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Unknown. presidents are asked about extra terrestrial life all the time. jimmy kimmel tried to get george w. bush to admit that he knows. bush told kimmel, quote, i'm not telling you nothing. same for bill clintob and barack obama. they say that they have looked at the files but they won't tell us a sliver of what's inside. there was some hope that we would get to see the x-files in 2016. extraterrestrial talk was all the rage with hillary clinton's campaign. she actually promised that if she got elected she was release what she could. that obviously didn't happen, so here we are still wonderi...

Many white house aides were saying oh, he wasn't bothered by this. he didn't think about it. he of course saw all of the coverage last night and all day today, as he always does, and saw that it was in nancy pelosi's favor, it seems. and that bothered him so he had to get back. >> and admiral, you're familiar with how these trips work. was it a good idea for speaker pelosi to go in the first place? >> as a veteran, i would far prefer to see both sides put somewhere in a room with a box of donuts we have coast guardsmen protecting our maritime borders and we have more maritime borders than terr...

>> as a veteran, i would far prefer to see both sides put somewhere in a room with a box of donuts and not come out until they have it solved. we have coast guardsmen protecting our maritime borders and we have more maritime borders than terrestrial without getting paid. i would prefer everybody stay in town and get this solved. that said, these are serious business. i'm accompanied some of them. they do a lot of work. it's important for them to do this. they have a right and a responsibility to talk to troops and commanders on the ground, to figure out what's going on and to help the -- devis...

Doesn't have to be extra terrestrial to be a real concern to u.s. national security. some are concerned. but as an organization, the pentagon doesn't seem to be interested in investigating, why not is the question? christopher melon is the national security affairs advisor for the to the stars academy of arts and science. sea former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and he joins us tonight. mr. melon, thanks for coming on. >> my pleasure, tucker, thank you. >> tucker: i want to make sure i am not overstated that military have seen objects, aircraft doing things that aircra...

>> reporter: they are exploiting the digital domain to shape perceptions in their favor. and no group has been more prolific in this space. >> america's enemies are evolving. and america has to do the same. >> we have to maintain a robust set of capabilities, overhead, terrestrial, collection by aircraft, collection by humans, whatever it is. so the trick is, how do you make all the cylinders work together and in harmony. >> the seemingly limitless number of threats and adversaries. >> tell me how inundated with all this threat intel how you unwind. >> when i was in the pentagon as the underse...