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Greater distances than that. it can be nuclearized. most people dont believe north korea yet has developed the technology to weaponize a much smaller nuclear round to put it on the head of a missile. but certainly thats something that they are working on. this is largely about south korea and japan particularly south korea who has been upgunning in long-range missiles and missile defense in the last number of years. they completed an exercise with the united states military and south korea milit...

Frankly as vice president he asked the same questions. i dont have any problem with that. i think that its important when a president has to make decisions to have people in the room that are saying and raising questions about whether or not these are the right steps to take. i think that is important to do. frankly i think every president including this president needs to have president in the room that are saying wait a minute. i dont think this is the right decision. theres problems here. the...

You dont mention withdrawal conditions that were placed by president trump on any exodus from afghanistan. i have a couple of questions id like to ask. did you concur and support president bidens july 23rd phone call telling the president to be untruthful about the taliban success? according to reuters that reviewed the transcript and audio, president biden said, quote, theres a need whether it be true or not, theres a need to project a different picture. was that an ad lib by president biden an...

Effectively with no u.s. boots on the ground. we lost some capacity, for sure, in not having the boots on the ground in afghanistan. but we have ways and we are very actively working on that to make up for that, to mitigate for that, to make sure that we have, you know, eyes on the problem, to see it re-emerges in afghanistan. and to do something about it. but what i would propose. >> if i could reclaim, sir. i would like to work with you. because if we cant see whats happening on the ground, we...

And there have been allegations that mr. putin talked to president biden and basically threatening him that he could not build intelligence capability in the region. >> yeah. when i spoke to the defense secretary on saturday over at the pentagon, he said very flatly the u.s. will have robust capability in the region for whats called over the horizon attacks if necessary. is that good enough for you? >> it is not. over the horizon means qatar. thats about a six to eight-hour flight. when i talk t...

As the chairman get set to take his seat, will be starting in just a second. morgan, let me ask you this question. the president said in his speech in shanksville, pennsylvania, on saturday that you cant have u.s. military everywhere that there is al qaeda. basically said, are you kidding me, come on, man. clearly you can have troops everywhere there is an al qaeda cell. when you could make a credible and potentially compelling case, the place from which 9/11 was launched. if you cannot trust th...

What other terrorists are doing. secondly we need to have the capability to use counter terrorism operations against those targets. the president himself has said weve got to use counter terrorism. its called over-the-horizon, but regardless of what you call it, we need to have special forces capabilities that can move if we identify terrorists targets that are threatening the united states of america. that is important in order to protect our security. >> secretary, you heard the big difference...

What we need to focus on is what the leon panetta talked about. what do we do going ahead. early in the testimony, there was a question offered about are we going to do regional counter terrorism, i.s.r. capability building. are we going to listen to allegedly what vladimir putin said to mr. biden, that hes not going to build an intelligence capability in the region. those are threats. those are serious threats. the idea that we can do over-the-horizon activities without having boots on the grou...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. were working on that every day. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classifi...

0 are you negotiating with that taliban on the issue of legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or support. it starts with freedom of travel. weve been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again, which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week with american citizens on board. ...