russian, we are waiting to see who will come back home. it s crazy. we don t have names yet. only speculations that it s going to be mothers and their children. and it s tough, very tough. have you allowed yourself to think about what you might say to her the first time you see her? i don t think i will speak, i will just hold her and hug her and i won t ask questions, that s for sure. and i just want to hold her. that is the mother of a hostage who is being held by hamas right now. she may soon see her daughter following a significant diplomatic breakthrough in the middle east. there s a tentative deal to release dozens of people captured by the terrorist group more than six weeks ago. we re going to get a live report from tel aviv in just a moment. this all comes as the u.s. military is becoming more aggressive in its response to attacks against service members in the widen region. retired four-star navy admiral, james stavridis joins us with expert unless on that and
Other countries in the region are not spending massive amounts on defense. Although, australia and japan have committed to increase spending, particularly on maritime capability. Generally, were seeing a reduction in the resources of the u. S. And its potential Coalition Partners and an increase overall. So the task of managing this challenge and monitoring it is becoming greater. Then as i said, were seeing gaps in capability. Notwithstanding the u. S. Rebalance, there are limits to resources in terms of humanitarian assistance, in terms of amphibious capability, in terms of assets, undersea assets. The u. S. Attack submarine fleet actually around the mid 2020s will start to get smaller, not larger, for example. And gaps in cyber, Missile Defense and Maritime Security more broadly. For that reason, i really chose to focus my paper on Maritime Security and how we can take the framework of federated defense and start to actualize it in terms of real capability. In the region. Then i nar
Announcer chatting with you live at current. Com billpress this is the bill press show. Live on your radio and current tv. David schuster in for bill press. I have more on current. Com about john kerry and why president obama should give him the job of secretary of state and not ambassador susan rice. Nothing against ambassador susan rice. It is just that john kerry deserves it. Hes the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and oh, by the way again without john kerry saying oh yeah, president obama, barack obama you can do the keynote speech in 2004 when youre only a state senator whos running for Senate Without that opportunity, there is no Obama Campaign in 2008. John kerry wants the job. Give it to him. Got some guy Malcolm Johnson would calls that 100 idiotic statement. Too bad, malcolm. Thats how it is. Special shout out to the folks on twitter. Dab ra and alan debra and alan and a couple of others. Honesty following us on twitter. Tweeting at bp show, on this topic,
All right. I got to end the show on an apology. Cnn tonight starts with d lemon, right now, and i am off my game, man. I have been doing you dirty with time all week long and i apologize. I dont mean to disrespect your show. Its my favorite show on the network. It should be because its the best one. I agree. Other than, you know, 360 and cuomo prime time. Nope. Yours is the best, don. Yours is the best. Yours is the only one with a unicorn. So, interesting conversation with cube. But, theres a lot more to it, than what happened. What you guys talked about. How so . Well, the whole theres a reason that africanamericans are not drawn to most africanamericans are not drawn to or open to what this administration is doing or saying. One must be careful with lets put it this way. I had a conversation, the other day, and i wont give it away, with oprah. And she talked about the power of a platform, right . Just a phone conversation. Power of a platform. So, if you are someone like ice cube, a
Prime minister says he wont be pressured into a peace plan with the palestinians. We begin tonight in ukraine where there are new developments in that countrys stand oif with russia. Thousands of troops pouring into the southern crimea region according to crimea officials who say they have been given a deadline by the russians to lay down their arms or face a fullscale attack. Also the crisis is the focus of an ur Urgent National security meeting at the white house. That meeting has now broken up. The administration, president obama had been scrambling to react to this active aggression by Vladimir Putin and russia. Late friday evening the president appeared at this podium behind me, and said there would be costs if russia were to invite crimea or any other part of ukraine. That was ignored. And now the administration talking about sanctions. No one is talking about any sort of military response at this point. Today the president had a photo opwith the israeli prime minister, benjamin