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>> john buchanan is well organized, i served with him before. on training and national guard and cervant and reserve. its up to him to tell them to come. now we need northern command to give that general what he needs because that is who he works for back home. that is his reach. on the other hand, he has to respond to the needs of the governor with fema and he has to start thinking outside the box. he is going to do this. he knows what to do. its going to take a few hours, he is looking at a wa...

Was during katrina. >> really? >> right, sequestration killed us. we have a lot of aircraft that cant fly right now. the joint chiefs and everybody laid out what is the status of the aircraft. i dont think that is effective what were doing now. but sequestration was a very hard pain on our military. >> what difference would it have made if there was a three-star general here eight days ago? if you dont have the troops, what is the difference? >> lets say im partial, because i arrived in new orle...

Force command once we realized that the problem of logistics distribution had outstripped the capacity of the municipal governments. but the three star general was coordinating operations. weve made a number of improvements to that distribution process. since katrina, weve matured quite a bit. the three star command structure that he lacked back then has been put in place and been in place for this response out of san antonio. and augmented by a northern command structure that has been pretty ro...

Distribution had outstripped the capacity of the affected municipal government. that three-star general was there and running and coordinating operations as an extension of norad and northern command. weve made improvements to martialing of resources. the three-star command structure that he lacked back then has been put in place and has been in place for this respond out of san antonio and augmented by a northern command structure thats been pretty robust and forward leaning here. theyve done v...

Katrina had 20,000 federal troops. not federal workers, federal troops. i have 20 ships and over 240 helicopters and puerto rico is bigger than katrina. if someone called me from northern command, i will give you the damn numbers. lesson learned. it doesnt look like we learned anything. the issue with the united states is we always do the right thing, but we do it slow and late. right now the people of puerto rico are paying that bill. >> i have been speaking to the people. if you had 20,000 tro...

Of ground force command once we realized the problem of logistics distribution outstripped capacity of the effective municipal governments but that three star general was there extension of northern command. made a number of improvements to that distribution process and marshalling of military resources since, for instance, general honore experienced what he did in katrina. matured a bit from that day. what he lacked back then has been put in place and in place for this response out of san anton...

Their hand off it and went off to fight terrorism and each time we have a sandy or a now harvey the solution is different. its cooked local by by the state. they dont evacuate and they dont preposition troops where you leave 5,000 people in san antonio. i know im sounding critical. but if we dont fix this -- because congress thought we fixed this. we need an army response to civil authorities under northern command with a four-star general responsible for security in the united states. they come...

Well bring it to you the moment we have it. north korean state media now saying a missile strike on the u.s. territory of guam could be ready for consideration within days. retired u.s. air force lieutenant general on what this means and what we can do about it. what can we do about it at this point? >> well, liz, with respect to military options, theres quite a few. in fact, there many. u.s., south korean, u.n. forces have been planning for a variety of contingencies with north korea for over 6...

>> i believe its one. >> one and a half. >> okay, 1.5. >> reporter: russias race ahead of the u.s. in cornering the arctic, analysts say, is a sobering illustration of putins ambitions. for vladimir putin the arctic is a prestige project and represents russian history and its greatness. russia can conquering anything. it can plant a flag on the north pole. it can build overcome nature. >> reporter: the trump administration is pressured by analysts to close that gap with vladimir putin and beef...

>> reporter: putin is aggressively navigating the region, even planting a russian flag on the arctic floor. russia has far more arctic military bases than the u.s. and dozens more ice-breaking ships, perhaps as many as 40. >> how many ice-breakers do we have? >> i believe one -- >> 1.5 -- >> 1.5. >> reporter: russias race is ahead of the u.s. in the arctic, a sobering illustration of putins broader ambitions. >> for vladimir putin, the arctic is a prestige project. it demonstrates russian histor...