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Talking tough enough to vladimir putin. that sounds pretty tough if it's true. >> i think, look, our geopolitical situation is such that we understand who our enemies are. i think we're on guard relative to the coming election cycle. we are developing our own ballistic missile systems and modernization efforts. to me it is in some ways just a recognition that the president understands the score and the stakes and he's got good people around him. jim mattis, john kelly, hopefully soon mr. pompeo. we're in good shape. you have to be on guard with the neo-soviet thinking that comes out of putin. ...

And i want to go back to your point about the launch. couple of facts to understand here. first a launch of this kind of icbm is something that takes at least two months to plan. this had nothing to do with this tit for tat on spies. it was a launch that obviously was in the books for a while planned secondly, after the new stark treaty that triggered earlier this year, instead of competition between two countries, ours and theirs in numbers, we are competing in terms of quality of launch weapons. so what you are looking at in many ways, his statement they're still in the game. russia's econom...