and rebeccah heinrichs is a stnior fellow at the hudson ute. welcome to the newshour to you yoth. >> than >> joe cirincione, i want to start with you. i want to separate the report, which we have here, from what the president said.pr thident said, "we will ensure that we can detect and destroy any mis lsiaunched against the united states anywhere, anytime, anyplace. that a good policy? >> no, it's not. and it's very different from what threport said. the report itself is fairly modest. that's because it doesn't have ch to build on. the existing system we have, a few dozen interceptors in the frozen tundra of alaska doesn't work, and the rest of the consheerptz are just viewgraphs and ideas. but what president trump said dramatically expands the scope of this program, and that makes it dangerous. it turns it from regional program todesigned to defeat a few primitive missiles from a small nation to one that's global in scopto defeat any missile anywhere launched by anybody. that would take major technological breakthroughs, decades of work and tr

joe cirincione from ploughshares, and rebeccah heinrichs from the hudson institute. thank you so much to you both. >> thanks, nick. >> thank you. f: >> woodrith the government shutdown now in its 27th day, many federal programs have been affected, including food stamps. so far, there is no major lapse in benefits used by nearly 39 million people each month. that's because the u.s. department of agriculture found a way to pay snap bene, as they are called, earlier than normal. february benefits, awarded eirough a debit-style card used at stores, are paid out this week. several states, including ecalifornia and florida, warning users to be careful and make sure they manage to make the money last longer. for 500 retailers, the probl is already here. that's because those stores needed to renew a license for the electronic befit transfer, or e.b.t. - debit card program and fail to meet a deadline before the shutdown. those renewals, required every five years, are on hold. sarah jackson is an employee at one store in northern arkansas. f we have been completely unable to t