ground-based interceptor. that s that test they did in late may to knock down anything that comes this direction. they saw this missile take off, at least they did up in the sky and they didn t deem it a threat. that s why gbi wasn t activated. ground base interceptor, that the discussion you and i had about a rocket or missile that can intercept a missile. you described it, i believe, as a bullet hitting a bullet many, many miles up in the sky. that s where the gbi is. one thing about the gbi, at the end of the year they want to have 40 of them at vandenberg air force base but that means the system could be overloaded. you don t know how many missiles north korea could have. it worked well on that last test. they haven t tested against multiple in-cummings yet. that s the one caveat on the ground based interceptor. let s bring kristin welker in. the president has been tweeting about north korea.
talking and negotiating with the very person who has been giving all of the resources to syria in the first place. i hope that some time people will pay attention to the real problem with intervention is that we have a degraded military now. no one understanding this or believes it and yet i ve been saying for 4 1/2 years. in his first budget he did away with our only fifth generation fighter, future combat system, the ground base interceptor. that was just one budget. since then, he s taken on his extended budget $487 billion out of the military. so i m not the only one who knows that that is the big problem that we cannot get involved in a war in the middle east. well, most americans don t want us to get involved in a war in the middle east and that s not what the president would say he s talking about. he s talking about the limited