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Enough testing data, i have all of my weapons. i may even have the ability to deliver to the united states. we don't know that for certain. and, therefore, i don't need to do further testing in order to maintain my deterrent capability. i agree with joe. we're a long way away from the end result we all need, which is effectively north korea dismantling its nuclear program. second is the north koreans have made these promises in the past, and everybody knows that in the mid-2000s they made similar promises to get rid of their program. they cheated and proceeded along a very dangerous path. i wo...

More specifically the state department and the secretary of state himself even knowing about it, what is the potential that those possibilities have been thought out? >> good critique. but all of these summits are dangerous. go back to reagan/gorbachev. here reagan and gorbachev finally sat down and talked, let's not blow up the world. and they came up with some ideas that were quite strange like zero ballistic missiles, let's do away with all ballistic missiles. well, the military went nuts and the joint chiefs chairman had to sit with reagan at the nsc and say we're not going to do this beca...

The reality is u.s. missile defenses are not aimed at trying to stop the russians because there's no sense that the russians are planning to attack the united states. those missile defenses are aimed at stopping a single north korean or iranian missile. putin well knows that. there's no indication here planned to attack the united states. he wants to have these capabilities. he want to be able to talk about him and an intimidation factor. that's really what the underlying u.s. military assessment is, and that is why you see the u.s. military, the pentagon, responding in terms of increasing u.s...

Because nobody could even invision why you would need them here anymore our aviation brigade significantly reduced and by the way all of our allies have done the same thing now with russia's aggressive behavior everybody realizes that russia only respects strength so you have to bring back we quit killing are we quick enough is it the reaction towards the situation and you said yourself the russians are changing the security environment what is the necessary respond to that so are we doing enough i was very happy with the outcome of the defense minister also this past week in brussels where ev...

Because nobody could even invision why you would need them here anymore our aviation brigade significantly reduced and by the way all of our allies have done the same thing now with russia's aggressive behavior everybody realizes that russia only respects strength so you have to bring back we quit killing are we quick enough is it the reaction towards the situation and you said yourself the russians are changing the security environment what is the necessary respond to that so are we doing enough i was very happy with the outcome of the defense minister also this past week in brussels where ev...