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Quantum, semiconductors, or the like, china is making advances, and were not necessarily keeping up the way we should. weve been testing hypersonic vehicles for a while, but back in 2018, even, the u.s. defense officials testified they were testing 20 times as many hypersonic types of capabilities than we were. we need to stop playing catch up as we are today and being surprised that the chinese are testing these kinds of vehicles and start to get ahead of this. this is true arthel not just in m...

Influence on whats happening and not part of the world. arthel: you mentioned iran what is your position with the iran nuclear deal, they are moving ahead with developing their nuclear capabilities and is not for energy purposes. theyre going grow doing whatever they want to do how should the united states particularly president biden respond to that? >> heres the problem we have removed demonstrations for nine months our eight-month, all the tools that can force iran to behave international com...

Can be done. a trilateral meeting, pivotal time. iran is continuing to do what it does worst, which is move towards nuclear capabilities, thumbing its nose at the international committee, and the only device we had to keep them in check is now gone. biden trying to revive it, the nuclear deal that former president trump pulled out of in 2018. the u.s. now considering penalties on iran for not complying. so lets bring in nic robertson, kaitlan collins, and david axelrod back to discuss all this. ...

>> you know, i think one of the challenges, kendis, in this space is we dont have a ton of missile defense as it stands today. our missile defense capabilities are fairly limited. fairly focused in a couple of areas. we need to accelerate that effort. but the real thing with china is, its less about trying to shoot down missiles if theyve decided to come after us. its more how do we deter their behavior, preventing them from building capabilities, knowing if they use them were going to respond a...

Test in april. why does the u.s. not have this technology down pat yet. were sending people into space, on rockets every week now. >> its about commitment and time and effort, and money. and, you know, weve spent a lot of time thinking about a variety of other sort of threats to the united states, terrorism. weve got to redouble efforts on our strategic defensive capabilities, that means nuclear weapons. now, president obama, and president bush before him, and president trump all supported this ...

Now. its not just getting back into the jcpoa, they want to expand the scope of any agreement with iran to deal with their ballistic missile capability and their benign influence in other parts of the world. they also have new leadership. when you talk to administration officials about todays meeting, it was really the leaders going through detail of what they might be able to accomplish and lay out the future of this process and how it may go forward. again, not a lot of optimism on the u.s. si...

The nations top military general is sounding the alarm after china tested a new hypersonic missile system. >> with the new weapons, providing possible nuclear capabilities for their massive military. experts worry it could set off a new arms race between the u.s. and china. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard ingle with the story. >> china already has the worlds largest armed forces over 2 million strong. but its a new breed of super fast missiles designed to evade american nuclear defe...

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But president xi jinping, according to chinas official news agency called for the chinese military to break new ground, and said chinas capabilities have been enhanced by leapfrog development. in equipment and weapons. defense secretary lloyd austin has been cautious talking about chinas growing military capabilities. >> what i can tell you is that we watch closely chinas development of armament, and advanced capabilities and systems that will only increase tensions in the region. >> our thanks ...

Recognize the best of a series of bad options is to figure out some way back into an expanded jcpoa. do they think theyre going to get there? ill tell you, despite the statement we saw today, i have not heard optimism that thats coming. they are very ready to take steps outside of that deal in terms of sanctions if they feel like a deal isnt within hand. they understand how important it is to the european allies, they understand the necessity of trying to get something back in control when it co...