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Ive always said the road to pyongyang does not lay through beijing. >> how about from russia,ed a tsunami russia has been an an ally of north korea and now we hear from putin they had a very positive meeting, putin and trump, that is. might the u.s. be able to leverage its new or budding relationship with russia to get to north korea? >> i would hope so, but i dont see much indication of it. in the last couple years, china has been on a gradual trend toward putting more pressure on north korea. ...

>> well, the point is i dont think focusing on russia and china is the way to convince north korea to engage with the united states and south korea. the focus should be on us, our actions as well as on our allies. and the allied actions that we take. >> adam? >> i agree. mr. tillerson said yesterday that hes not interested in pursuing a free on north koreas nuclear program. this is tantamount to saying that were going to acquiesce for the ability to strike at the continental united states, a fre...

That every time russian interference comes up that somehow delegitimatizes his win, which i dont know anyone would make that argument, its not a constructive argument, but he just said it yesterday on the world stage he doesnt buy the idea it was just russia, how damaging is that to policy with russia? >> i think what would correct that particular position would be taking a hard stance with president putin himself. and like everybody else has said this morning, i think its imperative that the el...

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...

Real core national security risk and concern. we can predict that the russians were going to replenish their spy ranks. of course theyre going to do that. its not just the russians. every country is spying all the time. every sun and hacking all the -- every country is hacking all the time as much as they can. russia took it one step further by releasing information and combining it with a massive propaganda campaign that favored one candidate over the other. thats horrendous. overall, its not j...

I know it still seems controversial, but this is how it starts, if you look at turkey, look at different countries throughout history, they bit by bit go to war with any and everyone who can actually stand against them in the form of providing information to the people. and heres the thing. i understand. i talk to my students about this, talk to fellow journalists, i understand why people cant just boycott. the economic imperative of being a journalist is getting access, they have to get informa...

Ben sass, he has been quiet, hasnt really weighed in, agreed to by the president and rand paul i think we can put up on the screen here, the junior senator from kentucky says he spoke to senate leadership about this. they agree, keep working on repeal this idea of replacing or repeal first replace later. thats not been the republic strategy and you hear kristen talk about the white house strategy. this is mitch mcconnells building and caucus hes the one that will set the senate strategy, it will...

Hake. a lot of guidance may have come from senator rand paul. heres what he tweeted. he said i have spoken to donald trump and senate leadership about this, and agree lets keep our word to repeal then work on replacing right away. so that was today. this was rand paul on "morning joe" in january. take a listen. >> i think its imperative that republicans do a replacement simultaneous to repeal. if they dont, obamacare continues to unravel. its a huge mistake for republicans if they do not vote fo...

Is going to affect these senators positions on this idea and the health care bill that currently exists in the senate? >> i think its always good for senators and congressmen and women to get their constituent input. well see how men and women on the ground, the electorate that put them into power, actually feel about the different options that are being floated around. >> rand paul. he now supports this repeal now, replace later idea. back in january, "morning joe" he called that idea, among ot...

The devil is in the details. in 1993, the clintons, mr. and mrs., come into the office and say, were going to start with health care reform. the senator from new york, pat moynihan, your friend and my friend, said dont do this, its complicated, it will bog you down. it never even came to a vote in a congress controlled by the democratic party. george w. bush makes a big entitlement change, a big health care change with medicare part d which was popular because no one paid for it. it was an entit...