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>> shannon: less than 30 minutes from now attorney general jeff sessions expected to announce a crackdown on the leaks in washington well take you live when he steps to the podium. china is stepping up military readiness after a series of missile launches by north korea, why the pentagon is taking very close note. >> china controls 80 percent of the imports into north korea. a massive point of leverage. they wanted a buffer state since 1950. at some point a buffer state that destabilizes the reg...

Single handle the matter of north korea. what card left do you have to get china to act? >> we have the presidents twitter feed, we have the most powerful man in the world making it very clear that we came out of the summit with high hopes. lets look at the facts. forget op-ed pieces in newspapers across the globe. china controls more than 80 percent of the imports into north korea. thats a massive point of leverage. china has wanted a buffer state since 1950. but at some point a buffer state th...

Could survive re-entry into the earths atmosphere. president trump took to twitter to pass off blame saying, quote, im very disappointed in china. our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet they do nothing for us with north korea, just talk. >> wait a second. >> we will no longer -- >> wait. >> im sorry. >> richard haass, isnt this quite about-face, i thought donald trump thought one dinner with china would take care of the entire kore...

They fear if it put too much pressure on the north and the north collapses, the regime collapses, theyll have 22 million north koreans coming across their border. theyll have the u.s. and u.s. forces on the border, there wont be a buffer state, so they view north korea with nuclear weapons as less of a threat than the collapse of north korea, so if were going to move the chinese to change their posture and to use the leverage that they have, they have to understand that our approach towards this...

That artillery and rocketry on the northern part of south korea, which is where half the south korean population lives. that is not a realistic option in my view. be very reckless because youre endangering millions of people and there would be untold death and destruction, i believe, if such war were to ensue. the chinese dont like kim jong-uns behavior here. they dont like the missile test, they dont like the underground tests and they dont like kim jong-un. its a strategic imperative they pres...

Organization in europe and a wedge against russian aggression. both peter and the other commentator were right about being strong against putin. when trump meets with him, and thats something you havent asked us about yet, he has to be strong. putin will perceive any sort of comfort level and friendliness as weakness. it also will offend everybody else in europe. and there is no good reason to be friendly with russia right now. keep the relationship going, collaborate on the arctic, which is som...

The table, but it is really off the table because of the catastrophic risk of escalation, and when you cant bomb, wont negotiate come you can acquiesce to a build up i called for a serious diplomacy to freeze the program at its current level, not to roll it back fully as we would hope, but a feasible deb did not -- diplomatic objectivee to use freeze it and i think we can enlist china and other powers to bring reasonable pressure on north korea to do that. >> jenna: why would north korea agree t...

A game changer for the united states. but it would be a game changer for china, because of the strategic implications of it. south korea and japan might reassess their non-nuclear status. the united states would bolster the region. this creates political occasion for a reset. how we think about north korea. what i have argued for -- i called for a pivot to serious diplomacy. the focus should be the negotiation of a freeze, locking in north korean capabilities where they are now. for north korea,...

United states is troubled by chinas economic retaliation against south korea, for taking appropriate steps to defend itself. the better path would be for china to address the north korean threat that is actually making such defensive messages necessary. >> the campaign trail, president trump hammered china for their practices. but he is toning down his rhetoric, saying, quote, why would i call china a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the north korean problem? good morning to...

So i do say dont take too much comfort in this, but it is a good development that it failed. >> rebecca, he thinks that north korea could some day soon have the ability to hit the u.s. with a nuclear missiles. does that comment surprise you or does that seem to be in line with what we know of what this nation wants? >> thats in line. one of our admirals said its safe to assume that theyre getting close to this capability. one, we have good missile defenses, ground base intercept ors in alaska. a...