that boat. brian: a lot of people live on the water, maybe they are clamming. ainsley: a lot live on the boat. steve: 30% of people under my plane yesterday were under 10, people are traveling going places. ainsley: we had our spring break last two weeks, most schools in new york, coming back from spring break. brian: soon the kids will make their decisions. meanwhile, donald trump knows where he is going for spring break, new york city. he will be arraigned in manhattan court downtown tomorrow. ainsley: multiple secret service are testifying this week related to documented at mar-a-lago. steve: alexandria hoff, good morning. alexandria: no expectation that the president will be held in new york. he plans to return back to mar-a-lago. the former president outlined his plans on truth social, ending the post saying america was not supposed to be this way. former president is referring to alvin bragg s indictment against him. we do not know the specific charges,
this was for benign purposes. if for benign purposes, no reason they wouldn t have notified us, that is a lie. brian: they think we re all idiots. well, i think this is a problem when politics infuses national security, domestic politics. perhaps he s gone back and changed his point of view, it was a spy balloon, period, end of story. you can argue, we spy on them, you cannot argue this was anything other than a spy balloon. ainsley: you would know, you are vice chair of the senate committee. you have a new book coming out, decades of decadence, tell us about it. if you look at where the world was end of cold war, the
readiness. what i would advocate for is that we make sure that we still are able to send our sons and daughters of our volunteers as you said at the top of the comments, that they go into any fight, not be a fair fight but a fight where they go in knowing they re going to be ready to win 99-0 so the outcome is shaped before we engage. one more thing if i may add, by reduced defense budget, it does incur increased risk. it does incur less deterrence abroad specifically. in my view and i think the view of the joint chiefs as well is it will increase the lessen the margin of error you want to incur. i want to get into, is america still a super power? if we are, are we losing that and if we are not a super power, what does it take to get back to being a power that the world is
if they re in trouble? no, governor. the answer is no. if you look at the fact that as soon as the current administration came into power we cancelled a treaty with the czech republic pole and that we had negotiated over a period of years to put missile defense systems in. these were n.a.t.o. allies and we backed out of that for this so-called reset with russia. you look at south korea, japan and especially israel, they do not see us as reliable allies. there are great questions in their minds as to whether we re going to be there if they need us. commander, just to get your thoughts on the u.s. navy s readiness and preparation, are we at the place where as far as dominance of the seas we really be in that position where we can answer any emergency anywhere in the world with our naval forces, aircraft carriers and other navy
readiness. what i would advocate for is that we make sure that we still are able to send our sons and daughters of our volunteers as you said at the top of the comments, that they go into any fight, not be a fair fight but a fight where they go in knowing they re going to be ready to win 99-0 so the outcome is shaped before we engage. one more thing if i may add, by reduced defense budget, it does incur increased risk. it does incur less deterrence abroad specifically. in my view and i think the view of the joint chiefs as well is it will increase the the margin of error you want to incur. i want to get into, is america still a super power? if we are, are we losing that and if we are not a super power, what does it take to get back to being a power that the world is