He is right about the attack. blowing up a russian warship, in particular a flagship, is a massive morale hit to the russian navy. indeed to the russian armed services. this is an effective deterrent of further action and why the ships pull back because it s a big deal to have a warship hit like this. i remember on the march to baghdad the first time that i saw an m-1 abrams u.s. tank blown up because going through marine training we were taught that the tanks were pretty much invincible and to see an american tank completely blown up by iraqi forces hit me hard and the marines hard and made us say this is not going to be easy. that s what the russian navy is going through right now. this will be tough and helps the ukrainian cause. i have breaking news along the lines of what we are discussing that will i think
Representative for ukraine and former u.s. ambassador to nato. we hope it was a slip of the tongue by the president, saying you will see that. i think the key thing the president needs to be doing for the troops is to convey their mission, like this is important to the united states, ukraine s survival is important, protecting nato is important, those are the key messages. john: i wanted to start off with this is the pier and this is the russian warship hit by ukrainian missiles yesterday. we saw the footage of it on fire, and here you see the ship there, then another one that was hit over here as well. they basically have taken out at least two piers here, another one in the middle and on this side as well. but if your ships are getting hit when you are trying to resupply, that makes you think twice what you are doing there. we saw the footage of when it happened, the ships that could, left the area. so they did not want to be there and get shelled.
Megyn: the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey is expected to arrive in israel sometime within the next 48 hours. he will reportedly meet with top israeli military leaders about growing tensions in a showdown with iran. back in 1988 a u.s. warship hit an iranian mine. president reagan sent a message to iran with operation preying mantis. now some say it serves as a history lesson. michael reagan joins me now. the president, your father was put in a dangerous situation when in an effort to avoid other iranian mines, there were three