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who could have predicted would you have two u.s. small navy boats, one of which had a mechanical problem or navigational error that put it into iran s territorial waters? but as it happened, you have them go into the waters and iranians make the decision to detain them. sounds like a cliche to say timing, whether accidental or not couldn t be worst. the president has his final state of the union speech tonight, a big part of his message is going to be that diplomacy works. two examples will be normalization of relations with cuba and the iran nuclear deal. the nuclear deal is meant to be implemented as soon as this weekend. all those punishing economic sanctions to be lifted as soon as this weekend. you have many people in that building where you re standing right now, both republican and democrat who oppose the iranian nuclear deal. an incident like this will give
rather complicated. again, ten u.s. sailors detained, apparently a mechanical problem where they drifted into iranian on an island that iran claims, farsi island. they were detained by the equivalent of the iranian coast guard. but again, diplomatic conversations have taken place, secretary kerry has been on the horn with his counterparts in iran and everybody is supposed to be supposed to be essentially let go and allowed to go on their way in the words of josh earnest, promptly. we ll continue to have more as we get it in. now i want to move to an interview i conducted just a few minutes before we learned of this news with the head of the armed services committee, john mccain. here it is. joining me now in the state of the union evening is senator john mccain, chairman of the
people that were on those ships into custody, but now as jim miklaszewski was just reporting it would appear they re going to release them back to the united states. what do you make of that? well, as you know, i m hearing this breaking news from you and my staff at the same time. so let me just be clear of what i know. it s basically that there was some type of mechanical problem and they weren t planning to be anywhere near iran-claimed territory. it sounds like diplomacy is working and, look, it s not over till it s over. so we hope that your point is well taken, that we have some better diplomacy going with iran right now, and hopefully this will be resolved and it won t be an issue we ll be talking about in a couple of hours. i certainly would expect that and i would hope that. let me ask you about the state of the union while i have you. president obama campaigned on
u.s. military power in the region whose credibility is vitally important to keeping the peace. so hopefully the iranians will turn back the vessels and the crews and do it rapidly and put this behind us. general barry mccaffrey, thank you very much. as we heard from democratic whip steny hoyer who will be attending in short order the president s state of the union address, this will be part of the backdrop tonight. all we know is what jim miklaszewski initially reported from the pentagon and that is that these two vessels, one of which apparently had mechanical problem. they re called riverine vessels and that kind of sweeps up an entire category of u.s. navy vessel. again as we ve been saying if you re familiar with the film apocalypse now, that type of