But we start off with Donald Trumps latest campaign firestorm, shaking up the 2016 race, his new comments about vietnam veteran john mccains war record sparking a bipartisan backlash. Donald trump will join us live momentarily. First, Abcs Cecilia Vega on the new uproar. Reporter donald trump is at it again, unleashing his latest political firestorm on a new target, this time, john mccain. Hes not a war hero. Reporter trump in iowa going directly after the arizona senator and former Navy Fighter Pilot who spent 5 1 2 years as a p. O. W. During the vietnam war. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people who werent captured. I hate to tell you that. Reporter and the reaction from fellow republicans fast and fierce, nearly every gop challenger running for the white house firing back. When it comes to attacking an american hero, im going to call it out. I denounce donald trump for that. I was highly offended what donald trump said about john mccain and his years of sacrifice. Re
Race, his new comments about vietnam veteran john mccains war record sparking a bipartisan backlash. Donald trump will join us live momentarily. First, Abcs Cecilia Vega on the new uproar. Reporter donald trump is at it again, unleashing his latest political firestorm on a new target, this time, john mccain. Hes not a war hero. Reporter trump in iowa going directly after the arizona senator and former Navy Fighter Pilot who spent 5 1 2 years as a p. O. W. During the vietnam war. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people who werent captured. Reporter and the reaction from fellow republicans fast and fierce, nearly every gop challenger running for the white house firing back. When it comes to attacking an american hero, im going to call it out. I denounce donald trump for that. I was highly offended what donald trump said about john mccain and his years of sacrifice. Reporter democrats pouncing, too. There is nothing funny about the hate he is spewing. The insults hes directe
Astounding number, there are over 200,000 isis tweets per day. How can we possibly get a handle over this . The chatter is so high and the volume is so loud that its difficult to get a handle. This isnt terror as usual. This is terror gone viral. I come mebd the fbi, Homeland Security and state and locals for their disrupting of these many plots. But as we saw in chattanooga, we cannot stop all of them. In this age of peer to peer terrorism, authorities are searching for suspects who use secure aps we call dark space, to communicate and crowd source their calls for attack, inspiring operatives who never have crossed into the borders of syria, but cross over borders through the internet to conduct acts of terror. Isis cyber commanders now regularly send out internet directives and missives to their followers, as we saw in garland, texas. Sometimes our first indication of a hatched plot is an internet hash tag. We need to have a frank conversation in america about the challenges posed by
Contingency over seas in the near future . You would have to do one of two things. You would either have to grow the force. We believe that the force is 186,000 marines. And elsewhere, we could take services that are deployed in the far east and okonawa. We did that in the combat in iraq. And its only through the past few years we have been able to reestablish our presence in the pacific. We have some options. The other option is we go all in. We activate our reserves and we go and do what needs to be done. We have done that before too. You can do that for a short period of time but as you mentioned, that is not sustainable. What is a short period of time . In your best estimate i dont want to hold you to it. But we are wrestling with Big Decisions about the middle east and Irans Nuclear capableility and there are some in the senate that i believe are tempted by the idea that we can go in and bomb iran and set off what could be a war much bigger than any contingency we have been trying
Whether we would based on a standard allow women to serve in infantry artillery tanks light armory reconnaissance, we formed a task force of volunteers. And we put them together as a unit. They trained up and went to 29 palms and the Warfare Center and did a series of tests. And the tests are complete and it will provide information to inform about whether or not he will request the waiver. And i have not seen all the data. I have seen some of it. And when we first sent volunteer female marines inligsed to determine their ability to complete that course. The number that went they had an about a 36 Completion Rate and again, we are still looking at this. We are we have not made any sort of predecision. So again whatever we do, it is about individual standards. It is about the capableeableility of the unit and that unit becoming better, or at least as good as it is now. So that decision is is going to come. I believe we have ainformation, we are working with the army. And im sure i know