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Weapon like this, a strategic weapon in a tactical situation in ukraine when frankly he could have used any other missile, it indicates hes trying to escalate this conflict. hes putting nato on edge, raising the stakes, and this is what we have been concerned about all the time. this is the line that biden is trying to walk here. how to pressure putin without escalating the war. >> which i think you have just definitely voiced one of the major talking points in brussels on thursday. let me ask y...

Infrastructure committees. he also served four tours in iraq. before i move to that hypersonic missile, the is what jen psaki tweeted in the last hour or so, indicating president biden wont visit ukraine when he goes to europe, and of course, there are huge security concerns so its understandable from that point of view, but do you think he should visit ukraine? >> no, i think hes making the right call. i think that visiting ukraine at this point would for him be largely showmanship. obviously, ...

Telling his own people. what happens when a man like that is stalled? gets desperate. what does that look like, increasing targeting of civilian targets, civilian population. a desperate move. increasing use allegedly of the hypersonic missile he may have used. a man saying not getting it done traditionally, not happening fast enough, i have to invoke terror to try to get them to surrender, because my own militarys not getting the job done. >> okay. thank you for your analysis in all of this. ap...

True? >> its concerning because this is a way that russia is slowly escalating the war. and hypersonic missiles are dangerous because in the russian version, they can carry both conventional and nuclear weapons. nuclear warheads. you dont know what that missile is carrying when its launched. its one of the reasons why i think hypersonic missiles are fundamentally destabilizing. theyre weapons we think about in a strateging sense, as a counter to the intercontinental ballistic missiles we are use...

Is that true? so these things can get launched and theres no way to stop them? and they move five times the speed of sound. >> thats right. look, they move very fast. to put this in perspective, though, what makes them dangerous is not their speed. everyone thinks theyre faster than every other missile on earth. actually, the traditional intercontinental ballistic missiles are faster, but hypersonic missiles, you cant detect them. these are strategic weapons that we only deter by threatening to ...