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The EC-121 served well for many decades in protecting America and its allies from attack. The Lockheed Constellation entered service with the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War in 1943 as the C-69 Constellation, and most of those were later converted into civilian airplanes under the designation Lockheed L-049 Constellation. However, the United States Navy also began to see how the aircraft could be employed for patrol and airborne early warning duties in 1949. Designated the PO-1W, it was modified to carry experimental electronic surveillance equipment, and soon proved...

Action, would you walk us through what would happen? >> i don't think personally that the north koreans would retaliate, large lay because they know if escalation upwards, the united states eventually will get to the position where we would destroy the regime, but i'm not confident about how kim jong-un looks at this. kim jong-un looks at the united states, and he doesn't see this country with an overwhelmingly powerful military. he sees a country with very weak political will, because for instance, his father and grandfather, they snatched the pueblo out of international water in 1968. one ki...

World as it is. but that's not the way the world should be. we don't want to use force. that would be horrific. and we ought to try everything we possibly can before we start talking as she's talking about. war talk is really premature. >> what the north koreans are doing here, this is not the first time we've seen a provocation like this. they are well aware of the basic military capability of the united states. well aware of the united states relationship with south korea. is this a statement every time they do something like that right now that they just don't believe we mean it when we say...

Historian. great to have you here again. thanks for being here on a friday night. >> thank you, rachel. >> is it fair to say that new presidents, not just the new term of a second-term president but a new president taking over does tend to get some tests from america's adversaries. is that a pattern? >> it absolutely is a question of when not if. and you know, we heard, rachel, i think you've talked about this when president obama met with president-elect trump, he said one of your biggest problems is going to be north korea. go back in time. 1969, richard nixon was in office about ten weeks w...

Term of a second-term president but a new president taking over does tend to get some tests from america's adversaries. is that a pattern? >> it absolutely is a question of when not if. and you know, we heard, rachel, i think you've talked about this when president obama met with president-elect trump, he said one of your biggest problems is going to be north korea. go back in time. 1969, richard nixon was in office about ten weeks when we americans had a reconnaissance plane the ec-121 shot down over the sea of japan, all 31 crew on board were killed. and nixon and kissinger, his national sec...