military administrations. how do you think president trump has dealt with the crisis so far? well the important point is how we go forward. it is a very complicated and difficult issue. you have a regime which in north korea is isolated, which has put incredible resources into a nuclear and missile program, while millions of its people over the years have starved to death. the key point here is that the united states must not act impulsively, and we must not act unilaterally. the key i think to this situation i think president trump understands this, is dealing with china. china now receives about 80% of the imports of north korea. they are virtually the only ally that north korea has, and what china has got to understand is that they have got to put incredible pressure, work with the entire asian community, in telling north korea that they have got to cease their efforts of develop intercontinental
this wasn t what will was talking about and another thing that they were bracing for, which would possibly be the sixth nuclear missile test that north korea would launch, didn t happen but it is really significant that the vice president is here right now, reassuring the south koreans and again trying to take the temperature down a notch when it comes to the administration s rhetoric. dana bash in seoul, south korea, a tense situation under way. joining me to talk about this and much more is former democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders, a vermont senator. thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. my pleasure. the north koreans put out a statement beannouncing the trump administration s mamaical military administrations. how do you think president trump has dealt with the crisis so far? well the important point is how we go forward. it is a very complicated and difficult issue. you have a regime which in north korea is isolated, which has put incred