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Do about it? we had an excellent layout that best place to get the missile launch is during the boost phase. missile moving very slowly. very easy to engage with lasers if they are alerted. you only have a few minutes to do it. so mostly we have focused in the department of defense on terminal phase. so as coming in as they are coming in alaska, missile defense system, will then launch and try to hit a bullet with a bullet. we can do it. frequently it doesn't work. but that's where we are right now. now, again, on civil defense, it's not that it's useless. it isn't. it should be there for sue ...

Is serious about the preemptive attack against north korea. we are not living our lives under north korea threat from a crazy man in north korea and if there is a war to stop this threat it will be in china's backyard not america's backyard. hi needs to deliver the message to the chinese without any equivocation and i think he has. >> martha: senator graham, good to talk to you tonight. thank you very much, sir. what are the military options? here now general jack keene, fox news military analyst. we talk about the technology we would have to shoot a missile down if they were to do that. do we...

Of the ways to take care of it is to blow it up on the tarmac or blow it up as it leaves the tarmac. i understand our guest in first hour says there is technology out there called boost phase intercepts that would allow -- we have technology that would deploy a drone-like craft that would blow this rocket out of the sky before it reached -- left our atmosphere before it got to a high speed. and i think that would be the message. no one gets killed and we say that is enough. steve: the problem is though, if -- and i was listening to the interview because he was an interesting guy with an intere...

In north korea have the capability to hit the homeland. we're not going to live this way. to our friends in china, we're not going to live this way. you need to help us. if you don't help us, we'll take care of it. us taking care of it means the war's in your backyard, not ours. >> taking hundreds of thousands of lives on the korean peninsula and possibly beyond. joining us, mark hertling and retired air force colonel rick francona. how big a step forward, first of all, is this for north korea, the fact that they now may be able to hit the east coast of the united states? >> it's pretty big, a...

The emphasis on the three countries in the region and making sure that you have some sort of military show of force that lets the north koreans know that there are great capabilities that can be brought to bear on them. this time it was the south koreans. they started firing some precision-guided missiles and artillery while the missile was still aloft. that's faster than we've seen before. one of the debates back here in washington is how much money you're actually going to spend on ballistic missile defense. the president has asked for another $4 billion. they want to get that number up. the...