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Asteroid could look like. that wasn't the scene of it saving it right there. and this wednesday, nasa plans to test it out in real life, launching a spacecraft on a 16,000-mile-an-hour collision course with a nearby asteroid to rye to nudge it just a little bit off-course. but it raises the question, whose job is it to prevent an armageddon? joining us right now is brian bender, a senior national political correspondent at politico, whose new article explores exactly that. i love that their bosses came to you and said, hey, i've got a big scoop that i need you to work on. it's about this aster...
If it were headed this way, you know, it would be a real threat, and so they're hoping that this is -- they call this a technology demonstration. this is just to show that this is possible to do, if indeed we need to do. but i don't think there's any real concern that we're going to somehow send it on course instead of off-course. >> all right. we're going the leave it there with politico's brian bender. thank you so much for being here. and the good news is, we don't have to send bruce willis or billy bob thornton to space to save us all. >> billy bob couldn't go, remember? >> that's right! s...
Pentagon's inspector general saying he was smeared after releaing this. the footage -- we got questions about the footage. even the airman what captured the video could barely believe it. listen. >> there's a fleet of them. >> my gosh. they're going against the wind. the wind is 120 knots to the west. >> the footage was declassified last year. the agent's watchdog is pursing allegations. the pentagon will release details surrounding these in coming weeks. let's bring in brian bender who has been talking with the legal team of the intel officials. what steps does he say the pentagon officials t...
There about how many of these sightings have been reported or specifics of those. i think it's a strategy, here is what we're doing. >> quickly, because i'm almost out of show. when you look at the videos like we have been showing next to your face on television here, there's the argument that there's a lot more questions than answers from this. why does this former official think they should be released to the public without the full context behind them? >> i think he believed that these videos, which were declassified, would help gain more public attention. i don't think he is necessarily in...