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He didnt say if your crops fail dont give me any tides. he didnt say if you have a bumper cop give me triple tides so there somebody something inherently fair about proportionality. >> for months and years weve seen president obama talk about pay your fair share. finally someone stood up to the president. it came when dr. carson issued a forceful challenge to the presidents liberal approach to last weeks liberal prayer breakfast. but the doctors comments were much more than meaningful bluster. h...

He didnt say if your crops fail dont give me any tides. he didnt say if you have a bumper cop give me triple tides so there somebody something inherently fair about proportionality. >> for months and years weve seen president obama talk about pay your fair share. finally someone stood up to the president. it came when dr. carson issued a forceful challenge to the presidents liberal approach to last weeks liberal prayer breakfast. but the doctors comments were much more than meaningful bluster. h...

That you had with his father, but youve got to do what you can to rein this kid in. >> so, could china, though, convince north korea to shut all this bluster down? i mean, would that relationship be able to do that? >> no. north korea, you know, has become, you know, much more bellicose in recent years to the frustration of china. china has some leverage, particularly on the economic side. but ultimately, because china does not want to see an implosion of north korea, it has some influence but w...

Great to have you here. when we talk in direct reference to the rhetoric kicked back and forth, is this something more serious? >> it is bluster but we have to be concerned about these harsh words because they are coming at a time of disarray in the regime itself. remember kim jong-un has only been in power 15 or 16 months, in no time since 1949 has a north korean leader had a smaller base of support than kim jong-un. trying to change the nature of the regime. thats why we need to be concerned b...

Popes have washed the feet of priests on thursday before easter but this new pope shows prisoners and women prisoners and muslim prisoners before them to try to embody christ. it seems like the new pope does not care particularly about them caring. on o the korean peninsula today the young leader of north korea continued to up the belligerence and bluster factor. he released this weirdly staged and probably doctored photograph purporting to show plans in a sort of situation room for an attack ...

States. any strike they said would be merciless. >> much of this being viewed as a direct response to what has been taking place. joint military exercises with the u.s. staging with south korea. joining us from denver, christopher hill, a former u.s. ambassador also headed up the delegation with the six-party nuclear talks with north korea from 2005 to 2009. when we get to the six-party talks. in your experience, do you think this is any more dangerous than what we have seen previously? >> first...

Strike targets for the united states. this latest warning now coming a day after our nation flew two stealth fighters over that region in a previously-planned military exercise. so how is a revamped obama administration including new secretaries of defense and state handling what are becoming these routine threats from the roek state? former cia officer peter brookes now with the heritage foundation. my guest now. peter, good morning to you. >> good morning. bill: it is difficult to know what is...

Koreas threats in recent days and weeks. >> and the north koreans seem to be headed in a different direction here. so we will unequivocally defend and we are unequivocally committed to that alliance with south korea. >> reporter: the american b-2 bombers dropped eight 2000 pound inert bombs off the coast of south korea yesterday. the north korean leader, as you mentioned, threatening to settle accounts with the u.s. >> shepard: jennifer, thanks. will bring in bill richardson, former governor of ...

Korea. you get the sense here that perhaps theyre more bark than they are bite. its a lot of bluster. and you get the sense theyre not really capable of carrying out the kind of attack that theyre threatening. of course, they may be physically capable but its not something they want to do. the response would be absolutely overwhelming. nevertheless -- bolster the military alliance with south korea and they feel like they have to respond in some way so they use words. fortunately they have neithe...

>> shepard: this is studio b. its the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. north koreas rockets put on high alert and ready to strike. a word from the countrys state-run media in an increasingly nasty war of words. the experts believe thats probably just bluster, they say the country is years away from attacking the united states. still they say they put the military on top combat position. and the state-run media put out new pictures of kim jong-un looking at things just like his d...