you recently went with defense secretary robert gates to alaska to fort greenly where the ground-based system is essentially located. what did you talk about as far as the priority of missile defense and where it will be going in the future. >> first for those watching and listening, missile, fort greenly is up north in alaska so it's about 400 miles north of anchorage, but the discussion we had we felt there on the c-17 which was also important giving a sense of the new type of equipment that's being utilized as a great cargo ship not only use here but around the globe and vows we went in there we talked about the missile defense system in fort greely the impact it would have and how dynamic the program has to be meaning that it shouldn't be just as it is today the at

saying that, i think there are issues as i have brought out in regard to alaska's fort greenly, that if we stop the program as it is today as they've proposed i think a word readiness will diminish. i know the military leadership said absolutely not. we will be in great position but i would say that if you search, if you noticed the data points for example north korea has done more, they've done 40% of missile launches in the last period of three months since we made this decision or the administration proposed its decision of limiting fort greenly in the last ten years 40% of the missile launches have occurred since that decision has been made. maybe it's coincidence. i think it is to show they want to make sure that if we are slowing down they are going to be aggressive, so we have to keep up the work in my view expanding and utilizing technology and missile defense. seeing that all the other issues, the environmental question you know, i do think that the issue of the wolf debate in alaska is a constant feed eight. we have had i think i want to say now three public initiatives int