its latest stealth fighters and only nuclear capable icbns on the heels of north korea testing its second and analysts say most advanced intercontinental ballistic they have ever had and you see all of these different countries in the region and the united states as well scrambling to figure out their own responses. will ripley watching it from beijing, thank you. president trump s tweet on twitter. here is what he wrote. errol louis is with us, cnn political commentator and political anchor for spectrum news and also is tom. tom, first to you. what do you make of what is happening there with the thad missile system and how could that rattle china? where do we go from here?
well, the leverage that brought the iranians to the table are the sanctions. so if you look at everything that isn t even part of the negotiations, iran can continue to finance terror, overthrow foreign governments, develop icbns. they re unjustly imprisoning american citizens. pledging to wipe israel off the map. chanting death to america in the streets. fewer centrifuges, less nuclear material alone, is that a good thing? and in order to ensure compliance, so if there was actually 24/7 anytime, anywhere inspections to ensure compliance and enforcement, then it would be a great thing to be able to dismantle iran s nuclear program, to be able to eliminate center funls thrifuges that are but on the compliance front the president obama gave a speech
next year. that was last weekend. he told a radio interviewer now he is looking forward to meeting with the secret service. yeah, we actually have heard from the secret service and they have a duty and i salute them. i support them, and i m looking forward to our meeting tomorrow. i m sure it will be a fine gathering. we all remember the sight of oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. later washing up on the beaches. now bp has reached a class action settlement with thousands of businesses and individuals who filed claims after that disaster. price tag for the settlement, almost $8 billion. bp says that the number could go even higher. new jersey school district will pay $4.2 million to a student who was paralyzed after being attacked by a bully. this incident happened in 2006 when sawyer rosenstein was just 12 years old. he was punched in the stomach by another student which triggered a blood clot that caused paralysis. he was repeatedly bullied months before the attack.
they think it s unconstitutional. rand paul in kentucky thinks the civil rights act is unconstitutional. so you re right. they re keeping the crazies in the closet, but they are there and they ve got an r next to their name. why are we talking about in a time of fiscal austerity, the republicans are pitching, why are we talking about high frontier? that s missile defense against icbns, the kinds the soviets have. why icbns. not cruise missiles, other kinds of tackle or medium range. why not against putin or medvedev? because the missile defense system isn t aimed at russia. and at a time when you have iran who else has icbms that can come to the united states? look, i for one, am not just going to sit and cross my fingers and hope that iran doesn t get the technology to both create a nuclear warship and create the kind of missile system where they can deliver it and so i think it s totally
frontier? that s missile defense against icbns, the kinds the soviets have. not cruise missiles, other kinds of tact kl or medium range. because the missile defense system isn t aimed at russia. who else has icbms that would kill the united states. i am not just going to sit and cross my fingers and hope that iran does not get the technology to create a nuclear warhead and a missile system where they can deliver it. i think it s totally reasonable and rational that we would prepare for something like that, but there s no question that missile defense is not going to be at the core of what republican candidates are talking about. steve, you take over. they re talking about missile defense for the whole united states. all the home land. they re talking about the whole country, they re going to have missile defense for.