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Readiness among the missile defense forces in the region. >> yeah. >> so you could give us a sense of what steps have been taken since then, what has changed before and after this new direction? >> what has changed is weve increased isr coverage in the yellow sea. and pay com has increased their ballistic missile defense readiness and i think you could understand why we wouldnt detail every bit of that effort. okay. >> on covid response which you briefed on on yesterday, the russians told the no...

Pay com are always diligent in, you know, watching in their mission of insuring, you know, keeping awareness of any type of thing north korea is doing. so once again were very grateful and thankful for the republic of korea support in helping us. >> any contingent plans for anything happening on the korean peninsula, including -- >> the mission remains unchanged and steadfast. >> thank you. >> i need to go to the phones. tony. >> two quick questions. jen psaki yesterday said this evacuation is o...

0 admiral and the general arent working in in a very personal way with taliban authorities outside the airport. let me go another one on the phone. tara. >> thank you for doing this, john. yesterday the president mentioned also that he was calling upon the department to create contingency plans in case the number of americans and afghans havent gotten out by the 31st. can you just explain kind of what the department is thinking about what its options might be to continue to get americans out aft...

Public. right now you have a layer of news media and universities bureaucrats and politicians who literally sit on the country and represent a power structure which is opposite of the american people. weve been doing polling with jon mclaughlin with pay com issues in which any 5 percent rejection on the left, 85 percent they just dont care. the best example is whether or not you should have a photo id in order to vote. overwhelmingly supported by african-americans and latinos and everybody excep...

>> thats good. >> they always have these militaristic names. these exercises happen all the time. a large part of my job here at the pentagon is walking around asking people whats going on, and they talk to me about these training exercises. the idea that president trump is going to suspend or turn them off for a short time, the question is, will that have an effect on readiness? what we just heard from admiral harris, remember, hes the head of pay com. hes now the nominee to be ambassador. he s...

You were in the control room where a missile a letter was sent from just hours before it was sent out. and the question everybody had immediately was how in the world did this happen. >> yeah, chris, its crazy happenstance. we were here on assignment for an upcoming story about the response to a potential nuclear attack and what might happen. looking at some of that footage. we are in the control center. what normally happens in this room in the events, god forbid, of a nuclear missile strike or...

Organization to be responsible for putting out these emergency alerts? should it be in the hands of a different agency, federal or otherwise? >> i think its a very good question. i dont know the answer to that. and i want to make sure we dont rush into a new process. i think one of the reasons that we had this terrifying scare is because they rushed into a new process. they wanted to be responsive to the increased threat of ballistic missiles coming across the pacific from -- from north korea an...

Pay com, which is a secure line. >> pacific command? >> exactly. they notify our warning officers. the warning officers then have to make a decision rather quickly to do -- they have a check list on the side, and they go down the check list, but important is the decision to activate the state-wide siren system. >> reporter: so the decision has to be made to activate the stayed wi-- statewide sirens. pay com means pacific command. this was a shift -- basically a shift from one group of individual...

What would be your first plan of action there? >> is to build the coordination as theyre doing now between the japanese defense force, japanese government, and pay com, the pacific command has done a lot of posturing, moving ships, ronald reagan to include elements of the third marine expeditionary force, the tartuga, essex. several ships are in strike zone. the u.s. has decided u.s. forces at the air base will be the onground coordinator working with the japanese. and hopefully within the next ...