michael maloof michael the auto bowl version of that is great and the day that you and i 1st met 4 years ago when i 1st came to our america you mesmerized me off the top of your head in the green room talking about electromagnetic pulse we finally got around to discussing this on t.v. a give our viewers the reader's digest version how electromagnetic pulse happens and so that they have something else to worry about what's the one o one. ok well it's thanks thanks for having me. well it could be either a natural occurrence from the sun or it can be a nuclear explosion at high altitude now electromagnetic pulse is basically a high intensity burst of the electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charge of charged particles and if you have unprotected electronics this in m.p. will not come out it can fry your all of your all of your electronics. now let me just add. some electric what it what is electromagnetic energy that would include such such things as x. rays microwave infrared radiation. radio ways gamma rays so it's just a common radar to knock out electronics and it's been done if you could put a a. a radar in the back of a van in a minute at cars which are now all electronic and block everything. especially on bridges yeah depicted in that the ocean's 11 movie where they blacked out the vegas strip momentarily and it's scary enough to think that suddenly your car will never start again but there are bigger problems electricity is powering the systems that make water come out of the faucet etc korat. well you know what you're talking about something even more basic this will affect all of our critical infrastructures electric power chalo communications banking and finance. our petroleum and natural gas pipelines transportation systems are food and water delivery emergency services as well as space systems that sell so and this cannot happen instantly. the phrase tactical nuclear weapons gives me goosebumps but it's a real threat and michael to the extent you are at liberty to disclose and describe what you were party to during your years at the pentagon how prepared are we or how prepared can we be in the case of a big bang. well we're not prepared we should be prepared and i think it's one of our dare derelictions of duty and obligations to protect the safety of the country that has a that any and all administrations have really failed on so far what we need is a person at the national security council level who will coordinate all federal state and local activities to ensure their local communities are prepared. in the event that there is a an e.m.p. that will knock out. all of your electronics all of your communications everything so that you have an idea of where to report so you have food that's stored have medicine that store and water basics very real basics yeah there's really no we don't have any of that. right and that when it really does something with. the pentagon is concerned about it you know to the coins

not a lot is no one of course or verified at this stage but we do appreciate it michael former pentagon unless michael maloof life on the program thank you. ok we will of course continue to delve into the story get more reaction from washington as the day progresses but on to more news now in germany say it's ready to take matters into its own hands when it comes to ordering vaccines if the e.u. does not get its act together the country's health minister also stressed that berlin needs to stock up on jobs for next year to what is important is the question of 2022 we have to secure our capacities for a possible 3rd or 4th round of vaccinations we currently don't know how long vaccination protection lust's hence we must secure these capacities as part of the european union or failing that as a nation. early you vaccine rollout has been beset by problems with several states now looking to break away from the joint purchase scheme the include slovakia hungary while austria has just entered talks to buy a 1000000 doses of the russian job despite it not yet having been approved by the blocs drug watchdog the w.h.o

michael maloof you're very welcome michael is this really the end of america's longest war do you think. i think formally with u.s. troops it probably will be we might instead introduce private military contractors to try to preserve the. the government which we created because taliban has made it very clear they don't want to talk to them what to set up their own emirates in afghanistan but that is the half of it even though they only control a portion of afghanistan used to have other tribes the northern alliance for example the once a piece of the piece of the action and corruption run supreme's of the country could easily dissolve into a civil war i think the the countries that will be that will stand to lose the most will be those countries in the region with us pull out that really help countries such as russia and china not to devote resources to try to keep that government working the problem is that they're going to have to deal with this now if the u.s. leaves altogether and it and that means in terms of the security aspects because of the terrorism threat al qaeda is is growing in afghanistan as is isis and that would be a threat to the federation's homeland and i think that countries in that region are going to have to get together and come up with a security arrangement to insure against the possibility if u.s. withdrawals and it looks like biden wants to withdraw he wanted to withdraw one when he was vice president under obama and obama actually increased troop levels up to 98000 i was going to mention that what has been hampering then the process of the patrol of troops why didn't the u.s. leave earlier was there more michael than just peace and diplomacy issues at play. well i was trying to it was just it was tried to keep a a u.s. presence in the region that shoot to counter not only russia but also china and iran and also to try and keep their government working as long as a candidate it's on life support right now in fact given all of its issues and the taliban has made it very clear that they will not deal with that government and police and the taliban cannot guarantee either what the u.s. wants and that is to stop al qaeda or isis from attacking the u.s. homeland so the question is going to be what will the what will we have what will the u.s. have to do and you cannot we the united states will be very and a very difficult position to try and do anything to counter an embedded al qaeda or. or isis which is actually create in the province up in the northeastern part and again the they are actually direct threats to china and to russia more than they would be to the united states at the moment and so