navy. they've benefited from that decisive year in the nation's history. our guest today is a little bit unique because george daughn holds a ph.d. in american history from harvard university but his active-duty service was in the air force, so we are really privileged to have george will and to express his thoughts about the navy with an air force background that contributes to his appreciation for what the navy has to offer. he served in the air force during the vietnam war and ultimately also taught at the air force academy, so he was quite an interesting approach from that perspective as well. he also taught at the university of colorado, the university of new hampshire, wesleyan university in connecticut college, and of course connecticut college is right across the river from the mean submarine base and a place where i as a nuclear submariner had the privilege of learning my first experiences in the submarine force and spend a lot of time they're actually responsible for submarine gro

navy frigate. most of them are smaller but there's 300 of them and even though lightly armed they can be effective against an unarmed fishing vessel and very significantly. china is now increasingly using these ships and not the ships in their regular navy to assert and defend their territorial claims and their claims to fishing rights in the south and east china sea. >> that's actually one of -- would you think could be a key flash point right? given the chinese requirement or chinese vi that even military vessels cannot -- operate in their exclusive economic or territorial zones. >> right the dispute over the territorial claims in the south and east china sea puts china at odds with a number of its neighbors and china has an interpretation of international law regarding what it views as its rights to regulate the activities of foreign military forces operating in its exclusive economic zone. that has the potential for leading to incidents at sea between chinese ships and aircraft and u.s. ships a

navy learned to fight. the japanese navy had a good idea how to fight actually, and that's illustrated within 36 hours of marines going to shore. on the night of august night, the japanese since down a cruise a squadron under command of rear admiral mccalla, and the battle of savo island was the result of this engagement between his cruisers and two squadrons of use cruisers, they are defending the waters north of guadalcanal. this is a time of -- tiny island here, savo island. it was a defeat of the first order of the american side. the japanese showcase their mastery, and nighttime close range engagement. we lost for cruisers, vincennes, quincy and the story went down with about 1000 men. he really could say the battle of savo island was a disaster, even worse in the pearl harbor attack. the so-called defeat at pearl harbor if you will simply a natural resource of the battle ready force descending upon its sleeping navy stationed at it was a surprise attack. there's nothing to say but u.s. combat arms whe

assisting the authority and property negotiations with the navy. this is an increase of $238,400 from the previously authorized amount. amec geomatrix is expected to work on items related to oversight of the navy's remediation program at a cost of approximately $20,000 per month. the contract will continue to be paid on time and materials basis and turmoil be extended through june 30, 2013. the budget analysts has recommended approval and pointed out in the report that the contract was previously governed by titlist purchasing. in january 2012, the board of supervisors rescinded titus as a development agency and they're bringing it back into compliance with the city purchasing policy. we're asking this committee to approve this amendment now as it's critical for the service and oversight of the navy activity go on uninterrupted as we are fast approaching the first substantial transfer of property from the navy to the city. furthermore, the importance of retaining continuity of the navy's environmental program, the potential problems associated with

navy. but the best thing i get to do is to lead the group of just extraordinary men and women who make up our armed forces today. but, you know, i was in the navy over four decades ago, and i served a lot of the really good dedicated people, but we couldn't touch the force we have today. we couldn't touch the skill, the training, the dedication, and just to deal with the people on a day-to-day basis deal with the sailors, the ma leans and their families and see the dedication, see the skill level, to see what this generation of americans is give together country is about the coolest thing i think anybody can do. >> how does compare with your time in governor in mississippi or ambassador to saudi arabia? >> well, i have had incredibly fortunate career of being governor in mississippi great honor. my fellow mississippi people elected me to. i threw my heard and soul into it. worked on education, health care, the jobs, the things that will benefit mississippi and i think our benefiting mississ

of a navy man was assistant secretary of the navy during world war i so he was a navy man, and he wanted very much to join the marines and go over and fight but woodrow wilson wouldn't let him. he said we need you here, we need you at home as assistant secretary. so he went over towards the end to inspect the troops and see what he could but he never was in a fighting situation. he was a navy man. a lot of troops voted the other way but they said that's the way my family voted. they didn't really know much about either candidate, and roosevelt was the overwhelming favorite so one chapter deals with the soldiers showed. but another chapter, check my time making we are okay, another chapter deals with the the event in the election in other seasons it was unpatriotic. roosevelt or his government at least had the secretary of the communist party and the violations. in 1942 towards stalin who was then our ally who might not have needed him that he was there, and this was a gesture for stalin. the result was the republicans' attack roosevelt and said the person that is going to sit at his side

regular navy. it genesis was the u.s. navy. i mean, a lot of their early officers have been trained by the u.s. navy, and it's only recently -- most have retired, but there's an institutional memory there. the interaction with the regular navy's very professional. it's standard protocol of ships passing, occasionally the iranian ships have even renders honors which is cuts tom when you see -- custom when you see two warships pass. so that's very professional. the revolutionary guard corps navy is a different matter. they're far less disciplined, the commanders are rewarded for showing initiative which is usually aggression. and there's been a number of instances, i mean, back to the 1990s where they've conducted what amounts to mock attacks on u.s. warships transiting either the strait of hormuz or up through the gulf. they'll approach from multiple directions at high speed, turn off at the last minute, occasionally it'll look like they were going to uncover their guns. there was an incident in 200

as my father had joined the navy, as my uncle had joined the navy, as all of my family members had been in the navy despite the fact i was an air force rotc in high school. anyways, dropped out of high school, joined the navy and was privileged enough to get to serve during vietnam aboard united states submarine. and what i find interesting about this and what i want to share with you is the fact that while i was in the navy, the submarine service is a very close knit community. when you are in 100-foot long steel tube, hundred of feet beneath the surface of the ocean, what you do affects the lives of every person aboard and let every other person does affects the lives of every other person aboard. the past to become a qualified submarines is rigorous. and i say that -- i share that to you because next month, i get to go -- my 40th reunion of the uss grayback. and i say that because i went to the first one i ever attended in 2009 as the only woman mayor. and after a little bit of surprise, my shipmates reached out to me, embraced me and welcomed me as one of their own. when we talk abo

health official insisted the navy's report was incomplete. that report obtained by cbs five says " these findings point out that the existing treasure island report does not adequately address the nature and extent of radioactive materials on sight >> we have been saying this for years >> the san francisco supervisor says he and other activists have read the issue about possible radiation time and time again and he and others even filed a lawsuit earlier this year but the city insists that treasure island is safe >> residents even today are told that they cannot grow fruits and vegetables in the soil because it is contaminated so we know, we heard, the city is just crying, they're pretending and they cannot pretend the issues away. >> all that said, the city says it is safe here. two state agencies appear to be at war over this issue but one of the agency says it is still safe and the other one which closely works with the navy and the navy says it has been cleaning up the area for years and they would not imperil anybody's health on the isla

navy i reached out to they said it what to make it clear they believe there is no danger here to the public at treasure island and they're working carefully as they have for years to clean up the island to make sure safety is a priority. joe vasquez cbs 5 >>> bicyclist recover tonight after a driver attacked him in a case of road rage this happened in santa rosa police say a wrote in to the oakmont golf course after a driver yelled at him, the elderly driver followed him onto the course with his car and hit him. the bicyclist expected to survive police are looking for the driver. >>> was in the year more stories about drivers and cyclists and badly in out on streets now len ramirez reports cyclists and one part of the bay have a new way to fight back. >>> at a time when by writer ship in the bay area blows out >>> i choose to go down >>> sunnyvale by commuter found himself on the wrong exploding and when a car forced him off the road >>> that resulted in me damaging my bike but also losing some skin which is mostly healed now all the way to my right arm >>> he picked itself up and th

navy. its genesis was the u.s. navy. a lot of early officers have been trained and only resort me, most of retired, but an institutional member there. the inner action is professional. it's a standard protocol of ships passing, occasionally the arabian ships have even rendered us honor, sir have a custom of the warships passed. they salute each other, that kind of thing. so that's very professional. the revolutionary guard corps navy is a different matter. they're far less discipline. commanders are rewarded for showing initiative, which is usually oppression and there has been a number of instances, back to the 1990s, where they've conducted what amounts to mock attacks on u.s. warships transiting in the strait of corbis for a through the gulf, where they go at high speed, turn off at the last-minute come occasionally look like the one cover the guns. as in incidents in 2008, where one past in front of an american destroyer and dropped what looked like minds are some image of the water in

they have a regular iranian islamic republic of islam regular navy. its genesis was the u.s. navy. a lot of their early officers have been trained by the u.s. navy and recently some of them have retired but there is an institutional -- it's very professional and standard protocol of ships passing. occasionally the iranian ships have even rendered honors which is custom of the warship went to warships pass. they salute each other in a kind of thing so that is very professional. now the revolutionary guard is a different matter. they are disciplined and the commanders are rewarded for showing initiative which is usually aggression, and there has been a number of instances -- i mean back to the 1990s where they conducted what amounts to market tax on u.s. warships transiting in the strait of hormuz are through the gulf but they are well approach for multiple directions at high-speed and turn off at the last minute. occasionally they will look like they are going to uncover their guns. there was an incident in 2008 where one past in front of the american destroyer and dropped what look

but he was a vice admiral in the navy and the surgeon general of the navy. so he was after all a big man who is going to counter what he had to say. nevertheless because of the badgering of anna roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt, franklin was taken to bethesda naval hospital. it was almost knew at that time. it was our newly opened facility. he was taken there in a limousine with his wheelchair. his wheelchair was an old kitchen chair with wheels attached. he didn't want to be seen in a conventional wheelchair, a hospital type wheelchair because he didn't want to be thought of as a cripple. so we sat in the wheelchair newest pushed along in the kitchen chair. you can see that kitchen chair at the roosevelt memorial here in washington because one of the statute shows him sitting in it and you can see the wheelchair polo. it's an honest portrait of roosevelt and a sculpture that way. the bethesda naval hospital, they were appalled that his condition. a young doctor from columbia-presbyterian in new york who was then a lieutenant commander in the navy was called

c-span: in the navy for how long? >> guest: i had been in the navy at that point for a little over 20 years. i've been commissioner for the naval academy in 1981 and i've been told, you have a career, your potential. you don't take normal folks and send them to the joint chiefs of staff for an assignment like this so i felt very privileged to be working on the premier staff of the united states military working for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and that whole issue would suddenly change on the morning of september 11. c-span: why? >> guest: being the only officer was global they needed to develop a strategy and policy and the office i was in was given the unique mission of crafting detainee policy. how do we put together, no we are going to answer portions in afghanistan, we knew we were going to capture people so if okay when we capture people who do we want to capture? that was ultimately window down to high-level taliban and al qaeda. then from that group where do we put them? initially they were lookin

now, that is not the same as giving it to the pent gone as this navy -- pentagon as this navy seal was supposed to do. my feeling, you tell me, pete, is there must be a reason -- this guy was such a service person, there must have been a reason, perhaps he felt they would overly edit it. the question is what might that be, and could there be some political fallout to this? >> yeah. i mean, we're only speculating, but, hey, maybe he feels like it's already been said? what hasn't been leaked about the bin laden raid yet? my goodness, he looks at what was talked about following that raid, there was a movie that was supposed to come out about it in october that's been delayed. half of it's right, half of it's wrong, and a lot of it's politically motivated, and a guy like this is saying cut the bs, i can't take it anymore, i want to tell my side of the story, i'm going to make sure my operator community knows why i'm doing it, that i vet it through a lawyer that understands what secrets really are, but otherwise i'm going to set the record straight now because we can't wait any longer as pe

navy in particular. his home, which i visited in the past and which is next door to the library, is filled with naval prints, ship paintings, and other nautical paraphernalia. clearly, he identified with the navy. i had no idea of how deep that identification ran or how early it manifested itself. you look at drawings of boats that he made when he was just five years old, and they are remarkably so sophisticated. he understands the sails. he knows where they belong and how they work. it occurred to me that the fdr library might hold something more interesting to me than the bay crisis. this is identification with the navy respected not just one of his interests, but was, in fact, a basic part of the character. to a very real extent, he built his entire intellectual world view around the understanding of the navy. that is, he did not see the navy as part of the world view. he understood the world based on his view of the navy. that was an interesting idea. if such were the case, one could view his entire

both navy and notre dame alumni and fans. but it's actually it's secondary to the all gaelic semi final on sunday. >> i think it's going to be a terrific game. >> in perspective around here, football is second place. >> that's right. >> we're not prepared to comment on the all gaelic semifinal except to say the winner between dublin will play done gold next month. >> go ahead. i'll make this point. i don't know that understandable more attraction for the other sport, are they -- are they interested in american football? >> yes, i think so. >> oh, i think yeah. everywhere i traveled all around. we went to the cliffs and the castle and everywhere i saw, not only notre dame and navy fans looking around and curious about the football game, but the locals also asking me questions about the game. they know it's coming. they recognize notre dame and navy as two of icon football names in college football. they're anxious for the football game. >> charlie and norah, a quick point about this stadium. this is called a viva stadium. it's

that's what one former navy seal is calling president obama. these veterans are serious, they're furious, and now fighting back after president obama says he's not taking their criticism too seriously. you're going to meet the former navy seal in just one moment. and one of the country's most famous democrats laughing, that democrats will blame bush forever. you'll hear and see the video for yourself. but first president obama may say he's not taking some military veterans' criticism too seriously, but now the vets are taking on the president's latest words. joining us is former navy seal scott taylor. welcome, sir. >> hi, greta. great to with you. >> greta: certainly seems that there's now -- i mean, you put out a video, and president obama says he didn't take you too seriously. now it's your turn, i guess, right? >> well, i think it's a two-part answer. first i would say with all due respect to the president, i think his statements were condescending and belittling to a group that literally has hundreds of years of service to this nation. the

navy, don't give up the ship. ironically, and horrific loss both of an american hero and a rallying cry of american forces. now, i don't have any video of lawrence from the war of 1812. in my minds eye, i can envision a movie trailer that hollywood sells us on upcoming defeat and the highlights would have to include the battle of baltimore, a crucial conflict with the citizens of the city existed at the land and sea force. the bombardment of the royal navy was observed by the sun-times poet who was held captive on the ship in the harbor. he recorded what he saw in a poem titled but his first publication at fort mchenry was someone else put it to music and renamed it the star-spangled banner. on the horseback we have to jump cut to the president's house dolly is awaiting james return. which is the only time the president has been at the front during a war. only mr. madison did not return. instead, retreating soldiers can cream through the town. we have to pld here of dolly looking down from the high window in the n

navy s.e.a.l. bin laden was looking out his -- the white house had said that bin laden was killed after resisting capture. government officials stay it's not surprising to hear discrepancies of what happened, saying that in any bomb cat situation, participants usually come away with different accounts of what happened. the author says he has no desire to compromise national security, he just wants to show americans how honored he is to serve his country. >>> embattled syrian president made a rare appearance today giving an interview to a pro government news channel. president assaad defended his regime's course of action and said that he had no plans of backing down soon. he -- opposition forces say more than 20,000 people have been killed since the uprising began 18 months ago. >>> leaders from the middle east are meeting right now in iran to talk about the situation in syria. u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon is also in tehran for the summit. iran and syria are allies and the secretary general s

it is navy week here in chicago at navy pier where you can get an up close look at some of the ships that are on their first cruise. it's being held in conjunction with the 200th anniversary of the war of 1812. navy week continues on lake michigan through monday. we now have the numbers the estimated price tag for cleaning up from this summer's lollapalooza about $150,000. at one point there was a major downpour and people were ordered to evacuate for a short time, crews will now have to feed into restocks the area it will take up to 10 days to do that, last summer's repairs cost $1 million thanks to another storm that dumped 3 in. of water. look at the writer these things tau were up to 50,000 ft. in the latest doppler scans. lighter showers are diminishing across the area, here is how they are going to move you can see them coming in to the rockford area by 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. if this is an accurate portrayal there is a configuration that suggests they may be gusty wind producers. look at the rain numbers out of this, pretty good. that storm frontal system moves in tomorrow

navy. >> a bay area city just got more bicycle friendly. where bicyclist have new protections and drivers need to be on their best behavior? >> i trusted her with my baby. >> how a bay area,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> plans to build homes on treasure island are being questioned tonight, new reports show the radiation on the island is more widespreadhan previously thought. joe vasquez is here with what people already living on the formal naval base are saying. >> you don't have to go very far to see the signs, cautioning people about radioactive material on the island, this has been going on for years, the navy and the state have been trying to clean it up but you can see how close it is to some existing neighborhoods. it is also the case that the city has given the green light for a high rise were thousands of people will live. now there are new questions giving you information from the u.s. navy about possible new sites of radiological contamination. >> the view from treasure island is always seen i

we're hearing from one of the navy seals had killed osama bin laden's. none of the men on 186 have spoken publicly until now. this navy seal has written a book and has done the only interview with scott pelly is for 60 minutes. did police you walk into a secure room he calls himself mark o. and that is not his real name. the disguise salmon will keep his name confidential for his own safety ellen was on the helicopter that crashed and in london's compounds he was the second man in the room when the mob was shots he took the photographs of the body in who've always been released but no one told us it was not about him he says is the story of hundreds of americans spent years gathering intelligence planning and training of the seals ellen says we just took care of the last 40 minutes. we built we believe is the most: told us that before the mission of full-size replica of the compound was built in the united states for training. for the top brass including the chairman of the joint chiefs admiral mike mullen and admiral eric olson had a special operations

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this is really a navy home game over here in ireland which has everybody a bit confused, but navy has got this game here and they're going to be playing a football game that seems kind of like a fun game to everybody. everybody's involved and going out and talking about it but also very important game for notre dame and navy. when they look at their schedules, really notre dame needs to win this game. they kind of have to shut everything out and concentrate on a navy team that is very determined after last year kind of booting away a lot of games that they had a chance to win. >> how do you see the college football season ahead? i see the rankings include southern california, alabama, louisiana state, oklahoma, oregon. vern, i don't see duke on the list. >> well, they aspire to get inside that top 25, charlie. one of these days they will accomplish that. you know, gary and i, we do the s.e.c. every week. >> right. right. >> i think we're informed about all of college football, that's our task, but i still think southern cal is deservedly in that top three. don't discount arizona, they

we will fuse with the united states navy and the u.s. coast guard and with the law enforcement intelligence information there, u.s. law-enforcement will operate from canadian naval vessels and conduct label operations. that is a classic example of the seamless operations which delivers law-enforcement for arc -- together. >> admiral jacobsen. >> i was promoted. [laughter] >> a question, couple of questions. one, focus on resources. we are looking to canada as a resource of water, energy. talk about coastal issues. who are we? what kind of people are we? what kind of changes do you see have happened in the past and what is going to happen? >> let's talk about resources. canada is a country that is amazingly rich in natural natural resources, amazingly rich. it's a fast country. it has pretty much every form of natural resources one could want. the natural resource that gets the most attention and one of the ones that is the most plentiful this energy. most americans do not realize that canada is by far and away our largest supplier of eve

the former navy seals are furious at president obam a. last night, a member of the special operations group went "on the record" about their mission. >> we are hoping that this will form the basis for a -- an operation by us to try to stop these leaks from occurring. we want to become like a watchdog organization over this administration and any subsequent administrations. this stuff has to stop. this is jeopardizing operations, future operations and putting our special forces at risk, their lives at risk. this is big stuff. this is not... petty ante stuff. >> but today, a member of the democratic group, media matters, attacking the navy seals, tweeting, former navy seals don't have guts to admit they are running a g.o.p., anti-obama campaign. of course, that sparked a response from another of the group's former seals. he said, we are clearly not gutless. we are in the public right now, completely out there. karl? >> i know a lot of people in our special operations community. these are the elite. these people have made enormous sacrifices

of all words to describe a navy seal -- gutless is probably the last one. >> on this day, when two navy seals were killed in afghanistan. >> greta: i think it is almost the anniversary of, 22 navy seals killed a year ago in a deadly crash. but gutless! i mean, these are the most -- these are the bravest, most courageous, they do everything the rest of us are not doing and don't want to do. >> i would say that mr. boletter is brainless for having called them gutless. >> greta: this would be a nice time for him to get out front and apologize for this. obviously, the last thing we want to do is be insulting to the navy seals. turning toturning to the campaiy bounce out of the choice of congressman ryan? >> traditionsally, there is a modest bounce when you choose a vice-presidential nominee. vice-president matters more to what people's perceptions are of the presidential candidate. this will help mitt romney over the long haul. he has signaled he intends to make the campaign about deficit, debt and spending and putting our fiscal house in order and a pro-growth economic policy. he has one o

start here. >>> the navy tooks the raps off the beltway ufo. experiment tall aircraft got the name after it was spotted. began tweeting pictures. the mystery is over, we got a sneak peek what the future of the u.s. planes might look like. tom fitzgerald has the story. >> reporter: is this what the future looks like. the navy calls it the x47b, but that's not what folks who saw it rolling down i-270 in june called it when they called 911. >> a ufo, i don't know. >> the navy put the plane on a flat bed. >> is this a ufo? >> no. there was nothing secret about it, but we didn't publicize it. >> now for the first time, the navy is pulling the wraps off it. they hope it will be the first of a new wave of unmanned military aircraft. >> this is one of those that is a demonstration program and it really excites the interest of a lot and the imagination of a lot of folks. >> the plane is flown by its computer, but if it loses contact with its air traffic controllers, it flies back to its base just like a homing pigeon. calling it a drone is a big of an u

he was secretary of navy. >> guest: yes he was. c-span: jim webb was her mother -- republican what time you. he is the guy responsible for this? >> guest: yes. i have known senator web since he taught at the naval academy. he was a writer in residence when i was at school there. he just published feel the fire and he wrote this other book about the naval academy while i was there. he wrote the washingtonian magazine piece about the females in the military that wears really a lightning rod during those years so i've known him for a number of years. we were very close to this legislation as it was being sort of distilled. c-span: we meaning the military -- >> guest: military.com. kerry howell who is the author of the benefits of resources but that we published annually works very closely with senator webb's office and to figure out what were the unintended consequences of this legislation. the intent was to give this generation of warfighters disabled level of benefits at the world war ii era generation had which is comprehensive. yo

in touch with other navy seals. this is part of the same campaign. glenn beck's website was pushing this book. all the grassroots organizations are pushing this book. i don't know if it's going to have an effect but they're trying their best. >> in other words even so it shouldn't matter how they killed bin laden it under minds--the image they're undermining the story the notion that the story is being undermine. >> cenk: and president obama is trying to take credit and swift vote them on this. >> yes. >> cenk: before we move off that point, the bush administration didn't get bin laden. they had several years with miserable, miserable failures. the fact that john kerry did not run on that more is an embarrassment. >> it's only a failure if bush cared about getting bin laden. bush said he didn't care about getting bin laden. >> cenk: he said that. this is what pisses me off. a general in afghanistan had 5,000 guys when we had bin laden cornered. they said i want to go in. rumsfeld said no. no, don't get bin laden. fo

it's written by a member of the navy s.e.a.l. team that did the job. among s.e.a.l.s, it is considered a violation of their rules of operating in silence. for the rest of us, there were details in it not known heretofore because it was a secret operation. our report on it tonight from our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: it's the most detailed account yet of the mission that killed osama bin laden, written by a navy s.e.a.l. under the pseudonym mark owen who helped take down the al qaeda leader. it was pitch black as the navy s.e.a.l. crept upstairs to the third floor of the compound. the author says he was second in line when the lead s.e.a.l. saw bin laden poke his head out of the doorway and the lead s.e.a.l. opened fire. we were less than five steps from getting to the top, he wrote, when i heard suppressed shots. bin laden disappeared back into the room. the s.e.a.l.s found bin laden on the floor. he was unarmed and fatally wounded. two women wailing over his body. bin laden had been shot once in the head. as he convulsed on t

i think it ought to be the same with the navy seals. this is a top top top secret -- top secret mission you could possibly get and they were sworn to secrecy and then this guy breaks the vow of secrecy. breaks the oath of secrecy. quits the seals and writes this book. i think it jeopardizes future missions. i think it runs the risk that for any future thing that the c.i.a. is doing or the navy seals are doing or -- you know, any of our intelligence agencies are doing, you always have to run the risk now that somebody -- that secrecy doesn't mean anything anymore. that somebody in that operation is going to go out and write a tell-all book. i think it is disgusting and i think the guy ought to be charged with violating his oath of secrecy. i don't care what's says. the fact that he wrote this book i think is an outrage. 1-866-55-press. what's your take on it? >> announcer: heard around the country and seen on current tv, this is the "bill press show." entire social stratosphere including you. join in, tweet us, and you could be a part of

meet the former navy seal in just a moment. and one of the country's most famous democrats -- laughing. that democrats will blame bush forever. hear and see the video for yourself. but first, president obama may say he's not take military veterans' criticism too seriously, but the vets are taking on the president's latest words. scott tailor is from the video that made the video about president obama and national intelligence leaks. >> hi, gret a. it's great to be with you. >> it seems that -- you brought up the video and president obama says he doesn't take you too seriously. now it's your turn, i guess, right? >> well, i think it's a two-part answer. first, i would say that with all due respect to the president, i think his statements were condescending and belittling to a group that has hundreds of years of service to this nation. and the second part of the answer, i think his dismissive statements mean the opposite. i think that he understands that the american people know that this group has the authority and the knowledge

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we have details. >> reporter: it is a major embarrassment for the navy. a billion dollar guided missile destroyer left with a gaping hole in the right side after a violent collision with the japanese tanker. we were on a destroyer earlier this year in the strait and saw then how difficult the transit can be. >> the shipping lane itself is only about two miles wide, so there is very little room to maneuver. that's the massive aircraft carrier, "uss ab hamlin con" behind me. >> reporter: but it seems to break all of the rules of navigation. the navy ship was exiting the persian gulf, and the tanker twice the size of the destroyer was entering. ship traffic is much like car traffic. each vessel was supposed to stay to the right. instead, the the ship turned left into the on coming tanker. >> why a u.s. warship would turn in front of a less maneuverable super tanker. >> reporter: fortunately there were no injuries but the ship's captain will almost certainly be relieved in command. >> this also takes the destroyer out of commission at a critical time when the

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gabriel gomez was a former navy s.e.a.l. and a member of the opsec group and john salts is president of vote vets. thank you for your service to our country. mr. gomez, i want to start with you. doesn't the president deserve credit for issuing a very difficult order? this was far from a certain mission and in the process, we invaded the sovereign the of pakistan. do you give him credit for that? >> absolutely. we have always been to the conclusion that the president deserves full credit for giving the green lilgt on the operation. it was a difficult decision. a lot of his advisers were gens it and you have to give him 100% credit. >> and it was something for which he was strenuously criticized during the campaign. he was called nooif and worse when during the course of the campaign and i know it because he said it to me on at least three occasions, that he was willing to take that shot even if were in pakistan. they thought that was mistaken. >> we agree and have never said he should not have full credit. >> so, your critici

illusion that his majesty's navy was invulnerable. on the other hand o, we didn't do a very good job of protecting our capitol, witness the burning of the nation's public buildings by a british force of a few hundred men. which in short or form is to say that some wars are won, others lost, but still others -- like the war of 1812 -- merely end when the combatants, both bloody and bowed, pack up and go home. that's kind of what happened at the end of the war of 1812. yet given how the goals of o our most recent wars have devolved, the focus has become less on winning and more on going home, it seems. maybe we should make a particular attempt toll look again at the -- to look again at the war of 1812 and the forgetfulness it seems to have engendered. as an aside, it's not incidental that i dedicated this book to presidents then and now, bemused by unwinnable wars. all that said, there were outcomes -- one might say gains -- that served american interests. with the return of peace in europe, impressment ceased. with the signing of the t