i think we have to remain worried about al qaeda. you said aqap is growing now in yemen. they have opportunities in yemen that they didn t have with the government. they re in the middle of a civil war that creates opportunities for terrorist groups. isis is growing right now? isis is under a lot of pressure also in iraq and syria. we aim to keep them under that pressure and to make them so preoccupied with their own survival they can t have any ambitions outside of that region. they try to recruit from the west of the united states. if you read their rhetoric it s extremely dangerous to us. joining me now is the retired u.s. major general james
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it s an area they visited a few weeks ago. and augmenting our participation in nato s air policing mission on the ball tick pentic peninsu. will that rat it will russians? is it intended to? retired uggs army general james spider marx. spider, thanks for being here. we heard hagel talk about stepping up joint training in poland, air patrols over the baltics. is that intended for russians? no. what that is intended to do is bolster the confidence of our allies and our friends to make sure they know we re standing by and paying attention. that s the intended recipient. there was a heated exchange during hagel s testimony, a few, actually. john mccain asked whether u.s. intelligence indicated russia would would invade before the invasion. play some of that. the fact is, mr. secretary, it was not predicted by our intelligence and that s already been well-known, which is
wolf. brianna, stand by. pentagon officials are gaming out north korea s next moves right now. we re doing the same thing in our virtual studio. tom foreman is there along with cnn military analyst general james spider marx. walk us through this. sure. all eyes are on that east coast of north korea. why, general, would they do this missile placement there? two possible missiles there, why? tom, the east coast is closer to the united states presence and the allies. they didn t put it on the west coast because they re not trying to threaten china. simple enough there. let s bring in the model of the type of missile we re talking about that barbara mentioned a moment ago. this is designed to be used by soviet sub marines. the iranians have a version of it. there s no fins on it, but let s talk more about it. one of the keys is the mobility.
let s go back to tom foreman, and spider marx for more on this. there s a tremendous amount of power in the young man s hands. let s talk about this nuclear capability first. what do we think they have right now? tom, we think they have eight bombs. they probably have the material for 12. but we don t think these are weaponized. they haven t been married up with a missile capability to launch at some place else. as long as they re not able to be delivered well, they re not weaponized. correct. they have a tremendous amount of rockets and missiles. talk about this. the korean people army was trained by the soviets and the chinese communists so they rely on volumes of artillery fire. so they have a massive amount of artillery and surface to surface missiles. we d see those at the beginning of the conflict. a lot has been buried since
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