cold war. it feels like the kind of language you use in an arms race. so barbara starr, the pentagon, is this surprising to them? no. on the face of it, it really isn t. they re well aware of the intelligence community, well aware of what russia is working on according to all the officials we re talking to. there s a couple of things as you unpack it. vladimir putin, as mathew has talked about, running in an election in his own country. so he s got political reasons to talk about it. why is he putting all this out there in public now knowing that the u.s. intelligence community already knows about it? it may be his own political agenda, it may be intimidation of president trump in the current political environment in the united states. but what are they really working on, this notion of hyper sonic missiles that can go five times the speed of sound. new intercontinental ballistic missiles, missiles that can reach around the world and defeat u.s. missile defenses.
high value or fleeting targets, things that are buried deep in enemy territory or buried deep underground or that are only present for a she short window of time. so you wouldn t necessarily have time to do a conventional attack with a b2 flying out of oklahoma. you could instead launch one of these on very short notice and it could fly and attack that target. jon: we have a simulation of what mach-20 looks like, which is a kind of speed that this thing is achieving. there s a fighter jet in the foreground and that thing streaking by, that s the falcon that potentially could cross the country at 12 times, or 20 times, i guess, the speed of sound. that across the country in 12 minutes was the number i was thinking about. and here is actual video of it, that contrail way up in the sky, that s actual video of this thing being tested. it basically started to melt the skin on the the skin on the thing started to melt and peel away, which caused
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saturday at the conference in south carolina. his speech expected to focus heavily on the texas economy, half of the jobs created in this country, in the last two years they were in texas. republicans are going to point to that as a success story. democrats say not so fast. most of those jobs are low wage jobs. democratic source told me earlier today, governor pair vee all hat and no cattle. but after the speech in south carolina, anderson, he heads off to new hampshire and he taped an interview with a tv station. he s making all of the moves of a candidate tonight. he s also headed to iowa this weekend but not taking part of the ames straw poll, is sne. that s right. this was designed to steal the show from the ames straw poll this weekend which is where all of the other republicans are. it s become a gop beauty pageant. sarah palin stepped on rick perry s story. now he is stepping on hers. welcome to 2012, anderson. yeah, just beginning. jim, thank you very much. the
far. if we stay true to form, that means we will see a huge rally today. cross your fingers and hold on, folks. also this morning, five nato troops killed in a bomb attack in southern afghanistan. coalition troops have killed nearly 200 militants in recent weeks. keeping an eye on afghanistan, of course. keeping an eye on great britain. britain s prime minister says london police waited too long to arrest rioters this past weekend. he said that when he was speaking to parliament in a special session on the rioting. we will have more on this in a moment. all right, folks, it s just like that ride. you are are having seconds thoughts getting on the roller coaster but you can t get off. we are still on this ride on wall street and in 30 minutes, we will have that opening bell. yesterday, the dow dropped some 500 plus points after the week we have seen, it has been literally down, then up, then down and today would be the up day but we shall see in a few minutes. we hav