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Threaten to erode our military advantage. i'm not comfortable yet with the deterrent posture that we have in europe. >> the general, the supreme allied commander, says he needs two more troops to rotate through europe. he's short of drones. he's comments come a week before the pentagon rolls out their 2020 budget and including a warning to turkey not to purchase a russian defense air system or else the u.s. will cancel the sale of fighter jets. >> trace: does the pentagon say russia or china is the bigger threat? >> it's an ongoing debate with more officials say china poses the greater long-te...

Russian president vladimir putin announced a new line of weapons earlier this month. he says they can't be stopped by missile defenses. he showed video animation that appeared to depict a nuclear strike on the u.s. u.s. secretary james mattis is not impressed by russia's new weapons. he spoke to reporters on sunday. >> i get paid to make strategic assessments. and i would just tell you that i saw no change to the russian military capability. and each of these systems he is talking about that are still years away i do not see them changing the military balance. they do not impact any need on ou...

It's a hard one. and i think it can affect how other countries gauge our deterrent posture with regard to nuclear weapons. there's a saying in the law, i think the supreme court justice who wrote it that hard cases make bad law. and if we were to change the law because of concerns about this president, because it's a hard case in a sense, that would be, i think, an unfortunate precedent for the next president. in some respects, we need to trust the system that is there with the set of senior advisers around the president. i think the other thing to think about, at least with this president, is...

Over taken, attacked by the united states. whether that's true or not isn't important. it is their perception. it is the perception of their people. that's what they believe. that they have to have the strategic nuclear deterrent to keep themselves in power. as long as that's the case, i don't see anything that's going to make them want to discuss giving up their nuclear weapons. what's the option? the united states has to determine how to live with a nuclear armed north korea. we have lived with others in the past -- russia and the chinese. we have been able to develop a deterrent posture wit...

Neighbors if he wants to survive. i don't want us to do something premature. i mean, given the nuclear weapons he has and given the conventional weapons that are already trained on seoul, a nation of i think -- a city of i think around 14 million people, so any kinetic action on our part trying to prevent him from getting further down the line with blirnlgs i think is more likely to have worse consequences than if we simply maintain a very strong deterrent posture. >> yeah, his conventional military capability is enormous just north of the demilitarized zone. he's got a million troops, thousan...