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>> not any one in the general public but there is a lot of people who make a good living in the government doing studies of studies of studies. >> greta: what were they studying in the first place. why don't they just do their job and not be wasteful? what is the. >> you talked about the missile defense program. >> $100 million. >> that is a lot of money. i don't know how much it really costs but you do have to research the issues when you going to be doing defense systems for the whole united states. >> greta: it just seems so out of control. if it weren't night after night after night it is ...

Sensors to distinguish between a war head and other objects, other objects like balloons, kt. are we safe? >> no. and the missile defense program is a mess. and it's a mess for a couple of reasons. one, president obama canceled the land-based missile defense program in the czech republic in poland two years ago, and he said we're going to put our stuff on ships, and that's how we will defend ourselves. it will be a goodwill gesture to the russians, because they will help us stop iran. they didn't give us any help in iran, exactly the opposite. the missile system has a lot of problems operation...

Goes out of afghanistan into swiss bank accounts as fast as it goes in. i'm a vietnam era person and this is the same debate we had at the end of the viet number war. it was an unpopular war, we looked like we were winning it, but at end ever the day we didn't support the south corn government, it was corrupt, inch tkpe. i have a real question about our willingness to give those kind of dollar amounts for a long period of time. jenna: important questions raised and more as we see how this develops over the next several weeks and months. i want to ask you about this new report that really grabb...

Say, look we are going to do this to put a satellite up in the air. if you can lift a satellite off the ground into space you could also do the same thing and lift a nuclear weapon. that's why it's so concerning that the north koreans would do this kind of a test. as you point out, if north korea does it, does iran get it? and then what happens? that's why it's so essential that the united states beef up our missile defense program, which we have not done. jon: thank you for your expertise, kt mcmarch land. jenna: voting is underway right now in three republican primaries. a campaign update st...

The pope arrived in cuba monday urging all cubans to abandon communism and build a renewed and open society. president obama is clarifying a remark he made to russian president dmitry medvedev during a nuclear security summit in south korea. the president was apparently unaware of how close reporters' microphones were when he told medvedev that he'd have more flexibility to discuss a missile defense program after the presidential election. take a listen. >> i don't think it's any surprise that you can't start a few months before a presidential and congressional election to the united states....