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He has invited service members of the united states coast guard to join him and as he speaks he is going to be obviously addressing what has been going on in washington. of course our military, recently president trump signing into law -- just before leaving the $700 million budget for the military which included additional spending on missile defense program to counter north koreas growing nuclear weapons stress which certainly has come into play the last couple of days. china who has been part...

Minute longer to get to new york city and chicago if they fire a missile, that is how long it takes to get here, a nuclear warhead. and@the administration will try to shoot that thing down but that gives you the reality of the situation. would you trust our system to take care of that threat if they fired first? >> great question, the obama administration cut the missile defense program, the ground-based defense system, cut the missile defense program in half, the first couple years in office. i...

Level, they would probably impose something like the territorial-based sanctions weve seen on iran in which case there is no exception to the sanctions. you look at the country, the entire country is sanctioned, not just the government and certain individuals or institutions within it. thats the direction i would expect the trump administration to take. it would align the approach we use on north korea from a sanctions perspective. with the approach weve used on iran. we treat north korea the sa...

Of china, just has consolidated power, and he has explicitly said that chinas going to step in and play a global role in economics as the united states seems to be -- julie: right. you also have to think about military here, and our missile defense program or the t.h.a.d. missile defense program. trump will be making that visit to obey ginning to make the case to -- to beijing. how should we deal and protect our allies such as south korea when it comes to our missile defense program in. >> well,...

Over the pacific ocean regarding which measures to take, i dont really know, it is what kim jong un does. is that something kim jong un will actually follow through on or is it just bartok? >> its hard to say, it really depends on the psychology of kim jong un and the degree that he feels his back is up against the wall. i will say that an open air test of a nuclear weapon would be a remarkable event, it would be a historic event. not just for north korea but northeast asia as a whole, you can a...

We need to shoot it down. >> julie: why have we not been doing that? with every missile launch, they get into the sea of japan, they go and do it, it is a successful launch, kim jong un and his force feels like they have claimed a victory against the united states, essentially. >> yes, two arguments out there for not shooting it down. one is called intelligence gain and loss. we gain some information by watching them launch and seeing where they are at, but on the other side, north korea also ga...

Disingenuous and shameful to not continue the rest of the sentence. as margaret pointed out, hes talking about a missile defense program at this point. hes talking about playing defense. hes saying if they should act. i want to ask chris cillizza, what does he expect the president of the united states to do if north korea should act? should he not use language that warns them? i mean, look, we have to remember that barack obama used language like we could destroy north korea. that seems to be lo...

A missile defense program and will have 44 interceptors in the ground, alaska and california before the year is done and in late may, they successfully tested this missile defense system, knocking an icbm out of outer space. they also have a chance to knock down ballistic missiles in the initial phase but after the successful missile test, the u.s. navy failed. when it missed the target. it does have fire and fury and thus to launch 400 long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles from bases i...

Are going on record to oppose north koreas, whistle program. this is a shift, and these weapons and missiles that they are shooting off now, they did not develop in january. this is been around for long time. it is nice to see administration stepping to the plate to end saying, this is a national security issue to the nine states and we will stop at. >> harris: you hear lindsay graham same, we do not have a great options in all this. will be go war with north korea? >> hopefully not. we do have ...

One thing that we have to be careful of, sandra, we cant just have a policy of defense. we cant just say, well, we can shoot missiles out of the sky from the western united states or we have the thad system in south korea that can protect our allies in the region, japan and south korea and our u.s. military bases. thats great. and i think that always having the missile defense program is crucial. but we should be able to have diplomacy with muscle right now. we should be able to stop the north k...