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Satellite issue at night. take a look at the north, it's completely dark. we talked about isolation. what is condemning a country that has barely any electricity do for us, general scales and let's hrurpb t return to that question. what can we do proactively to reduce any conflict? >> right now not much of anything. i have to applaud the administration for their show of force with b52s, and b-2s, and moving missiles closer into south korea. those are all positive movements. when the north korean as go ka at the time nick when they start shooting somewhere in the south all the talk ends and tha...

Seriously. you know, no need to panic but this is the most sustained i would say type of pressure or full my nations we are seeing from the north in a while. >> george w. bush owanted the system to protect. president obama said he didn't want to do that. now authorized it. we have an expanded missile defense system done in 2017. as you know, the former defense secretary robert gaets said north korea would have a missile capable of striking the west coast of the united states a year before the missile defense would be ready. did president obama wait too long? you were saying here saying, look, ...

I think centrifugal force will take care of its own and eventually north korea will implode from its own continue dictions. south korea, you have a new south korean president in place. you have a south korean policy that says if north korea takes a pot shot at us, we're going to fire back. in the last two or three years, you've had a sinking and shelling of an island. if you have exchange of fire with south korea and south korea pushes back on the new leader, that's a dynamic that could go in any direction. >> john, we learned the united states dispatched its second destroyer to the region in ...

Ed, sensible reaction by the pentagon? or overreaction? >> i think it is a sense isible reaction. and i think in addition to that it would be good for the administration to not only bolster our own missile defense but to support japan and south korea with missile defense. i think to bill's point they are nervous understandably and doing everything we can to reassure them would be helpful and obviously trying to get china to engage in their own region in a way that would be helpful i think with kim jong un would be important, too. >> chris: your thoughts about the u.s. response. what we have do...

Ed, sensible reaction by the pentagon? or overreaction? >> i think it is a sense isible reaction. and i think in addition to that it would be good for the administration to not only bolster our own missile defense but to support japan and south korea with missile defense. i think to bill's point they are nervous understandably and doing everything we can to reassure them would be helpful and obviously trying to get china to engage in their own region in a way that would be helpful i think with kim jong un would be important, too. >> chris: your thoughts about the u.s. response. what we have do...