american workers not receiving pay to ensure his team can assist as needed. the president recently canceled his own trip to switzerland amid the shutdown. is an to this. going to todd. todd: donald trump announcing a new missile defense strategy to counter growing hostility from around the world. we have some very bad players out there, and we are a good player but we can be far worse than anybody. we will ensure enemy missiles find no sanctuary on the skies above. we will not take any chances, we will only take action. new satellite images, launching missiles from the ukrainian border. how imminent is the threat from russia, iran, and north korea.
against three russian companies, but their effort to block president trump s decision to eases sanctions came up short. all three firms have ties to a russian oligarch. the senate vote did represent a symbolic rebuke of the president. 11 republicans joined democrats to support chuck schumer s resolution. 13 gop votes though were needed to pass. president trump set to unveil his administration s long-awaited missile defense review at the pentagon today and expected to embrace putting advance sensors in space to better detect enemy missiles, allowing the military to intercept them earlier. a senior official says the review stopped short of calling for the deployment of interceptors in space, instead it calls for further studies of space based counter missile technology. ahead, theresa may survives another no confidence vote, but did she find a way to get the uk out of the eu unscathed?
trajectory, the pentagon is concerned about new hypersonic missiles that russia and turn are developing. they can travel 20 times the speed of sound and move around in space. that makes them much harder to detect and destroy. the u.s. has also developed hypersonic missiles, but a 108 report added 20 new ground-based interceptors in alaska, and interceptor site in the continental united states. it will guard against a potential expansion of missile threats including a future iranian ballistic missile. experts heading to missile defense plant is on a scale not seen since president reagan s star wars come already the russian government has weighed in saving a strategy will increase global tensions. bret: thank you. what do you think the u.s. should do to defend against enemy missiles? let me know on twitter. let me know on facebook as well. vice president mike pouncey of
yesterday. reporter: the technology is so precise it is like hitting a bullet with another bullet and the us military pulled it off. a big moment, crucial test conducted over the pacific ocean we mock enemy missiles near the marshall islands, targeted by an interceptor north of santa barbara. stakes couldn t be higher, and kim jung un fires a dozen missiles this year alone. the missile tested last we can reach a why. electromagnetic pulse over hawaii would shut the state of hawaii down for decades. it is more important people in pyongyang realize they cannot strike the us with any kind of weapon. heather: does the trump administration act now before
today reveals if north korea fired a missile at the united states, the military may not be able to shoot it down. tuesday military. the u.s. defense system known as the ground mid course defense system or gm d, there are over 30 intercepters in operation in california and alaska. the three stage rockets are designed to knock enemy missiles out of space. as my colleague reports for us, a number of independent scientists and government investigators are questioning how effective that system really is. for more now i want to bring in malcolm, an msnbc terrorism analyst. top generals have been insisting for years the u.s. could shoot down a missile if it came at us. what is your reporting telling us? they spent $40 billion on the system designed to block a system from north korea or iran from hitting the u.s. homeland. but experts as you said, as recently as a few weeks ago a top general told congress that