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Aegis system or something that's land-based. they never give us a read-out on why they decide not to shoot down a missile. but the ground-based intercepts, from alaska and california, don't have a high success rate. they're basically batting about 50%, which is not the kind of success rate you want to have when you have potential incoming missiles. that's part of the reason, richard, why you saw president trump ask for an additional $4 billion in an end of year short-term budget request and he did get that additional money. >> hans, if anybody knows, you do, there at the pentagon, any word, an...

We had got vectored out to the west. when we arrived, the cruiser with the aegis system said it was merge plot which means they couldn't break us up. as we both looked out the right side of our airplane we saw a disturbance in the water and a white object oblong pointing north moving erratically left, right, north, south, up, down, all around. as we started clockwise flow around the disturbance watching it i decided that i would go lower and the other jet stayed high to observe both of us. as i got to about the 12:00 position the object started to mirror us. now we're both in a clockwise flow ...

Badly. >> yeah. >> shooting off missiles. and the tweets, obviously, have the same effect as declaring a red line. they almost force you to take action. i want to ask admiral staviridis about the realm of real possibilities. i've heard your former colleagues saying recently that the president should announce a crash program to build a system that could stop north korean missiles in their boost phase, aerial vehicles that would be offshore, that would have new capabilities. do you think that's a good idea? do you think there are other new technologies that a year or two from now would make this...

South korea, as well as guam. that hits missiles when they are incoming missiles, intercepts them potentially up in the atmosphere and finally the aegis system. so on the defensive side, we know where we're at. we don't know where this is going to go diplomatically and if diplomacy fails, that's where you get to this hot rhetoric where secretary mattis is talking about the total annihilation. admittedly he's caveating that and saying we don't want this to happen, but any time you have a secretary of defense say total annihilation of a country and name that country, namely, north korea, whateve...

>> there's not a whole lot they can do. if were going to get nuked it's not like anything i do or say is good to change anything. >> i think when the two heads get together, hopefully they won't do anything stupid. >> guam is a u.s. territory, those born here are u.s. citizens, many retired military. they are confident that the antiballistic missile system the sea bass aegis system is designd specifically to take out those medium-range missiles that kim jong un has threatened to unleash on guam. >> i don't sense people being scared. i think people know that our nation has defenses that can tak...