Ray Mabus: “For me, leading the Department of the Navy is the greatest honor of my life.”

It`s huge. It`s huge symbolically as you pointed out. This was the ship that threatened the Ukrainians on Snake Island and they told them to go do something you can`t say on TV.

But if you've got someone issuing unlawful orders during that time, trying to hold on to power after an election that they lost, then foreign adversaries, they're going to seize on that.

I would never, ever, ever do anything to lower the combat readiness or the reliability of the United States military.

The fact that we allow these tyrants and dictators like Putin to basically hold our families and our economy hostage for their bad acts.