now. frankly, even though trump has got his strong supporters, may take a primary, i m not sure he can win a general election. reporter: and republican voters say they are indeed looking for a winner. that is one of the leading criteria as they begin sorting through this growing field of candidates. of course, the question of who that is is going to be determined by this campaign with governor desantis announcing next week at that donor meeting in miami, this field is quickly growing. the first republican debate, only three months away. russia says it defense minister has visited ukraine s zaporizhzhia region. officials say he met with several commanders and awarded medals to troops as russian forces are trying to defend the areas they ve occupied and nearby shelling towns. sam kiley reports. reporter: carried on a gun
assessment. when we do have tragedies, be they navy destroyers colliding with merchant ships, we lost 14 sailors a couple summers ago. we had a lot of accountability. we fired a lot of admirals as a result of that. we had an ac-130 gun ship conduct a series of firings in afghanistan. we held a lot of people accountable for that. i think the military in this case is going to have to go through this, point by point. i think there will be accountability. what about the growing tension between the united states and france right now, sir? france announced it was recalling its ambassador to the u.s. over the exclusion from a nuclear deal. secret nuclear submarine deal. that deal with the uk and australia, that upends the prior deal that france had with australia. how significant is this back and forth right now? well, the back and forth between the u.s. and france is more significant than any other i can think of, alex, going back
members were. no indication that british service members were killed and also no indications that u.s. state department officials were killed in the attack at abbey gate. but what we what is very clear from the general, the mission continues. they will continue evacuations. they ramped up security. this was it s clear that somehow the bomber got past the so-called taliban security that was on the outer perimeter. they re going to try to push the crowds back further. but you have overwatch. general mckenzie was clear that they have ac-130 gun ships, they have ah-64 apache helicopters and a lot of isr over that airport. there will be i imagine a number of ways in which the u.s. military tries to indicate that any further attackers may be better beware before approaching the airport.
do that. we talked about the overwatch. we have the unmanned aircraft and other drone systems that have very good optical and other means of looking down. we look what happened around the gate. we identified patterns. highly trained people to take a look at that we also have our aircraft that we fly locally. av-64s that i mentioned and other manned aircraft that come off of the carrier that we have off of the coast as well as u.s. air force aircraft that we bring up from out of afghanistan. everything from f-15s to ac-130 gun ship. the ac-130 gun ship has a highly targeting capability. we know that visible demonstration hoff these kinds of isr tends to dissuade the attacker. they know if we can see them do it, we re going to strike them immediately. we ll be prepare to do that
they put board were concerned, so concerned they put on board were concerned, so concerned they put on their flash gear, which is their they put on their flash gear, which is their anti exclusion uniform they were is their anti exclusion uniform they were to is their anti exclusion uniform they were to stop and since getting burned, were to stop and since getting burned, and clearly the ship was clued burned, and clearly the ship was clued into burned, and clearly the ship was clued into what was going on, but really clued into what was going on, but really happen? it could be the ship s really happen? it could be the ship s crew were very concerned but this gunship ship s crew were very concerned but this gunship was far away, but this is an this gunship was far away, but this is an extremely volatile area. when you have is an extremely volatile area. when you have the russians firing, albeit from you have the russians firing, albeit from a you have the russ