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Well the white house says we can handle an incoming nuclear attack from north korea. here is press secretary jay carney on this yesterday. >> i can tell you that the united states is fully capable of defending against any north korean ballistic missile attack and our recent success in returning to testing of the upgraded version of the so-called gbi, or the ce-2 missile, will keep us on a good trajectory to improve our defense capability against limited ballistic missile threats such as those from north korea. let's be clear, we are fully capable of dealing with that threat. martha: north kore...

The budget. if we're going to get cuts, this is the only opportunity to get them with this president. what message do you have to them today? >> my message to them is i agree with you that we've got a spending problem, that we've got a debt and deficit problem that need to be addressed. and we've got to look at cutting spending where we can. we all agree that reforming entitlements is the way to do it. but i also say defense cuts the way they're done are not good for our defense and we can replace them with more strategic targeted defense cuts. there have been republicans who have taken out of...

We're behind and we have a long way to go to catch up. martha: this is very scary stuff and they trace it back to one building on the outskirts of shanghai, unit 31698. sounds like something from a spy movie. but when you talk about it in those terms, ambassador, going after pipelines, you think about how technical our warfare has become, with drones and all of this, everything, so much computer orchestrated and you say we are behind, we put out a report. let's put up a full screen. last week we talked about this. our defense capability will be surpassed by china terms of the amount of money w...

The congressional record signed by 100 senators. i told him he ought to sell it on ebay and get rich. this hasn't happened in years, and it sure isn't going to happen with chuck hagel whom we can discuss. but the whole idea that in this reckless fashion, congress is not stopping this move to sequester of the defense or the nondefense budget just boggles my mind. i haven't been there in two years, but the people who are there are shaking their heads. let me say this. i was in munich recently for the security conference, my 11th time with john mccain, lindsey graham and a on the of others. the e...

Along those lines he's got a track record that sort of diminishes defense capability as opposed to building it up. we can't afford that. >> who would you like to see on this? >> i'm not in a position to make that kind of nomination. drastically different perspective than these two, and another piece on these they're differential to international institutions, u.n., criminal courts, that i think that diminishes american democracy and i have the clear eye of the world in the we pave and susan rice, intervention, but not in the threats of the world that are most threating to the united states. >>...