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Pentagon talking about this at all, this comes from the defense intelligence agency, sometimes they dont always agree with the pentagons own intelligence assessments. >> that is correct. the dia is not located at the pentagon, they are across the river. nobody is shooting down this report but they are taking it very seriously, they are not commenting right now. it is worth noting that the trump defense budget actually cuts missile defense, so while they are planning for 44 ground based intercept...

Intercontinental ballistic missile when it shot one down in space. now, its noteworthy there is another kind of missile defense and thats from u.s. navy warships. in june the uss paul jones conducted a ballistic missile test and it failed. now, thats missile defense. there is a third option, people dont talk about it that much, but thats missile offense. the united states has over 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles of its own. it just conducted a test last month. these 400 missiles are loca...

The fourth test that the air forces minuteman three missile. lots of focus on missile defense, the u.s. has a sizeable missile offense with 400 of these missiles located in silos across air force bases in montana, wyoming and north korea and submarines can deliver nuclear tests as well. it will than launched from california and travel 4,000 miles into the pacific. >> bill: see how it goes. there is a lot of activity surrounding that geopolitical mail tear story -- military story at the moment. >...

That have been reported about iran. i think the negotiating track is especially important not necessarily because we can get the north koreas to slap their heads and say, okay well stop this. but rather to keep china engaged, work closely with china and make sure theres no daylight between us and the south koreas. >> you talked about missile defense. does the u.s. have interceptability to shoot down should north korea take such attack? >> we have the capability. but the technology is developing ...

Reminded of our posture in eastern european it raises the question about the administration. has there foreign policy made us somewhat more vulnerable, that is one of the questions that i want to ask you, and sort of what has the reaction of world powers been to that? >> right, i think that the example of flexibility already given towards russia early in the administration of pulling back on our commitment to missile offense in eastern europe was a similar miscalculation. it was not news welcome...