. >> it is unclear how european navy personnel can approach land shuttle endeavour. helicopter attacks will take them close to the coast and could make them targets for pirates. >> wednesday saw a nail-biting semifinal against new -- against munich. it took two hours. in yen, -- and in yen -- >> the cup final for the 18th time. getting there was a struggle. they were nearly ahead after just five minutes. shortly afterwards, denied. michael royce was stopped several times. as the game went into extra time, superior strength with brian robyn -- robbin getting the best chances. and in the penalty box, the first to lose his nerf. this caused problems for the bavarian. the next shot and it was all over. celebrations for the variants -- for the bavarians. >> thank you for being with us. >> we will see you again soon.

this is fairly new and it's a growing mission for the navy and much of the european phased adaptive approach to missile approach is going to be based on the aegis bmd capabilities, whether it's at sea or shore. now, i think in your prepared statement, you noticed that the bmd ships took up position in the eastern med trainian to provide bmd for both europe and israel. around let me ask both you and the admiral whether you are confident that the navy's going to be able to continue providing the ships needed to fulfill missile defense missions such as the ones that you mentioned for europe and israel, given the situation with the ships and their ability to be present in eastern med. >> mr. chairman, i do remain confident that we will be able to meet this ballistic missile defense mission with our aegis ships for a couple of reasons. one is that we are making more ships ballistic missile capable. we have today i believe 24 ships that are that way. that number will be close to 40. secondly, as the cno said in his remarks and also as he's said numerous times by stationing for dvgs in rota, spain,

intelligence along with the navy and others are watching that very carefully and they continue to watch their developments. >> thank you. direct to, i went go back to russia. i chair the european affairs subcommittee on the foreign relations committee and we've been watching very closely what is happening in russia right now, the protests, reaction to putin's announcement that he would switch from being prime minister -- to be president again. and you talk in your january testimony about return to the presidency is resulting in more continuity than change. can you talk about how we view first of all the impact of demonstration on russia at what a change that might affect as we look at the changeover imprudence role there? >> well, i find this evolution very interesting. and again, this is another manifestation of the impact of social russian ali are finding those challenges and putting my free information flow via social media genie back in the bottle. and i often wonder whether mr. putin will be the day he decided to come back. he might've been better served while he was ahead. i think he comes from kind of the old school and i don't think the old order is going to work and r