well, this carrier and the warships behind me are now making the transit through the strait of hormuz of hormuz, and just in the distance we can see a number of small vessels approaching us, and we are told they are from the uranium revolutionary guard. make sure you keep track of them, or anything coming from the stern. in total, they spot more than a dozen fast attack boats, some of which are then threatened the helicopters above. we have some boats that uncovered their machine—guns, and loaded their weapons. so it's a little nerve racking. small boats, at that speed, coming towards us with guns, and loaded. any miscalculation could have catastrophic results. last year, donald trump claimed if he became president, any uranium boat harassing the us navy would be shot out of the water —— iranian boat. that hasn't happened, but there are signs of growing frustration about iran's a heavier. they had all those weapons manned, and we also had video data that they were arming all of those weapons. it was malign activity, iranian activity, to come out and harass essentially an international

iran, similar capabilities in thaent this anti-axis area ef denial range, more focused on the straits of hormuz as opposed to china's capabilities and most recently, north korea, we see now a combination of both intercontinental ballistic missile capability as well as an effort to put a nuclear war head on that intercontinental ballistic missile so north korea not only threatens south korea, not only threatens the region but now presents a threat to the homeland as well. when i look at probably the most important thing when we look at the implications, the first one is that we need a balanced inventory of capabilities and capacities. as a nation that thinks and acts globally, we can't afford to focus on one area or the other. so again that, four plus one gives us the full range of challenges we may face to include the current challenge of extremism. the other point we can explore more in other questions is when lie i look at those challenges it tells me something about character war in the 21st century. one is that virtually any conflict we would be involved with would be in all domains, sea, s

of attention is the yemen. now slipsee the gulf into a possible future hormuz strait. there are serious implications. 60% of the human population is malnourished. we have opportunities to do it lot of good things with the president and other efforts. sales beingary , if you could have the support for the coalition efforts as well as centcom efforts, what would you want it to look like? other than just a military? gen. votel: thank you, congressman. one thing to address as you have civil conflict. difficult for us to be persistent in our efforts against al qaeda. it has caused us to break relationships we had with yemeni forces and given rise to the threat we have already talked about this morning in the red sea, an area where we have 60 to 70 ships go through every day. not just u.s. but international ships go through there. the thing we have to continue to efforts, our diplomatic to resolve that conflict as quickly as we can. table.ll help set the things we canaps assist with on the military aside to bring that forward without becoming enmeshed in a civil conflict. we

we would see the gulf of aden slip into a possible future hormuz strait, there is a serious implication with that. we have 60% of the yemen population malnourished, we have opportunities to do a lot of good things. the foreign military sales being crucial, for an engagement being crucial, if you could design it where you engage the other instruments national power to support coalition efforts, what would it look like? what would you want the other engagement of the other than just the military? >> one of the things that has to address that you highlighted is we have to resolve the civil conflict taking place that creates an environment that makes extraordinarily difficult for us to be persistent in our efforts against al qaeda, caused us to break relationships we had with you many forces and given rise to the threat we talked about this morning in the red sea, and area where we have 60 to 70 ships go through every day, not just us but international ships go through so that is important so the thing we have to press on is we have to press our diplomatic efforts and resolve that conflict

and then to joe's point, you know, iranian ships come within 600 feet of a ship in the strait of hormuzthings along the border of ukraine. >> 600 yards. >> that no stock trader has any kind of a handle on. that's the other part of it. really if you're trying to formulate a portfolio based on those risks, good luck. >> we talk about -- i want to move on and talk about the continued sell-off in snap. a lot of people paying attention to what that stock is doing in the early life as a publicly traded company. down 11%, doc. >> yeah. >> you're completely out. >> completely out. and, you know, echoing what everybody has said here collectively. on the desk about this company. there are now of course questionings about could they be added to an index. we don't have any votes. >> we nailed this stock on this show. we -- i think we nailed -- even the people in it said i'm counting the minutes before i get out. i think we got it right. >> and it was going to be a very short window to take that big pop and take advantage of it. do i think the company is over? no. but do i think it's tremendously ov

ship in the strait of hormuz forcing it's to change course, a lot going on at the pentagon where jenniferve this afternoon. what do we know about the north korea tests today? >> shep, the missiles were medium-range scuds. they got within 190 miles of japan's coast. i was told on inauguration day that president obama would say sooner or later the president would have to use military force to stop the advancement of an intercontinental ballistic missile to reach the u.s. today's test is the second since president trump took office. >> there's a shift in their testing. in the past maybe they were testing them to see if they're work. now they're testing the units to see how they would perform in an actual war. >> shepard: today's test coincided with the start of new annual military exercises carried out by the u.s. military and south korea. 3,600 troops just arrived on the korean peninsula to take part. >> shepard: tell us more and iran's test. >> they tested two short-range ballistic missiles this weekend. one hit a barge. we're told it's impossible to separate the north korean and iranian b

surveillance ship had to change course in the strait of hormuz after irani and fast boats approached. we have learned president trump spoke with japan's prime minister abe to discuss north korea's latest missile test. >> bret: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. israeli police reportedly entered the residence of prime minister benjamin netanyahu today to question him for a fourth time on a pair of corruption investigations. alleged ties with top executives in media, hollywood, and international business. the prime minister has denied wrongdoing and claims he's the target of a media witch hunt. it's been said many times that politics makes for strange bedfellows. the same is true for war. case in point, u.s. forces and iranian backed shiite militia working against isis. benjamin hall reports it brings up serious questions about what happens in the future there. >> the battle for mosul is progressing. as it does so, questions are being asked about who gains influence in the aftermath. shiite militias backed by iran have played a major role in the battle, with over 100,000

. >> i think the violations of the missile accord threatens maritime security in the straits of hormuzill be very strict in enforcing the nuclear agreement to the letter. >> the royal family has been acting measured reforms to make government more transparent to allow women to participate more freely in society to reduce the country's dependence on oil revenue through to that end the kingdom is preparing but may prove the largest initial public offering in history for iran to the saudi state oil firm. >> or objective is to try to complete sometime in 2018 and have serious discussions with the new york stock exchange about having the new york stock exchange be one of the exchanges for the aramco ipo and decisions will be made on the financial mayor. with respect to gamman were coalition has spent two years battling rebel forces that iran we asked the foreign minister what riyadh's endgame is and he told me victory with his for the trump administration which has approved the resumption of weapons sales to the kingdom and the minister said we expect we will be able to wrap this up soon. j

all the chest thumping in the straits of hormuz and so be o. these can't be free, i'm pretty sure that we hell our policy on all those transgretions hostage to the nuclear deal on the false premise that if we push back against this, the iranians would walk from the deal. my thought on that is if they walk they walk. but it's not an easy decision for them. and we shouldn't hold our policy hostage to that. >> senor: let's move around to some of these other easily addressable problems. you live in a world of easily addressable problems. north korea, so it has been reported that during the transition, the obama administration basically warned the trump, incoming trump administration to keep their eye on north korea. that this could become the sleeper problem that could consume this administration. is that how you see it? >> yeah, it is, exactly what you would have told. i had this formula, it is our move, their move, no move, all right, our move's syria. we got to go do something. no move, i think, russia and china. i think they're going to ground

ships in places like the straits of hormuz. t: we concentrate on domestic policy, repeal of obamacare, replacement of obamacare and tax cutses. we tend to put on the back burner threats from rogue foreign regimes, but they're on the president's mind. >> that's right. the dow down 37 points. pandora down on that sirius may not buy them, just 4 1/2%. next case, president trump's campaign promises are now dunk into legislation. that's job onereplacing obamacare. my take on that is next. as after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. what about the people i care about? ...including this little girl. and what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me? so i asked my doctor. and he recommended eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. both made me turn around my thinking. don't s

them but one of the most troubling things is yemen and as we would see the gulf of aden slip into a possible future hormuz strait. is there serious implication with that? we have 60% of the human population now that is now a nurse and we have opportunities to do good things with other efforts. the foreign military sales being crucial before an engagement being crucial. if you could design it where you engaged the other international power to support coalition efforts as well as the centcom efforts what would it look like? what would you want that other engagement to be other than just a the military? >> thanks congressman. certainly one of the things which we have highlighted here is we have dissolve the civil conflict. that creates an environment and makes it extraordinary difficult for us and has made it difficult for us to be persistent in our efforts against al qaeda. it's hard to break relationships and it has given rise to the threat that we have already talked about this morning in the red sea, an area where we had 60 or 70 ships go through every day , not just ours but international ships go through ther