space, the warship s crew fought bravely in the dark, might prevent the ship from sinking. hard to imagine what this crew had to overcome. i m proud of their courage and dedication, and active search and rescue going on for missing shipmates. keep them in your thoughts and prayers. event place leading up to the collision remain unclear. it occurred 60 miles southwest of japan, one of the massively trafficked ports in the pacific. a short time ago donald trump responded in a tweet, quote, thoughts and prayers for the sailors of uss fitzgerald and their families, thank you to japanese allies. a little bit here, we know secretary matus is about to make a decision about us troop levels heading into afghanistan, possibly increasing those troops, at the same time the
city into darkness. heather: secretary of defense, jim mattis on capitol hill looking for money. he and james dunford are testifying before the armed services committee. secretary matus says the military is not ready to fight. and he blames congress. the i retired from military service three months before sequestration took effect. four years later, i returned to the department and i ve been shocked by what i ve seen about our readiness to fight. heather: jennifer griffin is life force from the panic on with more. defense secretary mattis and dunford testified for 4 hours. they are back at it this morning. many of the questions today focus on russia s interference in the election. mattis responded to a quote from
china. last words, general tatum. what i think is michael s on for something. you have to leverage all options are, cyber, military, economic, diplomatic. i think president trump has made a brilliant move with president xi jinping and i think were going to expend every option like hr mcmaster said and secretary matus are going to advise the president to expend every single option before we try the military option in korea. you cannot have a north korea with nukes that are threatening markets of freedom. sean: thank you bill clinton. and gave you $4 billion for that as well. thank you barack obama. up next on his busy news night tonight here on hannity. [bleep]. sean: dueling protests clashing in berkeley, california, over the weekend. how will the violence for the snowflakes and? lou dobbs weighs and when we
submarine to reach guam. so, therefore, the question is how do you deal with each of those as the technical timetable unfolds. i don t believe their language, even the most recent one s a thing which would worry us most. it s the technical progress and, secondly, in the response what can the u.s. now do in the months ahead with china. julie: i believe we are in a good position. i believe that the meeting with china s president and president trump went well. i believe we definitely did send a very strong message as we went ahead and dropped those 59 tomahawk missiles in syria while we re trying to get china to get onboard to prevent that from ever happening. the mar-a-lago outcome. my background is i m a china analyst, but the bottom line is i think the china outcome as it relates to north korea was a good one. there s now a high-level group involving secretary tillerson, secretary matus, general mattis, general mcmaster. these are smart guys, they know what they re doing, and there
u.s. intervention in latin america, wouldn t a u.s. military option in venezuela create a huge uproar, and what is the justification for in terms of u.s. national security? all leave the defense department piece of it, i m confident that secretary matus could answer that. from an intelligence perspective, we have watched continued deterioration. he continues to assert more power, inflict more pain on the people of venezuela. you can see the beginning of fishers amongst various groups, and what i believe the president is trying to accomplish was to give the venezuelan people hope and opportunity to create a situation where democracy can be restored and intelligence makes very clear that the regime continues to put snipers in towers and do things that are