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Unpredictable but seems to be pushing against the u.s. in ways that certainly his father never did. >> andrea, what is the information that is available if any about why the increase in tests, why the push towards the weaponization of nuclear bombs specifically hydrogen bombs in this case for north korea. what is the reporting on that? >> reporter: i think all the reporting has been and this is true of all three of the leaders, his grandfather, his father and himself have felt that nuclear arsenal is the key to survivability of their regime. so that has always been the for their developing nuc...

Specific statement that their military commander put out, delivered, a specific threat to guam, a u.s. territory. >> threat to take action against. that was a different -- secretary mattis said. if you threaten to take specific action, that's opposed to just making a threat. now we're in a situation where they're threatening to take specific action. i think what we have to do is send the signal to the chinese saying, this is going to be met with a response. we'll determine how and when that takes place but this is not going unresponded to. so you can do a number of things. we could really shut...

Donald trump is focused on his own well being and his survivability with this russia probe. he was all over the map on health care as a matter of substance. he plainly just wanted to have a vick stri here. the entire republican effort devofled into a pure partisan push. it wasn't really about the substance of health care. one point on the clip you played from ted cruz where he said a political party can't survive and prosper by lying to the american people, you've got to think about which lies we're talking about, because one lie is i'm going to repeal and replace -- >> hold that thought. we h...

>> well, you know, he's not going to change. he's 70 years old or whatever he is and he's not doing to change. we thought that maybe he would, but i think it's pretty clear by now that he's the donald trump he was during the campaign and he's -- you know, he's not my favorite president. >> let's talk about him and this talk about impeachment and obstruction of justice. my sense is when you set the bar that high, he wins. if he doesn't get kicked out of office this year, he's somehow the winner because you set the bar so high. get rid of the guy or not. how do you see his survivability in offic...

You can get a sense of what a game changer this plane is, but is it worth the billion dollars price tag? >> the most basic cost benefit of the airplane is its survivability. you can spend a lot of money on a cheaper airplane and you are going to die. and that's just as bold as i can be. war is an ugly business. and when we want to fly these fighters, we want not only just to go in and do our mission, we want to bring the airplane and the pilot home alive. >> that was jon scott reporting. thank you very much, very exciting stuff. a new invention by a young air force grad could soon make a dif...