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Regulated road to the individual homeowner. >> what is your assessment? how long will it take? >> i would caution people between re-entry and that process we could have power down in homes for the coming weeks. weeks. i dont want to cause panic in florida and ill come to a question here next. there are hospitals and nursing homes and other facilities that have generator power to provide services that are necessary and there the concern is providing fuel to those generators should they run out an...

But then to have it survive re-entry, the violence, the burning, the trauma of coming back into our atmosphere and have it arrive not just in one piece but set down where you would need it to go, that part is very, very hard. were talking about launching sort of a space program and one of the worlds most sophisticated ballistic programs all in one go. so, certainly the setting off the enormous explosion, thats a big breakthrough. being able to create an icbm that might at least pierce the atmosp...

They have the destructive potential. they have a missile they think they can probably put into space that really remaining hurdle is can they bring it back down in one piece onto the place that they intend? that would be the final trifecta of a full nuclear weapon. >> lets focus on those outstanding hurdles, if you will. i mean, what is our understanding of the level of difficulty to master those issues, trajectory of missile and re-entry? >> well, its really one of the great difficult things th...

Having to cope with now and also the missile tests which certifiably go at a certain range to ensure certain potential, they have their own truths. the discrepancies here because of the need to match the missile with the device and whether the device can withstand re-entry and, indeed, would detonate in a manner that the north korean want to over a target. thats the discrepancy in which its increasingly clear that it will be foolish not to give north korea the benefit of the doubt so that these ...

>> the korean central news agency, north korean press agency, says that kim jong-un had expressed great satisfaction with the launch versus japan, calling it meaningful prelude to containing guam. what does that actually mean? >> no one in the defense department is verifying this was a successful test, what they always say is that every time kim jong-un launches, they do -- he does learn something. they will know that it broke into three pieces upon re-entry in the atmosphere. and thats not alwa...

Introduction of hyperbole on the part of the united states, what are we to make of this dynamic? >> lets start off by talking about whats new and whats not new. whats new is that north korea has developed missiles that are intercontinental that can hit the territory of the united states. whats new is that they seem to have perfected the ability to put a warhead on those missiles. what sent new is they dont have a warhead that seems to not burn up on re-entry. but theyre moving in a direction to ...

Why are we precipitating what feels like a nuclear crisis when frankly it is unnecessary and we have not coordinated with the other countries, china, japan, south korea, chief among them, to shape a diplomatic strategy to try to reduce tensions rather than just ratchet them up. >> and actually, the defense intelligence agency was leading this and now trying to find out whether there is a real intelligence community, consensus, about that assessment and youre absolutely right, they havent figured...

Intelligence before has overestimated north koreas capability and speed? if you2000, if you look under president bush, there is information that the regime was very close to developing an icbm and they werent. is there a lesson to be learned from that? >> i dont think things are markedly different now. theres always been a difference of opinion in terms of experts thinking about how fast north koreas developing its technologies. i think that there are still experts who believe that north korea d...

His public persona on this subject and its quite adamant and quite wordy, but we know from people we have talked to behind the scenes that president trump is seriously very, very concerned about this, because this has always been the calculation for the u.s. military and intelligence community. how do you let -- if you let it get to the point where north korea actually has all of those pieces and parts, the missile, the warhead, the re-entry, the nuclear materiel, the targeting, the guidance. wh...

Very, very serious for president trump to have to deal with. it would mean if all of these pieces and parts work, that north korea could at some point sooner rather than later, target the united states. now, lets pull it apart one second, dana. one of the key things that north korea, the u.s. is not sure they have fully accomplished, is something called re-entry. i dont mean -- like i said earlier today, i dont mean to geek out on everyone, but if you want to attack with a long-range missile, yo...