded intercepts. trial, down there was a n

even as we shore up wholeness, the budget request preserved the program growth for the navy. it invests in emerging technologies for the future and provides a balanced approach that starts the acceleration of naval power from a firm foundation. as i talked to our sailors who are deployed forward, protecting america from attack, promoting our interests around the world, they are as focused as they are on the mission. i know you share immense pride in them, but there's also a growing sense in the deployed fleet that back here in washington we just don't get it. sometimes it seems like we live in a parallel universe. and i urge that we bring the two realities together and close that gap quickly. as an example, there are already hearings that the faa budget won't get pass in time resulting in a revolution. it's getting harder to explain to our sailors and their families and to those who might want to join. but i'm very hopeful. i pass on that optimism to them. we'll go together, working together with you and your support, to get them in the resources and support they need and dese

the deputy assistant navy secretary took reporters questions as congress makes its way through the budget process. this is about 40 minutes. >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to the next brief. we are admiral brian luther is the director of the department of the navy's fiscal management branch. he is going to deliver his presentation, roll out the navy's budget and then we'll go over some ground rules and take some questions. >> good afternoon. as he mentioned i'm brian lute luther and i want to thank you ft. opportunity to brief the fiscal year 2018 president budget submission in which i will address our portion of the second step of the department of defense's multi-year effort to restore readiness. the brief will be broken into four parts. the first will briefly review the current and evolving strategic guidance. the second, provides the operational context in which the naval forces operate in today's world. the third i'll review historical challenges that underlie the requirement for the current readiness reset. and finally,ly provide a summary by appropriation group. the national

navy confirming casualties aboard the uss fitzgerald. a helicopter filming the destroyer's battered midsection, as the navy says it limps to port at a crawl of three knots an hour. those red hoses appearing to dump water overboard. >> the video that we're seeing shows that this ship is clearly in danger. it's taking on water, it's low in the water line. >> reporter: the seventh fleet, saying the collision happened in open water 56 nautical miles southwest of its base in yokosuka, japan. the navy says its destroyer, built to counter ballistic missiles, was hit by the acx crystal, a container ship well over two football fields long, and the larger of the two ships. >> both ships are supposed to get out of each other's way but in general the larger ship would have the right of way. the larger the ship, the harder it is to steer, though. >> matt, what do we know about the condition of the sailors and the concern about the ship taking on water? >> reporter: right now, the u.s. navy is saying there are no fatalities. but they're still working to confirm there are no overboard sailors. and the japanese coast guard helping out. david? >> thank yo

navy. i use jutland as an example.he outcome, which is more or , although the germans go back to their base and don't really come out again except for maybe one more time, so strategically, it is more of a win with british, but the battle itself is more of a draw. i use it to talk to the midshipmen about the difficulties of command and control and how fleets have gotten so large and complex that the or ferrets health, when it actually happens, is actually not very decisive -- the warfare itself, when it actually happens, is actually not very decisive. es are down here. germans will come through the canal. great britain and scotland are over here. grand fleet is going to come down this way. germans are going to come up this way, and we are going to engage in combat. the british battle cruisers and german battle cruisers. the job of a battle cruiser was to scout. again, this is in an era -- i was the combat direction center officer of an aircraft carrier, so i owned the combat direction center, and you would sit there wi

as we grow the navy, we have to grow it in balance. so certainly there's a fundamental role for capacity, more ships. but as we do that, we're going to have to make sure that to the point that has been very clearly made today, we buy the infrastructure the support the ships, the power, everything that we'll need to adopt the ships, the crews to, the parts to maintain them, if there's an aviation component to that that we need to buy the aircraft. it is maintaining that balance as we grow will be absolutely critical. otherwise we'll have a large and potentially hollow navy. we'll need to maintain the wholeness. >> yes, sir, i think he captured it well. i can describe that the c and o put out a report that described the cost for a 355-ship navy. they've captured some of the additional costs so we can go into this eyes wide open. in the near term building that navy, you described going to a 355 ship navy. we're not at the 308 ship yet. we don't get there until the 2022 time frame. we're building out the infrastructure, build up the manpowe

there's a unknown number of fatalities as the navy works to notify family. more from new york. >>. >> they discovered the remains of several missing sailors. >> we have found a number of remains of number of missing shipmates and deepest sympathies go out to the families of those ship mates. >> vice admiral joseph mc coin declined to say how many recovered and search for ship seven missing sailors ended. >> it was traumatic as to how much warning they had. i don't know. >> he says many crew members were sleeping early saturday and when a destroyer collided with a much larger philippino container ship. two sleeping areas for over 1 100 crew members were severely damaged letting water flooded in. the crew fought to keep the ship floating as they tugged it back to shore. >> the ship's crew prevented this ship from foundering or even sinking last night. >> and three people on board were medically he vac indicated and including the ship's commanding officer bryce benson in stable condition. the collision took place in one of the world's buzzest waters ways. u.s.

thanking her for her service to this country and thanking her for the service to his marriage as a spouse of a navyin, and, of course, we thank her as well to her service and you recall that it was in january of 2011 that gabby was serving her third term, was a victim of assassination attempt near tucson at a safeway super market where she was publicly greeting people and was shot in that. she survived those injuries, but ultimately because of those injuries had to resign from her office as united states congresswoman and today they're dedicating the u.s. navy vessel in her honor, gabby giffords, we thank them both for their service to their country. back now to what's going on today. president trump spending weekend in new jersey after comey's damaging testimony on capitol hill. the president accuses comey to lie to go congress about their private conversations. christian fisher with all the latest, christian. >> first a quick update on something happening. president trump has been briefed by his national security council about what's been going on in afghanistan, two u.s. soldiers killed by an af

like hopskins, most aviator felt attach into the navy. as a young boy, -- fisher's revelation came in at age four while playing at his front yard. he heard a distant noise and looking up, it looked like a monster. the noise frighten him and he ran panic stricken into his front door. eventually, his father came to his rescue. the army pilot landed in a near by pastor and showing him that planes are of no danger and voicing his son over his shoulders and taken him to see the monsters. fisher touched the propellant. i was hooked and i wanted to be an aviator. >> whatever hooked them in their youth. the navy pilot followed at mid kay followed three pathways. they went to the naval academy and joined the naval reserve and rose up the ranks. whatever their pathway could pass through 11 months of training at the air station at pensacola. flight checks are meant to push them onto the flight way or flush them out. the last check was difficult. it was called shooting a circle. the cadets and -- some students would craft their planes to do it rather th

lcs fills a gap in our navies capabilities. lcs serves as a low-cost capability in the navy's goal of distributed lethality and lcs removes operational burden from large surface combatants needed for high and mission trip with regard to munitions, most munition programs have seen plus-up in funding in the ndaa bill and the president's request for production lines on your capacity and more money won't make more munitions. our mark also adds 26 million for the mark 48 torpedoes, and 9 million of the sidewinder missiles. so w we're already doing a lot there. i appreciate the gentleman from massachusetts comments. i've invited him to come to the shipyard in mobile. invited him to come to san diego and actually ride on the ship and talk to the commanding officer and the other officers and the sailors on the ship, and he will learn far more than he is learned by reading reports. i recently learned that the gentleman is engaged. i know that when he has his wedding he's going to want to go on a great honeymoon period i can't think of a better honeym

. >> as retired navy captain from the first goal for the mirror bloomberg regardless of what the white house does how will that play out. >> being there is a symbolic behavior of the left so as a side note how can rahm emanuel with 4,000 people shot last year to be a sanctuary city how did they believe could be a criminal alien back on the street so they make great postures. with the paris accord. what does that mean? the na only go to buy electricity because it comes from coal when so it is all public-relations nonsense i asked buddy that is concerned to read it trump's speech was a brilliant economic speech. and he said what trump has done where now we can take the lead on the environment. said china started to promise to do something and now will move up by 14 years that is fabulous '01 tuesday the chinese take the lead but the truth is is any country in the world to have the same level of carbon loading as in the '70s and there was no chinese industry. this is the problem of the modern left to be a symbolic system as a substitute for thought and with that speech about economics the

sailors recovered this morning as the navy works to figure out what happened.

and determined officially that it is the greatest naval battle ever fought by the united states navy. and ass celebrated at all ships and stations in the navy marine corps. as regards the public, it's particularly unknown. if you doubt me, pick up your son's history book and see if it rates more than one paragraph in 2,000 pages of american history. so i'm not going to correct that, i'm not going to rectify that difficulty. but the american veterans center here has taken a big step forward by doing their part to see that every american child knows and understands the significance of the battle of midway. let me begin with my beginning. i was ordered after graduation from the naval academy to pearl harbor to join the carrier "yorktown." i got there in late may, and went aboard the ship the night before she deployed for the battle. now, "yorktown" had just come back from the battle of the coral sea, where it had been heavily damaged. and while i was waiting there to go aboard, i was told by my boss, a lieutenant, flag lieutenant, take your time, it will be around here for two or three months.

navy as most analysts believe want to lead this investigation, they will have the jurisdiction.t's going to be months probably before we have a final verdict on how this collision lapped. >> and by all accounts -- collision happened. >> and by all accounts, it's amazing that the ship was able to limp into the port with all the damage there below the waterline. thank you very much for keeping us up to speed on that. >>> bill cosby's legal team preparing for round two after a judge declared a mistrial in the comedian's aggravated indecent assault trial. jurors in the first trial deadlocked after six days of deliberations. the result, cosby spokesman andrew wyatt considers it a major victory. >> mr. cosby's power's back. it's back. it has been restored. the jurors, they used their power to speak. the legacy didn't go anywhere. it has been restored. for all those attorneys who conspired like gloria allred, tell them to go back to law school and take another class. >> gloria allred, of course, is one of the attorneys representing cosby accusers. cnn's jean casarez spoke with the ente

as the judge could make an important ruling at 9:00 a.m. >>> there are new at the tails this morning on the u.s. navy ship collision. msnbc live starts now. >>> we begin with politics and a new addition to president trump's personal legal team as the special counsel's russia investigation expands. john dowd is a high profile lawyer who in the past has represented senator john mccain and investigated pete rose for major league baseball. the new hire coming just hours after president trump appeared to lash out at deputy attorney general rod rosenstein on twitter. >>> new this morning, we're learning more about president trump's business fire. his most recent financial disclosure form shows he made at least $594 million sxoes at least $315 to deutsche bank alone. the report was released by the u.s. office of ethics last night and covers january 2016 through april 15th of this year.. president trump is calling for unity in the wake of the shooting thateft republican congressman steve scalise fighting for his life and four others with injuries. here is part of his weekly address this morning. >> though we have our differe

meanwhile, as divers went to work, the u.s. navy expressed the ccsterest in florida. as with cumberland, there was never any doubt as to who owned it. at the conclusion of the civil war, all confederate war materiel reverted to the u.s. government, specifically the department of treasury. when the administration was freed, the organization took hold of the confederate artifacts, including shipwrecks. in modern times, the navy wishes to study any confederate vessel, the navy has to officially request that they turn over the ships to the navy one at a time. the navy began diving after the civil war ended to transfer control from the treasury to the navy. event, although ownership inthe wreck was questionable 1864, by 1865, it was not. reportsbly, official concerning the postwar salvage operations on florida both government and private are pretty much nonexistent. showseorge west's account that it was stripped by hired divers after the war. unfortunately, west, who witnessed much of the operation declined to elaborate on the nature of the activities except to say that flo

as possible. it's an emergency situation. it's changing by the moment. the navyas set up a hotline for families to call. they are communicating on twitter. as far as the destroyer, the "uss fitzgerald" has damage above and below the waterline. it's taking on water. the crew is working to pump it out of the hold. >> thanks for being with us. >>> joining me now retired rear admiral john kirby who served on surface vessels over the course of his navy career. as mrl, thanks so much for being with us. we're getting word right now that seven sailors are unaccounted for at this point. this is some time now after this incident. what kind of operations do you imagine are under way right now to try to find them? >> as i understand, the number seven is the japanese reporting injuries. i don't think that i have heard them in terms of unaccounted for. the navy is trying to do an accountability of every member of the crew right now. as i understand it, before coming on with you, that's not -- that work is not done. look, i mean, first of all, you have injuries. that can be exp

and midshipmen about be lessons he learned in public service and his 37 years in the united states navy as a navy seal. he spoke candidly that this would be the greatest challenge of their young lives, but also the most rewarding. and he said it would be a decision they would never regret. and he also spent some time, appropriately so, on memorial day talking about the heroes who have sacrificed all to serve the military of the greatest country in the world. so all in all, memorial day was a great day and it was a great event for these young men and women. as we come back the week after memorial day, i know i'm not the only one encouraged by their example to find better ways, more effective ways to serve our country, and fortunately this chamber, the united states senate, will have a chance to do that. soon we'll vote on a bill that will reform the u.s. department of veterans' affairs. a department riddled with inefficiencies and marked too often by scandal and corruption. this is a huge government department. last count, some 330,000 people worked for the veterans administration, and unfo

instead of m or f on a state issued id will not be in option for x as well. >> navy veteran and his wifeged when forced to take down one of their two american flags on their property calling it the greatest insult. >> we lost so many marines trying to put the flag up and we are being canceled about taking the flag down. >> i'm furious. heather: the code only allows one to file a petition, and will cost a few thousand dollars to do that. >> special surprise from former president george hw bush surprising the crowd at the end of the golf tournament held in his honor. >> the george hw classic given to kennebunkport maine, raises money and awareness to help families with 6 loved ones. the event is in its 15th year. >> that was george w. bush. they are both there. 5:40 on the east coast, a road rage incident leads to an attack with a bat and the brutal death of a teen but that is not the worst part of this horrific story, the driver an illegal immigrant. heather: chelsea clinton calling out steve bannon for fast shaming sean spicer. carly shimkus with that and more. two years. i was in a coma

sailors recovered this morning as the navy works to figure out what happened.

as a sequence you have got a set of republican proposals that tends to be extremely conservative. >> final question, may be difficult to answer. if you were still abtive duty navyforward deployed, combat zone, how would you feel about donald trump as your commander in chief. >> i would salute and do whatever he told me to do. he is the commander in chief. >> thank you, bob kerrey with us here in the studio. >>> when we come back, the business ties of the trump presidency, trump family. what several lawyers have said could be the way in legally. which you are you? be the you who doesn't cover your moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. be the you who shows up in that dress. who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara® just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before starting stelara® tell your doctor if you think you have an infection or have symptoms such as: fever, sweats, chi

carrier strike group, as well as japanese navy ships, according to reports. that this morning from "the new york post." and any new york city. good morning, republican line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i'm disappointed. trump is like nixon, and unfortunately i think he, in the near future, he will face impeachment. his fail sewer more than any president in american history. in near future, he would face impeachment. we saw that few days ago he went to regime that was among with him, to regime that loss of the people, children in and in iraq, in syria, it's against his hand. and i don't know why trump who is unfortunately, if near future he face impeachment i'm sure, and i'm very disappointed. i vote for him. thank you very much. host: thank you. of course, two presidents have been impeached, president johnson and president bill clinton. no, nixon was not impeached, but had he not resigned, he certainly would have been and removed from office. so continue to send us your tweets @cspanwj. caller: i was listening and i was thinking, i liste

and the claim laid on the table that the navy doesn't want the ship is patently false. as deputy secretary defense bob work who authored the most thor row, honest and unsparing program concluding the navy is getting nearly the exact ship it asked for and in some key aspects a better ship than expected. we spent months asking the navy this very question in a subcommittee. the program executive officer told chairman whitman and myself and everyone else that the navy needs three ships per year and need it to keep the production line hot to facilitate that transition. stack li's name was invoked. let's also recognize the administration was forced to defend top line number 603 sent to them by onb without doing strategic evaluation behind what numbers actually needed. lcs program is of critical importance to our navy. the designs are stable, new yard facilities are in place with the right size qualified workforce and both shipyards and industry teams are in full productions in order to ensure each can deliver two ships per year. today the lcs program is on budget and below congr

determined officially that it is the greatest naval battle fought, ever fought by the united states navy, and asegards, practically unknown, and if you doubt me, pick up your son's history book and see if it is rated more than one paragraph in 2,000 pages of american history. so, i'm not going to correct that. i'm not going to rectify that difficulty, but the american veterans senate here has taken a big step forward by doing their part to see that every american child knows and understands the significance of the battle of midway. let me begin with my beginning. i was honored after graduation from the naval academy to pearl harbor to join the carrier yorktown. i got there in late -- late may, and went aboard the ship the night before she deployed for the battle. now, yorktown had just come back from the battle of the coral sea, where it had been heavily damaged. and while i was waiting there to go aboard, i was told by my boss, a lieutenant, flag lieutenant, take your time, it will be around here for two or three months. admiral rikover gave the ship two days to repair the damage and i got aboa

as a consequence, you have got a set of republican proposals that tends to be extremely conservative. >> final question, may be difficult to answer. if you were still abtive duty navy forward deployed, combat zone, how would you feel about donald trump as your commander in chief. >> i would salute and do whatever he told me to do. he is the commander in chief. >> thank you, bob kerrey with us here in the studio. >>> when we come back, the business ties of the trump presidency, trump family. what several lawyers have said could be the way in legally. in. imagine loving your numbers. there's only one invokana®. ask your doctor about it by name. more people are choosing nissan. ♪ ♪ it's america's best sales event at nissan the fastest-growing auto brand in the u.s.a. take on every day get 0% for up to 72 months on 13 models. ♪ >>> this case is about the right of hundreds of millions of americans to honest government. elected leaders who serve the people and not their own financial interests are the indispensable foundation of our democracy. and the president, above all other elected officials, must have only the interests of americans at the heart of every decision. >

namely, the navy consider them expendable assets. as he reminisced in years later, they could always get more pilots and planes, but they could not get more ships. chuckling to himself, though i doubt he chuckled the afternoon theune 4, he explained reality. sorry, you do not get a fighter escort, you are on your own. that is the way it was -- we were on our own. i believe we can take his message about the battle of midway seriously. the navy in the early days of the pacific war was so desperate for victory it made no effort to hide the fact they sent aviators on seemingly impossible missions without sufficient weaponry, intelligence, or fuel. the navy expected pilots to figure out the battle on their own. if they failed come it would be no great loss. it would be another wave of flyers and planes to replace them. the surface ships needed to survive the engagement at all costs. in essence, the pilots were figuratively and sometimes literally on their own. today this mode of thinking seems heartless, reckless, and costly. to send pilotsl

effective as they would think and this navy man, who portrays himself as a-- just an officer, but he's really just not an officer yet, he's really just sort of a gentleman spy and he's reporting back. >> okay, that's all the questions we have time for. [applause] >> thank you. >> there will be a book signing over by the door. >> sure. >> the reading festival in hyde park, new york continues with kathryn smith. she looks at the life of marguerite

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navy destroyer of the same class as the fitzgerald, the "u.s.s. dewey" has been dispatched to the scene to help. two navy tugs are being dispatched as soon as possible to the scene. in terms of injuries and potential loss of life here, the news is worrying. we're told that at least one u.s. service member on board was med evac'd on a helicopter. into tonight we've been having a hard time getting a clear indication as to whether they were other u.s. navy sailors hurt or missing in this incident. we know that japanese coast guard and the u.s. navy have both been very actively involved in what is a pretty beg response effort. a u.s. official told courtney kube the service member who was evacuated after this happened, an additional seven u.s. sailors are unaccounted for. and that is very worrying news. again, this happened off the coast of japan about 65 miles off the coast of japan. it happened in the middle of the night local time, about 1:30 p.m. east coast time in the united states. we are several hours into this rescue effort now. you can see some

this as the navy deals with a training stand still of its own after pilots refuse to fly over safetyoncerns the navy now ordering a full review. our own leah gabriel seeing results of that review and spoke to the navy's number two officer about them. lee. >> a the bottom line the navy can't say when the t-45 the only jet trainer will start flying again. reports says finding a solution to the problem have, quote, proved allowive. in other words, there isn't one yet. the issue is with the basic life support systems with the t-45 trainer and f-118 hornet. reports of incidents where pilots and crew became impaired on the rise. increasing 90% in some models last year alone. i visited naval air station oceania in virginia beach for exclusive look at the latest technology being used to train f-1 pilots to handle aircraft system failures that have been plaguing the fleet. >> peel off the nose there. >> the breathing device allow he is pilots to experience oxygen loss while flying but in the safety of the similarity. as a former f-18 pilot i gave it a trincht put this oxygen mask on and slowl

sailors recovered this morning as the navy works to figure out what happened. we are live in japan. >>> plus, a big test for president trump. just two days away, a house race that a lot of folks see as a referendum on his presidency so far. >>> later, we'll catch up with country music star zac brown. this morning how his long road to stardom started in a restaurant kitchen. plus his ode to dads everywhere, especially his m old man ♪ >> i finally got a dad song good enough to play it for him. i took him out to the car. >> thanksgiving. >> at thanksgiving. and i played him just the demo of it, you know. >> a lot of tears. >>> let's begin with other news. that deadly ship collision off the coast of japan. the search and rescue mission for those seven missing u.s. sailors now over after several bodies were recovered inside the damaged navy destroyer. nbc's janis mackey frayer is live in japan with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, hallie. the uss fitzgerald took a huge hit and heavy damage to an area with berthing spaces where other 100 sailors were asl

navy atoms stand on. asox news reported in april, pilots and the navy's jet trainer refused to fly due to safety concerns. and the navy ordered a pause in training while conducted a review of those problems. forming navy f-18 pilot and leah gabriel was the first to obtain the results of that review and focus exclusively on the number two officer about them. what is a take away here? 's been going on the bottom line is that the navy still cannot say when the t45, the navy only jet trainer will start flying again. a six to five page review said finding a solution to the problem has pthere is not one y. the issue with was systems with the trainer and the f-18 hornets. the systems are supposed to provide clean breathable air to air crew and when they don't, pilots may become dizzy, euphoric, or even pass out off-line. reports of these kinds of incidents have been on the rise. it's is the navy has been taking a quote unrestrained resource approach print listen. >> we are putting everything we've gotten to this. w