navy. pick them off with mines, torpedos and small boat action and the idea is that you change the balance so you can fight more or less on even numbers with the royal navy. that essentially was the overarching strategy, german strategy for the high sea fleet. in the meantime, until you could trite the royal navy down to that point you avoided that great fleet action decisive battle. well, the battle of jutland upended that up in this set. it was a tactical victory for the germans in that they inflicted more damage on the british grand fleet than was inflicted on themselves. i will give you numbers here shortly. it was a tactical victory, if you will, for germany but a huge strategic victory for the allies and the british royal navy in this sense. after jutland the german high seas fleet did not sortie in any great numbers. it appears and then essentially rusted away. and a thought that occurs to me is if you are looking at 1918 and the german navel mutants, it had a lot to do that the germ

>> in navy navy women qualifiede and the army corps did as well. may cut a veil themselves but it was spotty one brilliant woman in the navy was a mathematician after the war went to use the g.i. bill to go to grad school in architecture but they alld we said we are holding these spots for returning men she said there was also a member of the navy and they said too bad that she couldn't tell them that she was on a convoy because they could not know what contribution they made. >> code girls the untold story. and chapter ten is entitledhing pencil pushing mamas. that is actually a poem. >>host: there we go. >> i am here with that is to say that judge kavanaugh knew don't belong in this building as a justice. >> as an extraordinary career and extraordinary intellect and an extraordinary record of this judge you find the character and humility combined with strength that left me profoundly impressed. >> that 35 month period of time where brett cavanaugh served as staff secretary to president bush was a a period of time that was rife with issues of gre

poobah of the navy. everything in the navy is under his command. we are very honored to have him talk about how you train the fleet. prior to his retirement, he spent some time dealing with unmanned drone operations but before that, he was the deputy commander of the pacific fleet. he was dealing with all of these issues then that are still present today and has a very unique perspective. he is the now the president of the pacific forum out of hawaii and deals with these polls issues today. and then also very honored to have -- she is going to talk about the challenge facing the fleet. she is very honored to be the first female judge advocate general of the navy. poobah e head grand attorney of the navy. environmental law. she is the one who was dealing with all of the changes related to congressional mandate on exual assault. how he now prosecute cases. she has vast experience from operational law to the courts. with that i'm now going to turn this over. >> thanks, michelle. >> thank you very much, michelle. thanks for the great rundown of the nav

navy. >>host: why women? >> guest: the men were unavailable at was a national emergency we availed ourselves of native american communication linguist and we did the same for women we needed educated people with math and language that can learn very quickly i literally found memo in the national archives when they were recruiting codebreakers typed up new source, women's colleges men are unavailable let's see what the women can do. >>host: from your book the committee on naval affairs argued admitting women into the navy would break up homes and go backward in civilization. >> there was a nervous controversy getting women into the military during world war ii because those codebreakers were women accepted for volunteer emergency service their first gig ever to include in the u.s. military there was son in world war i but this is a larger number with a lot of resistant from the older admirals they didn't want them the navy blue but gray or tan but the women who were pushing for inclusion understood even unifor

partner with the navy. we are one naval force. are 200 84week, we active ships across the united states and worldwide. we have three current aircraft carriers deployed. we have three amphibious assault ships underweight and over 3700 aircraft operational with the marines having over 1300. i have a caveat -- this information is unclassified. you are all fine to hear this information. i am not giving you anything you could not find online. i went online in tension late to get this information. today, is oursay own personal opinion. we are not here to represent the navy or any political point of view. providing a point of view from our experience. in terms of what you might see in your own districts, when a ship deploys, a deploy with certain fleets. they are organized in an operational structure. when you see the military members in your districts, they are based in certain bases. region northwest, southwest, hawaii, guam and the northern mariana islands. i want to give you the representation of these differe

being a navy vessel, all of the artifacts were scattered.64, about 10 years later, our base admiral put out a directive -- i want the piano. amazingly, admirals get what they want. they found the piano in storage in washington, had it shipped back to key west, and president -- had it restored, and president truman was surprised to find his old piano in the little white house. this is where the president came to relax. the president told everyone he was on vacation, working vacations, but on vacation in key west. it turns out, it was all a lie. both the president and his staff were lying to each other. harry would get up on vacation at 7:00 in the morning, read the newspaper, come downstairs, have a glass of orange juice with a shot of bourbon. he would then go out walking 10 blocks at a pace of 120 paces a minute. that is cardio if ever i heard of it. then he would take up his position at this little desk. every day or every other day, large mail bags would arrive containing correspondence, legislation, sometimes books the president asked to

former thai navy s.e.a.l. saman gunan was found unconscious on one of his dives and he later died. >> translator: sergeant sam's mouthpiece fell off. he was trying to grab it but he couldn't find it. he was trying to take out the spare one, but due to the complexity of the cave, there was no air to breathe. >> very sad. the whole world collapsed. >> reporter: what stood between the boys and the daylight they hadn't seen in two weeks was about a mile and a half underground obstacle course of rocky chambers, half-flooded canals, and fully submerged sections, the longest of those 350 meters, the length of seven olympic swimming pools, filled with water so muddy it was like swimming in coffee. >> physically could not see your hand in front of your face no matter how close you put it to your face. >> reporter: the boys prepared for their exit from the cave, not knowing just how risky that mission would be. >>> coming up, on day 16 the boys prepare for the exit from the cave. not knowing how truly risky their rescue

the navy was part of the program, as well. always force initially tested out here going back to world war ii. and then everything through the cold war. you know, every kind of missile, tighten rocket programs, nasa has a big rocket sounding program at here. anything that has to do with rockets and this whole technology kind of began here at white sands. during world war ii, there was a german program. we looked at that program and kind of understood the technological changes that were occurring. what really sparked the development of american missiles and rockets during world war ii, the navy realized quickly that they had a hard time defending against, causing pilots because they came in quick and low, and guns had a hard time engaging those targets. also, in 1944, the germans went into the production of the first jet powered aircraft. aircraft would be flying higher and faster, and engaging those aircraft with the technology at the time would not work, so we realized something that could keep that pace, that rocket engine, w

as a young navy pilot, he was shot down over hanoi, interrogated and tortured. his cap is sought potential propaganda, when his father became the commander of us forces in the unarmed and offered him released. butjohn mccain refused, despite the many beatings he had suffered. on his return, he was hailed as a war hero and entered politics. he would eventually spend 35 years representing republicans inside congress, but he was fiercely independent and often spoke out against the party, notably challenging the influence of big money on american politics. the party establishment will not finish me off anywhere. because i will break the iron triangle in washington of money, lobbying and legislation and they know would that would be very financially disruptive to many people ‘s lives at. would be very financially disruptive to many people 's lives at. he may have challenged washington, but he was respected here too. in 2008 he was respected here too. in 2008 he was a republic —— presidential candidate, but he was criticised as choosing sarah pailin as his running mat

a new the navy. truman didn't know the navy. to educate the president in the ways of the navy. one way -- this is the naval station as it looked at about 1950. he saw what the navy had going on and of course the navy took advantage of him being here and show him a lot of things that they were doing. he was rumored to have made a corpsent that the marine was just a bunch of soldiers and went around talking like sailors . the did not sit well with the marines. it is one of the things they would say, we will try him on a boat. boating.likes to go it turns out the president had a tendency to get seasick. i guess the disaster was when they decided to code to washington to williamsburg and it didn't turn out well. they said we have great fishing. the president did not like to go fishing. found out that mrs. truman liked to go fishing. the president said all i get to do when i go to her is eight the hook and take the fish off of it. he didn't like to go fishing with mrs. truman user. -- either. the navy said they were doing well with him and did not figure he would be here too long. t

the navy released this video, showing a small navy >>> intercepting a submarine with nearly two tonsaboard. thursday this navy video coming out from the "columbia," the gray submarine shaped bye like a kayak. this year alone the colombia navy seized 71 tons of drugs and captured 14 submarines. >>> a white house lawyer has been helping in robert mueller's obstruction of justice probe in order to exonerate himself according to a "new york times" report. it says white house counsel don mcgahn became concerned that president trump planned to set him up to be held responsible for any potential wrongdoing. since he extensivyprovided information tr team otherwise wouldn't have learned about's in a tweet toni td mcgann and others to fully cooperate because there is nothing to hide. >>> dramatic video of a rescue at sea. the chilean navy coming to the aid of a 13-foot whale. trying to cut that whale loose from a fishing net. the diver next to the whale. just off the coast there and divers took turns cutting the net and were eventually a able to free that whale. >>> turn it over to sports now.

, navy, coast guard, marines, west point andpn the midshipmen. and to the guy above but that s also the message he wanted to sw send we we have the democratic e of life the most unconquerableom forms of human society. january 10, the bill was introduced in the house and senate the title was rather vague and to promote united states and other purposes. >> the house foreign affairs committee senate foreign a relations committee.ed. secr secretary of the fight he painted a fit then absolutely was essential to the goal ofrice national defense. and secretary of the treasury but simply did not have what they needed. and the secretary of war pointey out if the british navy was destroyed united states would be in real danger of invasion. lea and then to enable the british to fight with industrialwn production to prepare for its own defense. but then to be the tool makers for the other nations. witness e the star witness for theoppositl opposition in the house ofives n representatives was the man i love to hate. aviator charles lindbergh.e but the spirit

the navy on the eastern side. later in the war, we went uncoordinated strikes. >> it meant that this was north and south? >> yes. >> we have got some videotape, senator mccain, that has become a mini tourist area. have you been there? >> i have not been there. remember, the b-52s did not fly north until the christmas bombing of 1972. there were a number of b-52s that were shot down in that christmas. -- period. but it was an incredible display of firepower and had taken up the ability to defend themselves. >> we show this because we wanted to show you the neighborhood. this is a day in april that was about 100 degrees. and this, in the middle of that song with houses around it that was wreckage. then you have to pay a little money to get back. >> free enterprise network. >> you had to take a car. any reaction when you see a chunk of a american b-52? >> you could make an argument that they were not used correctly during the war. once they were sent north, they had a devastating effect. they literally took out the a

navy. before retiring in 1981, as a captain. his service included bombing missions during the vietnam war, where he faced injury and captivity when his plane a shot down over northern vietnam in the fall of 1967. as a prisoner of war and his early 30's, john mccain was subjected to torture in solitary confinement while being held in various prison camps, including one commonly referred to as --. he was released five-and-a-half years later. in 1992, senator mccain spoke about his experiences as a prisoner of war in the town's legacy in american history. from the c-span 1967, the people arrested in american major, john down with ans shot american plane,. near the powern plant. during the day, 10 american planes were shot down. during the same day. .ohn mccain >> that is a picture from hanoi hung.e voice of mr. that is a monument to john mccain or on behalf of john mccain. you tell us. >> i have never understood it and i visited it when i went to hanoi. i am not sure exactly why. i have gone to visit it. is a first miss -- there ar

navy and the british. what they tried to do at normandy was merge those into an operational doctrine for the plan. what happened was ultimately neither one of these doctrines, both doctrines that they had, the british were better than what they came up with in terms of solutions. that's the these and the argument we want to make today. however let's see if we can go ahead and start this discussion. where were we last class? the strategic bombing campaign and where else were we? staalen grad. so this is the full extension of germany. you see over here we covered staalen grad the last class here. right? notice sweden, switzerland, are they really neutral? no. not really neutral. they are supporting germany in a number of different ways. now that's the full extension. since that we have the landing in north africa. so take a look now. this is june. this is june 6, 1944. take a look at north africa. that's all clear. then we went from north africa into sicily, operation husky. then they went from sicily into i

it was built as the navy commanders home back in 1890.t served a number of various commanders over almost 100 years. it was slightly interrupted by andidents taft and truman eisenhower and kennedy and jimmy carter. the department of defense. we seem to have a continuum through american history. largestlding was the building on the naval base. it was 9000 square feet. assequently, it was built the commander's home. by 1911, he realized things were getting snug. he emerged it into a single dwelling of almost 9000 square feet. time, key west was the command headquarters for the seventh naval district, which went from key west to charleston. astor -- a general was inspecting the base and he finds that the commander has moved to smaller quarters because he is a bachelor and he doesn't want to bounce around in 9000 square feet by himself or get he left this hard home -- himself. he left this large home sitting empty. he was impressed by all of the research being done by the navy in key west. he gets home to washington to learn the president has

navy flight over the islands.>> this is the chinese navy politely telling the u.s. navy to go away.>> far out in the south china sea, we'rehi appro one of china's huge new island bases. it's veryy clear t do not want us here. >> fly away immediately. >> for the crew among ts u.s. navy p-8 surveillance plane, this is a daily encounter. >> it's a roune occurrence for us throughout the flight. it happens throughout the where they come over and we go back with oustandard response. >> as we close to 12 nautical miles, we can see the huge extent of china's development out here. >> we're seeing live pictures of a place called mischief rf. last time i flew over here two and a half yea ago it was large pile of sand. now you can see there's been extensive construction. this is what it looked like then. millions of tons of sand being pumped onto the reef to create new land. the first outline of a runway but no buildings. look at the same placeod. a forest of radar domes, aircraft hangarsnd maybe a building to park mitchell launchers. using the plane's high-powered camera, we watch as a group -

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rupert: this is the chinese navy politely telling the u.s. navy h go away. far out in the soina sea, we are approaching one of china's huge new bases. it is very clear they do not want us here. for the crew aboard this u.s. navy surveillance plane, this is now a daily encounter. >> it is a routine occurrence for us on these fligs. it happens throughout the flight where they come over ande come back with a standard response and it has no effect on any operations or anything we do. rupert: as we close the 12 nautical miles, t we can s huge extent of china's development out here. what we are seeing on the screen is live pictures of a place called mischief reef, and last time i was here it was a large now you can see there has been extensive construction. this is what it looked like saen. millions of tons o being pumped onto the reef to create new land. the firs outline of a runway, but no buildings. look at the same place today, fost of radar domes, aircraft hangers, and maybe a building to park missile launchers. using the high-powered camera, we watched as a

he retired from the navy in 1981.e got into politics and served two terms in the house of representatives. he was elected to the senate where he developed a reputation as a maverick. it became clear he was willing to buck republican leadership. his career hit a bump when he and four other senators were implicated in a savings and loan scandal and accused of corruption. an investigation found though he used poor judgment, he was not guilty of any wrongdoing. he says that experience inspired him to co-sponsor the campaign finance reform with russ feingold. he took on the tobacco triwith legislation to increase tax on tobacco. he announced his candidacy for president, appealing to independents and traveling aboard the straight talk express. texas governor george w. bush gained momentum and mccain lost 8 of 10 primaries on super tuesday. the senator threw his support behind president bush and the iraq war but later criticized the president for not sending enough troops to iraq. he was the first senator to demand deck terr

this is the chinese navy politely telling the us navy to go away.f china's huge new island bases. it's very clear they do not want us here. for the crew aboard this us navy p8 surveillance plane, this is now a daily encounter. it's a routine occurrence for us on these flights. it happens throughout the flight, when they come over and then we just go back with our standard response. it really has no effect on any operations or anything we do. as we close to 12 nautical miles, we can now see the huge extent of china's development out here. so, what we're seeing on the screen here is live pictures of a place called mischief reef. the last time i flew over here two—and—a—half years ago, it was really just a large pile of sand. now you can see there has been extensive construction. this is what it looked like then — millions of tonnes of sand being pumped onto the reef to create new land. the first outline of a runway, but no buildings. look at the same place today — a forest of radar domes, aircraft hangars and maybe a building to park missile launchers

clay at was secretary of the navy. we don't know. bill do you have any thoughts on that? >> interestingly, clayer was mcvay's wife's cousin and one of the rescues so he is on the sea during the rescue and mcvay's wife's cousin and becomes secretary of the navy, signed our commission. ... and we did not take on. and at that time with some of the greatest history of all time. >> but that is one of the things in the research. that their brother senior officers one -- officers -- officers who should've been held accountable. and that turned out to be correct about actual correspondence between admiral of who should have been held accountable and that ended the speculation not only that that should have happened but also that the navy willfully did not do so. so i know that we are out of time, thank you very much f you would like us to sign the book, is this where we are doing it? jim will be here off to the right if you want to get a card from him you can do it before or after getting book signed and thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> b

navy as a pilot. was shot down over vietnam where he was taken as a prisoner of war but later returned home as a war hero. he went on to becoming the united states representative before moving on to the u.s. senate where he was still serving when he passed. he was chairman of the armed services committee. senator mccain is survived by his wife cindy, his seven children. today would have been his 82nd birthday. today, the arizona republic put together dozens of photos of senator mccain through the years to honor his life, legacy and service. these are just a few of those many photos. ♪ >>> hi there, brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. the president is looking for a new lawyer, not for himself personally, in the russian probe, but for the white house officially in the office of white house counsel. trump just announced don mcgahn's departure, where else? on twitter, saying mcgahn who got the job weeks after the 2016 election, quote, will be leaving his position in the fall shortly after the confirmati

marine tried to justify using campaign funds for a $14,000 italian vacation by scheduling a visit to a navy base there. when navy officials couldn't accommodate his chosen date, hunter allegedly told his chief of staff, tell the navy to go f themselves. >> completely false. >> reporter: republic kands worry the case creates an opening for hunter's democratic challenger. >> washington chewed him up and spat him out and engulfed him in the corruption that has plagued washington too long. >> reporter: hunter was the second member of congress to endorse president trump during the campaign. the first was new york's chris collins who was indicted earlier this month on insider trading charges. jeff? >> nancy cordes, thank you. >>> ohio state suspended head football coach urban meyer last night for three games for mishandling domestic abuse complaints against an assistant. there has been reaction. here's jim axelrod. >> for that i am deeply sorry. >> reporter: ohio state football coach urban meyer tried to move past the controversy enveloping his program. >> i followed my heart, not my head. >> rep

the commitment to supply the british army, navy and air force with all the tools of war the needed. everything, absolutely free of charge. and now there would be no more masquerade of american neutrality. it would be clear to the whole world where the united states stood and that was alongside and wedded to britain. if the president's plan was approved and funded by congress, the united states would become the unquestioned leader of the democratic forces in the war that was taking place between two world, the criminal world of the nazi gangsters and the enlightenment world of john locke, edmund burke, george washington, james madison, thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton. fdr returned to washington on december 16th. in the next day, he held one of his most memorable press conferences. as usual, he began by casually saying that he didn't have any particular news. and then he said there was one small item he could mention. he told the reporters that it was becoming all too clear that the u.s. needed to do everything it could to help the british empire defend itself and that meant s

we were the first navy to start interdicting ships. we continuously right around the globe continue to have that presence of the top end, top quality type of technology, such as the type 45 destroyers, the queen elizabeth aircraft carrier to be joined by hms prince of wales that will be soon finished. we need those capabilities, but we do also recognize we need the mass, and we recognize that actually our fleet, our armed forces are there to act in order to protect our national interests, but also to protect our global values as well. >> one more question, and then we will do a quick wrap-up. we'll give the final say to the secretary. yes, the lady right there in the fourth row. >> hi. national defense magazine. to what extent does the u.k. plan to work with u.s. aerospace firms? >> well, very closely, but we have a great tradition of producing the best fighters in the world. and we have a great tradition of having that national sovereign capability. and we are never going to be wanting to surrender that. but in terms of actually worki

both of them were admirals in the navy. it is natural that he was going to be in the navy, and of course he was during his leadership in the senate armed services committee, he continually focused on impact. now, the occupier of the chair right now has served on the armed services committee with senator mccain, and she knows, as i know and anybody else who has served with him, that he was always for the underdog, always for the troops out in the field. i think that the senator from maine articulated that very well, the people that he had compassion for. he would always take care of the sailor, soldier, airmen, marines. he articulated this, by the way, in one of his books, "the faith of my fathers." he was talking about his father and his grandfather. this is a quote, and this says it better than any of the rest of us could say it. he said an officer's obligations to enlisted men with the most solemn of all. an officer must not confer his responsibilities to the men under his command. they are his alone. he does not put his

mccain iii, united states navy.ife carol, sons douglas and andrew and daughter sidney live in orange park, florida. >> i just remember he was really skinny. he was just kind of all bones in his face, and he was limping quite noticeably. one of his arms he couldn't lift any higher than about this. but i just remember the smile was the same and the humor was the same, there was still a twinkle in his eye. it was like right out of the movies. >> i don't think i really understood what was going on. i was really like who is this guy? what is he doing here? did not understand the whole concept of his return from vietnam. >> john was not angry. he was just happy to be home. he told me every single thing that he could remember, and i wanted him to. i wanted him to just talk and talk and talk and not keep that stuff locked up. >> when we came home, i wanted to know what happened during all those years. think of yourself going 5 1/2 years with only information provided to you by your communist captors. i wanted to know how th

in 1981 he left the navy which was a pretty rebellious thing to do for the son and grandson of navy admiralsbut he really decided that that was where he was going to cut his teeth. and that was the moment that really sort of changed his life and changed his arc away from at that life long sailer to a maverick senator/patriot/hero. >> you mentioned the former vice president, joe biden, tell me the last time you saw senator mccain and anything that was exchanged there. >> yeah, there was an event in philadelphia at the constitution center where joe biden presented mccain on a cold monday night the liberty medal that's given out up there every year. and mccain became emotional after biden introduced him. two days later i saw hmm just off the senate floor and i had this exchange where i said gosh you looked like you were getting emotional up there on stage. and mccain spent a minute or two just telling the story of how he met young beau biden, the future vice president's son, after biden had come to the senate in the worst possible way, his wife and daughter dying in a crash, and then trying to

heading towards a restricted area off of gaza's coast towards a maritime boundary but the israeli navy stops palestinians from crossing and last month israel's defense minister restricted gaza's fishing boundaries from six logical miles so just three nautical miles off the coast the israeli navy intercept ships attempting to breach the naval blockade to deliver aid and often fires on fishermen who cross into restricted areas like the troll stratford he's joining us from and that is in northern gaza to tell us if you were able to see that group of boats and where exactly are they heading to and what's the message that they're carrying or yeah as you say we're at a place called a walk as far as we can go in the northern gaza strip for the tiller of fishing boat behind me you may be able to see them there with a second of about an hour to get having left the. very much with this message of trying to show the problems that the fisherman facing under this twelve year land and sea blockade. we understand that they're not going any further. in may we'll be able to hear that. the israeli navy

the navy hymn. may john mccain rest in peace. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. cardin: mr. president, i rise today to express great sadness for the passing of senator john mccain. it marks a deep loss for this country, the state of arizona, and above all his family and friends. john mccain was an honorable public servant who sacrificed greatly to serve his country in uniform and as a lawmaker proudly represented the people of arizona. mr. president, i will always remember the bipartisan luncheon that we had. when senator mccain recounted his experiences as a prisoner of war in vietnam. there wasn't a dry eye in our caucus. in my visit to vietnam, i had a chance to visit the hanoi hilton and see firsthand the place where john mccain acted so bravely. he was truly an american hero. i'd like to express my deepest sympathies and condolences to cindy, their children, and their family at this very difficult time. in his final letter to americans, senator mccain reminded us that, and i quote, we are citizens of the world's greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil.

a quarter century in the navy. >> a u.s. navy pilot with a rather prominent name was shot down during a raid against north vietnam. >> while flying bombing missions over north vietnam, he was shot down, captured and tortured. surviving nearly six years as a prisoner of war. but he always denied being a hero. >> i steadfastly reject that label. heroes of my life are those whose names are engraved on the wall down at the vietnam war memorial on the mall. >> he was reluctant when people said, you're a war hero. john mccain, by being shot down by a soviet missile over hanoi, did not consider that he had performed a heroic act. >> he was an avid reader and prolific writer. author of seven books with mark salter. >> he would tell you, the life he chose to live is the most rewarding life a human being could live. >> sam donaldson asking mccain about his first book, "faith of our fathers." >> i believe the overall message is the redemptive powers of a commitment to a cause greater than one's self-interest, even if that commitment is

in the navy, it's called having the watch. beautiful poem, i've been hash tagging this on twitter, we have the much with a. for senator mccain, i know is always concerned with where would american foreign policy go, where would democracy go. sir, if you are listening up above, we have the watch. >> dana: indeed. karl, let me ask you about arizona, this is the arizona funeral was today. the body is now going to be flown to the nation's capitol in washington, d.c. tell me about arizona. that was his adopted state. he served it over a time of great change, great demographic change over the decades in arizona. remained the favorite son of that state. >> yes, which is interesting. when he moved tr he retired from the navy as a captain after 13 years, in 1981. he moved to arizona. and he ran for congress the followinger yao. following year. he was attacked as a carpet bagger. he succeeded john rhodes, easily re-elected in 1994. when barry goldwater decided to give up his senate seat in 1985, it was -- 1995, it was almost the assumpt

a navy pilot during vietnam. after being shot down he was held and tortured as a prisoner of war for over five years in that infamous hanoi hilton. so on that trip to asia, we went to that prison and i saw that cell where john had been held for those five years, the cell in which he had made the decision to allow other prisoners to be released before him because he didn't want to look like he got special treatment. that was a moment i will never forget. but then we went on a tour of the rest of the prison. and again with that signature wry humor and resilience, as the guide is showing us a new exhibit which included sort of happy pictures of prisoners of war sitting around a christmas tree or playing table tennis, and she proudly showed us those pictures, and he nodded his head with all the media behind him, and then he whispered to me, i don't remember any of this. we then went to an exhibit that was brand-new of his flight suit, and it was this pristine flight suit with his name enembryo tkered in it and next t

navy reconnaissance plane.he type of plane you traditionally think of as civilian travel, and it's been modified by the military and now it's got the kind of equipment that allows it to conduct missions involving surveillance and reconnaissance. it takes more than an hour to reach the south china sea, one of the world's busiest trade routes, china claims almost all of this body of water for itself, dismissing competing claims from countries like the philippines and vietnam. the powerful cameras on board this plane demonstrate how china staked its territorial claims, it's simply built entire islands that didn't exist a decade ago. >> the chinese took coral reefs like this and embarked on a massive land reclamation project. in 2015, cnn flew with the u.s. navy over fiery cross reef which is already a man-made island. and this is what it looks like today, airstrips, radar towers, four and five story concrete buildings. lieutenant lauren callan is the commander of this flight crew. >> it was very surprising to see

the navy was taking anyone they could. when we moved into the age of steam during president theodore roosevelt administration, we are certainly we cannot have to go three stories a lot about rat line during the storm to trim a il, that's the purse itself of the african-american ehlers -- sailors except stewards and cooks. it was the advent of steam. race and the story of our armed forces. it is tied to technology and efficiency. >> that is a very interesting point. given thestruggle, avenue and flow with the and flowy -- ebb with the technology in order to , fight, why did they stick with the military? why did the african-american scarcity deeply about the military? why was that the place to throw down the gauntlet? >> i think the opportunities. we wanted to serve our country, we are patriotic. education benefits. angelait earlier that my ou, they were doing it for the generations to come, to give us the opportunity. it opened a lot of doors for others. >> do you think the african-american community saw the military as a p

both my father and grandfather's work navy admirals. we are the first father and son who were four-star admirals in the navy. my grandfather was an early in -- naval aviator in world war ii. my father was a submarine officer and was the commander in chief in the pacific during the vietnam war during the time when i was in prison, which was a very difficult period for him, much more on him than it was on me. >> what year did he die? sen. mccain: he died in 1980. >> did he see elected to the senate? sen. mccain: no he did not. >> you got out at what rank? sen. mccain: as a captain. it have anything to do with you becoming political? sen. mccain: certainly when i saw what a person can achieve as a member of congress, it became very attractive to me. >> if you just joined us, we are continuing our story on vietnam visited. our guest is john mccain the third. he is talking about his expense as a prisoner of war in the vietnam war. we now have video -- we drove called, are they ed hanoi hilton? sen. mccain: we had separate names form. the pla

born into a family of navy admirals john mccain served in the vietnam war as a navy pilot when his plane was shot down over one noir in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven he became a prisoner of war enduring five and a half years of torture and captivity. years he entered politics after his release and went on to be the senator of arizona for more than thirty years the republican also made two failed bits for president in two thousand and two thousand and eight he was known as a man of integrity and willing to stick to his convictions rather than to the political line tributes are coming in from both sides of the political aisle. i'll be honest i'm a democrat but i love them. i don't know i just always he's caring. he listen to us and i just have always had a high respect for him and just deeply saddened i heard about it and immediately started crying just thinking about what a man of integrity and just cared so much for his country in vietnam he's remembered for his efforts to build peace post war but it's a sad day and i send my condolences to his family he was among those americans

a civilian attorney for the department of the navy. he is the author of root and branch. thurgood marshall and the struggle to end segregation. the book we're going to talk wars,tonight, how protests, and harry truman segregated the military. ,nd if i fail to mention it this is a little advertising. if you would like to purchase one you can do that on your way out tonight. james has graciously offered to sign those copies. anyway, to get started i would like to ask you that i would like to say welcome to you. i would like you to reflect for a moment on the significance of this day. this is july 20 6, 7 years ago today that harry truman did what a lot of historians have said was perhaps the most significant thing that he did while in office. in terms of the impact it has had over the intervening decades. on thee your thoughts significance of this a? -- of this day? >> him desegregating the military, i wouldn't have the opportunity that i have now. and for opportunities for travel and training and education. there is a significant event in our history. thatd it's worth noti