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Someone like kim jong-un. >> vice president cheney once told me on the air he looked into mr. putins eyes and he saw a kgb colonel and i agree with vice president cheney on that matter. we are dealing with a kgb colonel and a seasoned intelligence operator and the gru agent who was murdered by a chemical weapon with 130 other casualties in great britain, you have a ruthless government that attacked our election and dispatched a war head called saton 2 this week. and if president trump said if yo...

Defensive missiles that the russians sold to iran defend these power plants that we wanted more information about. nuclear reactors they were using for their nuclear program. not just for medical use but to build missiles and war head. they were so important to our congressional leaders they didnt want these plans to go through. thats why so many people thought the uranium one deal. >> sean: we are talking about the most important aspects of americas national security. he was involved -- he unde...

Somewhat. how much of the interest is based on we have to keep this up to safe standards and more adventurous possible use of nuclear weapons. >> taking what the obama administration was already doing to sort of renovate or ensure the validity of the u.s. nuclear stockpile and going significantly further than that. the new weapon, the new war head. the new missile deliver system and what we leave within the story is trump ordered to department of energy to be ready to test a nuclear weapon not w...

Down? what should people do? joining me now to answer that and more is a nuclear weapons historian. so, lets first talk about how it would be work. do we think for example the north korea has the capability to hit hawaii today? >> north koreans have tested a lot of different missiles and nuclear war heads. its not like theyve tested one or two. theyve tested literally hundreds of missiles over the last decade or so. do they have that capacity? experts debate whether or not well is this test the ...

Lucas thomasson. good evening. >> good evening. the pentagon is saying they had nothing to do with this alert system. this is a state run emergency management system. the pentagon issued a statement as soon as they could to say it had not detected any ballistic missile launch. i want to tell you and viewers though that north korea still has not demonstrated the ability to have a war head successfully reenter the earths atmosphere, so they have done over 25 tests in the last year, including their...

Korea. what to square what he said about the nuclear capability with what we know at this point. >> yeah, its something you obviously have to take seriously, david. but when you look at that question of whether or not north korea actually is nuclear capable, combat ready with a nuclear arsenal at this stage, south korean military officials say questionable. theres no proof that they actually have mastered the technology which enables that warhead on top of the missile to survive reentry or wheth...

International space station. launched three missiles which experts say could hit the united states if a war head can one day survive reentry back into earth. in addition to conducting over 20 ballistic missile tests this year. north korea detonated its most powerful test on labor day. a blast 17 times greater than the atomic bomb the united states dropped on hiroshima. south korea prohibition the u.s. and north korea will finally sit down for talks next year. russian officials recently offered t...

Crucial to the guidance of a missile to a catarget. we know they still have problems and a long way to go. we also know they are still very much working on it, and thats a big concern to the u.s. because this missile, according to analysts now, was in fact significantly larger than previous missiles they have fired. the first stage, second stage. what does that mean? it means it can in fact fly higher, fly longer, and carry a bigger war head of bigger pay load. finally, what the analysts are beg...

This new test could potentially reach the u.s. mainland, but the war head would be destroyed before hitting us. for more lets bring in retired lieutenant colonel daniel l. davis, senior fellow and military expert at defense priorities. sir, good of you to joining us today and thanks for weighing on the all-important issue. i keep hearing comments, its going to break on reindustry therefore it might not hit us, the likelihood of it hitting us, just the mere chance of that is enough to cause conce...

I think this will be a massive failure of american national security policy and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. this is determining whether the 21st century, i think, would be a world where many more countries, dozen more countries get nuclear and chemical biological weapons here and whether we can draw the line. >> as youre bringing that up we had reporting from own national security correspondent jennifer griffin who happens to be on the ground in california speaking of latest ba...