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The last couple of years, more than $100 billion of increase in defense spending from our nato allies. they said it couldnt be done. [applause] as part of our military buildup, the united states is developing a developing a state-of-the-art missile defense system. under my administration, we will never apologize for advancing americas interests. for example, decades ago, the united states entered into a treaty with russia in which we agreed to limit and reduce our missile capability. while we fo...

Last couple of years more than $100 billion of increase in defense spending from our nato allies. they said it couldnt be done. [ applause ] >> as part of our military build-up, the united states is developing a state-of-the-art missile defense system. under my administration we will never apologize for advancing americas interests. for example, decades ago the united states entered into a treaty with russia in which we agreed to limit and reduce our missile capability. while we followed the agr...

And western adversaries, including the united states. but not mentioned in the long list of threats, one thing the president is considering declaring a national emergency over, the border wall. joining me, vice president for international policy at the center for american progress, and former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the united nations. welcome to you both. thank you for being here. kelly, let me start with you on north korea. senator dan coats had this to say about north korea nucle...

Your reaction in general to these reports that russia has managed to create some sort of new weapon? >> my reaction is similar to lucys in terms of the defense implications and maybe the veracity of this report. its only coming out of moscow. in march putin said he was deploying, developing and then deploying a host of new weapons. this one is significant. if they were able to truly test and successfully come up with an intercontinental missile that flies at five times the speed of sound, basica...

Have to do is perfect its reentry capability to be able to strike the united states. and then secondly, we have left the sanctions in place but sanctions are only as good as the enforcement mechanism. and i dont think for a second kept up the pressure like where we have them diplomatically a year ago. so im increasingly growing concerned and i think its also worth remembering that secretary pompeo when he was cia director last year estimated we had about one year until they perfected that missil...

Russia, there have been developments there in the news. whats most important as we watch all of these players interact. >> it will show how conplex this is. their alleys of syria and russia. they have two military bases in syria. the israeli air strikes against iranians with missile capability. this shows the continuing threat of iran not just on the nuclear side but the behavior in the region that puts us at risk. >> they will withdraw. stronger sanctions coming back

But were to close for public holiday. rob: nation of iran flexing muscles ahead of new trump administration sanctions with plans to unveil fighter jet and show case missile capability later this week. >> the iran group would be responsible directing all aspects of iran-related activity, they will report directly to me, we must see major changes both inside and outside of borders, iranian people and the world are demanding that iran finally act as normal nation. >> isnt what the nuclear deal was ...

Testing his stuff. you think that was overblown? do you agree with the president that the nuclear threat is now over? >> well, again, with the doctrine, i dont think it was as great as was perceived to be by people in the media was hyped up. do i think its 100% gone, no. we still need to worry about it. we need the inspectors at fort greeley, alaska. to me the greatest long-term threat of a nuclear exchange is iran because iran will have missile capability and nuclear weapons sometime in the fut...

From the initial reaction that we have gotten, including japan and south korea, waeve gotten reactions from the chinese. theres moreion. d from the blue house in korea saying they want to hear more clarification, more explanation in terms of what the president wants. >> if you withdraw the long range missile capability of the north koreans, you havent withdrawn the capability of them to hit japan and south korea. when you add to that that were going to potentially remove 30,000 troops on that pe...

Give us our respect or else, and now here he is sharing the stage with the president of the united states. tricky message. >> its a real problem. its a grave concern for everybody just to see whats going on here as to how we got here. we got here through appeasement on the part of both democratic and republican administrations for quite some time, and now we have not only a nuclear north korea, but a nuclear north korea that has the missile capability to deliver the nuclear weapon to the contine...