military can occupy favorable terrain for tank warfare and to execute a mobile defense system to take on the russian tanks. and, beth, as a former intelligence official, you see what is being publicly talked about from the administration, from the pentagon. and then i m sure there is a lot going on quietly behind the scenes when it comes to the transfer of things even like tanks that they don t want to talk about understandably. do you have a sense that ukraine s military has certainly they need more but has more than we know about from the west? well, i think they probably have more than the russians know about, and that is good. the ukrainian ambassador was talking recently with u.s. defense contractors directly in saying they would prefer to surprise the russians with what they get, but they re not
leading the news this morning, north korea s threats to the u.s. and president obama s 5% giveback, joining me is bob franken. good morning, bob. good morning. problems are escalating. the u.s. is paying close attention to all of this. is this something where are we headed with this with this hard waer being moved around. caller: the hardware is a defense system. it s a mobile defense system which they are planning to move to guam because of the threats. all of this is signaling sophisticated diplomatic signaling. you have the defense secretary talking clear and present danger. clear and real danger, which is diplomacy. the problem is, you have heading