are talking about the entire face of the middle east changing on a day-by-day basis. we have had two ravine changes in north africa, and uprising if countries like libya, a major oil producer and uprising in russia and now you add iran, the uncertainty is unbearable. and i will take it a step further, one reason why the iranians may be using what israel calls a provocative act, could be because they are trying to change the subject. their people are angry, and they have been uprising and if they could redirect that anger to israel that will take the heat off them. with the uss carrier battle group in the area, it would be very difficult to close down the suez canal with two iranian battle ships. guest: i don t think that is going to happen but if this were just about the can fall, we
again from our head quarters in new york. this was day 90 of the trump administration. when he said last week he was sending an armoda, while we hadn t heard that word in a long time and conjured sailing ships more than battle ships, it made sense in response to the provocation against north korea. and he made point about the submarines being more powerful than the aircraft carrier and as nuclear weapons launch platforms, they are but we don t normally discuss the movement of our submarines. the phrase run silent, run deep comes to mind. but when hisefense secretary and national security advisor said it, they were all wrong. the carrier carl vincent and the strike group that sails with it, they were thousands of miles away and steaming clear in the other direction. here is the administration last week on all this verses what we