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Your reaction in general to these reports that russia has managed to create some sort of new weapon? >> my reaction is similar to lucy's in terms of the defense implications and maybe the veracity of this report. it's only coming out of moscow. in march putin said he was deploying, developing and then deploying a host of new weapons. this one is significant. if they were able to truly test and successfully come up with an intercontinental missile that flies at five times the speed of sound, basically that missile would be more maneuverable and harder to track. in that respect putin is right. w...

Intercontinental strategic system. it's a big moment in the life of the armed forces and in the life of the country. russia has obtained a new type of strategic weapon. all of this coming as the u.s. prepares to come out of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty with russia. nbc news foreign correspondent lucy is in london with more on the significance of this new weapon. what can you tell us? >> i would take this news with a giant grain of salt. the russians have been trying to develop a hyper sonic weapons system for a while now. folks at the pentagon have been concerned and also skeptical a...

Disturbing is not necessarily that in and of itself maybe the russians did make some advances. it's the signaling. it's exactly what lucy said. the russian president is testing our president. he's testing our alliances. and by the way, not just our european alliances. there's a lot of focus these days on nato. right know so. we can talk about nato and how our president is attacking it all the time and putin would like him to continue to attack and what the russians have done in terms of taking out an assault on ukraine. taking the sailors hostage. they still haven't returned them along with th...

The same missile back in march putin declared could reach any where in the world. and he did that while screens behind him showed florida being targeted. russia have also announced more missile tests to be carried out in the baltic in early april. this comes as days after the u.s. test launched their own icbm, uss nebraska off the coast of southern cal cam. if. you read russian kremlin media, this is a full blown cold war and more tense than the '80s. russia reaching out to the u.s. and saying they're open to a summit between president putin and president trump. remains to be seen whether they...

Is like in russia. you spent so much time there over the past few months. what do russians feel about what is going on here? do they think that we are all just making this up? are they believing their state line? and what does that mean in your experience? >> well, it's interesting. i talked in january to someone who was an arch putin critic, who said actually a lot of russians, including myself, are actually quite proud if we hacked the u.s. election. which was an astonishing thing to say. i think now, russians are -- well, not a lot of this is being reported on russian state media. i think t...