system. something that people hadn't heard since the cold war, decades. apparently what we just learned at the press conference, some of those sirens went off. there's no explanation of why some of the sirens went off, but others didn't. but currently the u.s. military has 44 interceptors in the ground in alaska and southern california to be able to strike any kind of rogue ballistic missile coming from north korea and congress has called for about 12 billion dollars more in defense spending for missile defense and to add over 60 more interceptors so a total of 100 missiles in the ground to knock out these ballistic missiles but eric it is noteworthy today there are only 44 in the ground and a big budget crisis looms next week when congress comes back. eric: all right lucas maybe this scare will cause them to deploy some more of those antimissile systems faster. thank you very much. let's go to director of the national law and policy program. he's a former chief counsel and senior advisor for the senate