i think you ought to have a 300 ship navy because we are going to be bringing the troops home. >> first of all the president is right when he says you don't count ships you count the effectiveness of the navy and of the entire military force. what romney is doing is he is appealing to the ship building facilities in virginia. it is campaign rhetoric, not a realistic defense. >> eleanor, once again eleanor is right. >> thank you, tim. >> it is military industrial king pinnism. george allen is doing it in virginia and now romney is doing it. >> we need more ships to make more jobs. >> you sound like obama when you are saying we need more ships to make more jobs. >> we do need ships to defend american interests abroad. >> do we have enough as obama says we have? >> i think we ought to modernize the navy and stay at 300 ships but bring the troops out of places like the middle east, central asia, bring them home. >> the current batch of ships we have are so big and so powerful. >> we used to have 15 carriers, we have now got 11. >> so multi-usable we don't need all that. >> we take ten ships

ships. we have american navy ships, united states navy ships, we have canadian ships coming in, coast guardall have to be put somewhere. and working out those complexities are the folks at the san francisco port. i'd like to call up monique moya. (applause) >> well, thank you. good morning, everyone, and thank you for coming. there isn't much that i

i want to make sure we have the the ship required by our navy. >> you mentioned the navy, for example and we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because thee nature of our military has changed. we have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. we have the ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines so the question is not a game of battleship where we're counting ships. >> warner: as it happens bayonets are still standard equipment for u.s. marines. but analyst harrison and others say the navy is not smaller than 90 years ago or even four years ago. >> right now our ship count is 285. in 2007 it was just 278 ships. sactually we were smaller in 207 than we are now. we've been increasing the size of the navy under president obama. but moreover i think this was the president's point in the debate about horses and bayonets is that it's really not a valid'

ships. we have american navy ships, united states navy ships, we have canadian ships coming in, coast guard ships. they all have to be put somewhere. and working out those complexities are the folks at the san francisco port. i'd like to call up monique moya. (applause) >> well, thank you. good morning, everyone, and thank you for coming. there isn't much that i can say on top of the eloquent words of both the mayor and the general. so, i think what i will do is invite you all, please, to come to the waterfront. our job is to not only welcome the vessels and give them safe berthing, but also to welcome the men and women in uniform who come ashore. and it is a great place to meet these young men and women. last year i had the honor of talking to many of them and i got to realize that several of them were coming home to meet their families. they may never have been to san francisco. they may never have sailed under the golden gate bridge. they were coming into san francisco bay to reunite with their country men and families, in some cases to meet their newborn children. i found an amazing fea

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take the ships, as a navy guy, when i was in the navy, we had 680 something ships. there's not anybody that questions today that our navy isn't the most powerful on the seas, that we don't have the most powerful military in the world. we spent more, as the president said tonight, than the next ten nations in the world. china, russia, great britain, france, all put together we spend more. we will have the best military in the world but it isn't by counting the numbers of ships. it's by what is their capability? what do we have the ability to answer as a threat? lawrence, tonight i have to tell you, i was stunned. mitt romney scares -- he really scared me tonight. i mean, this is a guy if people think he's ready to be president, this country's going to go back to the bush policies that took us through iraq. he's going to outsource to the people who organized that effort to go into iraq and we're in trouble. i listened to george pataki. half the things he said were just off the wall. i mean, you look at libya. the president did the most intelligent thing possible. and t

navy. but this became really contentious throughout the course of history. a corporate claim and they served aboard ship that they should follow the rules of the navy, the regulation of the department of the navy. when they served assurer to the army bishop of the regulation of the army and eventually in 1832? became a separate service inside the department. >> out of their mission change? >> commission didn't change so much then. there've been ship cards offer to the 20th century, but they were something of a jack of all trades. they would do other jobs as well, most often serving as landing parties in the navy would send sailors on punitive expeditions, the marines would always participate in that. in the start of the 20th century company took on a variety of other missions, colonial infantry in haiti, philippines, nicaragua and before world war ii, they started creating amphibious landing forces. they became experts in amphibious operations. >> what was the marine corps' reputation throughout much of this? history???????? >> not very good quite honestly? everybody thinks about the marine corp

separate service inside the department of the navy, but this became can tensions throughout the history. the core would claim when they served aboard ships that they should follow the rules of the navy, regulations of the department the navy. and eventually in 1832 to become properly a separate service inside the department. >> host: how did their mission change? >> guest: domitian didn't change so much that. they remained all the way to the 20th century, but they were something of a jack of all trades. they would do other jobs as well, most often serving as landing parties when the navy would send sailors and marines ashore in punitive expeditions. the marines for anticipating that. and the start of the 20th century they took on a variety of other nations, calling out infantry in haiti, philippines and nicaragua and just before world war ii, they started creating amphibious landing forces. they became experts in landing against suspended islands. ? host: what was the marine?? corps' reputation throughout ?ch of its history??? ? guest: not very good quite?? honestly.????????? everyone thinks about the marin? corps today

take the ships, as a navy guy, when i was in the navy, we had 680 something ships. there's not anybody that questions today that our navy isn't the most powerful on the seas, that we don't have the most powerful military in the world. we spent more, as the president said tonight, than the next ten nations in the world. china, russia, great britain, france, all put together we spend more. we will have the best military in the world but it isn't by counting the numbers of ships. it's by what is their capability? what do we have the ability to answer as a threat? lawrence, tonight i have to tell you, i was stunned. mitt romney scares -- he really scared me tonight. i mean, this is a guy if people think he's ready to be president, this country's going to go back to the bush policies that took us through iraq. he's going to outsource to the people who organized that effort to go into iraq and we're in trouble. i listened to george pataki. half the things he said were just off the wall. i mean, you look at libya. the president did the most intelligent thing possible. and t

ships. sactually we were smaller in 207 than we are now. we've been increasing the size of the navy under president obama. but moreover i think this was the president's point in the debate about horses and bayonets is that it's really not a valid' comparison to compare the number of ships today to the number of ships more than 90 years ago. the reason for that is technology has changed dramatically since then. >> warner: the candidates also jousted over ameri's exit from the nearly nine-year war in iraq. it's been ten months since thet last u.s. convoy crossed the border into kuwait. a point that president obama often touts on the campaign trail. >> four years ago i told you we'd end the war in iraq and we did. >> warner: contrast lt c2er, mitt romy criticized the s. plot. >> t precipitous witrawal isc2 fortute. it more th uortunate. i think it's tragic. >> warner: last night the two men clashed over whether they had wanted to keep troops in iraq. and if so how many. the president charged romney is trying to have it both ways. >> you say that yore not interested in duplicating what

na their job was to be ship's guard and also snipers buthe they are a very small part of the navy. >> host: and the marine corps is completed the separate service? >> inside the navy but it was contentious. they've good claim they should follow the navy and ashore follow thearmy, d regulations of the army. they eventually 1832 they are a separate service inside the >> navy. >> host: how did the mission changed? of >> guest: dave remained ships guards to the 20thng as century but jack of alles trade most often as a landing party when the baby on would send silly it -- sailors and marines would participate.phibiousanding then colonial infantry inood. haiti, nicaragua, haiti, nicaragua, philippine about before world war ii started training for amphibious missions. >> host: what is the marine corps is reputation? >> not very good. c people think of them as the elite that has been validated routinely. most critique -- prestigious but a at the start of world war ii parents found them to be the most desirable. the least popular and io nationwide study.these were similar also prior. the third

navy has more now than it did in each of the last four years of the george w. bush administration. 278 naval ships007 marked the lowest active level since 1916. that exchange over the navy and the president's bayonet line is just the latest in a series of debate one-liners that blew up twitter in realtime. with more than 10 million tweets, the first presidential debate became the most tweeted about event in the history of united states politics. the exchange over big bird triggered 135,000 tweets per minute. romney's binders full of women remark boosted the number of tweets in the second presidential debate to 7.2 million. last night, 6.5 million tweets bounced around the web at more than 105,000 per minute. horses and bayonets led the way. >>> and the race to the white house is so close it's set to be decided by voters in just a few key swing states. conan o'brien gave some advice to the voters right here in the state of florida. >> if, yet, another presidential election is decided by the voters in florida i just want to make a quick plea to florida citizens to take their responsibility seriously

you may recall the president last night and governor romney battled over the number of navy ships. >> our navy is smaller now than any time since 1917. the navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out the mission and we are down to 285. >> you mention the navy the we have fewer ships than in 1916. governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changeed. >>trace: in an interview today, congressman ryan did not find the comments amusing. >> look, i don't understand that comparison the we have to have a strong navy to keep peace and prosperity and sea lanes open. the president's defense cuts, if they go through, our navy is smaller than before world war i. >>trace: the president said he would not let automatic defense cuts or sequestration happen on his watch. karl program -- carl cameron is in floridaed if and the polls show that romney lost according to the snap polls. >>carl: they dispute if romney should try to beat the incumbent on foreign policy debate but what they did was show he is capable of being commander in chief and he had a command

navy. mitt romney wants to build 60 more ships over the next four years even though the defense department is actually only asking for about half that many. and mitt romney also claimed last night that our navy is the smallest that it's been since 1917. which politifact rated a pants on fire lie. in 1916, 1917, we had 11% of the world's naval power and now america is up to 50% of the world's naval power. the president of course, didn't let romney's slow pitch go by without swinging at it and in fact, he hit it right out of the park. >> obama: you mention the navy, for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. governor, we also have fewer horses and -- because the nature of the military has changed. we have aircraft carriers where planes land on them. the question is not a game of battleship where we're counting ships, it is what our capabilities are. >> jennifer: zing! that was very nicely done, mr. president. and joining me now from new york is general wesley clark. he's the former nato commander. he's a campaign adviser to president obama and general clark, it is so great to have

ship. it will bring navy above 300 ships. navy sha rank under george w. bush to 278 ships.e has come up under obama. so there's that, mitt. [ applause ] governor, the state isn't proud of you. you can't even compete in massachusetts. mittens talked about how proud he is in massachusetts. the feeling is not mutual. the president kind of having fun with the romnesia on the campaign trail. >> obama: if you talk about how much you love teaches during a debate but just a few weeks go, you said we shouldn't hire more because it wouldn't grow our economy, you might have romnesia. if you say you won't give a big tax cut to the wealthy but you're on a video promising your tax cut would include the top 1%, that sounds like a classic case of romnesia. >> stephanie: ray in texas. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi ray. >> caller: good morning. that was fast. i'm usually on hold for an hour and 18 minutes. i wanted to make three quick little points. first about third party -- the third party debates last night and i'm actually considering giving my vote to jill stein because my s

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