lift helicopters can fly and they are short on the flight line. one of mattis s top priorities is to rebuild the military and he needs billions more to do that. leland: it all comes down to money. lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. thank you. laura. laura: the stock market booming since president trump took office but his success is not matched in his approval rating. why the disconnect? bernie goldberg joins us next. liberty mutual saved us
the pilots that fly the b-1 bomber say it s like flying a fighter jet and they cite three word. speed, persistence, linger a long time, and payload. in afghanistan the b-1 is capable of airborne long periods of time waiting for the right moment to strike. this gives the plane its incredible lethal punch. this is actually the bomb rack here. if you look carefully, you notice that it rotates like a carousel. it allows this aircraft to carry all kind of different munition. that way, it can carry out multiple strikes on the same flight. the b-1 has multiple capabilities. obviously, it s a bomber so it carries bombs. it has gravity bombs. gps guided bombs and stand-off bombs so we don t necessarily have to get over the target to drop. reporter: just out of sight of the flight line is another feature at the base that make it such a potential threat.
tree until you do not. here in the. here on the flight line at andrews, there were two f-16s. the pilots of the 103rd in d.c. air national guard sleep in their flight suits and they only have two minutes to intercept the plane headed to capital before it s too late. keep in mind, before 9/11, this mission didn t exist. our give every time it goes off and we scramble, a real-world event, just like 9/11. more than 5000 since 9/11. we are not defending our nation orders and way of life. fox news, you name it. all the viewers out there we are here to defend you and we are proud of that. we are proud of them. the man who commands this group of fires does the reality of what happened on 9/11 all too
sad woulhave used chemical weapons without putin knowing it ahead of time? yes, i share his point of view. and there is a reason that i do so. principally because shayrat airfield is a very small airfield. it has two runways. it has 25 vetments. when you use chemical weapons on an aircraft, you to do very special handling. you have to have decontamination units that follow the aircraft. everybody has to be wearing gas masks. you do not want to be on the flight line if one of these things exposes, right? so the russians would see all of this coming from the arsenal, move on to the aircraft, go to a special handling area, use special aircraft controls for it to take off, and then fly off on to its target and delivery. there is no way russia could not have known that. also, we may have intelligence that comes from the ground on that base from the syrian level that indicates that they were either operating with the
ahead of time? yes, i share his point of view. and there is a reason that i do so. principally because shayrat airfield is a very small airfield. it has two runways. it has 25 vetments. when you use chemical weapons on an aircraft, you to do very special handling. you have to have decontamination units that follow the aircraft. everybody has to be wearing gas masks. you do not want to be on the flight line if one of these things exposes, right? so the russians would see all of this coming from the arsenal, move on to the aircraft, go to a special handling area, use special aircraft controls for it to take off, and then fly off on to its target and delivery. there is no way russia could not have known that. also, we may have intelligence that comes from the ground on that base from the syrian level that indicates that they were either operating with the russians, maybe the russians were operating the decon units,