Pentagon confirms US weapons deployed in space in major revelation

Peter Doocy reports on the Pentagon's public confirmation of US space weapons. Former NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore joins to analyze the growing space arms race. Wilmore discusses the strategic importance of controlling the exo-atmosphere and explains the challenges of kinetic and non-kinetic weaponry as Russia and China expand their space capabilities.

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Space is getting crowded, and I'm not talking about astronauts. Thousands of pieces of junk are circling Earth at incredible speeds. Some are dead satellites. Others are leftover rocket parts or fragments from past collisions. Any one of them could cause serious trouble if it hits a working spacecraft.

Now Britain has a pretty wild solution. It's developing a robotic spacecraft with giant claws that can grab dead satellites and move them toward a fiery end in Earth's atmosphere.…