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Author of 1917 leonard wilson and the birth of the new world disorder. i read this book and it's awesome. arthur herman historian. welcome. you have a way to combat this. if the president wanted to get down to business, how we take care of this. >> the way to take care of this is to shoot those missiles down as they leave the launch pad. that's called boost phase intercept with ballistic missiles. every ballistic missile comes with a booster to get it up out of the -- out of the atmosphere. the boost face is the hottest and the slowest portion of the missile launch. so you have the possibility...

>> what's clear is that they now have the range. what they lack is the ability to target and to deliver on target. that still alludes them. they are going to be there sooner than we think. brian: within a year some say. the boost phase intercept you briefed general mcmaster on, this right? >> he has seen my brief regarding boost phase intercept using unmanned aircraft drones and conventional intercept missiles. i talked to members of congress about it. don't be surprised if in the next few days congress begins to move towards taking some of that 4 billion supplemental budget that president tru...