I personally believe you will bring a ray of sunshine to a black hole of bureaucracy.
And then we are going to focus heavily on fentanyl, because it is such a killer, it is a killer.
Listen, I was with Trump when he said, we shouldn't telegraph what we're doing tactically.
I mean, it will happen. They're not going to be happy about this, because they want to get it right. They want to be able to tell their peop...
You need to articulate it or at least demonstrate it.
Clearly, underfunding national defense is a mistake.
The Israeli cooperative programs that we've been engaged in is--provides them with missile defense in their backyard.
The missile itself you believe is very sound, though.
I think we are keenly aware in Alaska, with our geography, that with regards to recent events in North Korea, the rising tension with Russia...
So it's not an abstract concept, is it?
But are you concerned about the capability gap in missile defense for Europe as a result of this?
When you're doing R&D, you want to put your forces--I mean your resources in areas where there is promise, though, don't you?
But we've seen a lot of hope and promise in that area, have we not?
That's almost a 40 percent increase. That's a dramatic increase for any agency.
Well, let me tell you one thing we've learned. Iron Dome's Tamir interceptor cost $96,000. Our Patriot MSE missile cost $4 million.
As much as you can in this setting here, could you explain how the threat from North Korea is advancing and describe the importance, General...
You've got to have the power.
Moving over to Iran now because down the road a lot of us believe they pose a missile threat and probably a nuclear threat.
