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Public statement being sure the north koreans would see it and you were going to increase intelligence collection on their icbm program. why would you make that public statement letting the north koreans know you are going to collect -- increase your collection of classified intelligence? what is the state of your current concern about how close they are to an icbm? and is this disclosure, this candor about the potential adversary, is this put everything you know out there hoping it will be a de...

Public statement being sure that the north koreans would see it, that you were going to increase intelligence collection on them against their icbm program. why would you make that public statement letting the north koreans know youre going to collect -- increase your collection of classified intelligence. what is the state of your current concern about how close they are to an icbm and is this disclosure, this candor about a potential adversary, is this potentially a lesson learned from the rus...

Unprecedented step of making a public statement being sure the north koreans would see it that you were going to increase intelligence collection against them on their icbm program. why would you make that public statement letting the north koreans know you are going to collect, increase your collection of classified intelligence. what is the state of your current concern about how close they are to an icbm, and is this disclosure, this candor about a potential adversary, is this potentially a l...

They have continued everything theyve wanted to do regardless in their nuclear program and their icbm program. and donald trump has been bought off by a couple of fancy letters with wax seals and ribbons on them. and so if i was schumer i would have looked at it and laughed and said, you know, get a grip, pal. >> april, great job today with getting all those questions answered at that briefing. >> youre funny. >> good night, everyone. thank you. you know, its the year of the woman on capitol hil...

Trump is a con man being played by a con man. you know, kim jong-un understood that trumps ego was the path to success, and so he played him like a rube for two years. they have continued everything they wanted to do regardless in their nuclear program, and their icbm program. donald trump has been bought off by a couple of fancy letters with wax seals and ribbons on them. and so if i were schumer, i would have looked at it and laughed and said, you know, get a grip, pal. >> all right. thank you...

Firing missiles. do you think a military confrontation might be inevitable? >> now, heres what i think, we know from 2005 when we put sanctions, financial sanctions on the banks in china that were necessary for the support of the system in north korea, that the dictator at that time could not pay his generals and they did not have the poen for their icbm program and they had to discontinue momentarily for a period of many months that program. we need to do that again. thats what these sanctions ...

Weapons program, their missile program, especially their icbm program. the intercontinental program that allows them to hit the united states. in order to get them to do that, we need to really raise this economic pressure level. and thats going to require cooperation from all parties. so i do think its achievable if were steady about it. if we tone down the rhetoric and we work together. so i do believe in congress, youre going to have a bipartisan effort to really enforce the u.n. sanctions an...

Sanctions on the missile program. the iranian economy is hurting. they want more money for their military and revolutionary guards and theyre very frustrated because they feel they thought they had us coned with the kerry, obama deal and they find out they dont. that said the iranian parliament still are willing to cut back on popular expenditures in order to fund terrorism abroad. they just allocated another $800 million for the revolutionary guard. theyve allocated more funds for their missile...

North korea. basically what you saw was everyone come together and say this is got to stop. this is not something we think can be casually dealt with and i think they hit him and basically we hit them back. >> jon: john garamendi of california, a member of the armed services committee and the subcommittee on strategic forces. he was on the korean peninsula a few weeks ago and was briefed on the regime and their icbm program. you must be heartened by the u.n. sanctions and especially by the fact ...

Is it possible that iranians have been involved with helping them with this program or at least in their icbm program. >> im unaware of that i mean, they have clearly developed some indigenous ability to build missiles and to mount weapons on them now. and they have been recruiting expertise for quite a long time, including from the former soviet union. and but i think a lot of people now believe that they have their own capability, that they are much less dependent on the outsiders than they we...