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>> while the thad system has mixed test results pretty good at knocking down sort medium-range missiles peter will be tested for the first time against an intermediate range. so not quite intercontinental. but if we want to test this, the more we test them the more confidence you have and what they can do. the missile defense system we currently have deployed in alaska and california the so-called, ground-based missile defense system can shoot down a simple icbmbut anything equipped with countermeasures, decoys, jammers, maneuverable warheads will penetrate that system so we do not have a reli...

>> all right. andrew stephens, good to see you this morning. >> let's bring in our cnn military analyst. retired air force colonel and former member of the joint chiefs of staff. i want to start with the thad missile defense system designed to intercept short and mid range missiles potentially coming from north korea. it's going to be tested sometime in the next couple of days and an official says the test was not prompted by the north's icbm test, we'll talk about china in a moment. what are the potential implications and the significance of this test now? >> well, good morning. i think the i...

Military options and what that might look like. we need to keep the door open to diploma diplomacy. we have to act unilaterally and take a step that may not have the outcome that we want. this is a very complicated situation. i want to see the state department and the defense department beef up their asia experts that can be a part of this. they're not in place yet. that would help the team a lot. >> we have the thad anti-missile defense system in place, operational, fully loaded. used kinetic injury to knock down a nuclear missile. all the people that opposed the thad system, it's a good thin...

They're very much opposed, both russia and china, to the deployment by the united states of an anti-missile defense system, the thad system, being assembled in south korea. they feel it undermines their own strategic defenses, as well. and because it encourages north korea, they say, to escalate its own military tactics. they're calling for negotiation, talks, in other words, it try and bring an end top this crisis. these words were in response to the apparent testing of the intercontinental ballistic missile by the north korean regime. that happened overnight local time here in russia. the tw...

Like to see in the region. also, the president showed restraint. and i think it really was astonishing for many of his critics that, you are know, we can lild those allies over there i think we are in a better place now than we were before that speech. this is a major opportunity to emerge from a lot of the recent turmoil with the white house communications team. i think it was really strong moment for the president to be on that world stage. brian: rob, $109 billion in arms sales to saudi arabia. that will be topic number one for the israelis. who, according to a good friend of the prime mini...