of clarity in statements, i think that it is why it is so important that we are correlated with our allies. i also worry about the facts that we have to have a whole government approach, a highly coordinated across all parts of the government, very glad to see that that seems to be starting to happen. i worry about tweets that sometimes undercut what other members of the administration is saying, and i think it is really time to get serious about this. martha: general, do you worry about that? well, i think the trump administration has been employing a diplomatic information, military, economic campaign, that is what the last couple of months have been all about, the statements, the tweets, the military flyovers, the economic sanctions, the french door and backed her up diplomacy, all of that has been synchronized better than i had ever seen it synchronized in the previous eight years. so i think that is going just
style weapon on the far right-hand side of the frame being used openly. that has come up in america more recently. three flatbed trucks with cameras and reporters on them. and the aforementioned listing white van in front of the motorcade. ill-balanced. white van with hopefully, yeah handrails to hold onto on the top. hopefully make that van makes it down pennsylvania avenue. the #sayaprayerforthevan. steve, where are you at? the parade, commander in chief flanked by the members of the military. he s assumed office. he s the most powerful man in the world. i think we ll see some military flyovers ahead. but one of the unique aspects of the presidency, and i think unique for donald trump, who s never held public office, never
happy fourth of july. eric: it s a fourth of july tradition. folks flocking to the south carolina beaches to salute the troops as air force jets soar down the coast. but this year s sequester cuts could have put an end to all of that until american volunteers stepped up to do what the government couldn t do. andy is the president of salute from the shore. he joins us now. tell us so far years you ve had the air force fly by the shores. why did that stop this year? that stopped because all military flyovers across the nation were grounded because the sequestration. we found a lot of volunteers that owned vintage world war ii planes and we decided we couldn t let the salute stop. our military continues to protect us, so we felt like we needed to continue to salute them. eric: amen. so how did that come about? how did you guys gather the airplanes and who is flying the planes? we ve made a lot of contacts through the prior four years of
brass meeting with all the top american military brass is a normal thing. it happens all the time. spencer wrote about that at wired.com today. happens every two years. the egyptian military flyovers to spook the protesters in tahrir square. those were made in american made f-16 which they bought from uss. we started shipping tanks to them in parts so they could assemble them in egypt. they are still american tanks but some assembly required. the only country in the world that buys more weapons from us or gets more money from the united states is israel. egypt is second only to israel. that was set in motion in the late 1970 when egypt signed a
happens every two years. the egyptian military flyovers to spook the protesters in tahrir square. those were made in american made f-16 which they bought from uss. we started shipping tanks to them in parts so they could assemble them in egypt. they are still american tanks but some assembly required. the only country in the world that buys more weapons from us or gets more money from the united states is israel. egypt is second only to israel. that was set in motion in the late 1970 when egypt signed a peace treaty. part of the deal is the $2 billion we send to egypt every