interfere with other country s elections. you know, they got caught this time. so, no, i don t think that president trump is going to ignore all the evidence. i think he ll have a measured response, based on the evidence that he s presented, the advice that he gets from his advisers. i will let you have the last word, captain collins. and do me a favor and tell your wife i said happy new year. happy new year. you got it. take care. updating breaking news out of istanbul, turkey, a nightclub attack apparently by one or more armed gunman who entered the nightclub as revelers were celebrating the new year and opened fire with guns. we don t know what kind of guns. at least one of the attackers is still inside the nightclub. we re getting most of these reports from reuters news service, so we haven t independently confirmed them, but they are saying that police and special forces are preparing an operation now to enter that
the new reality for democratic leaders, that s dealing with the gop in control of congress and the white house. gregg? kevin corke live in honolulu. kevin, thank you. and for more on this now, let s brick in captain ben collins, a u.s. army special forces veteran and a green beret, who served three tours of duty in afghanistan. captain collins, thank you for being here. i want to start with president putin s decision to wait until president trump is in office to decide how he will react to the recent expulsion of the russian diplomats. how much of a power play is that on the part of putin? well, i think it s probably in putin s best interests to do so. somebody, i think it was right before the break, governor huckabee had said, look, this has essentially just been a slap in the face to obama. and you know, the russian embassy actually tweeted out a pretty snarky picture of a lame
and on top of that, if you would, captain collins, let s consider the implications behind the incidence. the china administrator saying they will return the drone. and there is no details on what that means and given this took place in the south china sea, are u.s. military and intelligence leaders to infer there is more brewing? look, absolutely. i mean, you cannot overstate the importance of the south china sea. it is half of our commercial shipping, the global commercial shipping goes through. a third of the global maritime traffic going through this. china asserts it owns 90% of it and they ve been making a play to interfere in terms of ownership. not just for the shipping, but there is also a ton of oil, proven reverses underneath there. and so china has been building man-made islands and arming them and they flew a bomber just
reporter: and this incident is just the latest clash between china and the president-elect trump and another indication that the next administration does not plan to carry on with business as usual. eric. garrett, thanks so much. and for more on this now, we ll bring in captain ben collins, u.s. ashly special forces army special forces veteran who served three tours of duty in afghanistan. so captain collins, considering the length of time that china has had this drone, how much information on the technical and physical construction of the drone could china collect through reverse engineering? well, arthel, they could actually do exactly as it was just they could reverse engineer the entire thing. and to point look, china has been stealing our intellectual property for years. but, yeah, look, i agree. at this point, whatever technology has to be assumed has been compromised that is in that under water drone. that is not good.
essentially be advocating a sea lane that half of our commercial shipping goes through and that is untenable. so there is room for us to push back. more to talk about. captain ben collins, but out of time. thank you so much and we ll see you next time. thank you, arthel. and the terrorist attack in jordan that killed four security officers an a canadian tourist and now we are told there is apparently a hostage situation going on right now in the 12th century iraq castle. that is a 12th century crusader castle that is a popular tourist spot in jordan, in iraq. the local reports say 14 people are being held including a malaysian tourist that police were able to free ten of the hostages but it is believed right now that at 7:37 p.m. in jordan that several gunmen, apparently, are still inside that popular tourist site and castle. this is after they stormed that police station and killed four of the jordanian security officers. one malaysian tourist is believe