Happy easter to those of you celebrating. We have a lot of politics to get to. But first, the growing tension between the United States and north korea. North korea last night launched a Ballistic Missile from the Submarine Base in sinpo, but the missile exploded minutes after launch. This happened as mike pence landed in south korea for talks on how to counter the growing Nuclear Ambitions and he spoke to american troops at a breakfast there this morning. Im joined by Senior National security analyst juan duarte, the failure, the New York Times this morning leans hard into the idea that the failure wasnt necessarily a north korean failure, but maybe sabotage and possibly sabotage from the United States. What can you say . This is a Missile Program thats been replete with failures. And the challenge is we dont know yet. It could be sabotage. It could be poor engineering or bad luck. Its the nature of the Missile Programs but its clear that
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talk about secret intelligence and things that might have been done covert operations that might ve happened. i really have no comment on that and nor should i. i think we are entering a whole new era with north korea and everybody. any major country, we are entering a cyber platform, a cyber battlefield. do you buy the sabotage thing? i don t think so but i wouldn t rule it out. bret: obviously they are pulling out all the stops. i think if they could blow up a missile on the launchpad, they certainly would but they also want the north koreans to think we can. that s really important too. bret: charles. we ve been working 30 years to develop systems that would shoot down missiles upon launch, in the air, in the atmosphere and on the way down. except for the fact that democrats, since reagan announced it in 1983, have assiduously tried to stop the
now, chris, you know we can t talk about secret intelligence and things that might have been done covert operations that might ve happened. i really have no comment on that and nor should i. i think we are entering a whole new era with north korea and everybody. any major country, we are entering a cyber platform, a cyber battlefield. do you buy the sabotage thing? i don t think so but i wouldn t rule it out. bret: obviously they are pulling out all the stops. i think if they could blow up a missile on the launchpad, they certainly would but they also want the north koreans to think we can. that s really important too. bret: charles. we ve been working 30 years to develop systems that would shoot down missiles upon launch, in the air, in the atmosphere and on the way down. except for the fact that democrats, since reagan announced it in 1983, have
questions remain whether the united states played a hidden part as officials like deputy national security adviser kt mcfarland and others were asked about. did the u.s. sabotage this missile. now, chris, you know we can t talk about secret intelligence and things that might have been covert operations that might have happened. i really have no comment on that and nor should i. do you think u.s. action here covert action is the reason why this missile launch failed. you know, i think there s a couple of possibilities that s one of them. they had a failure yesterday. i m not sure why. do you buy the sabotage thing. do you think our program is good enough to do things like that. i don t think so, but i wouldn t rule it out. now to massive zurge underway in cleveland ohio. suspect accused of shooting a man, then uploading video of that crime to facebook.
should it have anything to do with the north korea? it may be part of the overall relationship, but china is the key. china is the key. they can stop this if they want to because of their control over the north korean economy. and by the way i would point out i know this will come out later on, but there are artillery on the border between north and south korea that can reach seoul. we can t take them all out this is this may be the first test of this presidency. but china can shut them down. whether they re currency manipulators or not, we should expect them to act to prevent what could be a cataclysmic event and the north koreans keep making progress. they had a failure yesterday. i m not sure do you buy the sabotage thing? i don t think so, but i wouldn t rule it out. but at the same time, they have made steady progress. while we have made agreement after agreement after agreement.