to the renaissance that s underway. for us, it s the top priority to build long-range precision fires, that is the ability to strike targets of great distances and reflect what we need to be successful. they are very difficult to stop, i think they move at 5-7 times the speed of sound. that s why we are pursuing them with great speed. and they can change direction on them as they are going, correct? they can be maneuverable, they don t follow what is called a ballistic trajectory. martha: give us a sense of where we stand compared to russia and china, are they ahead of us on this? i won t speak to any details but i m fully confident in american technological prowess. all of those things that the united states army is pursuing
way of delivering it is and the historical significance of that. put yourself in the white house for a moment. i thought about this, and i thought, perhaps he could deliver the state of the union at a rally. deliver it directly. directly to the people, what do you think? respectfully, i disagree. i get that the venue doesn t necessarily have to be the house, i think it should be in the senate. martha: maybe it will be the senate, maybe it will be the oval office. but he s been presented with a dilemma where he has to figure out what he s going to do. for all the hand-wringing that journalists and folks on the left to you about how the president conducts himself, the speaker of the house unceremoniously and unanimously revoked an invitation that she had set forward that folks had put on their calendars to ensure that the president of the
he had left the office for lunch and was at the cafe eating during the time of the attack. his office was a great, they flooded nairobi looking for him for 15 hours, absolutely amazing, checking all the hospitals in searching for him. jonathan, what do you want people to know about your brother and the man that he was in his life? jason dedicated his life to helping others, no matter where he went he touched everybody. his infectious smile and his personality and his ability to instantly connect with people, his passion was helping people in underprivileged countries and it really teaching them the ways of economics and business, and to foster. he was an amazing uncle, . martha: he said he would stop everything, he traveled all over the world and was a big
personality. and so of course, president trump, vladimir putin, erdogan in turkey, xi jinping in china, and because these are giant figures who want inherently want to impose their personality on events, they are prone to operate outside the lanes. they like to operate outside of the norms. they like to be unpredictable, as soon as you attempt to pin down in one place, he does the other thing. and trump is just the same. so steve and i both were putting ourselves in a precarious position by attempting to forecast the year. but these are among the personalities to watch. martha: all right, quick thought steve, before we go. one last thought.