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Intelligence officials warning that china's recent tests of a nuclear capable hyper sonic missile marks a substantial military advancement, and a potential threat to the united states. it also raises stakes for president biden's plan to scale back america's nuclear arsenal. cnn's oren liebermann joins us now. does the pentagon consider this a game changing moment? >> reporter: a game changing moment that's probably a step too far but there certainly is concern over what the financial times reportsed china tested in the july/august time frame, but first, the u.s. test. on thursday the u.s. went...

The last five in us, curious to see if it takes on a different thing. todd: china tests the hyper sonic missile, under president biden's watch. how concerned should we be? mike gallagher joins us next.

Learning curve. does this represent a new cold war with china? at least maybe in the stages? >> michael: is like a new space race and bit of a cold war. we are in competition in space. we created space force under the trump administration for this very reason. particularly frightening about hyper sonic, it is made to avoid detection. it flies below altitude, five times the speed of sound and zig-zags. we currently have no missile defense system to stop it. imagine if hyper sonic was put into a submarine off the coast of the united states. this is what we had been worried about over the years a...

Competition to turn into conflict. hyper sonic missiles travel five times the speed of sound, they are incredibly fast and difficult to detect. you can maneuver these miciles. countries can maneuver them, making them more advanced than traditional ballistic missiles. china is denying this report and u.s. officialss not commenting on the report. according to final times, they put out a report late saturday, they are saying china tested nuclear hyper sonic missile in august and the report says u.s. intelligence officials were caught off guard. chinese say it was a spacecraft test. u.s. officials...

New covid cases have tracked down in a couple of weeks, still high but trending in the right direction. a worsening problem here, norah, a severe shortage of school bus drivers and substitute teachers and sometimes the only solution is to put more kids in a class or on a bus and that, of course, norah, increases the risk. >> o'donnell: mark strassmann, thank you. news tonight about north korea. they say its latest missile test involved a hyper sonic missile. if true this would mark a major advance for the north and also violate u.n.f es u.s. military said it tested its latest hypersonic missil...