and, of course, to me, safety at the end of the day is most important. it will not deter us in conducting our operations. undeterred and sacht fety thp priority. joining me, mark jacobson, former senior adviser to defense secretary ash carter, also a professor at amherst college. mark, how do you think the u.s. handled this possible near collision? well, let me start with the crew, the uss chancellorville. i think what they did is admirab admirable. it s always dangerous out in the open ocean. you know, of course, we can look back at the uss john mccain and the fitzgerald and the collisions with commercial tankers. but i think the crew showed in a situation where the russian destroyer was clearly, you know, 50, 100 feet away, they handled themselves admirably. they didn t panic. they moved along. didn t do anything to make the situation worse. so, again, i think that that s a plus given everything going on. but the question is, is this
they didn t panic. griff: despite attempts to do otherwise. story we are looking at now, the consumer confidence is tells a different story than what we are seeing in these day-to-day slides. consumer confidence is is remarkable. last friday the university of michigan came out with their number far better than wall street anticipated. not just the surveys. it s action. we see the holiday sales. at least the best in six years. amazon having its best selling period ever. consumers are two thirds of this economy. i don t think we are going to go into recession next year and perhaps not even in 2020. let the dust settle. but, please, if you are if you are a couple raising kids. you are 40 years old, don t panic and try not to pay attention to people who are trying to push this market around for ulterior motives there are a lot of folks out there want this market to go down. they don t want the administration to be successful. things like that. they have big mega phones. make sure you a
he goes by himself and he sits down with a notably tough prosecutor and the thing that s really interesting is that he apparently did a really good job. he apparently answered the questions. he apparently didn t panic or perjure himself. he knew how to like always tell the truth but don t always be telling it. let s see how, you know, you talk about how fear is factoring into michael cohen s world and who knows how fear will factor into paul manafort s world. telling truth and nothing but the truth with regard to this president. michael daly thank you so much. next the first daughter ivanka trump taking the opposite view of her father on family separations, and also saying that the media is not the enemy of the people. we ll discuss why, though, she has stayed so quiet until now.
did any of the other divers talk to you about their demeanor in those five or six hours that it took for them to make their way out? were they able to remain calm? so i was on a part of the group about 200 meters and on that part of the route there was none the kids there was no events of panic. everything was very smoothly according to the plan that was made for the boys rescue. which is fantastic news. having been in that cave it was talk to us about the challenges. talk to us about the challenges. we ve been told for even the most experienced professional cave diver, this operation in particular is very difficult. why? well, the biggest challenge
taking time to join us. one of the divers there, he was part of the first effort on sunday telling us there was no panic with the children, according to other divers he spoke with, they were afraid but didn t panic and everything went very smoothly. john? more former wrestlers are speaking out about sex abuse allegations at ohio state university and whether jim jordan knew about it when he was a coach there. hawaii is in the middle of the pacific ocean. we re the most isolated population on the planet.