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Of 1600 miles you cannot close your carrier battle groups anywhere close to that without having a hypersonic missile hitting the carrier battle group or anything like that. and i put the onous on the military. we did not realize it was happening, the russians and the chinese until around 2019, so we started putting money into it in 2019. even as recently as march, general milley made the comment, man, like a sputnik moment. it shouldn't have been and we should have been putting a lot more effort into it. we had the system during the obama administration, we walked away from it, did not put mea...

Everybody. chinese and the russians just plain got ahead of us. >> some in the pentagon described it as a sputnik moment. hypersonic weapons fly at speeds of at least mach 5 and can change course and evade billions of dollars of missile defense. in an exclusive interview, senator angus king of maine who chairs the senate armed services subcommittee on strategic forces said the u.s. is still behind. >> we are probably i think five years behind in terms of where the chinese are. they don't mind failing in tests. we have this idea that we got to get it exactly right and every test has to be a suc...

Fictions? >> like some automated accounts are for example giving weather updates or artificial intelligence that is giving some kind of -- like compiling news headlines. and then there are others that are -- >> like russian propaganda. tell us what they are doing. >> so bots are just simply accounts that computer program is actually sending out the messages. so basically not human in that sense. and they are used for a number of things as you mentioned, yes, use for benign things like sending out the weather or whatever. but they also accepted out alerts like tsunamis are coming. but the ways ...

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