you can throw things out there but eventually they sort of lose their luster. there is a real worry or concern and that is that with each new sanctions regime that has been imposed upon north korea, they have along with the help of china found ways to when they re hit, to recover. leland: they ve been able to get around it. in terms of the rhetoric, the u.s. has gotten involved in this one general saying a couple of weeks ago from u.s. air force s pacific command the u.s. is ready to respond with rapid, lethal and overwhelming force at the time and place of our choosing. jillian, thanks. more to come on this for sure. shannon: we have breaking news this morning on a military aircraft crash from this weekend. three marines are still missing. we ll have an update on that search. leland: president trump promised to take on voter fraud. now many states are pushing back while others are starting to give in to the process. we ll break down the arguments.
had big, enthusiastic campaign-style crowds in ohio, west virginia and pennsylvania and elsewhere in the past few weeks. shannon: do you think many of the mainstream media and critics of his base talk down to them, that it does solidify them? their sense they re an opposition party in a way to what they view as mainstream media and the bigger attack they see on the man they went to the voting booth and voted for. does that energize and solidify their commitment even more? absolutely. if you went to trump rallies during the campaign, he always talked about the press. he often pointed them out in the room. saying that they were lying about him and now whatever happens the president generally attacks the press as part of his reaction to it. and the reason is, of course, that so many of his supporters just don t trust what they see in a lot of the news. shannon: let s talk about this issue of leaks which is something the president has talked about a lot, has tweeted
of in bill clinton s case as his standing as a former president. shannon: so many of these documents say in getting response are so heavily redacted. portions they think would be important to understanding exactly what happened here. they say they ll go to federal court to get the redactions lifted. do you think they ll have any luck and what more do you think we might learn? it will be a snail s pace, no doubt about that. they never rush to redact these sorts of things but i don t believe they should be redacted. hopefully we can get to the truth and we need evidence in order to find that truth. at the end of the day the american people are so sick of this smoke and mirror game happening on a regular basis within washington, within our government institutions. they want answers and they want the truth so they can form reasonable opinions about what is happening in the world that they pay in the country they pay a lot of taxes in. shannon: these freedom of information requests
i m not sure those numbers are totally accurate or representative in the sense that the way the army measures readiness is not just through whether its machines are fixed and fueled but through things like have each of its soldiers completed counter espionage training. there are dozens of checklists of some meaningful but some totally unmeaningful requirements that a brigade needs to register as combat effective. the numbers are a little misleading on that. i have confidence our grand forces will be ready to go. leland: we know the readiness numbers are something congress will talk about as they try to get the huge increase in defense spending and the service chief talking about it as an issue as well. thanks, my friend. all the best. shannon: san francisco a sanctuary set to pony up big bucks after the city violated
shannon: the pentagon confirming american ground troops and war planes are a major operation in yemen fighting along troops targeting a local al qaeda group. it includes surveillance and aerial reviewing but wouldn t specify the number of troops on the ground. leland: a memo on google s internal mailing list going viral over the weekend. a male google software engineer stirs up a diversity debate on women in the tech industry and accuses them of shutting down conversation. when it comes to diversity and inclusion google s left bias has created a political correct