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theses like egis ashore, pac 3. so just in case if north korea thought about attacking japan, they have the ability to defend themselves. >> tucker: now the u.s. government, the leadership is on the record saying we're not going to put up with this nonsense, what is the thinking about north crush pushing the limit again and again? >> they want to prove to the international capabilities that they have the capabilities to strike and strike hard. we know this though. what really concerns me, tucker, experts in washington, experts here at fox continue to say over and over, we can stop north korea from getting nuclear weapons. they already have them. they have the missiles to hit the united states. that happened three weeks ago in "the washington post" came out with their story that declared that they can hit the united states. they have the technology to do this. we need to recognize the threat for what it is and deter it. we deterred the soviet union with 40,000 nuclear weapons. we can do it. >> tucker: it's not clear

it's not just going to be what the straty egy is but how the president explains it. what does success in afghanistan look like under a trump administration? if he does decide to send thousands of more american s ovr there in harm's way, how does he square that with comments he made in the past. before he was a candidate he would tweet how afghanistan was a waste of time, a waste of blood, a waste of pretreasure a that the united states should get out of that conflict if we see an entirely different approach, he will have to explain to the american people why he believes this is the right approach right now and hope he can gain the trust of americans as he tries to move forward with this strategy. >> sara murray for us at the white house. back with us, admiral kirby and kimberly dozier. we are told this is not just an announcement on troops but also about strategy. james mattis insisted on a decision about strategy before deciding anything on what. what does that mean? >> you want to make sure you have the end state clearly in mind what are we trying to achieve and ba

to have him as the representative of a 330,000 employee agency serving tens of millions of veterans egi equivocating whether nazis are bad. the feds staying in their jobs because they feel like they are making a difference. again, i left only after i tried everything else and decided i wouldn't be able to do more. >> if a friend of yours said i've been offered a position in the trump administration, some other administrative post, would you advise them to take job? >> people did ask me exactly that question. what i said was do your best. serve the country and your constitution. it is harder now. and i think much depends on the job. the closer you get to the president, the harder it will be. because it seems that this president dirties people close to him. that's a terrible thing for me to think and say about the president of the united states. i think our colleagues should stay and keep their oath and remember that oath is important. robert e. lee, the statue, whose statue started all of this. he broke his oath to his country so he could defend slavery. those in government need to keep

and it's looking to do egis assure, the missile defense system on ships, but there's a land-based onere looking to instale thl t >> even at peak of the u.s. fear yesterday in dollar markets, 12 to 18 -- sorry, 24 to 30 hours ago the nikkei fell only a half percent. in the region less than some people over here interpreted it. >> it's up today >> mm-hmm. >>> my pick is in the "wall street journal." "trump's reassuring hurricane response "form "fo writing beyond the white house mr. trump still lags in filling political appointments but appears to have prioritized the right ones he made nominations for about half the slots for homeland security, more than most departments. some nominees await senate confirmation hearings. mr. long previously served as alabama's head of emergency management he's been a reassuring and take-charge presence this gets back to the point that contessa brewer was making on the ground the response efforts thus far in the midst of tropical storm harvey have been much faster seems like we're learning from some of our past mistakes in how we responded to previous di

we have egis radar equipped ships and they're pretty good. and yet, we still use a for our old rifle, and million and a half reserves, it is only now that they've been issued old m-16's. and it's only now recently that we got rid of the m-1 carving. i'm not talking about the a.. >>'s. i'm talking about the world war ii ones. so why is that? so defense reform really needs to look at the fundamentals of equipment. o we have the -- f-15 part right, the f-35 part right. we make the tanks. we make ships. but the individual soldier -- and this has happened even in the united states military. until the u.s. puts itself into afghanistan and iraq. their soldiers did not really get the best stuff. so, you know, i think korea needs to learn from their friends. finally sustainment. we had about o, 690,000 men. ow, we have about 620,000 men. so actually about 70,000 have been reduced already just where they reduced all these people. it wasn't in combat units because there is a strong lobby for combat units. it mainly occurred to our sustainment area. whic

the mccain is equipped with the egis missile defense system touted as a very effective counter weaponssile that north korea might launch. martha. >> martha: trace, thank you very much. here now with more on that and also the afghanistan issue of the night, the former oversight committee chairman jason chaffetz and the founding director of georgetown university of politics and public service. both are fox news contributors. gentlemen, good to have both of you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> martha: quick thoughts first on what trace was reporting and the difficulty that the u.s. navy is encountering here. jason chaffetz, do you want to take that first? >> yeah. it's pretty stunning. i was out on the a cruiser much like what was damaged here. this is one of the most sophisticated ships that we have. it's really -- you can't even begin to explain how this could happen. usually these cruisers are there to protect carrier groups. so that they can see a wide array of everything that's moving towards that carrier group. so, it really is pretty -- it's just flat out embarrassing and inexpla