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>> i think its good thing for north korea and south korea to have these talks, but its more important for the united states and north korea to have talks. but those talks have to be accompanied by much tougher sanction than those which have been imposed thus far on the north korean economy. and so thats the key question for our -- for the trump administration. will they be able to get the chinese to partner with them? have they used every single avenue at their disposal in order to accomplish th...

The completion of the north korean icbm and miniaturized hydrogen bomb program and ultimately a real confrontation that could be military without having exhausted this oil option that sit there is unused by the president. >> lets get to the latest developments. pretty explosive developments in the russia investigation. president trump urged, we are now told, his top white house lawyer and the white house counsel to stop the attorney general, jeff sessions, from recusing himself from the russia i...

The sense we have seen this coming and watch the evolution of the program. what it is is another new stage. we have seen the north koreans develop icbms, extending -- living up to what they say, we will hit anywhere we want. jillian: it sounds like they got the missile and the nuclear warhead but have yet to put them together and deliver them to the united states. >> that is right. this test was -- the size of a nuclear warhead and not there yet. given the pace of the development, the hydrogen b...

Economy. that has not happened. a complete cutoff of all revenues from slave workers outside of north korea that is repatriated into the north korean economy. that theres going to be out of business sign placed upon north korea. the president did not say that. he is not talking about the steps we have to take right now to get the world community on our side to isolate north korea so that they do not complete their icbm hydrogen bomb program. >> president trump seems to think the sanctions are wo...

Engages in escalatory language that only induces further paranoia in kim. we should be trying to find a way of getting the united states to the table with kim accompanied by a crippling economic sanctions. thats the better solution that we should be talking about right now rather than something that is only going to drive further and faster the north korean development of an icbm and hydrogen bomb program. >> senator, thank you so much for your time and sharing your thoughts with us this morning...

Double game where theyre punishing south korea while simultaneously still cooperating with the north koreans and we just have to say to them, look, cut it off, all economic activity, or else unfortunately, its going to lead to an escalation in the tensions in the region and we have to say to the chinese, our goal is not to decappy tate north korea. our goal is not to collapse their economy. our goal is to bring them to the table so that we can freeze the ballistic missile and hydrogen bomb progr...

Guarantee at all -- maybe we can get a result which is positive. we havent been able to do it in the path but its our best shot at accomplishing that goal. >> do you agree with the president that now is not the time to talk to north korea directly? >> well, if he says to the chinese that hes never going to talk to the north koreans directly, then that will be a non-starter for the chinese. they want that. they also want there to be an agreement in terms of the magnitude of the american military ...