our navy is smaller now than any time since 1917. the navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. we are down to 285. we are down to the low 200s if we dough through a sequestration. our air force is older and smaller since any time since was found in 1947. i think governor romney hasn t spent enough time look at how our military works. you mention the navy. we have fewer ships than we did since 1916. we also have fewer horses and bayonets. we have aircast carriers where planes lands on them and ships that go under water. nuclear subject marines. the question is not a game of battleship where we are countingships. it s what are our capabilities. megyn: horses and bayonets in
talking about how obama was going to gut the military. he said you don t understand what the military is today. i think gofrp another r go romn romney hasn t looked at how the military looks. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. we have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military changed we have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. ship that is go under water nuclear submarines. well, as it turns out in the middle of the debate after he heard this a marine tweeted fox news and said, the marines still use bayonets. may not be clear who doesn t understand what the military currently uses. briefly on the auto bailout, in an editorial that romney wrote in november of 2008 which had the headline he didn t write it let detroit go bankrupt. he argued for bankruptcy and
here we go, folks. get ready, busy couple of weeks. what is everybody saying this morning around the watercooler today about who came off stronger, who came off better last night? chief washington correspondent james rosen joins us now with a look what we learned from the so-called snap polls last night. hey, james. reporter: martha, for the record i skipped the watercooler. i go straight to coffee in the morning but at least three of these instant polls, must be caffeinated. three of these instant polls sampling uncommitted swing state or likely v president obama the clear winner but that doesn t mean these judgements will be reflected in the broader contest. virtually every question from moderator bob schiefer president obama used to attack governor romney, accusing the gop all at once all over the map on foreign policy, of copying the president s own positions but being too eager to plunge the country more deeply into war. at one point the commander-in-chief resorted to open conde
president obama trying to disqualify mitt romney as commander in chief by explaining how the united states military term works and boats that go under the water that are called submarines. this must have been planned out in advance. you ll be seeing this over and over and over again over the next few days. our navy is smaller now than any time since 1917. the navy said they needed 313 ships. we re now down to 285. we re down to the low 200s. that s unacceptable. i want to make sure that we have the ships required by our navy. i think governor romney hasn t looked at how the military works. you mentioned the navy and that we have fewer ships than in 1916. we also have fewer horses and bayonettes because the nature of our military has changed. we have things called aircraft
it s one of those kids will be studying 20 years from now. mitt romney gave a great comparison to the current military versus 100 years ago. barack obama was prepared. let s listen. i think governor romney hasn t spent time looking at how our military works. you mentioned the navy. there are fewer ships than we did in 1916. we have fewer horses and bay onetts because nature of the military change. we have aircraft carriers and ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines the question is not a game of battleship we re counting ships. it s what are our capabilities? i think mitt romney s comparisons were unfair, technology has advanced and we can do more with less. as long as we re focused and going in the right direction that is what matters. right. and in 1d 18 my grandfather