LOU: KIM JONG-UN REPORTEDLY
MAKING A SURPRISE VISIT TO BAY
GIN.
-- TO BEIJING.
HIS FIRST FOREIGN VISIT SINCE
TAKING POWER.
HE'S SUPPOSED TO MEET WITH
PRESIDENT TRUMP IN MAY.
THE F-35-3-RBGS LIGHTNING.
THE JETS ARE OUTFITTED WITH
STEALTH TECHNOLOGY TO HELP AVOID
RADAR DETECTION, AND IT CAN LAND
VERTICALLY JUST LIKE A
HELICOPTER.
EXTRAORDINARY AIRCRAFT.
JOINING US TONIGHT, THE FORMER
VICE CHIEF OF THE AIR FORCE
GENERAL JACK KEANE, NOW FOX NEWS
STRATEGIC ANALYST.
LET'S START WITH THE RUSSIANS,
SENDING HOME 60 FOLKS.
NEVER BEFORE THAT'S SENT EVEN
DURING THE COLD WAR.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT?
STREENT OF IT IS IT'S BEING DONE
BY 20-PLUS NATIONS.
WE HAVE THE MOST OF RUSSIAN
DIPLOMATS IN THIS COUNTRY.
USUALLY THAT DOESN'T GET MUCH
CONSEQUENCE IN TERMS OF CHANGING
BEHAVIOR.
BUT THE IDEA HAS TO BE DAUNTING
ON MR. PUTIN THAT HE'S DEALING
WITH A DIFFERENT PRESIDENT THAN
IN TRUMP GIVEN AS HE MENTIONED
IN THE INTRODUCTION.
ALL THE THINGS WE HAVE DONE TO
PUSH BACK ON RUSSIA.
THE THING PUTIN PAID THE MOST
ATTENTION TO IS THE BUILDUP OF
THE UNITED STATES MILITARY AND
THE FY18 AND FY19 BUDGET.
HE'S LOOK AT THAT AS DEJA VU.
HE REMEMBERS THE BUILDUP THAT'S
CAME BEFORE THE COLLAPSE OF THE
SOVIET UNION.
THE COMMANDER OF ALLIED FORCES
IN THE EUROPE IS CALLING FOR
INCREASED U.S. TROOPS TO BE PUT
ON THE RUSSIAN BORED.
IN THE BUDGET WE JUST APPROVED
AND HE SIGNED, THERE IS THREE
TIMES THE AMOUNT OF MONEY IN
THAT GIVEN THE PAST INVESTMENTS.
$6.5 BILLION.
MORE TROOPS, MORE CAPABILITIES.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT GETS
PUTIN'S ATTENTION.
LOU: I'M SURE IT DOES.
BUT YOU HAVE INSTRUCTED US ON
SOME OF THE DIFFERENT IS OF OUR
MILITARY.
WE HAVE A SMALLER FIGHTING FORCE
THAN AT ANY TIME IN MEMORY.
>> 75 YEARS.
LOU: WE HAVE AT THE SAME TIME A
DEFICIENCY IN HYPERSONIC WEAPONS
THE RUSSIANS HAVE BEEN FUNDING
AND DEVELOPING FOR YEARS WHILE
WE HAVE LAGGED THANKS IN LARGE
MEASURE TO SEQUESTRATION AND THE
POLICIES OF THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION AND THE
PREOCCUPATION OF THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION WITH WARS IN THE
MIDDLE EAST.
>> THESE TWO BUDGETS IN AND OF
THEMSELVES WILL NOT FIX THE
MILITARY.
BUT THEY CLEARLY ARE AN INITIAL
FIRST GOODING STALLMENT TO PUT
US ON A PATH TO DO THAT.
HOPEFULLY CONGRESS WILL FIGURE
OUT A WAY TO KEEP DOING THAT
WITHOUT INCREASING THE DEFICIT.
THAT WILL GET MR. PUTIN'S
ATTENTION.
EVENTUALITILY WE HAVE TO DO
SOMETHING ABOUT PUTIN AND HIS
CRONIES.
WE CAN TIE THAT UP.
AND THAT WILL GET HIS ATTENTION.
LOU: KIM JONG-UN IN BEIJING,
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT?
>> I THINK IT'S THE CHINESE
TRYING TO EXERT A LITTLE
CONTROL.
THEY ARE PROBABLY CONCERNED THE
NORTH KOREAN LEADER AND THE
UNITED STATES LEADER IS MEETING
ONE-ON-ONE.
THAT KIND OF TAKES CHINA OUT OF
THAT PROCESS.
THEY ARE INSERTING THEMSELVES
BACK IN THE PROCESS.
WE ALWAYS LOOKED AT THIS AS
ADULTS ON YOUR SHOW.
WE ALWAYS KNEW CHINA HAD CONTROL
OVER NORTH KOREA FROM THE
BEGINNING RIGHT AFTER THE WAR
WAS OVER AND NOTHING HAPPENED IN
NORTH KOREA WITHOUT CHINA'S
APPROVAL.
THAT'S THE REALITY OF IT.
THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT,
TRYING TO GET KIM JONG-UN'S
ATTENTION.
HOPEFULLY CHANGA WILL PLAY BALL
AND MOVE THIS IN THE RIGHT
DIRECTION.
BUT WE HAVE TO BE SCEPTICAL
ABOUT CHINA.
THEY HAVE PLAYED US JUST AS MUCH
AS THE NORTH KOREANS HAVE ALL