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Understand this are a jeenchts that is the danger. in order to do boost phase now what you would have to do is fly fighter aircraft close in to the launch site, which means they will be vulnerable to missile defense, that youre going to be violating north korean airspace. thats a dangerous situation to be in with the remotely pilot aircraft, the project i have been working on for the past two years you are in international airspace. you are 45 to 55,000 feet. you have a minute from the detecting...

Have to follow these offset rules in the budget control act. number two and perhaps more crucially, its the speed with which the north koreans have been developing their listed capabilities. it was in may they first successfully tested the icbm. they did the high loft where it went way up in the air. at the pentagon we continued to hear from officials on how serious it was that north korea was obtaining this sort of capability. so in a lot of ways its a response to the velocity with which the no...

The pacific, thats much more difficult to defend at both the boost phase and coming down phase. this is a new development. were trying to get more confirmation. commercial satellite photos were taken and were working for information from the pentagon but it could be serious. >> hans nichols, great reporting on a lost of fast-moving developments at the pentagon. well be right back after the break with todays big picture. if you move your old 401(k) to a fidelity ira, we make sure youre in the loo...

Explosive, theyre unpredictable. theyre delivering chaos into the system. the job of the leadish is to bring order out of chaos, fought inject more into it. what i would be telling the president, look, lets do three things here, up our games in cyber, where we have some real options to play. >> whats our strongest play in sieber? >> it is to use our offensive cyber capably, but use it sparringly so that the north koreans begin to be unsure about their capably, two benefits. one is that it weaken...

Another. it will have a tremendous impact on north korea. china really supplies 90% of north koreas energy. financial lifeline to the outside world. they havent applied pressure in the past because they are worried the regime will collapse. maybe their attitude is changing. >> jeanine: if indeed kim jong un does make a decision to try to do something, i mean, i believe the president when he says you are covered. we got your back. with our military, the sophisticated technology to prevent that ki...

On north korea. china really supplies 90% of north korease energy. financial lifeline to the outside world. they havent applied pressureidn the past, because they are worried the regime will collapse. maybe their attitude is changing? >> jeanine: if indeed kim jong un does make a decision to try to do something, i mean, i believe the president when he says, you are covered. we got your back. the present will be able to come up with our military and the sophisticated technology that we have to pr...

Another. it will have a tremendous impact on north korea. china really supplies 90% of north koreas energy. financial lifeline to the outside world. they havent applied pressure in the past because they are worried the regime will collapse. maybe their attitude is changing. >> jeanine: if indeed kim jong un does make a decision to try to do something, i mean, i believe the president when he says you are covered. we got your back. with our military, the sophisticated technology to prevent that ki...

Does that move the bar at all? >> well, it certainly would seem to me to move it because right now the u.s. has only done this if they thought they were threatened. i would be interested to hear what congresswoman harmon has to say about this, but shooting down a missile not aimed at your territory is a risky act, but it would start us down the road to conflict. >> what do you think? >> a couple things. david is a former and future scholar at the history center so hes smart. its risk, and interc...

>> yes, and i suspect as the admiral knows, as well that weve already started some of those actions. again, the thing is to do these offensive slightly aggressive actions at the same time having conversations and having diplomacy, you know, diplomacy doesnt work without a stick behind it. and right now, we have to do both. were not really doing both. >> and the final piece of it, of course, before i let you go will be defense. and stepping up what were doing in terms of strategic defense against...

Badly. >> yeah. >> shooting off missiles. and the tweets, obviously, have the same effect as declaring a red line. they almost force you to take action. i want to ask admiral staviridis about the realm of real possibilities. ive heard your former colleagues saying recently that the president should announce a crash program to build a system that could stop north korean missiles in their boost phase, aerial vehicles that would be offshore, that would have new capabilities. do you think thats a go...