undersecretary griffin will be speaking today in conversation with senior fellow rebeccah heinrichs on precisely this question of technological preeminence and thousand to preempt our enemies from using these against us. undersecretary griffin is chief technology officer for the secretary of defense, meaning he looks at current defense capabilities, looks at how to improve them technological, how to hedge against uncertainty. he's an aeronautical engineer by train, most recently taught at the university of alabama at huntsville before returning to the department of defense. he of course served as administrator from nasa from 2005 to 2009. prior to service at nasa he was head of the space department at johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory and of course served as president and chief erating officer of incutel a private, nonprofit enterprise funded by the c.i.a. to identify and invest in cutting edge technologies that serb national security interests. as i mentioned, undersecretary griffin will be engaged in conversation with hudson senior fellow rebeccah heinrichs. she's w

here now to weigh in is senior fellow at the hudson institute rebeccah heinrichs, thank you for joiningu think? what would you like the response to be? >> overwhelming, punishing force used against assad. you know, it's been a year since the united states responded with military force after the last major chemical weapons attack, but assad has been using chemical weapons since then too. this is not the first time he has used them since then. he's been using them at a much smaller scale, and you use chemical weapons as terror weapons. they're meant to break the will and the morale of your enemy, in this case the rebel forces embedded there, because this causes agonizing and painful death against women and children specifically. the united states cannot tolerate this. so last night i was saying on social media suit up john bolton, put him in, because he's the guy to do it. todd: what's interesting is the president calling out vladimir putin on twitter over the weekend. you know that john bolton is way more of a hard-liner than anybody else we've ever seen in this role including h.r. mcmas

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