he really lived up to the van denburg quote of politics ends at the water's edge, and he was very much, you know, a leader and a thought-provoker coming to thought policy. that is an area i changed. i came from the house, and a whip, and a protectionist basically and reflekting any upbringing and the son of a blue-collar ship worker, and then when i got to the house i had to learn about foreign trade policies, and then i worked about every free trade agreement while i was in the senate. i never voted for a foreign appropriations bill in the senate except for one. so you do. you are supposed to learn. i still considered myself, very solid conservative, but in my last year in the senate, the rippon society gave me a teddy roosevelt award, ands he is goi but i am going to give it to the grandson instead. and i got it because i was a moderate. i thought, well, i don't know when that happened to me, bu it is, then i accept the moniker with pride. i'm still conservative and a pragmatist and populist, but i'm an optimist, but i believe that you can get things done in america, and you can get

really, alaska, one in van denburg air force base, a couple with other radars around the world, intending to defend 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, conceptionally missile defense involves three layers of attack. sometimes called a layer defense. slightly artificially, trajectory of the attacking missiles is into boost phase, course, and terminal phase. dercht elements of the defense are focused on each phase of the trajectory of the attacking missile. so there's boost phase intercept, which is tough. there's recourse intercept, and there's terminal intercept. and