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Soldiers and intelligence officers working on america's vast foreign policy. washington spends more on defense than the next ten great powers put together and more on intelligence than most nations spend on their entire militaries. we have more than 200,000 troops stationed at dozens of bases abroad from bahrain to germany to south korea to turkey. we have formal commitments to defend dozens of our important allies in europe, middle east and asia. and our vast footprint has been expanded under the obama administration. the white house has extended america's security umbrella to include defendi...

Spectacular public failure. the danger is, how will the south koreans and the japanese react. it's all right for us to look at this as a superpower 10,000 miles away. japan is close by, south korea is right there. if they start looking at this and saying, we can't keep relying on the united states for the security umbrella, for this nuclear umbrella, we have to do something, remember, these are very advanced countries. japan in a sense is a few months away from a nuclear bomb, just because they have such a sophisticated nuclear industry. south korea could get one very easily. what we're trying...

Down. because if these are sort of harmless missile tests that end up in the ocean, perhaps one way to stop the escalation is not to intercept them. if they do appear to be close to south korea, or to japan, i think that becomes a different matter. the key here, wolf, is probably not really what we are doing to protect ourselves. north korea is really not a threat to the united states. it has no capacity. the nuclear warheads it has are too heavy to sit on these missiles. the missiles are not particularly good. you remember a couple of years ago they tested one and it was a spectacular public ...

Of the primary contributors of oil to europe, it's a big deal to a lot of these european nations, and the united states, for better or for worse is the security umbrella for europe. >> and, chuck, i know you're going to be a busy person. you're anchoring "hardball" and the coverage of the speech tonight so we'll all be watching. thanks, chuck. the president's address comes as western air strikes pave the way for rebels to make a dramatic advance across the libyan coast, retaking some 200 miles of territory in less than 24 hours. the goal now of the rebels, to break the military's hold on sir...

Would get involved in helping protect private networks is controversial. why? >> it's controversial because of history, and because in our country we have separated what the military does on the domestic front versus what first responders, police, et cetera. the important thing to remember is that most of our economy, either leverages or depends on cyberspace and 90% of that ownership is in private hands. jon: the u.s. military obviously protects all of us with a security umbrella, why not protect our internet connections and so forth? >> well i think that is a small, small step to come to tha...