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China terrain and the behavior of its client state in pyongyang, then missile they fired on sunday appeared to some experts to resemble chinese designs. >> bret: james, thank you. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will participate in a working dinner with president trumps top diplomat in a few minutes. its a prelude to the leaders first face-to-face meeting since the election. rich edson is at the state department without story. >> this is the first high-level meeting between prime minis...

>> while the u.s. depends on china terrain and the behavior of its client state in pyongyang, then missile they fired on sunday appeared to some experts to resemble chinese designs. >> bret: james, thank you. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will participate in a working dinner with president trumps top diplomat in a few minutes. its a prelude to the leaders first face-to-face meeting since the election. rich edson is at the state department without story. >> this is the first high-leve...

It seems kim jong un, hideous has he has been, is very much in charge there. and i dont think we have any reason to hope, at least in the short run, that its all going to be taken care of. >> so what is the right policy now to check north korea? there was a time candidate donald trump basically implied this needs to be chinas problem. he is not the first to say that. i mean, there is a lot president obama, in different ways saying, hey, isnt this your client state? you need to take care of it. c...

Worlds most pressing problems. does he have a point here? >> you know, previous white houses have tried to warm the relationship with russia to accomplish things just like that and remember that moscow and the current white house worked to remove the majority of the weap weapons of mass destruction from the syrian regime and only possible because russia convinced its client state and bashar al assad to give up the weapons. you could argue the syrian civil war would be worse right now if those ki...

American citizens. >> president-elect trump greeted kims claims with one of his tweets, writing "north korea just stated its in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the u.s. it wont happen." mr. trump followed up that tweet with another in which he criticized china for refusing to rein in the nuclear ambitions of its client state in pyongyang. the chinese foreign ministry denied doing nothing on the north korean account and called on all sides to avoid agg...

Idea, "b," possible -- >> might he be on to something? >> since nixon went to china, the basic u.s. policy has been to encourage china as a potential friend, as a potential, you know, eventually co-equal in the world economy, to encourage the growth of freedom of china, encourage free markets and to kind of push russia aside. first to smash the soviet union or dissolve it, also to keep the success of russia at arms length. donald trump is clearly reversing that. it seems very clear he wants to r...

>> president-elect trump greeted kims claims with one of his tweets, writing "north korea just stated its in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the u.s. it wont happen." mr. trump followed up that tweet with another in which he criticized china for refusing to rein in the nuclear ambitions of its client state in pyongyang. the chinese foreign ministry denied doing nothing on the north korean account and called on all sides to avoid aggravating the issue....

On the ground was not cohesive enough to necessarily govern a country and you had a military superpower in russia prepared to do whatever it took to keep its client state involved and you had a regional military power in iran that saw their own vital strategic interests at stake and were willing to send in as many of their people or proxies to support the regime, in that circumstance unless we were all in and going to take over syria we were going to have problems and that everything else was te...

Not cohesive enough to necessarily govern a country, and you had a military super power in russia prepared to do whatever it took to keep its client state involved, and you had a regional military power in iran that saw their own vital strategic interests at stake and were willing to send in as many of their people or proxies to supporhe regime. in that circumstance, unless we were all in, and willing to take over syria, we were going to have problems. and that everything else was tempting becau...

Is a problem. mitch mcconnell was in the meeting with president obama, and the fbi director, and the cia director, two months ago when they said we need to have a bipartisan effort to do something about this. and he dismissed it then because it was more important that donald trump win than the united states not become a client state to the russians. this is a problem. and the fact that we have a president who doesnt want to pay attention to this is a problem. and i think every american, republic...