Donald J. Trump

Uh, and then they, uh, they go out and they do it and they come back and they report the results to the carrier intelligence team that collates all this data.

does the battle damage, bomb damage assessment, and contributes to the war fight, whether it's over land or at sea.

And so this is really something that's unique to any other nation in the history of mankind, our ability to do this with so many carriers over the course of the last 80 years.

And that's the area where we want to stay ahead and make sure that we have the latest and greatest technology to keep us

ahead of what the Chinese are building because they're trying to replicate what we have built.

They can't generate the kind of sorties today with the first two carriers that they have.

They just can't do it.

They're not big enough and don't have the capacity.

Their follow-on carriers, they're going to try to do what we're doing.

And so this is the real challenge.

We're standing by waiting for the Commander-in-Chief to return to...

Norfolk Naval Station and come aboard the Truman where he would give remarks, thousands of sailors and other family members there on the deck of the Truman and in the stands off to the side.

Cleo Pascal, you have done a fantastic job of telling us about the importance of the Pacific and that we're a Pacific power and the United States Navy is important.

needed for power projection everywhere, but particularly confronting the Chinese Communist Party in the Pacific and particularly the Western Pacific.

Give us your thoughts about today so far.

Admiral Masso, your thoughts.

You're closer to this than many of us, given the Pete Hex's thought, the Secretary of War, the president's kind of telling the generals about where we're going to go in the future.

Today, do you think not just Capitol Hill, but do you think our enemies in Beijing are taking notice of the pride of the American people in their fleet and the capabilities of this fleet?

I think without question they are.

They are watching this.