guest in austin. republican michael mccall. comingman, welcome. thanks for having me. eric: first question. look, they say they are going to hit austin. their missile can get maybe 2500 miles. some would say, why should we worry? they don t have that capability to get past, say, guam. we know that. the reason they talk about austin, samsung s here, the largest foreign south korean investment in the united states. but that capability is want there. however, they are very dangerous. in the sense that we have 28,000 soldiers in south korea. they can strike our allies like japan with this capability. and so i think, the whole situation, needs to be taken seriously. it is. we have destroyers in the region. we have a b-2 stealth bomber and fighter plane that could set
provoke, perhaps a reaction from us? well, or from south korea or even japan. let s not forget, we re not the only player on our side of the equation and in the past couple years the north koreans have sunk a south korean corvette. they shelled innocent south korean civilians. in neither case did south korea retaliate. we have a new president there now. public opinion polls show the south koreans are not happy about these kinds of threats and we ourselves and i think correctly, have put the south koreans more forward in terms of determining what a military response would be to this kind of provocation. bill: that is interesting. so i think it s a mistake to think all is came out there. bill: we have sent, what, b-2 stealth bomber flew a week ago. it is back in the state of missouri. stealth f-22 fighters deployed for the military exercise in south korea. the uss mccain which is destroyer and decatur which is a destroyer also.
destruction that are located in well-protected underground facilities. without getting into specifics, to a magnitude far greater than we have right now. reporter: the new bomb was specifically designed to be dropped by the b-2 stealth bomber. the pentagon said the bomb is not designed to target any one country, but the announcement comes at a time when tensions are very high over iran s nuclear program. the iranian facilities are believed to be purchase read about 180 feet underground at two locations. the u.s. is trying to round up international support for stronger sanctions as israel is threatening military action to takeout the sites. we don t know exactly how many of the bombs have been delivered to the military at this point but we do know that 20 total have been ordered. back to you. jenna: interesting story, an interesting timing as you point out, steve. thank you very much. jon: straight ahead, a secret white house czar to speed up stimulus spending? now linked to green energ
ways, doesn t it. martha: it sure does. i m wondering how significant it its for you. president obama had a decision to make, they could either take a b-2 stealth bomber and obliterate the whole place. they chose to do it the hard way and put men on the ground and to make sure that osama bin laden saw that it was american soldiers who came to take his life. how important and how satisfying, i know it s kind of a sick way in some ways to look at it. how much does that mean to you. no it s not a sick way to think about it. i ve thought about what we have to do, why we have to do it an awful lot. i m a staunch advocate of enhanced interrogation. i believe firmly in the patriot act and in gitmo, and what the media does and some of these elements of this country do it pleases me, it angers me at times. this is proof that you have to continue to pursue what is right
stealth technology who help it evade radar. you put all of those things together and you can kind of reverse engineer the whole idea for this plane in the first place. this plane was designed to be a cold war, deep penetration nuclear bomber. the idea for this plane, the reason they spent so many billions of dollars developing this plane is that it could drop nuclear bombs really far inside russia. the idea was it could beat radar for at least a while before it was detected. it could be deep inside soviet airspace where it could drop nuclear bombs on the interior of the soviet union. that s why they made this plane. and as exciting as that might sound for an end-of-the-world nuclear doomsday mission, missions like that don t come up very often in real life. the b-2 bomber was obviously never used for a mission like that in real life. i mean the b-2 bomber does have