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Of course, right next door. so the chinese are not as willing, but the key has to be through china. for all the bluster, and what i worry about is the trump administration is talking very tough, but they dont have a new strategy. their new strategy is the old strategy, which is try to get china to -- at some point your words lose credibility. you say, im huffing and puffing and blow your house down. if the house doesnt blow down, what happens? >> as you said, the new position is the old position...

Multilateral talks with our allies. im not one to bluster and saber rattle and all those things. north korea has a history of doing that. they have been trying to do that most of the time trying to gain concessions from us. the last thing we want is war. the situation is tense over there. but i am encouraged by the white house, quite frankly, for engaging in these multilateral talks. something has to be done over there. they continue to take take finger and poke us in the eye and say were not to...

Nothing else. they allowed 2 million of their own people to starve during a famine about 15 years ago. so this is a tough one where the only country that does anything with them is china. china provides them with, i think its 90% of their energy and 50% of their food. but what the chinese say to the americans is, if we push them, that regime will collapse, well have millions of refugees, well end up with a messy, chaotic korean unification, which means well now have an american ally on our borde...

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Director for the are affair working under both presidents george w. bush and former president barack obama thanks for joining me really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me on. >> i want to first talk to you about these tensions. set the scene. you heard the warning there from the north korean officials. do you think that this is reaching a boiling point or is this more bluster? >> well, i do think north korea has conducted more provocations. so i do expect north korea to fully go through w...

Stands. >> i think for in administration its got to be a successful intercontinental ballistic missile test. that could reach mainland, united states. but i grow with you. i do think that with all this bluster and really intense rhetoric coming out of both washington and pyongyang, i do think its going to be more of sort of intensified strategic patience. i know they said no more strategic patience. but i think what we are going to do is just pressure china, pressure north korea more through san...

Always rolling over isnt going to happen this time. >> look. >> well and lets listen to vice president mike pence a little bit more what he had to say while traveling in south korea. >> all options are on the table. just in the past two yeeks the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in syria and afghanistan. north korea would do well not to test his resolve. the era of strategic patience is over. >> steve what do you make of that stern warning to north k...

That china doesnt have the same interests. so the question is, will these tensions continue to escalate? this is a situation that president trump very much needs monitor behind the scenes as he approaches the first 100 days in office. im joined now by anna from tokyo. i want to hear from you. weve heard a lot of sabre rattling. is this time different? >> we dont know yet. certainly north korea has a history offer bluster, threats one of the few reliable exports it has. it is a master of propagan...

Republican street gist. also with me, julian zelzer from princeton university. the presidents national security advisor says that all options are on the table as the u.s. considers how to respond to this attempted missile launch by the north. julian, does it appear that the administration has a clear strategy, i guess, on how to handle this tense situation? >> it seems like theres three strategies. one is more provocative from the president himself with more bluster and threats of military actio...

Korea is isolated. which has put incredible resources into a nuclear and missile program while millions of its people over the years have starved to death. the key point here is that the united states must not act impulsively and we must not act unilaterally. >> on these political reactions i want to bring in christina grier and kirstin hagglund. i have had you on "the point" before. you have been critical of the president at times. i think its fair to say. >> just a few times. >> are you willin...