President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Stephanie Ruhle with more details and analysis.

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      Don’t need to destroy a base to make it inoperable, just need to damage a few important things like runways and control centers

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        Blownup the port cranes and you’re basically done. It’s what the US and Saudis did in Yemen

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          I don’t think that’s true, but also that’s assuming you have the supplies to fix them

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            When the US hit the syrian runways in the mad king’s first term after they used chemical weapons, they had it fixed by the next day. There are other examples too just can’t think of them right now.

            The US, with their 900 billion dollars a year budget or whatever, should have everything needed on hand to repair the runway. If they don’t it’s just another example of how we have all the wrong people in charge, before this administration and even moreso now.

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              The VAST majority of the budget goes to the contractors and arms manufacturers. The actual money that gets used to take care of the troops is (at a guess based on current world events) vanishingly small.

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      The US is claiming zero navy related deaths. In an interview a couple of administration officials called it ‘a fucking joke,’ and the like.

      It was just in the news but startpage won’t give it to me, and the other engines are worse and spy on me as I’m aware. Fucking illegal shittrust in search engines but that’s another story.