Mccain. We obviously have an investigation under way. That will determine what happened. The big question here for the 7th fleet is what is going on here with these ships. How on earth did this happen to one of the worlds most sophisticated warships. After months of deliberation, the president will address the nation on the path to afghanistan, the longest war in its 16th year. Once he announces what the strategy is, we can get more precise on afghanistan troop levels. The decision according to senior u. S. Officials expected to include the addition of as many as 4,000 u. S. Troops. It may be the most anticipated solar event in history. The day of the Solar Eclipse is here. A traffic jam of Epic Proportions with millions rushing to get the best view. Some people paying upwards of 1500 to glamp out here. This stadium is going to fill up with 15,000 people. In just a few hours when totality hits the oregon coast before racing across the country to charleston, south carolina. Very rare that one gets to play with the dark side of the moon. It is now just a few hours away to showtime. However, we begin with breaking news this morning. Ten american sailors are missing right now. This after a collision between a u. S. Naval destroyer and another ship. Defense secretary james mattis announced an investigation what caused uss john mccain to collide with tanker near singapore 5 30 eastern last night near the start of one of the worlds busiest shipping lanes. The crash tore a massive hole in the destroyers hull flooding rooms, sleeping quarters, machinery. Thankfully uss john mccain able to make it to the naval base and examined in port. This is, however, the second Major Incident involving a Navy Destroyer with the 7th fleet in the last two months. This morning defense secretary mattis also announced a bigger investigation. The chief of Naval Operations broader inquiry will look at all related accidents, incidents at sea, that sort of thing. He is going to look at all factors, not just the immediate ones which will fall rightly under the fleet commanders investigation with his ship. This a broader look whats happening. Broader 7th fleet . Yes, it is. Right now a desperate search is under way for those ten missing sailors on the mccain. Five sailors were also hurt but their injuries are not believed to be life threatening. President trump tweeted last night, thoughts and prayers with our u. S. Navy sailors aboard uss john mccain where search and rescue efforts under way. Just a short while ago state department promising to help victims. U. S. Embassy in singapore stands ready to assist u. S. Navy fails of the uss john s. Mccain. Joining me from the pentagon, we hear several nations are helping in the search but no sign yet of the missing sailors. No sign. They have diving crews on site. Its dark there, so we dont know if they are under way. Multiple birthing cabins where these sailors sleep were flooded. Thats not a good sign. We saw something similar happen with uss fitzgerald. Here is what happened moments ago. Chief of Naval Operations admiral richardson has announced an operational pause of naval activity. We dont know whether or not this is going to be at the commanders discretion but what they are doing is not just a review of the 7th fleet based there in japan, most of the western pacific innist area of operations but this review is going to be across the entire navy because of a spate of mishaps. Were learning more about this investigation. The idea theres an operational pause, ali, especially when we have war games off Korean Peninsula and in korea, that to me is exceedingly interesting. Well find out more whether the operational pause can be rolling. One fleet does it 24 hours, another fleet for another 24 hours. Thats whether or not marines have done with their aviation component. Operational pause being announced by the navy as they look into the causes of these accidents. Hans nichols at the pentagon, well be checking in with you as any new news develops about this. Hans, thanks very much. Uss john s. Mccain is the fourth naval ship involved in a serious accident this year. June 17th, hans made reference to, this uss fitzgerald naval destroyer collided with philippine ship near japan. Seventeen killed, youngest 19 years old. Last week the Navy Announced it relieved the ships top officers saying serious mistakes were made by the crew. These are the soldiers that died on the ship. On the th uss missile cruiser collided with south korean fishing vessel while conducting routine operations near Korean Peninsula. No one was hurt in this accident. January 31st, another missile cruiser, uss antietam ran aground near yokosuka, japan. No one hurt but significant amount of oil reportedly spilled into tokyo base. Last year in august, uss louisiana, Nuclear Ballistic submarine collided with u. S. Ns eagle view, an offshore support vessel off the coast of washington state. No one was hurt on either of these ships either. I want to bring in former navy admiral joe sestak, spent 31 years in the navy and 10 years at sea. Admiral, thanks very much for joining us. The navy believes the incident with the uss john s. Mccain was an accident. The Washington Post reports the ship it collided is more than three times its size. Take us inside one of these ships thank you commanded. What happens when a vessel gets close to one of these destroyers. How is such a thing missed and what happens once theres an accident . Ali, first, everybodys thoughts are with the missing sailors and their families right now. Absolutely. That said, it is the most challenging of circumstances you can have at sea, entering a port, particularly a super port, with largest tankers and merchant men enter and come out, and they were about to do that. Your crew, average age about 19 1 2 years old. Wow. All these lights are shining everywhere. Theres certain rules of the road where lights are only permed starboard one color, port some color. Ships dont always adhere to that. So you have radar that attracts them. You have young men and women consciously doing this. The hairs on the back of your neck, and i would say having done it, there but for the grace of god would have gone a number of us also. This is a challenging circumstance to have. That said, as youre entering here and people on rt, radio telephone circuit, talking back and forth, clarifying things, ultimately, accountability is in that captain. He or she is given more authority, more responsibility than any other person on that ship and let that ship go aground or be in a collision, he or she must be held accountable for it. He or she is ultimately responsible for training them. Not the machines. Because probably this is Situational Awareness of somehow they may not have done what fitzgerald had. They have to be held accounta e accountable. Ill tell you this, al issuing, it is challenging. Whether youre entering cairo to go through straits of hormuz or the singapore strait. This is a busy, busy trading strait. When defense secretary mattis announces theres going to be a big investigation and hans is telling us there will be operational stoppages, this does seem to be a training or methodology issue. Is it obvious what has to change given the number of accidents that happened last year . I dont think its obvious. Its the right thing to do. Ive seen this before. Decades ago a series of accidents. Do you a safety standown, now calling it an operational pause. You sit back and recalibrate and get your focus on it. Look, think about this. Not just sophisticated warship but guided missile destroyer, i command i was on one, earlier version but we didnt have to shoot tomahawks 1,000 miles, cyberspace warfare. The capabilities that these sailors have to learn in addition to good seamanship is immense. So therefore when you have a sixmonth workup period before you go overseas for these ships you are packing it in time and again. Do i think the training is good today . Ill tell you this, its better than what it was when i was in the navy. You have simulators. They good off and smoke all over the place. I would go in and out of ports wall street newspapers over windows to simulate fog coming in. In this case a tragedy has happened, a terrible tragedy. I bring you back again but there for the grace of god goes the number. You dont get judged for intentions but held accountable for the deed. Unfortunately we may have some missing right now. We hope they come back. Accountability is whats needed. Sit back, see what it is. Remind everybody nothing more important, probably more challenging than doing in and out of these very harsh demanding entries into port. As you said, our thoughts are with those sailors who havent been found yet. Admiral sestak, thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me. Were counting down thements until todays historic Solar Eclipse, live pictures from a tiny farming town right in the path of totality. The eclipse begins in about two hours. Many showed up, the Oregon National guard has been called in. More than 100,000 people. Youre watching velshi ruhle on msnbc. You always pay your insurance on time. Tap one little bumper and up go your rates. What good is having insurance if you get punished for using it . For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. Liberty mutual insurance. Yet up 90 fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. Lets do more. Add one a day 50 a complete multivitamin with 100 daily value of more than 15 key nutrients. One a day 50 . Ruhle. Trump will announce a new strategy for the war in afghanistan. The president back in the white house after a 2 1 2 week working vacation. Most spent at golf resort in new jersey, not at the white house this morning as former chief strategist steve bannon ousted on friday but he still looms large. Joining us now Claudia Tenney, whose district in upstate new york, member of House Financial Services committee. You know a lot about naval stuff. Your stuff is a marine serving in the middle east but he was trained in the navy. Went to Naval Academy and graduate. Yeah. Youre following this and saying, as the admiral was just saying to us, admiral sestak, a lot of this happens in very heavily trafficked ar. We think of the sea as great big open space but these straits and ports are busy. Not Everybody Knows and follows the rules. Thats true. They are in a difficult person as the admiral indicated. You have complexity operating these large ships but also people out on the rules of the road, on the seas, they are not complying, necessarily. That makes it more challenging for our sailors. By the way, as the mother of an active duty former Naval Academy graduate but also a marine serving, my heart goes out to the parents. I hope we find them. Its a very sad day actually. Every time you hear of Something Like that as a military mother, it stirs you. Your heart sinks. Even reading the obituaries and seeing those things it breaks your heart. Let me ask you as a military mother and member of congress, we are all awaiting announcement from President Trump tonight about what he is calling a new afghanistan strategy. Youve obviously had time over the years to think about our current strategy. Nobodys strategy in afghanistan has worked all that well over the years. What are you hoping for sff actually i was in afghanistan earlier this year around february. Its a very complex place. I would say both administrations, the past two, maybe didnt handle it as much as they should have. Its not an easy infrastructure to be. History has proven that right now well try to refocus. Well see what president has to say. You have 14 different at least 14 different terrorist organizations finding safe haven there. We have huge drug trade being originated out of afghanistan. Its very complex. I think a vacuum for without any u. S. Presence at all is a problem but we have to come up with middle ground. What should the goal be. How do we educate afghanis to help themselves. That sounds like nation building. Much what were doing in iraq. My son serving overseas. What were doing now is helping them. Were not engaged in mosul, raqqa, those places. Were helping them fight and wage the battle. Were just assisting. I think in afghanistan to continue to train and help them help themselves, unfortunately afghanistan is just so complex and so challenging on so many different levels. The terrain, level of education of the people there. Our start in afghanistan virtually no women were educated, now up to 15 which is considered progress. Theres so many things in culture, fighting things happening foreign to what we think of. There in the middle of asia, what do we do . How do we solve this problem . We cant leave it as a vacuum but how many resources of the United States are we going to spend there. We recently approved appropriations for fy 2018 going into the defense budget, some for overseas operations. As a military mother, do you think that its the military making the wrong decision sns the president seems to imply its the general in charge and that might need changing. The president has obviously been doing reassessment there. You saw comments from general mattis. The entire force looking into how do you solve this problem. I dont think you can ignore afghanistan, you have to deal wit. Its part of the equation going on there. I came back from a trip to israel, ive been to iraq, egypt, jordan, all over the middle east this year. It is a very, very complex place obviously. We have a lot of work to do. We have alet to think about. Lets pivot to another area you know a lot about. Youre on the House Financial Services committee. I saw you made a comment somewhere else that you felt the ceos getting off of these two councils might have been something the media forced . I dont know where i made that comment. My concern is getting back to what we were talking about. Im an owner of a company, ceo. We need to focus on the issues. We need to get jobs and people back to work and the ability to leppard. We passed choice act, financial services. All these things, too big to fail, prfbd under dodd frank. The choice gives a chance for smaller banks. In my kmunlt, Small Community bankers. 7 of the farm loans come from Community Banks. So empowering the smaller banks, giving the individual a chance to thrive in our communities, thats what i support. I cant really judge what ceos are doing, why they are pulling out or dealing with the white house. There is a conflict that does occur with ceo as a member of congress now. I can only be a shareholder of my family business, cant have operational position with it, but, you know, theres a lot to consider. That may be part of the rope they are pulling out. Lets talk about you mentioned something we know that the afghanistan strategy was something that steve bannon was sort of pushing a change in. With steve bannon out, going back to breitbart, interesting comments from steve bannon and breitbart suggesting the presidency is over and they war. The president commenting on the fact it might be helpful to have steve bannon on the outside. Just with that as a backdrop, not asking to you comment on that, with that as a back group, approaching deadlines for the end of september, for the debt ceiling, government shutdown. Is this impeding congresss ability in any way to get the work done that it needs to get done. Media maelstrom over steve bannon is causing an awful lot. Its divisive. Its intended to be. The movement in my district they are constantly talking about it. You walk down the street in my district, 90 of the people dont know who steve bannon is. They elected the president by 16 in upstate new york, a district mitt romney lost by 1 . High migration numbers, high taxes, high energy costs. They would like to see businesses in our business stay and retain and grow. They like the made in america initiative. So many older businesses my business is 70 years old. I sat in a business where paul revere started his business and operational. Remmington arms started 200 years ago. Its still running. These businesses are iconic longtime businesses. We want to keep them there. One of the things the president talks about is the number of jobs hes created. As you know the number of jobs created in the First Six Months of this term, im not one of these people who think president s get too much plame or credit for jobs. Its not likely. Weve had job creation. Showing the bar of monthly job creation since 2009. Either been going on for a long time. It does sort of take away from some of the president s integrity if he keeps on taking credit for things as if they havent happened before. Look at the dow. Thats from 2009 march to now. It doesnt look like a whole lot of trump there. It looks like a whole lot of everything. Very hard to look at it. I never thought of any of these as absolute indicators of anything. Our biggest obstacle in new york our government, what we do on the federal level can help but you have the type of even in regulation, its mostly state and local that most people are affected by. We have huge taxes. What we can do on the federal revel is minimize some of these things. New york state is one of the highest taxes i indicated. I think the president i think the excitement in the stock market may be the hope that were going to probably roll back some of these regulations. Remember on the house side we get criticized but the house of representatives to me is much more important than presidency. We have 270 bills sitting at the floor of the Senate Waiting to be passed. Weve rolled back regulations up to 10 billion in savings for Small Business community and other businesses to help stimulate the economy. Weve passed comprehensive veterans administrationibilitiability act that will give raises to enlisted and give the military they need. The choice act, roll back some of dodd frank, Something Big banks dont like. They dont like choice act. A lot of americans dont like rolling back dodd frank either. I think the choice doesnt completely roll back dodd fr