i was at the very 1st army navy my very 1st army navy as secretary in 2,009. by the way navy one. that has that has been true for the last 13 years. that is a make a special anything. i watched as the corps of cadets another great of midshipmen marched out one of the most moving things' you can possibly see the corps of cadets came out and everyone was dressed exactly the same. midshipmen came out's, women were wearing different uniforms. and so we are in the midst of changing. the adjacent the academy and we are in the of changing the uniforms across the navy and marine corps so that when you look out you see american sailors and marines, not particularly female or male's. if we ask any other group to wear a different uniform imagine the trouble we would be in. and this is symbolic in terms of not segregating women but making sure that they are substantively and symbolically the heart of our force power. dod is the largest single user of fossil fuels on earth, a little more than a 3rd of that. i said energy bills for the navy. it's both ashore and afloat. i did this for one reaso

it the can-do spirit, the navy can-do spirit. we thought we could do anything. when i got in my slot on active duty, after we left, we thought we were the best around. we were good. david: the, certainly, the analogy is fishing, you have to have patience. i imagine being a mission commander you have to exhibit some extreme patience as far as listening to the data and putting it together. senator tom carper: patience on the part of the officers but great patience on the part of the enlisted crew, especially the people who for six or eight hours are analyzing the acoustic data, looking for the line on a page to see if maybe that could be the clue you're looking for. the patience they had and the fortitude for staying on the job. that was impressive. i worked with some terrific people. good on active duty but i had to some guys, jim, the chief petty officer, he was so good. david: discuss the active-duty when you deployed overseas. you talked about flying out. of moffitt. you made three deployments to southeast asia. where were you

i was at the very first army/navy, my very first army-navy. by the way navy won. that's been true for the last 13 years. that doesn't make it special or anything. i watched as the corps of cadets mar mped out. that's one of the most moving things you can see. women wearing different uniforms, a different color. we have changed at the academy and we're in the midst of changing the uniforms across the navy and marine corps so when you see out you see american sail sailors and marines. if we ask any other group to wear a different uniform, imagine the trouble we'd be in. this is symbolic in terms of not segregated women and making sure that they are the heart of our force. in 2009 i set energy goals for the navy. it's got some great side effects in terms of being better stewards of the environment. we're betting fighters because of this. we're going to be there on our shore bases this year. we're going to be five years early. by the end of '15 half of all naval services. we don't particularly care what the source is. energy is a vulnerability. it's a as a rule ner bl

at the outset, the british royal navy was far more sophisticated than the american navy. we will hear about the tools that sailors on both sides of the conflict used to dominate the sea. the octagon house in washington, d.c., where the treaty of ghent was signed 200 years ago, hosted this event. it is about 25 minutes. kyle: welcome. i am kyle dalton, the public programs administrator. i am also the author of a blog. today, i am going to be talking about the united states navy the war of 1812, and navigation. all three of these topics intersect at the octagon house. the eldest son of the owners of the house, john tayloe iv, was enlisted in the navy in 1890 as a midshipman. it was his responsibility to learn the trade of sailors and officers, to learn how to command ships, and how to work them. the united states navy was surprisingly effective in the war of 1812. i say surprisingly because people did not really expect this. thomas jefferson famously said that capturing canada would be a mere matter of marching. of course it was not. we never captured canada. he also though

it made sense if i wanted a navy career to go get a college degree and go back to the navy. but i got the chance to go to school, got the chance to go to law school. i always intended to be in politics, though. my uncles were both sheriffs from local county until about 1941 when we all went off to the service. i decided then that i was going to be in politics, i was going to run for sheriff when the war was over because my dad lost his car during the war. they pulled our car off, and there i was, skinny. i wasn't anything to look at. i just decided that whatever i'd it, i was going to do something that you had to have a car. at nine or 10 or 11 years old or 14, i decided to come back and run for sheriff because my uncles knew they had to have a car and i wanted a job where i had to have a car. it wasn't that i hated lawbreakers and wanted law and order -- i wanted a job where i would have a car so i intended to come back and run for sheriff, so i got a chance to get a law degree. i came back and ran for county judge in my home county while i was still in law school, just to

we have a great marine officers out of navy rotc at ohio state. the best officers that i trained under from the time i was a midshipmen were the marines. some of the enlisted personnel were excellent as well. i was drawn to the marine corps i think because of the mission and the great respect i had for the officer and enlisted men that trained us at osu. my junior year, before my senior year, was long beach california. it was a great duty. we would go out monday morning fly around the south pacific southeastern pacific, and come into court on friday afternoon and have the weekend off. on monday do the same thing again. it was fun. they did not put us down in the engine room. we were treated more like a junior officer and learned a great deal about the operations part, standing watches and all. we were taught a course not too far from mexico. we had a growing mexican population in california. someone on the ship, the skipper or somebody, asked me, i spoke a little spanish, to teach spanish classes. one of the extra things i would do was to teach tr

at the outset, the british royal navy was far more sophisticated than the american navy. we will hear about the tools that sailors on both sides of the conflict used to dominate the sea. the octagon house in washington, d.c., where the treaty of ghent was signed 200 years ago, hosted this event. it is about 25 minutes. kyle: welcome. i am kyle dalton, the public programs administrator. i am also the author of a blog. today, i am going to be talking about the united states navy the war of 1812, and navigation. all three of these topics intersect at the octagon house. the eldest son of the owners of the house, john tayloe iv, was enlisted in the navy in 1890 as a midshipman. it was his responsibility to learn the trade of sailors and officers, to learn how to command ships, and how to work them. the united states navy was surprisingly effective in the war of 1812. i say surprisingly because people did not really expected. -- expect this. thomas jefferson famously said that capturing canada would be a mere matter of marching. we never captured canada. he also thought very li

and in terms of, you know, the whales versus the navy. and, in fact the huge irony that i was able to uncover that really was an untold story is that the navy really invented the whole discipline of marine mammal science, that before the navy discovered and confirmed that dolphins and other small whales toothed whales echo locate and have what they came to call biosonar, nobody cared about whales except whalers. this is back in the '50s. [laughter] and nobody knew anything about whales and there were no seatologists or marine mammal scientists. so the navy started pulling people like john lilly anybody they could find who they could hire to study these animals. so what emerged was a story where they were trying to reverse engineer this biosew or far that these whales -- biosonar that these whales had developed to hunt and navigate in the dark depths of the ocean. so the supreme irony here is that downstream from that research was created these super sonars, if you will, that were in fact driving whales onto beaches. so it was just too jui

navy federal credit union. pink so she's a princess. you got a problem with that? oorah oorah open to the armed forces and their families for over 80 years. navy federal credit union. vago: we are back with more of our interview with vice admiral michael conno commander of u.s. smarine force. one of the navy's top priorities is the p program to replace the ohio class ballistic missile submbmarines. the vy wants a smaller force of 12 missile boats equipped with 16 instead of 24 missile tubes. the cocost of the program projected at more than $6 billion have some suggestingg the navy by fewer boats with fewer missile tubes. i asked the admiral why the navy needs 12 subs each with 16 tubes. >> the navy's top priority, not one of the top priorities, it is critical we build these 12 ships because they form the foundation of the nuclear triad. we have done a lot of a analysis of two combinations and ship numbers looking at new start, launcher numbers, and so forth strategic command requirements for payloads and so for

navy federal credit union. pink so she's a princess. you got a problem with that? oorah oorah open to the armed forces and their families for over 80 years. navy federal credit union. vago: one of thee highlights of washington conference season is the annual conference and tradeshow that brings together top navy, marine, and coast guard leaders and the industry that serves the. we will be covering the show between april 13-15 closely.. here to talk about what t is new at this year's show is the navy league's vice president of corporate affairs. welcome to the program. talk to us about the theme and highlights folks should expect this year. >> it is our 50th anniversarary, a big deal. we have been doing this since 1955. we have been doing this since 1965. they were talking about aircraft carriers and missile defense, a lot of the same issues we are focused on today. we are looking at innovation and mamaritime excellence over the last 50 yeyears. you mentioned the march madness maritime moments c campaign going o

the secretary of the navy at the time, i called him. i asked how you get through to be secretary of the navy and still fly and stay current in the airplane, and he says he has a special waiver from the chief of naval operations. i said that's what i want. i did not want to be paid, but i wanted to continue to be able to fly the airplane and stay current in the airplane and fly the missions. i got to do that for -- gosh another 12 years. stayed with my squadrons continue to fly. one of the great ironies is you and a how you trade airplanes back and forth from active duty -- they get older and trade them down to the reserves keep maintaining the planes and a gravy avionics and electronics and they are perfectly good airplanes for a long time -- upgrade the avionics and electronics and they are perfectly good airplanes for a long time? one of the planes i had in the patrol squad, when you are the plane commander or mission commander of the aircraft, the tactical coordinator or flight engineer, you had your name printed on the other side of

. >> the bolivian navy completing a military drill. on lake titicaca, 3800 meters above sea level. >> the exercises are important. we're preparing for possible military operations. if we regain access to the sea, our people need to be well-trained. >> a navy force but no sea access. nevertheless, the country is proud of its marines. each year, there are more applications than places for young bolivians hoping to do military service with the navy. this year for the first time, the navy is introducing a military diving division. many women have chosen to join its ranks. they long for bolivia to regain its position as a naval force on the pacific. >> we no longer have access to the sea. but we long for it. sea access would solve so many problems. and i want to get to know the sea. >> bolivia lost its coastline more than 130 years ago in war -- in the war of the pacific against chile. it's still a source of national trauma. now, more than ever, bolivia would benefit from re-gaining access to the sea. ♪ bolivia is experiencing a boom. las

he was a former navy seal. from his capitol hill office he talked about being raised by his grandmother and what he learned from playing football and serving in iraq. >> representative ryan zinke your grandmother had a huge influence in your life, how so? representative zinke: she grew up on a small farm, she went to school, this is during the 1930's. not many females went to college, so she worked as a handmade and got a teaching certificate. the only job she could find during the depression was a one room schoolhouse in montana. she is always my guide, growing up she was very independent and she met my grandfather when he was working on a dam. it was a cute story. there was a camp there and it was near the school. there were two suitors who competed for my grandma. and my grandpa chopped better would and they got married. my grandmother was a tremendous influence. >> a lot of ants and uncles, correct >> representative zinke: yes, i grew up in montana, it is enormous. and it is a diverse state, a lot of people

navy. locust is a system that launches 30 combat drones for both defensive and offensive military operations. this u.s. military video shows the high expectations u.s. commanders have for locust. the swarm is shown attacking multiple targets with great effectiveness. but some fear that this is just another dangerous step towards the future of war, easier war, war in which the political dimensions of human casualties are disregarded and thus war made more palatable. and it's not just aerial drones that are changing war. in a recent wall street journal op-ed, gabriela blum and benjamin wittes paint a future of unpredictable risk. quote, your business competitor has sent a robotic attack spider bought from a bankrupt military contractor to take you out. your assassin, who is vacationing in provence, will direct the spider to shoot an infinitesimal needle containing a lethal dose of poison into your left leg and then self-destruct. unquote. will the new military technology do more harm than goo

navy here. this is the counter piracy operations, also where a lot of the arms trafficking has occurred with somalia as many of the arms came from yemen ended up in somalia so it's not really high stakes. we're watching what's happening with regard to the iranian convoy. we've got the right force posture there. the crews are well trained and ready to essentially conduct maritime intradiction operations if necessary and finally, the reason that everyone is there is to support the arms embargo and making sure it was passed last week 14-0 that no country that provides international naval support in this particular area flouts international law. i hope the iranians obey the law. jon: what kind of evidence will it take before the iranian ships can be intradicted? >> certainly they should know i imagine there's quite a bit of intelligence work underway to learn what the manifests of these particular vessels are, what their ports of origin were what they're actually carrying. they could be carrying hum

navy federal credit union. ♪ vagogo: the surface forces the backbone othe u.s. navy that performs an array of missions from air and missile attack toto destroying enemy ships policing selanes, and serving as powerful d diplomatic tools. by's admiral t roden took command of theavy surface forces and has med to raise training standards a developop a new is dtributed concept. wewe met with admirable roden outside washington. i asked him to explalain what th navy's war fighting first concepmeans for his force. adral rododen: when i first tk over, you're really putting together. i transitioned i wanted to get t the leadership of the service worker cmunity to get together to talk about what it is wvalue. after a day of conversationswe understood tt what we value i fighng first. e ability execute anti-smering warfafare ai-air warfe,he ability to do e missions we are assigned to do. my ccern was tt as we grow e force we addd requirements to the force in order to get the forced trun better the issue i has -- had s that we were replacing additional requirements on the sai

if the navy. if you do any program they would have had money and the defense program each day not only how to put a guy named. they are not going to do it. we continue down the path it will not have these cruisers and we will continue to go down across the globe with less than 60% to further down in years to come. it is time we start turning this around rebuilding the seapower this nation depends on. these cruisers are vitally important. i hope you reject the amendment and support the language the subcommittee has put in it. with that, i yield back. >> the gentleman from colorado yields back. gentlelady from massachusetts. >> i yield my time to mr. gordon. >> thank you. the exchange here which i want to congratulate chairman for the factual civilized discussion as one of the reasons i'm a house armed services committee. i want to address a couple quick points. the 246 program in law is not the administration's plan. the administration plan was to take a leading cruisers out and use a $3 billion fu

navy fleet. so therefore, if something were to go wrong, and by that, i mean, if the iranians were to believe our public statements we're just there to do sea, to do maritime operations while they are saying they're there to do counter piracy, if they were to really believe that, given saudis backing off, still attempt to rearm the houthi, then publicly we're saying down there not really doing all that but privately we had better already de marshed iranians, we're sitting here with a royal straight flush. we pushed all our chips in. if you dare do that we'll not be embarrassed. it will be preying man tis, that 1980s operation, all over again. iranians lost their navy over that. david: they would have to be crazy to do it in other words, but guess what, the iranians are crazy? >> well, some, some analysts do believe they're not a logical factor. so, yeah, who knows what they want to do. one thing i can tell you, david, is that the united states navy and the straight leg or the full-time iranian na

it's hard for most of us in the navy or former navy to imagine the iranian navy kind of wanting to confront both this coalition force as well as these u.s. navy ships that are there. the u.s. i would imagine, is not going to allow iran to deliver any types of weapons to yemen right now. that's -- that's probably more than what we would call a red line. so i just -- it's hard to imagine the iranian navy wanting to challenge that level of a force that's going to prevent that from happening. so -- >> why is it -- why is that difficult to imagine? i mean why is it tough to, i guess let me take it further, and distrust? right? it's distrust and verify when it comes to iran. >> it totally is. and we've seen palets of first aid and baby formula being delivered. but they don't need warships to do that. the obvious suspicion is some type of arms -- and because of the strategic location of yemen, because of its place there in the straits going into the red sea and out into the arabian gulf the u.s. is just not going to allow some unknown arms delivery to occur in that area particularly with respect t

diane: here at the washington navy yard all of the employees once displaced by the tragic shootings in 2013 have now returned as a place formerly known as building 197. >> 19 months ago we lost 12 shipmates, members of our navy family in an evil and never to be understood act. diane: today marked the official dedication for the headquarters now called the humphries building named after joshua humphries, a man who designed the first six frigates for the >> the nav sea family has gone through a lot and we're fully back to where we belong. diane: about 400 employees started return to go this building on a weekly basis and that process was completed at the end of march. quincy was working the day the tragic events unfolded and she

senator mccain: my last job in the navy was the navy liaison officer in the senate. it is small office in the russell center building. i and a marine, major jim jones, who later became a commandant of the marine corps and now is the head of nato -- i worked there and got interested in the political process because i observed it here, saw how impactful a hard-working, dedicated, knowledgeable member of the senate can be, so i aspired to be one. kelly: what do you consider to be some of your major successes as a public servant? senator mccain: passage of the campaign finance reform law was probably one of the major achievements, but i have been involved in a host of national security issues. as chairman of the commerce committee, i've been involved in many of the telecommunications aviation, transportation issues. as one of the authors of the transportation security act, which, you know, post-9/11. and i think we have tried to take care of our constituents who need help. i'm very proud of that. so, you know -- normalization of relations with vietnam is something that i

navy had a series of gun battles that culminated with the united states navy shooting down an iranian airbus. at that point they took a serious look how to deconflict operations so we don't stumble into war. the united states and iranian navy have a very bizarre but deep working relationship where we communicate through third parties and let each other know base he canally what we're doing. we don't coordinate activities directly but deconflict so we don't escalate tensions. >> an unsettling story the french arrested a man suspected of planning an attack a 24-year-old algerian national. the cops also responded and followed the blood trail to his car found full of weapons and list of potential targets. what should we make of this? >> well number one we should thank our lucky stars we got lucky and this idiot shot himself before he carried out a terrorist attack. federal law enforcement and mill trillion and protectors have to be right every time. more often than not we're looking for terrorists to make a mistake that we capitalize on. it goes to show we're fundamentally in a asymmetric

navy vessels already there, in addition to all of that, the navy has now decided to send as well, a guided missile cruiser called the "uss normandy" which has about 400 u.s. navy personnel on board, and also this little guy. the "uss theodore roosevelt" which is an aircraft carrier. that guy has approximately 6,000 u.s. personnel on board. the full complement of whatever we're calling this off the coast of yemen, in ballpark roughly 9,000 u.s. personnel. the pentagon and white house thus far are declining to state what exactly this is besides a show of force. what will happen when the iranian boats get there? what's the interact going to be like with the iranian flotilla the u.s. thinking is probably carries weapons and the aircraft carrier. if it's determined they are full of weapons that iran is planning to deliver to the houthis, and the u.s. is participating in a weapons blockade, where nobody is allowed to give weapons to the houthis, is the u.s. going to stop delivery by force? and then is that war with iran? in order to get this aircraft carrier "the uss theodore roosevelt" the mili

navy's seal to be killed she says the comments are insensitive they inflict pain. we will welcome her to the broadcast in minutes. we begin with the islamic states be anywhere on christians. the islamic state releases new video showing the mass murder of 20 ethiopian christians. jointly now former pentagon on official k.t. mcfarland. first the idea they've would continue with the same terrorist campaign publicizing their atrocities to what he fact is that having significant effect? >> it is because you can see every day people try to you join the banners to be recruited for isis. also they see the coffers filled. we say harley -- how barbaric but the rest of the world say looks like it is gaining ground pushing people i'll throw the entire world there be heading on the beaches but the administration end issues a strongly worded statement saying that they deplore violence. >> plc and to relish passivity if it isn't reacting to challenges and threats correct the record. >> the places where they are standing up whether in egypt or jordan we're not paying attention to

. >> next on booktv, iraq veteran and navy s.e.a.l. sniper scott taylor, he argues that obama and his administration are hurting u.s. national security and should be held accountable. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you so much. thank you. thank you for that wonderful introduction. good afternoon. good afternoon. okay, that is a little bit better. i appreciate the introduction, i was going to go into a little bit of that. but shifting here i had the pleasure of going to the ranch today and it was as humble as it was beautiful and i really enjoyed it and it is certainly an honor and pleasure to be here with you today and the young americans as well. i was walking through with andrew upstairs and one of the things even at the ranch, i thought reagan and his book and i was like wow coming as a lot of different topics. so i was drawn to it and i liked it. and so then there was this one book that really stood out. how many know who lee willmore is? well i was 13 years old reading comic books and how many know what big brothers and big si

career in the navy reserve. today is the 14th of september and we are on capitol hill. thank you for your time. i would like to open up the floor with a question, talking about your youth and your interest in the military and what eventually lead you to the navy rotc program. senator tom carper: my wife says that i never grew up and i hope in a sense that i never do. i grew up in virginia, my dad worked for nationwide insurance. it was in gamble, virginia on the north carolina border. i was in the boy scouts. my father encouraged me to attend and i did scout when i was 12 or so. the first time i ever sat in an airplane was at the civil air patrol, indicated that took off beside me. off into the wild blue yonder. i was always intrigued with the military, my dad had been a chief petty officer in world war ii and in my family, nobody ever graduated from college that i was aware of. when i was a senior in high school i applied to the air force academy. we did not have a lot of money. i applied truly to be considered. best to late to be considered -- to late to be considered

still use the same the number one enemy of the navy is rust. if we keep doing things the way they are we can't keep our navy fleet the size of additives. >> thank you so much for the conversation. might interest is, as an author you are mixing these two stories, but how you are connecting, trying to put into, to the for and how you're communicating time. >> right. >> that something journalism is doing. >> they want to ask a question about that? >> yes. as a reader i will say wow an interesting topic, getting to the meat of it. how you approach, you know the issues and how you are translating that information. >> well, a convenient thing about rust as the subject is that it's ever and people are fighting it in almost every industry. i look at how we keep the cans surviving for years. there's a corrosion guide at the ball corporation making sure that this stuff in your can survive with the coding and this can't end a refrigerator that's all they do is make your corrosion doesn't tell the scans. i look at the pipeline the statue of liberty, i went

diane: here at the washington navy yard, all of the employees once displaced by the tragic shootings in 2013 have now returned to the place formally known as building 197. >> 19 months ago, we lost 12 shipmates, members of our navy family. diane: today marked the official dedication ceremony for the headquarters now call the humphries building, named after joshua humphries. >> we have gotten stronger. now we are back where we belong. diane: about 400 employees returned to this building two months ago on a weekly basis. that process was completed at the end of march. this woman said the memory of the tragic events still haunt her. >> sometimes it's hard. i thought i would be over it, but you cannot help but remember it. diane: the building also has a memorial to those who died in the shootings. >> we will think about the future and still remember our friends who were lost. kellye: scaffolding will soon go up around the virginia state capital of richmond. a project will take about five months. there will be asked your repairs, painting the 225- -year-old building, and surrounded comple

navy troops do that? >> absolutely. this is one of the missions that the navy trains for. they are very good at it and they use helicopters and they use inflatables, and this is something they practice for all the time and they are good at it and they have done it worldwide and have done it before. and the idea is to put a helicopter on the ship you want to search and that assuming there will be no opposition. >> take us through that more slowly. a u.s. helicopter would land on an iranian war ship and then armed navy troops would pop out and do a search. >> we are talking about ships. >> they would not land but they would hover and go down and if the captain doesn't agree they will just take it over. >> so what do you suppose will happen colonel? >> the iranians i don't think they want to get into a shooting fight in the gulf of aden with a navy war ship so they will probably comply. there will be a diplomatic firestorm. i don't know if it will have any affect on the nuclear talks but it will cause a diplomatic incident. >> thank you so much. >>> defying all odds a venezue

hundreds of african migrants disembark from the italian navy ship. all is efficient on the dock side. men and women are divide: first aid when needed and clothing for the cold. but first impressions are deceptive. within days most of these new arrivals will be left to fend for themselves. the government and aid organizations overwhelmed by shear numbers. the migrants who come to citizenly rely on support networks from friend and family, from people who might come from their hometown and village. it's knows who don't have those contact who is can find themselves in a vulnerable situation very quickly. like 18-year-old karama. he came by boat two weeks ago. he has no friends no money no phone, and no idea as to what he'll do next. he is sleeping in catania's mosque. he asked that his face be hidden. >> my dream is to stay in this country, study learn the italian language. go to school, speak with the italians. have the right documents. send money home to my parents. >> the imam said that some nights ten migrants turn up. some nights it's 200. >> the pr

my guest tonight, he is a former navy seal. he is the founder of the the mission continues, also a bested selling author of "resilience: hard-won wisdom for living a better life." please welcome back to the program, eric greitens. sir. ( cheers and applause ) this book is crazy. >> thanks. >> jon: it's so good. "resilience: hard-won wisdom for living a better life." these are letters that you-- correspondence that you wrote with a fellow seal. >> yes. >> jon: who wassing if through an adjustment period as he came back to the state. >> yeah, my buddy, zach walker. he went through the seal team training with me. went off to afghanistan. did a combat deployment. came back home. bought a concrete pumper started a business. kind of welcomed home as this war hero. and then what happened jon is his life was hammered by hardship. his brother died. he lost his business, and one day he drove his truck truckinto his trief way he got out dropped to the ground because he thought there was a sniper watching him. he got up, ran into his house

navy still has some of it's ownerships but not far away, in case there would be some need for them to try to help the members of this vessel it is a cargo ship we understand. >> focusing on the other story, those arrests be i the government one of the things they are accusing him of is planning an attack on the u.s. embassy, who more do we know? and what reaction has there been. of course saudi arabia is very big in the key ally against isil. >> that's right. and understandably, the u.s. officials don't want to talk too much about this alleged plot by three of the 93 people who had been taken into custody by saudi effort thats. all of these people are said to be members of isil. but officials say they don't know if they are actual members or of an isil affiliate, or simply wanna bees. >> the details of this came by a statement in the interior ministry, and it was on the saudi agency, and it just basically says that 93 suspects have been arrested. including two who are accused of having been behind an attempt to attack the u.s. embassy in march. with a car bomb, also, they include 65 s

. >> martin dempsey apologizes to the mother of a fallen navy s.e.a.l. she is here tonight to respond.ap >>> and topless women now targeting underage tourists. >> it's not just a fight. the fight of the century. >> jim grayur weighs in on who will win f the mega fight of the century. "hannity" starts right here, right now. >>> welcome to "hannity." for years democrats across the country accused conservatives for waging a war on women. women are treated as second class citizens and even killed. now, of wacourse i'm talking about thehee treatment of women in islamic they ok rasys. an activist on the front lines for this war for many many years, even starting the right to drivebi campaign for saudi women, where she films herself driving a car within saudi arabia that got her arrested and thrown in jail. joining us nowau via skype is the brave woman behind that video. women's rights activist is with t us. thank you for being with us. >>n' thank you. >> mrs. clinton, we have a presidential campaign going on and from the kingdom of saudi usto arabia she took a

carlos gonzalez originally wore a navy s.e.a.l. try depth and even a purple heart neither of which he earned during his navy career but the story didn't check out with a texas sheriff who is also a vet. the sheriff set up a sting at a gun shop catching him accepting a rifle as a gift for his service. that's when he was arrested. then he jumped bail heading to puerto rico where he's now facing extradition. >>> a big rescue operation in oregon for a puppy that fell 150 feet off a cliff. that puppy, that little guy named ranger 80-pound mastiff mix slipped while hiking and broke his leg. the range her to wait 24 hours to be rescued but hi owner stayed by his side and the team hoisted him up to safety. >>> well when the nfl kicks off again it will have its first female official. sarah thomas will be a line judge. she says she hopes that this is the last you'll hear about her because a good sports official should be not noticed. she's excited not because she's the first woman in stripes but because every official wants to make it to the

coming up mayor mark dempsey apologizes to a fallen navy seal. find out why next when the grieving mother will join us for an interview plus later tonight. >> if there are weapons delivered to factions within yemen, they could threaten navigation that's a problem. >> here we go. he does it again, i wonder why iran is not afraid of pushing our buttons. they are sending ships out off the coast of yemen to confronted u.s. ships. so the president is not going to do anything and that rocky regime in tehran knows all about it. we will talk about the latest on the coast of yemen straight ahead. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. >>> welcome back to "hannity" general martin dempsey is offering up an apology to a navy seal while fighting in arin amadi. >> the city itself has not been declared a part of the caliphate on one hand. >> the mother of that navy seal demanded an apology. by the way, thank you debbie lee for being here. let me go to part of your letter you said, you sir, oh an apology to the famili

>> well, i'd have to refer that back to the navy. i don't have the exact numbers. >> how many do you have in your -- >> i have about 150 ships in my aor that are signed all the way from san diego to the theater, probably about 50 or so of those are west of the dateline at any given time. so what would be impacted by the size of the navy is our ability to rotate forces forward to augment the ones that are west of the dateline all of the time which is the problem we're having now with sustaining our numbers because of the readiness bathtub we're in. so sequestration would just drive that further into the ground. >> it would be hard to pivot to asia under sequestration. >> yes sir. >> all right. so the likelihood of a armed conflict between south korea and north korea, how would you evaluate that on a 1-10 scale? 1 being very unlikely 10 being highly likely say in the next ten years. general? >> well, sir, i think that i caveat it by saying i think kju knows if he were to conduct a conventional attack on south korea, it'd be the end. so

and why navy s.e.a.l.s? >> you know there was a mentor in oral gone by the name of admiral dick who commanded the "enterprise" during the vietnam war and i graduated degree in geology. he asked me what am i going to do? go out to the coast of oregon, become a geologist specialize in deep sea operations. look, if you're going to dive, have you considered being a navy s.e.a.l.? they dive. but i think it fits your personality. at the time, no one really knew what a s.e.a.l. was. this was before the books, before the movies. and he brought a recruiter down. i took a number of exams. both physical and written. and he said, well you know this is a volunteer program. if you don't like it you can leave at any time. which he was very truthful about that. he was a pilot. but the program itself was he was truthful. you could leave any time. but the program was hard. as it should be. because when you wear the trident of a navy s.e.a.l. i think there's an expectation that you're never going to quit. that you're going to

it's a navy ship with a crew of 50 technicians and scientists. its secret weapon: is a middle aged submarine with a nerdy name. meet alvin. we're going to the bottom of the see floor, 10,000 feet below. alvin is a deep water submersible built for scientific research. capable of taking explorers down to 20,000 feet under the sea. it once dove to the titanic wreck in the north atlantic. showing the world secrets of the famous sunken ship. >> when you are alvin and you're looking out, you look at everything in three dimensions. as a scientist it helps you define the whole geologic context. >> the dorado outcrop. only ahandful of scientists have studied these outcroppings. >> sediments in the ocean have one of the largest reservoirs of microbial life on earth. >> what are the questions you hope to answer as a scientist? >> fluid composition. >> deep water heating and cooling systems. until the dorado outcrop outcrop expedition, how it's filtered through earth's crust. >> you have the sea water that's circulating through the crust so even if you take

my son had gone to a peacetime navy and within a few short hours everything changed. and so i began to write more. ultimately i was asked to become a moderator and that started with me encouraging and supporting the navy academy parents through the time i have two more had two more children who decided to apply and attend the naval academy and so as the years went by not only did i have them i had that i have been on active duty and so they kept saying you need to write this all down in the book and as our life continued in its twists and turns, my husband after his airline declared bankruptcy he worked for an airline in afghanistan. i followed him and i talked for a year in afghanistan so i had a perspective of being a mom who have children deployed to afghanistan and now i was there at the same time our youngest son decided to join the military not through and not through the academy but through the rotc and now i have four children all serving in the war zone and when i came back people kept saying you need to write this down in first i thought i will write it down

let's start with these ships av having the iranian navy chased away by u.s. navy, and uss theodore roosevelt carrier group, now two iranian destroyers. their intent? what do you make of it? >> it is important to know the strategic intent. that is taking control of red sea, and the gulf, strait of hormuz is one water that iran already claims as its territorial waters, and u.s. said no, these are international waters. the other strait, the babble man deb, they want to control the area they want to control flow of oil and putting a pinch irmovement in saudi arabia. they will have control, that is why iran, with nuclear weapons will be such a threat, do you think we'll challenge the control of the waterways if they use or threaten to use them. lou: iran taking actions toward saudi arabia. as it taxes on targets and yemen yemen. this is more serious than this president anticipated. he looks as if he is caught the tail of events and dragged along by them. this is doubley troubling because russia is an ally of iran. one of its supporters. and now in joint exercises

navy is spending more on rust than it is to kind of fight the wars? >> i don't know if i'd go like that far, that's definitely part of it. >> based on billions of dollars? >> the defense of department as a whole spends a great deal of this. that is also one of my favorite chapters because you see the way that this is treated as the waiter we all do. it's uncomfortable, it's off word it's definitely not interesting or sexy, guys that are making 100 million-dollar missile programs say oh rust you deal with that, not me. and then you get a stubborn corrosion and there is a guy who is the erosion ambassador and his job is to change the way that the pentagon is dealing with rust and he says while coming what you think you are dealing with is really important, but we cannot just end this, making things fall apart in 10 years is not a way that is good bureaucracy. i there are better ways to administrated. and the funny thing is that it's tempting to think that the highest-ranked official should be an engineer and he's not. he's public administration he's ver