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Capability. >> reporter: u.s. military intelligence believes putin's ultimate goal -- >> they are developing the capability to deny the ability of the united states to meet its commitments in europe. >> reporter: the skyfall missile test shrouded in secrecy is just one of putin's weapons programs designed to hold the u.s. at bay. european worries about a resurgent russia still with control over crimea and attacking eastern ukraine may doom president trump's efforts to get russia back into the so-called group of seven economic fold. >> i don't think that there is going to be any serious discuss...

With worried putin is in the lead. >> according to some experts he's at least a year, maybe as much as two years ahead of our ability to actually deploy in the field a similar like capability. >> reporter: u.s. military intelligence believes putin's ultimate goal? >> what they're developing is a capability to deny the ability of the united states to meet its alliance commitments specifically in europe. >> reporter: the russian nuclear powered skyfall missile test which resulted in a deadly explosion and fallout shrouded in secrecy by moscow is one of putin's weapons programs designed to hold t...

Response toj that. now, without saying what that is, it certainly does seem as though from the words and also the body languae that we saw from vladimir putin that the u.s. and russia at this point in time seem to be a lot closer to a new nuclear arms race than they were before this statement was made. so the russians haven't announced exactly what they're going to do, but it certainly seems like they're going to continue to ramp up some of the new weapons programs that the russians have been working on quite a while. >> i want to ask you about this bizarre story about this mystery explosion a...

>> the reason we see all of these things happening in all of these different krcountries is because all of these rivals of the united states see no real pushback from the trump administration. >> reporter: the incoming chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the president's personal military adviser has a dire warning. >> china went to school on us. they watched us very closely in the first gulf war, the second gulf war. they watched our capabilities. they will have the capability to defeat us by mid-century. >> when it comes to countries like iran and north korea, they are under heavy sanction...

The united states see no real pushback from the trump administration. >> reporter: the incoming chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the president's personal military adviser, has a dire warning. >> china went to school on us. they watched us very closely in the first gulf war, the second gulf war. they watched our capabilities. they will have the capability to defeat us by mid-century. >> reporter: when it comes to countries like iran and north korea, they are under heavy sanctions, so how are they getting everything they need for these weapons programs? u.s. officials tell us both those co...