us now. great to see you as always. this is a serious escalation. how do you see it? this is an escalation that china had been worning about in the weeks prior to this trip that pelosi was taking p the question is was it worth it, was anything substantive made during these meetings that she had on the ground there, symbolically this was a huge move, showing once again the united states stands in support of taiwan. and their autonomy there. that having been said, given the tensions, not only in the region right now, in china s escalation, and xi s escalation, as he s approaching his party congress meeting later this year, set to become the third term, unprecedented leader of that country and leader for life, was it worth it. with all of the focus now on ukraine, would this actually benefit taiwan and its security, and that s the question really going forward there, holding embargoes now on trade between china and taiwan, and, you know, the taiwanese obviously embraced this v
surprise on the battlefield now. i mean, given the nickname, i think it answers some of the question. but really explain to folks how this differs from other hellfire missiles. if you look at a normal hellfire missile, you see some loaded on a drone here, we talked about the side, they re not terribly big. they have been around for decades, developed as anti-tank weapons. they are used to ed ed to fire into buildings, they re very common and very widely used. the big difference is this, if you look at the firing of a normal hellfire missile, it takes off, and it is carrying a warhead. it is being guided toward a target, and when it hits, it is going to explode. the blast area when it explodes would be potentially about as big as a football field, in terms of where people would be in danger. that s a big impact. and bear in mind, this thing is moving very, very fast. the difference with this one, you go back to the rx-9, you re
all of these cases across the board and nbc has had to deal with this before. they had the contributor, mark halperin. they had a booker, a producer, matt zimmermann. i think they have learned and we don t know what the details are yet, but that once they made the decision, they made it very quickly. go ahead. i was just going to say and probably do it and do it quickly. don t let it linger. you know, obviously in the light of what happened the to charlie rose, the questions are what was this? and consentualty is significant. he interviewed bill o reilly. matt did. after bill o reilly was fired over sexual assault allegations. and lauer went after o reilly hard. he went after him hard. i want to play this clip. you were probably the last guy in the world that they want ed to fire. because you were the guy that the ratings and the revenues with were built on. you carried that network on your