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The EC-121 served well for many decades in protecting America and its allies from attack. The Lockheed Constellation entered service with the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War in 1943 as the C-69 Constellation, and most of those were later converted into civilian airplanes under the designation Lockheed L-049 Constellation. However, the United States Navy also began to see how the aircraft could be employed for patrol and airborne early warning duties in 1949. Designated...

Action, would you walk us through what would happen? >> i dont think personally that the north koreans would retaliate, large lay because they know if escalation upwards, the united states eventually will get to the position where we would destroy the regime, but im not confident about how kim jong-un looks at this. kim jong-un looks at the united states, and he doesnt see this country with an overwhelmingly powerful military. he sees a country with very weak political will, because for instance...

World as it is. but thats not the way the world should be. we dont want to use force. that would be horrific. and we ought to try everything we possibly can before we start talking as shes talking about. war talk is really premature. >> what the north koreans are doing here, this is not the first time weve seen a provocation like this. they are well aware of the basic military capability of the united states. well aware of the united states relationship with south korea. is this a statement ever...

Historian. great to have you here again. thanks for being here on a friday night. >> thank you, rachel. >> is it fair to say that new presidents, not just the new term of a second-term president but a new president taking over does tend to get some tests from americas adversaries. is that a pattern? >> it absolutely is a question of when not if. and you know, we heard, rachel, i think youve talked about this when president obama met with president-elect trump, he said one of your biggest problem...

Term of a second-term president but a new president taking over does tend to get some tests from americas adversaries. is that a pattern? >> it absolutely is a question of when not if. and you know, we heard, rachel, i think youve talked about this when president obama met with president-elect trump, he said one of your biggest problems is going to be north korea. go back in time. 1969, richard nixon was in office about ten weeks when we americans had a reconnaissance plane the ec-121 shot down ...

Americans had a reconnaissance plane the ec-121 shot down over the sea of japan, all 31 crew on board were killed. and nixon and kissinger, his national security adviser, were boweled over. they didnt expect this. they didnt know why it was happening. kissinger later said we were unprepared and we screwed up. that was a time when nixon had been in public office for -- had been in public life for 22 years. very experienced, very clear about his foreign policy. now we have president-elect trump wh...