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I want to begin this hour, putting the president's

broader foreign policy to some degree in picture for you. Here's what we know right now.

The American Navy is largely parked in the Gulf of Mexico.

We have a guided missile destroyer in the Persian Gulf,

and we are routing an aircraft carrier and the ships with the aircraft carrier also to the Persian Gulf.

It's going to take them some time to get from the South China Sea to be there.

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