military has dozens of intercepter missiles at two bases in fort greeley in alaska and vandenberg air force base to shoot down a rogue missile, gregg. >> gregg: the u.s. military tested one of the intercepter missiles. how did that go? >> the test was successful. the missile defense agency launched a kill vehicle, an intercepter missile fired from vandenberg air force because to shoot down an icbm in outer space similaring a rogue north korean missile threat. it was launched from the marshall islands in the pacific and intercepted by vandenberg air force base. in a show of force, the pentagon ordered two air force strike carrier groups off the peninsula last month. leon panetta says there's other options available as well. >> we do have covert capabilities. i think it would be wise for the united states to use those covert capabilities as a way to continue to undermine north korean government. >> as the trump administration weighs its options next about north korea, it's note worthy that secretary mattis told congress any cut of military action taken against north korea could have dev

routinely tests intercontinental ballistic missiles are anyone from vandenberg air force base in california into the pacific and. they return routinely test so-called missile defense systems that are key elements in u.s. first rockets landing so we have to ask ourselves this question in the last fifty years how many countries has north korea invaded well the answer of course is zero but in the last fifty years how many countries has the united states invaded how many nations have been destroyed by the united states and i think the answer is dozens so really the united states has no room to criticize and to talk and to complain about north korean military war. terry launches missiles that comes at a time when tension is a rather high between beijing and washington as well what do you think what do you make of the thought that the white house has flounced china for a thing creased trade with north korea and why is washington telling beijing what to do. well the united states sees its global power its military power and its economic power slipping away and they know that they have just a very

routinely tests intercontinental ballistic missiles firing a one time vandenberg air force base in california into the pacific kargil leader told they return routinely test so-called missile defense systems that are key elements in u.s. first rockets landing so we have to ask ourselves this question in the last fifty years how many countries has north korea invaded well the answer of course is zero but in the last fifty years how many countries has the united states invaded how many nations have been destroyed by the united states and i think the answer is dozens so really the united states has no room to criticize and to talk and to complain about north korean military war. or military launches. in other news now accusations of blackmail that being leveled at c.n.n. after it tracked down the person behind the donald trump wrestling clip which the president tweeted just a few days ago that's how no threatening to reveal his identity if he makes another video like that trump what now here's the clip at the center of the control of a c it's an edited video of trump's scripted apparent for the w

missile defenses in place culminating with our interceptors in our base and alaska for greeley and vandenbergso we are going to use offense, defense and work with our allies to bring resolution to this. we cannot let it go on. lea: the white house is condemning that launched the j.d. you hear about the different options on the table with north korea trying to use diplomacy, trying to use stronger sanctions and sanctions have not worked. we have heard the idea of military action but then there was another idea of just letting north korea become another nuclear power. where do you think we need to go at this? what's the best option for the united states as we see north korea continuing down this path? >> well we don't have any good options. i do agree with what rebecca just said. to pressure north korea and pressure china and other people trading with north korea. we ought to have an oil embargo. that would really hurt pyongyang and russia and china would have to sign up for the oil embargo. frankly russia and china want us out of the korean peninsula so we don't have too much leverage. we shou

that was established, marshal plan, nato, and senator vandenberg, a republican supporting president truman's policies and i think we've all benefited from that. i've also been a little bit of a creator of bipartisan foreign policy because the person i worked with really well was senator jesse helms. >> yes. >> and it was a result of trying to figure out how to do things together and we were able to expand nato. and so i do think that a bipartisan foreign policy is absolutely essential in order to be able to get anything done. but also, again, to the example that we were just talking about. when you travel in terms of how you get various people with some disagreements to find a place where it's win-win and not zero sum, and i think that a bipartisan foreign policy needs to be the hallmark of american foreign policy because it has worked very well for us, but i know it's not simple and it's a matter of trying to figure out how you put yourself into the other person's shoes which is the hallmark of diplomacy actually. >> we had a bipartisan lunch last thursday. yes, we do that at least once a y

one thing about the gbi, at the end of the year they want to have 40 of them at vandenberg air force base but that means the system could be overloaded. you don't know how many missiles north korea could have. it worked well on that last test. they haven't tested against multiple in-cummings yet. that's the one caveat on the ground based interceptor. >> let's bring kristin welker in. the president has been tweeting about north korea. he mentioned trade with china increased. the implication being that there is more work to be done with china. be in bringing braesh you're to bear on north korea. at the same time, talk of military action. >> reporter: the reason the tweets are significant is because it comes in the wake of president trump and this white house really focussing on china when it comes to north korea. really making that the strategy to try to turn you will the heat on china to intervene with north korea. remember, this is a president who invited the president of china, to mara laggo in april. there have been a series of phone conversations. there was a sense within the whit

intercontinental ballistic missile out of vandenberg air force base in california. >>> barbara starr,ortant programming note. join anderson cooper for a town hall event with former vice president al gore to talk about the climate crisis in the era of president trump tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront" next, breaking news, trump's communications director anthony scaramucci out as the president quotes it's a great day at the white house. is the chaos ending or just beginning. and the white house claims that president trump was joking when he talked about suspects being roughed up by the police. we don't get the humor. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. survivor white house edition. anthony scaramucci out as white house communications director. the latest white house staffer to be voted off the island that is the trump white house and it

greeley in alaska and vandenberg air force in california the two have 32 intercepters combined thal willd there's a lot a lot of talk abo third site being developed in the eastern u.s. all of this takes years to develop. those intercepters that are being added by year's end was green lit in 2013. there's expected to be a lot more money that goes towards this type of defense but there's a long lead time to it, as well. >> morgan, thanks. morgan brennan at the wall it's natural to look at these kind of stocks when you have news like we've had out of north korea. this is not just a today story these stocks have done incredibly well. all of them, since the election of donald trump, as president. >> and even before that, some of them but look at earnings growth of some of these companies. i'll give you lockheed martin. all of those things, those play into most everything there, judge. the fact that they've traded at 22 times now, that might seem a little expensive relative to the past, but when you look at the earnings growth projected forward annually, at close to 6%, not so much. >> boeing'

also held vandenberg chair for college so interested to have somebody's both an expert historian and land power and air power and being able to talk about intersection of both. all of this followed a 6-year career in the u.s. army. concluded with nine years as a professor of history of u.s. military academy and hold bachelor degree from military academy and then masters in degree from stanford, university and general staff college and a u.s. army war college by my account authored 11 book or monograves since year 2000. i don't know whether hobbies you might have. but -- >> rest assured. okay. we have at least 11 of them. civil war, world war ii vietnam and most recent work on reprizing and historic stuff and a putting in modern context from strategy and environments within which that fold here in modern day context it was maimed one of "newsweek" people to watch in 2007. for his leading work in leading the team that authored f and 3 -- 24 on that army title to it. but i ignore this retired marine. november 2008 named international archivist of the foundation and just recently here in

yaleuniversity made one major mistake , and i tell my students at vandenberg not to do it. the more powerful subject should never be crossed at the time a minor critic. yale as one new yorker pointed out, reacted to his criticism which we can get into with all the rigor of an elephantterrified by a little mouse .and of course the american sense of fair play, a young journalist also told him, you know him as thehost and founder of 60 minutes, mike wallace . had mike wallace on a radio show, 1953 and one of the first questions was why is yale university picking on you? >> so you have picking advice of somebody bigger and you lost a career.>> but i would say that as a commentator, as a political figure of his time, and something i discovered as i really get into the paper, as a political operative, it was second to none. the only person i could think of is very very close to buckley was probably frederick douglass in the 10th century and why do i say that? he was a writer, he formed organizations, bill buckley was not just economists, only asset this morning, who is bill buckl

greeley the other is california, vandenberg that number is already growing demand for all of these systems both here and says among other allying. all the stocks are trading higher day, all of more than 1 percent on the heels of this latest test. >>> more are morgan, stick around, howard rubebell is with us it's hard to talk about what stocks to buy whether you say who is best prepared, what would they be? raytheon first and foremost. they have the best ground-based system, and integrated solution as well. other important participants are orbital atk, provides the boost system for the gmd and aerodebt rocket dine who provides the missile, standard missile and for the t.h.a.d. program >> do so we that i that the u.s. will much more of the products or is that spending already cut in stone should we be adding to the positions if you own these stocks because of the north korea right now today? >> we're not done yesterday with all the things that can happen the japanese have considered another program which would help deferred their territory if in fact we go forward with some form of defense o

last year in california fire threatened kampl pendleton as well as vandenberg air force base in my district. there is no question climate change will increasingly impact our nation's military infrastructure here and abroad. ultimately making it more difficult to defend america's interests. this budget resolution dramatically underfunds agencies dealing with this threat. this is irresponsible with the threat that we face. and i encourage my colleagues to re-examine their priorities. mr. yarmouth, i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. i now yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. >> i thank the ranking member. i have no doubt of the commitment of the chair of this committee, but i have to embrace the comments of the ranking member that says that this budget embraces the worst, the worst of the extreme of the trump budget. yes, we are stewards of the american people's tax dollar, but this is what this budget simply wants to do, it wants to have massive cuts -- tax cuts for millionaires while increasing tax increases for millions of working families. these are the