Militarizing Space News Today

A lot of things moving around i would say probably not i spoke earlier this evening with the head of the european space agency and the he said that you know basically we see the united nations moving into outer space he he had a very positive spin on things but what about the u.s. space force isnt that the militarization of space at least to some degree yes but we started militarizing space before we sent satellites up so this isnt anything new which is one of the arguments about whether we need...

Their militarizing space to do what? >> well first of all they recognize how dependent we are on space technology. so they have many, many years ago they began to develop antisatellite kill capability. and now it is a major endeavor ofy theirs. and heres the reason. obviously, gps and all of the location would be taken it out by that all of our communications. but all of our weapons -- so when you see crews missiles plying and -- and position guided ammunition coming out of airplane as, all of t...

As mentioned before we left, they are also militarizing space. the russians are too. we will get there in a moment. the militarizing space to do what. >> first of all they recognize how dependent we are on space technology. they have many, many years ago, they began to develop anti- satellite kill capability and now its a major endeavor of theirs. heres the reason, obviously gps and all the location would be taken out by that. all of our communications but all of our weapons, when you see crews ...

As mentioned before we left, they are also militarizing space. the russians are too. we will get there in a moment. the militarizing space to do what. >> first of all they recognize how dependent we are on space technology. they have many, many years ago, they began to develop anti- satellite kill capability and now its a major endeavor of theirs. heres the reason, obviously gps and all the location would be taken out by that. all of our communications but all of our weapons, when you see crews ...

>> no, it isnt all about economics. i think we focused a lot on these debates on the middle east and thats fine. on iran and so forth. peace process. we need to talk about russia and china. china is moving on all fronts, militarily, militarizing space, aggressively seeking our technology and willing partners to transfer technology to us, russia was supposed to be a reset relationship. remember that reset button they got wrong? how is that worked out for us with russia? why today should countries...

Experts are standing by but first, lets go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta traveling with the president in southern california. jim, i understand there may be more turnover ahead for the trump team. >> it sure seems that way, wolf. president trump just wrapped up his remarks to marines in southern california. perhaps its because hes so close to hollywood. at one point he proposed militarizing space with a space force right out of "star wars." meanwhile, hes also spent the day d...