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Chinese entities, thats the way to go. we dont seem prepared to do it. we do a trillion and a half worth of business every year. >> one said he was considering stopping any trade with any country that does business with north korea as a way to pressure them giving up their nuclear program. at some point colonel jack is right. theres still room to press china to do more with respect to north korea. give usa sense of the sanctions that are there versus what can be dup. how much room do we have to ...

Demonstration of force to show us that the united states would have to respond to their threats. >> were putting the map up you can launch south or north to japan. they chose north, roughly from pyongyang and they went north over the top of japan just for a little bit. colonel jack, the problem here, you had rex tillerson after the fire and fury comments, saying, lets everybody, just calm down. particularly aimed at the north koreans even the chinese told everybody to cool the rhetoric. now what...

Rex tillerson and mattis are not kindred spirits with the president. tillerson has been out of the limelight for some time. not everybody is surprised by his comments but is this a sign of a crack? >> remember, he said something different about the situation in qatar that president trump said immediately afterwards and there is gary cohen who in that interview with the financial times made it pretty clear that he also disagreed with president trump on his charlottesville comments. and in other r...

North over the top of japan just for a little bit. colonel jack is the problem you had rex tillerson after the fire and fury comments saying lets everybody just calm down, particularly aimed at the north koreans even the chinese told everybody to cool the rhetoric. now what does the president do oh? >> well i think what he has to do is get tillerson to talk to the chinese to have them reiterate something that they said through one of their semi officials mouthpieces after the last launch. they a...

He spoke to president trump by phone today following the launch. for more im joined by a senior researcher at yale law school. also asia policy coordinator for the hillary clinton 2016 campaign. and u.s. army retired colonel jack jacobs, or military affairs analyst and a recipient of the medal of honor for his combat actions in vietnam. thank you both for being here. lets talk about this, the president had been clear on twitter and in person talking about fewer -- fury and flames and how terribl...

Helped us when were not so stretched and running so much overtime with our police and possibly allowed us to put some measures in place to have some reimbursement from some of our regional partners. he came here for a convention. the convention pays a lot of rooms tax, but that room tax doesnt go to the city of reno. so hopefully we can develop mechanisms when people do come in in the future that we can get some reimbursement. it costs about a half billion dollars to run for president of the uni...

Last year and as a result, hes not particularly sensitive to the entire electorate. i think that -- i talk to a lot of people who are very concerned about the fact that he did not mention what had happened. at the end of the day -- >> do you have to be a real politician, jack, to know that when ten people die in service to their country that at least you acknowledge that in a public forum and express your solidarity, your sympathize to their families? thats not about being a politician or not be...

Walked all of it back and said both sides are to blame. he kind of told the story he wanted to tell in a way that made him look as good as possible. theres no intro spekz, maybe i should have done it differently. instead sefs defiant and doubled down. you could tell at one point the crowd was getting board. he said im sorry to bore you with this but then he started attacking the media. even some of his die hard supporters were a little bit kind of board by hearing him go on and on and on defendi...

>> we dont know if it is a warm hand shik liake like the bill cn style or an arm wrestle. that is what people are first going to judge. the hand shake that the world is watching. that will set a lot of the tone. >> i want to go back to something that colonel jack reported. reports of china and its role with brokering some sort of deal with north korea. if china hasnt done it yet, are they unwilling or unable to assist us with north korea? >> yet? im sorry to interrupt. yet. its been six months a...

Addition to china who trade with north korea. we could lean on them, as well. at the end of the day, without china, were not going to be able to squeeze north korea and we also forget that we had the capability of generating some action in the cyberfield. i mean, we could -- we have done it before. we could do it again and make it much more difficult for them to continue production of nuclear weapons and development of delivery means. but without getting china onboard. its not going to work. we ...