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The administration very careful to say that these new measures will be solely defensive and will not incorporate any new offensive capability. it is also expected the president will talk about syria, including yesterday's suicide bombing as well as the shutdown. also briefly, the majority of today's speech will focus on the topic at hand. >> bill: the president responded to nancy pelosi's address to the delay of the state of the union address? >> no, not yet and he doesn't appear to be in any hurry to respond to her. the office of legislative affairs and the president, the white house yesterda...

And a new political appointee. assistant secretary of defense for space. >> we are in alignment with the president's concerns about protecting assets. >> and ohio, president trump hinted at more aggressive actions in orbit. >> i'm talking about tremendous defense capability. offensive capability. >> the move to military space has raised concerns of a celestial arms race. experts agree space force are not, the u.s. confronts threats. >> russia and china have been actively developing antisatellite weapons for a number of years. >> the trump administration: congress to allocate $8 billion over th...

The capability we're talking about is something that probably already exists in the u.s. military, in the air force, navy, other armed services. i spent 25 years in the navy, and 20 of it at nasa. and this is not something that we ever really heard was a serious consideration over all that time. so it's kind of hard to understand at this point. >> the former secretary of the air force said the president is confusing a service branch and a combat ant command. what's the difference here and what would the aim be? if you subscribe to the president's notion we should have a space force, what's in ...

We're waiting to hear, the pentagon is going to brief at 10:00 p.m. tonight and hopefully give us some more specifics about exactly what happened here, including the platforms. did this come from u.s. navy ships? was this from aircraft overhead? what specifically did they hit? and what exactly does the president mean by a potential sustained response to this? we reported exclusively yesterday, actually, rachel that the u.s. now has evidence that president bashar al assad, the syrian regime, are behind -- were behind this chemical attack last weekend. and president trump spoke directly to iran ...

Night sky. they're watching for missile strikes, bombs, other explosions. they've reported tonight that syrian air defense forces have launched "counterstrikes" against the american, french, and british aggression on syria. as keir simmons was explaining, syria does actually have fairly sophisticated air defense system. they've got the s-300 and s-400 air defense systems, both of which are russian systems. some of those are manned by syrian military personnel. others are manned by russian military personnel. in the case of the russian air defenses those are there purportedly to defend signific...