navy -- guest: the u.s. navy is operating with 26 other nations in an unprecedented show of international cooperation and coordination. together they are attempting to police an area that is roughly four times the size of texas. with thousands and thousands of ships. you cannot tell just by looking what a pirate ship is. host: thousands of commercial ships? guest: merchant ships, commercial ships, it goes back to the maritime problem. until we deliver a better way to trim the understand what is going on on the surface of the ocean, and the coalition navy is going to have a very hard time zeroing in on preventing and pre-empting pirate attacks unless they are caught in the act. keep in mind we are talking about a coalition of dozens of ships as opposed to fleets of thousands. simple pirate interdiction is a very difficult process. and the way that the pirates act, they pick ships but not necessarily guided by any intelligence, that they think that they can run up to and take control love before the ship react

the other 40% would come out of the air force and navy. we are talking about capping the level of presence in europe at 100,000. where we are headed is abo 150,000. we are talking about bringing it down by one-third. most of thateduction will occur in europe. there will be some reduction in asia, as well. we are talking about reducing three tactical air wing beyond what the pentagon plans. w're talking about taking a look at the navy, currently, 286 ships. we are talking about bringing that down to 230. they want to go up to over 300. we say you do not have to do that. how do you make those cuts? we have to guidelines. the first one waset's use our military power inappropriate ys. i know that for a screw, you need a screwdriver. for nl, you need a hammer. you can hammer a screw with a hammer but you make a mess of it. that is what we have been doing for the past 20 years. we are using our military to shape the world in diplomatic functions. we are focusing on having a lot of permanent presence thrghout the world. even as we develop a capac

, yeah. >> logan: right. >> logan: the navy had tasked bob ballard with a secret mission-- to map twouclear submarines lost in the atlantic during the cold war, the u.s.s. "scorpion" and "thresher." they didn't want the russians to know what they were doing. >> ballard: because if you told the russians, "hey, just follow me," they'd put a satellite over the top of me. and they'd see me go out and they would see me stop, and the moment they saw me stop... >> logan: it would be game over. >> ballard: i just told them where the submarines are. >> logan: the cover for his navy mission was that he was actually searching for the wreck no one else could find, the "titanic." three other expeditions had tried and failed, even though they had months to search. bob ballard had just 12 days. how did you get around that? >> ballard: i cheated. i basically didn't do the search pattern the way they had done it. see, the traditional approach to searching for something in darkness, because you can't see, is to use a sonar. and you lower the sonar down, and you tow it back and forth, and you mow the la

and unit citations make it possibly the most decorated navy squadron during the vietnam war. between 1967 and 1972, hal-3 flew over 130,000 hours of dwat and logistical support and inflicted thousands of casualties on enemy forces, performed 1,530 medical evacuations, carried more than 37,000 passengers and delivered more than one million pounds of cargo. the unit's expert maintenance and support personnel worked tirelessly to ensure that the squadron's aircraft were operational ready and crews were provided with the daily support needed to accomplish their dangerous and critically important missions. this resolution serves to honor the families of the hal-3 veterans for their support and to express our condolences to the families and comrades of those killed in action. helicopter attack light squadron three left behind a combat and humanitarian record, recognized as bringing great credit upon the united states navy and role in the vietnam war. passing this resolution is the least we can do to honor the service and enormous sacrifice of the americans that constituted such a v

[applause] >> ladies and gentleman, listen now as the united stes navy sea chanters perfor an american ladies and gentleman, deputy secretary of defense lynn. [applause] >> mr. vice-president, of normal and, families of tops, others distinguished guests -- families of taps, other distinguished guests, we gather today to honor one of the greatest symbols of the sacrifices made to our freedom and our way of life. we have carried our fallen heroes to these fies for 146 year it the rows of marble headstones -- the rose of marble headstones are testament of how -- the rows of moral headstones are a testament of howell one generation honors and remembers the next. and how these sacrifices stretch to the present day. less visible year, but equally a part of memorial day is the sacrifice me by the families of those we have lost. for every fallen hero laid to rest, there is a mother and father who will not see their child through life's milestones. foremost, there is a spouse who must live -- for most, there is a spouse who must live without their partner. and for many, there is a child without

the other 40% would come out of the air force and navy.are talking about capping the level of presence in europe at 100,000. where we are headed is about 150,000. we are talking about bringing it down by one-third. most of that reduction will occur in europe. there will be some reduction in asia, as well. we are talking about reducing three tactical air wings beyond what the pentagon currently plans. we're talking about taking a look at the navy, currently, 286 ships. we are talking about bringing that down to 230. they want to go up to over 300. we say you do not have to do that. how do you make those cuts? we have to guidelines. the first one was let's use our military power inappropriate ways. i know that for a screw, you need a screwdriver. for nl, you need a hammer. you can hammer a screw with a hammer but you make a mess of it. that is what we have been doing for the past 20 years. we are using our military to shape the world in diplomatic functions. we are focusing on having a lot of permanent presence throughout the world. even as

we will have to begin planning the money that we have and the overseas contingency fund for the navy and marine corps will begin to run out in july. we will then turn to owen them money and the base budget for them, causing us to disrupt other programs. the army comes along a little behind that, and we have reach a point, so we began to have to do disruptive planning and disruptive action beginning in july. we could reach a point in august , in early to mid-august, where we actually could be in a position where the money that we have available to us in the base budget runs out and we could have a situation where we are furlough wing civilians and where we have acted duty military. >> mr. secretary, you mentioned a startling statistic. you talk to think about the joint strike fighter in a plant where it takes 7% of the plant in the government was being charged 80% of the all-- overhead. i am sorry, 6% of the floor space and yet you are being charged 70% of the overhead. how does that happen in by the way i think all members of the senate decide you are going to make people accountable

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the iraqi navy is also growing in size and capabilities. they possess more than vessels, used to protect offshore critical oil infrastructure, territorial waters and the commercial ports. the navy conducts 50 patrols a month in this mission, a 300 percent increase in patrols from this time last year. they have been fully responsible for securing one of the two critical oil platforms for over six months. additionally, the first of 15 new u.s.-built patrol boats arrive later this summe and the first crews for those patrol boats, 50 iraqi sailors, are currently training in louisiana today. the iraqi counterterrorism forces are the best in the region. they are very experienced, conductg warrant-based operations every night across iraq. similarly, the ministry of interior has fielded a force of more than 410,000 police. over the next month, they will begin the transition to police primacy, where the ministry of interior and police forces take the lead for internal security. at the federal and local levels, police are increasingly capable, making

then we found these documents where in this internal air force or navy form, the navy people have tojustify why they are helping these members of congress. for each trip, it would say the objective of the trip. on this form, it said that the objective is to establish a relationship with senator dodd and get him to vote for our lobbying priority. >> brody mullins of "the wall street journal." thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> for a dvd copy of this program, call 1-877-662-7726. for a free transcript or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . .

then we found these documents where in this internal air force or navy form, the navy people have to justify why they are helping these members of congress. for each trip, it would say the objective of the trip. on this form, it said that the objective is to establish a relationship with senator dodd and get him to vote for a lobbying priority. >> brody mullins of "the wall street journal." they give for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> for a dvd copy of this program, called 1-877-662-7726. for free transcript or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. >> tonight, "prime minister's questions" with conservative party leader david cameron. also, arkansas democratic senator candidatesbill ahlter. monday, the campaign for america's future's annual conference with a gathering of self-described progressive. they will look at the political climate and midterm elections. speakers include auriana huffington and nt stern, former president of the service employees international union. it is like, starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern, here on c-span. >> c-span, our p

then we found these documents where in this internal air force or navy form, the navy people have to justify why they are helping these members of congress. for each trip, it would say the objective of the trip. on this form, it said that the objective is to establish a relationship with senator dodd and get him to vote for our lobbying priority. >> brody mullins of "the wall street journal." thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. this was great. h>> for a dvd copy of this program, call 1-877-662-7726. for a free transcript or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. in a "" -- q&a programs are also available as podcasts. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> monday, a battery with self- described progressives. we have a look of a political climate and the political happenings. that is live, starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern, here on c-span. >> monday -- efforts to expand broadband in oregon and how that would affect other states with the public utility commissioner of or

host: the president announced the secretary of the navy will look at a plan to restore the gulf. you served on the louisiana recovery board. what was that role? how was it different from what the president has set up? guest: this was set up to administer the federal money that was going for hurricane katrina. there is a sense that a federal money is often wasteful and abused. and they tried to put together a panel that had the authority to watch how the money was meant. that went to louisiana for hurricane katrina of being involved in corruption or fraud or anything else. all that was accounted for. that is sometimes unusual in a government program. we made it pretty clear that you had to prove title, approve the damage, whatever. we may neverde sure no money was wasted. you never read an article about fraud or corruption with the federal money that went down after the floods in new orleans. that is totally different on what the government is being asked to do by the president to help the coast lines. host: let me go back to the louisiana recovery board because the president also

diaz-balart: i rise today to honor the life of navy sale william orr tai gga. he gave his life on june 18 after a bomb exploded while he was in a patrol vehicle conducting come bat operations against forces in helmut province in afghanistan. he was 23 years old, a corpsman on the third battalion, first marine regiment, first marine division, first marine expeditionary force. his battalion was nicknamed the thundering third. his family said he cherished being an american citizen, he enjoyed being -- winning first place at a science fair in school. he made the honor roll and excel nevered sport he played. after graduating from south dade high school in 2005 he went on to study at florida career college where he obtained a degree in website design. then he joined the military because of the core values that the military life has to offer he wanted to give back to a nation that had given him and his family so much opportunity. as a corpsman, he was a navy medic who treated those who were injured in combat. his sister described him as an awesome brother and an aweso

the iraqi navy is also growing in size and capabilities.they possess more than 50 vessels, used to protect offshore critical oil infrastructure, territorial waters and the commercial ports. the navy conducts 50 patrols a month in this mission, a 300 percent increase in patrols from this time last year. they have been fully responsible for securing one of the two critical oil platforms for over six months. additionally, the first of 15 new u.s.-built patrol boats arrive later this summer, and the first crews for those patrol boats, 50 iraqi sailors, are currently training in louisiana today. the iraqi counterterrorism forces are the best in the region. they are very experienced, conducting warrant-based operations every night across iraq. similarly, the ministry of interior has fielded a force of more than 410,000 police. over the next month, they will begin the transition to police primacy, where the ministry of interior and police forces take the lead for internal security. at the federal and local levels, police are increasingly capable,

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earlier, i asked the secretary of the navy, also a former governor of mississippi and a3 develop a long-term gulf coast restoration plan as soon as possible. the plan will be designed by states, local communities, tribes, fishermen, businesses, conservationists, and other residents. bp will pay for the impact this spill has had on the region. the third part is the steps we are taking to ensure a disaster like thhs does not happen again. a few months ago, i approved a proposal to consider new, limited offshore drilling under the assurance it would be safe, that the proper technology would be in place and necessary precautions would be taken. that obviously was not the case in the deepwater horizon rig. and i want to know why. the american people deserve to know why. the families i met with last week, who lost their loved ones in the explosion -- these families deserve to know why. and so i have established a national commission to understand the causes of this disaster and offer recommendations. i've issued a six month moratorium on deep water drilling. i know this creates difficulty for the

the air force in 2013 and the navy and 2014. full operational capability for the air force and the navy will be in 2016, but those services will begin to receive aircraft earlier. >> thank you very much. i would have to-- like to ask the admiral about health care projections you have made and i'm pleased to hear those, but my time will be up soon. as you know, the ancient world war ii and conflict there cannot be compared. for example in my time, in my combat team, 4% were married and had dependence. 96% were single. today i note that the army is nearly 70% have dependence, and that produces a big problem. secondly, survivorship is sky high now because of the improvement in high technology and transport. do you think we are coping with these changes? >> sir, as i said to my opening statement i think we have got the best health care system in the country. where i have tried to focus this is on, in addition to care and we still have some challenges, is really the cost and the cost is grown from 19 billion i think in 2012 over $50

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skimmers within the navy inventory. are starting to manufacture skimmers. what i told folks here is don't anticipate that a man can be met on -- that demand can be met on skimmers. we are waiting for a larger strategic assessment on the actual gap we have died. we have never had to deal with oil dispersed this wide across the area. some cases you need all we have the skills of opportunity systems were you take the equipment -- have a vessel's opportunity systems where you take the equipment -- you talk about skimmers that are actually vessels, and we are working through that right now. [unintelligible] >> why not bring that stuff down there -- >> it takes six to eight weeks to actually build the skimmer. it is like the boom situation. we are getting it out as quickly as we can get it. >> abc news. we were getting the cumulative figure of coastline affected, and that you are get -- and now you are going with miles affected. how are you dealing with the impact on the coastline? >> there are a lot of ways to deal with impa

he served in the navy staff and also the staff of the secretary of defense.ce degree in monterey, calif., and also graduated from the advanced management program at the harvard business school. he served as vice chief of naval operations 3 he served as commander of nato joint forces and also was commander of u.s. naval forces-your during which he was a lot -- he was leading the peacekeeping operations in the baltics and its training mission in iraq. he also served as the chief of naval operations in the top uniformed leader. he is also, he and bob gates, the superb secretary of defense, are weren't -- running a war against terror globally 3 46,000 of our young men and women have been killed in action or wounded fighting in this conflict. we are very fortunate to have mike mullen serving the men and women of the department of defense. he is joined by his wife who has also devoted much of her time to advancing a host of samlet support initiatives. when you see admiral mullen in tv or in person, you're looking at our friend of the vietnam combat veteran. join me

we will have to begin planning the money that we have and the overseas contingency fund for the navy and marine corps will begin to run out in july. we will then turn to owen them money and the base budget for them, causing us to disrupt other programs. the army comes along a lile behind that, and we have reach a point, so we began to have to do disruptive planning and disruptive action beginning in july. we could reach a point in august , in early to mid-august, where we actually could be in a position where the money that we have available to us in the base budget runs out and we could have a situation where we are furlough wing civilians and where we have acted duty military. >> mr. secretary, you mentioned a startling statisc. you talk to think about the joint strike fighter in a plant where it takes 7% of the plant in the government was being charged 80% of the all-- overhead. i am sorry, 6% of the flr space and yet you are being charged 70% of the overhead. how does that happen in by the way i think all members of the senate decide you are going to make people accountable for b

we did it in the navy very effectively. it does not happen overnight. but you can see the resources come back and put them where you need them. you were not able to do that before. i am confident that we can get at this through a couple of cycles. it is a message to all of us. it is not just for the uniform or the civilians, were contractors, direct support contractors. it is an important message to understand. the best way to get there is to gather as opposed to everybody fighting each other. where money is concerned, too often, the first thing that comes out is all of my defenses. you can take someone else's money, but not mine. we all have to contribute to make sure we are whole and well positioned for the future. that is what it is about. i know it is hard. i understand that. having watched secretary gates over the last couple of budget cycles, i would not under estimated ability to get this done. >> i would like to ask a question about yesterday's decisions. given that we have seen a couple of removals' from a couple of commanding officers, what ca

navy during the initial invasion of iraq. and my other son is air force. i would say it is time to get out of afghanistan. i don't even know why we are there. we initially went in for, i don't know, to save them from something or another. but now it has descended into chaos. the other thing is, afghanistan has been a country long before america was even conceived of their they have been invaded by mongols, the chinese, by india. it is the same scenario as viet nam. vietnam had been and -- at war with china, cambodia. and we have no place there and we have no way of knowing how to fight them. it is not a stand up war. it is not an area where you could send an army in, as i heard mentioned before. host: let me read this tweet to you and get your response -- caller: well, that is another fear tactic because if we stay we can't prevent it. terrorism of those things that you cannot protect against. the only way to protect against terrorism is by eliminating the attraction for terrorists. as long as we are bombing and killing people we are recruiting tools for t

caller: i spent four yeers in the navy. i spent a lot of time in the air all over the world. am not a pilot. guest: their people to agree that there should be certain requirements. maybe they should have [inaudible] i have heard people say that the wait may be too much. i do not think it was so much cost but wait. -- cost but weight. some of the anti-collision equipment can be too heavy. that is a collision avoidance system. if there are two airliners 20,000 feet and they come with them, as ticket is with the -- i think it is within 5 miles, warnings go off right away if they are on a collision course. they are flying at very high speeds. they can close the distance of a couple miles just like that. host: phoenix, ariz., on our line for republicans. caller: i have a question. i am a city bus driver. they use our videotapes on our buses all the time to litigate accidents. sometimes they had used the video tapes on our buses on the local news depending on what they are reporting. my question to you is when the drum is out there looking for the forest fire, is it possible they w

if you can be patient with me, a friend of mine who was a navy scientist in deep submergence who wasixon administration to help resolve the oil spill in santa barbara in 1969, they basically utilized seenage tent models for emerge incident -- you know, just to rapidly control the spillage. one thing he mentioned was that the navy does have the secretary of salvage, which was utilized not only during problems like finding nuclear weapons underwater, but because of deep submergence technollgy, of deep submergence technollgy, they should have had a larger hand in understanding exactly how to resolve something of this depth, especially with triple point problems. he said that they basically need to look very carefully at having a much stronger tool chest, and the navy's deep submergence and secretary of salvage already have tools on the shelf for these kind of problems because they deal with oil spills all the time. guest: again, our 3:00 conference call, which i've been fairly safe about being on, where no m.m.s. and coast guard are there, the specific question was asked regarding d.o.d

and i have pushed at general mcchrystal's request the establishment of a task force, led by two-star navy admiral who, in fact, she was the joint contracting command, iraq commander when i was the commander in iraq, now she has one more star. she is going to head a task force that will go in and augment the contracting command that helps in iraq. that oversees this effort in iraq -- or in afghanistan. and thensubcontractors, but the subcontractors to the subcontractors. literally, where is the money going? and is it all above board? . dealing, again, with corruption issues, dealing with warlordism and a variety of other challenges that cause issues for afghanistan. >> because as you know, it's $6 billion and counting with many more billions forthcoming. and then on the final note, mr. chairman, what type of cooperation are we getting from pakistan with regarding, you know, regarding the -- some of the terrorist activities that the taliban and the like that we're experiencing on the cross-border situations? >> pakistan has over the course of the last year, senator, conducted impressive cou

i think about the commander of the navy nuclear sub, and how they've had no one killed, no nuclear incident since the 1950s, most people think it's because the commander can ruin his career, if there's a single accident in in a reactor. everybody knows who's on the flag pole. both in terms of the responsible party, such as the person doing the drilling and the regulator, who's on the flag pole. second i think we should explore whether a single regulatory agency, like the nuclear regulatory commission does for nuclear power, mightbe better than the multimissity of the agencies that we have. i wonder whether an insurance program that voles all of the oil companies that might be drilling and sharing best practices and cleaning up, so you would have chevron and exxon not just setting on the sidelines watching bp, but in the middle of trying to do whatever they could. those are some of the questions i have. and as we hear more about the proposal to change the structure of mms, i share the chairman's question. we don't want to just move organizational boxes around, we want to make sure that whate

i would have liked to have heard, bringing in norwegian, dutch ships, people of the navy, people alle world bring in scoopers and this concrete step. i don't like his appointing commissions and proposing energy legislation along with it. let's stop the spill and scoop it up right now. then we can debate energy legislation in the future. >> larry: stephanie, are you surprised at the poll results? >> i am, larry. but i also think it takes some time in the sense that, i have to say, the president often times, the rest of us are playing checkers and heap is playing chess. i think that this deal that was just announced is pretty huge. i mean it's pretty huge to get a private company to agree to this. it was not seized, as ben said. it was not forced. they agreed to it. and, you know, i think that's -- money talks. so, i don't think it is the best speech of his life. but i think that this was really action. i think that speaks louder than words. >> larry: dana, how do you explain on this issue he has a lope rating but on, general public opinion he is slightly over 50% positive? >> oh, bare

. >> the coast is full of navy boom, and we don't have enough containment. >> i am not defending themam just telling you it is a big coast. >> you got marshland in louisiana that you cannot clean up. but when you talk about the beach, it is a different story. we can claim the beach. they can skim biloxi beach. but the areas where we have, if you can go in and did that. >> do we know how many miles it would take to block all the marshlands in louisiana? what is it? >> 21 miles. >> if we stop it right at the coastline. >> and we should focus on that and get that done. >> some of the fisherman, they use their resources recently to put boom out. and that is part of what we don't see that and our area. when they talk about clinton, they're talking about training and not doing it. they're talking about laying people off that had been putting them out, to bring in people from outside with vessels. >> visit that would hire 25-kan. no vote owners. -- they said that they would hire 25. no boat owners. >> we obviously need more resources. we had good news that the federal government has approved

said that they basically to look very carefully a having a much stronger tool chest, and the navy's deepd secretary of salvage already have tools on the shel for these kind h oblems because they deal wit all the te. guest: again, our 3:00 conference call, which i've been fairly safe about bng on, where no m.m.s. and coast , the specic re question w aed regarding d.o., or department o apabilities. those were considered. the traditional submari is not rated to go 800 feet below a level, and so -- and this ,000 feet. so they do need remotely operated vehicles. felt that those within industry were d to work designe wells. those in.o.d., if i guess they have them, for whatever . . host: next phone cal mount vernon, new york, republican line. you're on the air. caller: thank you for taking my call. i'd like t engage represenve cassidy one-on-one if you'll entertain me. are you aware of any oil spills in the past that have occurred? guest: oh, ok. caller: there was one in ecuador. guest: remind me of that one. caller: that was a deliberate act. and to this day, tre's an ongoinlawsuit between te

i have been informed by the head of their navy when i was in europe in the line ab job and -- in my navy job and in my current job. they are committed to getting this done. >> if i could just add something to what admiral mullen said. this is a key point. this treaty may seem modest and the sculpture -- modest in scop e, but they are moving away from a land-based army and focus scarcer resources on their strategic capacity. i think this treaty actually is more significant because as the russian military makes these changes, our relationship with them and this agreement on strategic nuclear offensive weapons gives us more insight into what their future plans are. so it is a look forward as opposed to a static look or a look backward. >> i think this treaty represents another activity where we have to talk about the negative. what happens if we don't get about what happens if we don't do it? i am convinced that this treaty is preferable to the alternative. i appreciate all of you being here today. thank you for all your good work. maybe more so than the others on the panel, you are wearing

i have seen it reaffirmed by the head of the navy when i was the head of our navy as well as when i was in europe in my navy job and from the current -- action, the last two heads of the general staff in my current job. they are very committed to getting this done. >> i think this is another very key point that secretary gates referred to. this treaty may seem modest in scope, but given the changes in russian military posture where they are moving away from reliance on a large land-based army and conventional weapons to focus what must be more scarce resources on their capacity, i think this treaty is actually more significant. as the russian military makes the changes, our relationship with them in this agreement on strategic nuclear offenses weapons gives us more insight into what their future plans are. we can look forward as opposed to static look for a look backwards. >> i think this treaty represents another opportunity where we have to talk about proving a negative. what are we doing by preventing it? i am firmly convinced that this treaty is so much preferable to the alternative

administration's policy of torture, which was a very important projecc to me because my father had been a navy interrogator in world war ii. and i did a film called "gonzo: the life and work of dr. huuter s. thompson" about the famous gonzo journalist. and recently "casino jack and tte united states of money." >> how would you define your politics? >> hard to say. a skeptic. i wouldn't -- i tend to look at things skeptically. i try to seek out stories that have a kind of moral component rather than here's to the democrats or here's to the republicans. i think it's fair to say that i often give republicans a hard time, but at the same time, in the film "taxi to the dark side," some of the heroes of that film are republicans. so i tend to look at things from the point of view of a moralist. >> your father frank gibney, is he still alive, and what does he doo or what did he do for a living? >> my father frank gibney is no longer with us. he died a few years ago. he was a writee, an editor. he was vice chairman of the board of editors at britain ca. -- encyclopedia britannica. he worked at "time"

meanwhile, the israeli navy shot and killed four palestinian divers off the coast of gaza today.they were believed to be planning a terror attack on israel. the militant group al-aqsa martyrs' brigades said the men were members of its marine unit training for a mission. chrysler recalled some 600,000 minivans and jeep wranglers in the u.s. and 100,000 abroad. the vehicles have brake and wiring problems that could lead to partial brake loss and fire, the national highway traffic safety administration said. the recalled wranglers were built from may 2006 through august 2009. the minivans were assembled between february and september 2007. chrysler said neither problem has caused any crashes or injuries. one of the most prominent members of the white house press corps, journalist helen thomas, retired today in the wake of widely publicized comments she made about israel. in an impromptu video interview last month, she said israelis should "get the hell out of palestine" and that jews could "go home" to germany, poland, and the united states. her remarks were denounced by white house

i am hearing there are navy scoop up this oil. please. please send us some help. alive and my father would be alive. i can remember them having an american flag. i would asked my grandmother why the american flg was behind the sooa on the wall? she said your grandfather this year was the best fisherman. tomorrow i will stop at my grandfather's tomb and my father's tomb and tell them that i want to continue holding the american flag, thatti stood up for my people, and i am going to continue to feed my peeple. on behalf of the elected officials and the residents of grand isle, we are strong. and we remind you there are 45 days before a major hurricane gets close. i just need your help. it is like a war, and i am on the front line. i want to thank y'all so much. thank you. >> thank you. >> good job. >> thank you for being here today, and thank you for that very touching toast. testimony. >> thank you. we appreciate the opportunity here today. i wrote a nice speech, and i threw it in the garbage this morning. i represent 25,000 people. i am going to talk quick because

navy go i there and fix it. i think thathe environment down in that area, people are starting to get sick. in a security needs to be dealt with. -- internet security needs to be dealt with. we have a big problem with identity theft in this country. i guess that is it. >> thank you. different points. the difficulty with the oil is on two fronts right now. one, you have to cap it. second, we have known for about 40 days that this oil is coming to the coast. we have to be able torotect that. hurricanes are coming. this is where the government has faltered. i have a couple of friends who represent new orleans. they have been working for quite some time to get waivers to put barriers in the ocean. that would ge them protection. my friend was telling me a story where he has continued to tal to local and federal government. he called the president. it has not -- it has been a week and the president has not called him back. we cannot wait for action. a couple of different questions that you go through. i think when we l

government knew about the flotilla before the israeli navy stated. does the obama administration it was on a humanitarian mission, are trying to provoke israel into a reaction? >> i can try to -- there is a blockade to ensure that weapons are not brought in for hamas. yet heard the president and the secretary of state discuss what we believe is an unsustainable humanitarian presence in gaza. >> i assume the president knows that one of the deaths was an american. what was his reaction? >> i am told that he expressed his deep condolences, and we certainly expressed our deep condolences to his family. obviously, this is extremely horrible news for them. our ambassador has been in touch with his father, and i would reiterate that we have, with the un security council, condemned to the acts that have led to these deaths. >> we talked about this before and i understand it was written -- by condemning the act that condemn the people on the flotilla. does the fact that one of the victims was an american born in new york change at all the u.s. view of what ha

i am hearing there are maybe navy ships on the way to come and scoop up this oil. please, please send us some help. i can remember my father and grandfather having an american flag, and i asked my grandmother why they had the american flag on the wall. she said your grandfather is the best fisherman. tomorrow i will stop at their tomb and tell them i want to phat i serve for my people. on behalf of the residents of grand isle, we are strong. i am reminding you iss45 days before major hurricane. it is close. we just need your help. it is like a war and we are on the front line. i want to thank you so much. >> thank you for being here today and thank you for that very touching testimony. >> we appreciate the opportunity here today. i wrote a nice speech, and i threw it in the garbage this morning. i represent 25,000 people. i will talk witt because i have a lot to say. more coastline than any other paris. today over 3,000 acres of my parish is destroyed, not 30 miles like the coast guard says. i started out to go into a lot of detail on some things, and last night on

what was your primary role as an officer in e navy? guest: i enjoyed it very much, loving the sailors and the ships, loved the sea. but i enjoy foreign affairs even more. i think that most officers are frustrated by that aspect. but i enjoyed it. i stayed in the reserves for as long as i could but 32 careers -- 32 years as a long career. host: we have callers waiting to discuss maritime policy, piracy specifically in some cases. california, good morning. caller: yes, i think i blame you guys for allowing this piracy to go on for so long. do you remember the drug war? ransom, ransom, ransom. you need to go there and aggressively and get them out of the way. i just do not get it. it bothers me, these opinions that are being discussed. host: your suggestion is that the u.s. navy should intervene and attack the folks who are conducting this piracy? caller: get together and stop it yourselves. guest: we share youroncern with pirate activities. there is a powerful international coalition in the area trying tontervene and stop pirate attacks.

you can join the army, the navy, the air force, the coast guard, the national guard, the reserves. they serve and they volunteer because they love our country. and this is why we're so proud of the young men and women who sacrifice so that you and i can enjoy the freedoms that we have in this country and the day when we fail to recognize the sacrifices of these young men and women who serve, this is with the fibers of this country start to begin to deteriorate. i am so proud to say that i served in the army and i wish everybody who is either serving now or have served in the past a happy birthday. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from hawaii is recognized. mr. djou: madam speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. djou: madam speaker, i rise in support of house conttnued resolution 286 which was introduced by my friends from texas, mr. edwards and mr. carter. this recognizes the 235th birthday of the united states army and hon

navy go in there and fix it. i think that the environment down in that area, people are starting to get sick. in a security needs to be dealt with. -- internet security needs to be dealt with. we have a big problem with identity theft in this country. i guess that is it. >> thank you. different points. the difficulty with the oil is on two fronts right now. one, you have to cap it. second, we have known for about 40 days that this oil is coming to the coast. we have to be able to protect that. hurricanes are coming. this is where the government has faltered. i have a couple of friends who represent new orleans. they have been working for quite some time to get waivers to put barriers in the ocean. that would give them protection. my friend was telling me a story where he has continued to talk to local and federal government. he called the president. it has not -- it has been a week and the president has not called him back. we cannot wait for action. a couple of different questions that you go through. i think wh

the navy doesn't move cargo any more, that's been outsourced. host: so this domestic fleet is privately owned guest: yes, ma'am . host: there have been some who have said the coast guard for future incidents like we're seeing in the gulf coast needs to have its own government-run fleet that can respond more quickly than we have seen this our domestic fleet respond in this situation. guest: it's interesting. we went through that debate in the 70s, whether it should be coast guard or commercial. the decision was made we need coast guard expertise to leverage commercial capital. think of the irony here. u.s. companies invested in this capability. now, the one time we have the ability to use that people want to bring foreigners in to take those jobs. why would any american company invest in oil spill response capabilities in the future if they realize that a swiss company or other is going to come in and take away that business? host: if you look at the jones act, the language beyond what we have, it says that u.s. will continue to encourage a domes