recognizing this hostility. good question. and your friends up here could not help but notice about half of those war heads seem to be headed to your home in the tampa bay area of florida. serious question though, we heard putin talked about respect and talked about being listened to now which is as you know what the russians have craved. right, you are absolutely right, brian. this dates back to really the 1990s after the end of the cold war to nato s expansion and to the fact that russia at that point they re hoping of an outreach. i am simply saying nato s expansion under bill clinton than george w. bush s decision to lead the missile treaty. these are all decisions that shaped the decision that putin has taken sense. no sjustification for it but
million residents of hawaii. of course you have tens of thousands of tourists to the island of hawaii. we have a pga golf tournament going on. interesting, eric, just less than two months ago, the state of hawaii brought back their sirens to have cold war era tests that they haven t seen in the state of hawaii in decades. that s because of course of north korea s ratcheting up ballistic missile tests. last year north korea performed over 25 tests including three tests of an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in north korea s history. the last missile test in november went an astonishing 2800 miles into space. that s ten times higher than the orbit of the international space station, and if one day north korea can prove its war heads can reenter the earth s atmosphere, it could be a threat to the united states. but already missile experts say america s in range, but it is noteworthy, eric, that north korea has yet to demonstrate the ability to have one of its war head
united states is and i could tell you that it is greater than that of north korea. and so what are americas nuclear capabilities. tom foreman is out front. and what have you learned. there are just under 1400 war heads dropped by planes or submarines or from silos in the ground out west but it is complicated that pushing a button. if north korea launched an attack and the president wanted to consider a nuclear response, the first step could be a quick conference with advisers. both military and civilian. some would probably be where he was. others might be securely connected in from around the world. they would help him reach his decision. if he did want to proceed, he would then reach for the football. that is what this sach sat you ll is called. inside are details about his possibilities for a nuclear strike and something called the biscuit. the biscuit a is a plastic cad
reality, not just a threat. should the u.s. take this as an escalation and how should we respond in how should the country and our leadership respond? i don t think we should see it as an escalation. u.s. power is far superior than north korea s. we can destroy their functions more efficiently than they can destroy ours. they start putting war heads on missiles, they will disappear. the concern is the specific outreach to south korea. that is motivated much more by by beijing. the chinese want to stop pushing for military action. they know if they can suck south korea away, the united states ally is there. i don t buy the idea, and i think the president is warming up to this understanding. i have never believed china was that interested in helping us on
and we need the president to focus and act like a president instead of engaging in name-calling and under cutting his own secretary of state. he has not made it very hard for rex tillerson to do his job worldwide because world leaders can no longer trust secretary tillerson because they don t know who he s speaking for. so you think he should resign in. i think he needs to have a very long conversation with president trump and say the president needs to support his efforts with north korea or yes i think he should resign. right now on an issue as important as north korea if you ask the simple question does the u.s. support diplomacy with north korea, no one can give you an answer. well, the president has said it s a waste of time. they have nuclear bombs on war heads, intercont interceptal ballistic missiles.