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Foreign policy crises facing the trump administration in its first 100 days. i want to bring in christopher hill, ambassador to iraq under president obama and ambassador to south korea under president george bush. and evan mcmullen, a 2016 independent presidential candidate and former cia officer. mr. ambassador, what does north korea have to gain by conducting another nuclear test or even a missile launch at this point in time? >> first of all, we need to understand these tests as tests of vari...

Implying that perhaps we make too much of these north korean missile and nuclear tests? >> i wouldnt say were making too much of those tests, because those tests are designed to create a deliverable nuclear weapon. that will come sooner or later, whether one or two years, it will probably come on the watch of this administration. so i think these tests are important insofar as they are tests of military programs. we may make too much of the notion that these tests are an expression of defiance t...

They can still complete projects like this and they credit one person, their supreme leader. the soldiers you see marching here are the ones who built this entire project. this is the closest were allowed to get to the sometimes very young faces of the north korean military. this country has a very large standing army and even though this is not an overt show of force, projects like this are just as important to the north koreans as their nuclear weapons program. the prime minister said completi...

Tens of thousands of people are moving in here. raising questions about how far china is willing to go to reign in its unpredictable neighbor. we saw north korean leader making a rare appearance in pyongyang. not military event but a ribbon cutting of a new high rise apartment complex, an attempt by the regime to show economic growth despite heavy sanctions over their nuclear program. the message from the north koreans seems to be they want to move forward with their military programs but they a...

Common ground. even as he started that common ground -- >> yeah, it was interesting. ive never seen two guys disagree to disagree as well. captain from a what we believe -- you would more than i would about this, but a joint. but the idea of cyber interference in. he said, i would rather talk about cyber activity during a campaign rather than try to interrupt a military program. >> that statement was important. the united states from time to time carries out cyber warfare operations on militar...

What hed like to boost the budget, increases to agencies not just the defense budget but homeland security, the cia. you can see him there, military programs and u.s. intelligence as well. cuts then because the promise has been to balance this dollar-for-dollar $54 billion added, $54 billion cut from agencies like the epa, like the state department, and interestingly and potentially problematically for some republicans on capitol hill, ali, no change to entitlement programs, no changes to for ex...

More annexes that deal with the technical issues theres a lot of language. frankly, i think the real challenge is not getting a consensus between the u.s. and iran its how to bridge what will be a huge hurdle here in washington. the administration has created real objectives. bob corker last night, whose name is on the iran sanctions review act identified a couple of how to deal with military programs. are they going to come clean? what to do about access anywhere anytime, any place inspections....

Be imposed on russia. right now putin is winking at joseph stalin as russian expansionism is on the march. what about president obamas attitude toward our military? while putin has expand the the russian military budget by 79%, the president is cutting back meaningful military programs here in america. he wants to down size the army, eliminate many tomahawk missiles. most of our naval fleet is not in use. generally a much weaker nation militarily than we were five years ago. putin knows that he ...

Be imposed on russia. right now putin is winking at joseph stalin as russian expansionism is on the march. what about president obamas attitude toward our military? while putin has expand the the russian military budget by 79%, the president is cutting back meaningful military programs here in america. he wants to down size the army, eliminate many tomahawk missiles. most of our naval fleet is not in use. generally a much weaker nation militarily than we were five years ago. putin knows that he ...

The continued cuts from sequestration were forcing our families and communities to pay the price. so i am very proud to stand here today with chairman ryan to announce we have broken through the gridlock and reached a bipartisan budget compromise that will prevent a government shutdown in january. our deal puts jobs and economic growth first by rolling back sequestration, harmful cuts to education and defense jobs for the next two years. now i know there were some people who thought these cuts s...