greely up here. so five kill miters a second, the forward base site could help defend the east coast. ft. greely the west coast. but if you want to cover the entire continental united states from poland, your interceptor speed has to be up around 5 1/2 kilometers a second. much faster -- at least a kilometer second faster. now, why are the russians concerned? this chart shows you the footprint, the defended area for russian icbms launched from all the known launch locations in russia. it is high for any of the sm-3 interceptors currently being talked about. so if i put that sm-3 block 2-b in poland, which has been the source of most of russia's concerns, you really can't protect the united states. here's maine. only the ss 27s and ss 19s, you might catch them going to maine but the rest of the united states and alaska and hawaii you cannot intercept those icbm's's. to threaten russia's icbms, the launch site has to be up above five kilometers a second, closer to six or something like that. so just to

greely, alaska. one in vandenberg air force base, that are coupled with other radars around the world. intended to defend the continental united states, not against a full scale attack from russia. but against limited attacks from other adversaries. this is a policy that the u.s. has sustained. obama sustained the bush policy. he's chosen not to augment the capability. that also has been attacked by republican senators. so we have a system in place, again, just to demonstrate the willingness to defend the united states against limited attacks. and we have this growth of regional network systems that are intended to make it more difficult for them to attack regional targets. final point, conceptually, missile defense involves three layers of attack. sometimes called a layer defense. slightly artificially the trajectory of the attacking missile is divided into boost phase and terminal phase. and different elements of the defense are focused on each phase of the trajectory or the attacking missile. so t

france learn some lessons from libya before teaching syria to deal first with the aftermath to legal greely in the history you give you my only personal view of you should a woman sees a scene we are to learn about it was a successful military intervention would be success now or we are to succeed as a management of the after. most important well there were only about france three hundred million carats is that a lot and the french are clearly concerned about the economy today. yes it's a lot of knowledge but you know it was a step towards democracy for a nice a d. now seeing as he's going to give it up again it's a can be producer of petrol on the moment they're yours so or you know or it's an investment to warn. development of the country we're just completely right and it's my personal view that this lesson of the past too short of the international community not only france is more prudent and i think it's right on that subject my personal view but for the united states too is that you have to give the direction to exit population to do oppression from outside on the dictator which is a

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colorado, and i knew there is a pipeline coming up from mexico, but i began finding out in loveland, greely, i-76, it is no longer migrant workers from mexico. also, these plants, there is a lot of somalians, iranians. how do we as citizens begin to understand who is friendly and who is not? >> one of the things i tried to tell people is when you look at this problem in the future, i try to remind people that one of the goals of a group like al qaeda or extremists is to try and encourage us to use religion as a dividing line. do you know what i mean by that? to be overly suspicious of people who are muslim, when in fact i think when we want to create a dividing line, we want ask ourselves, we're gonna have terrorist on one side and everyone else on the other. they try to use religion as a wedge, because to do that it is very american -- un-american. their franchise operations have metastasize, as i mentioned, al qaeda made a policy decision american and western europe because blows the entire profile. one thing that law enforcement says to me often is it is more important to look at who peo