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System. china is a different story, import 80% of the oil from the middle east and almost all of that goes through straits of hormuz, if theres spike in oil, another challenge to already struggling chinese economy, so the chinese really dont want this to escalate because it would exacerbate some of the economic challenges. arthel: hey, jon, do you think its necessary to completely scrap the 2016 iran nuclear deal? >> yeah, here is kind of why, iran was complying with it, only dealt with the miss...

Real diplomatic presence on the ground in pyongyang. all of this comes after the meeting this past sunday at the dmz involving president trump and north korean leader kim jong un, and there doesnt seem to be much of an afterglow from that meeting. north korea yesterday blasted the u.s. as being held-bent on hostile acts. apparently the u.s. again in the past few days has been pushing the u.n. for a greater, deeper enforcement of sanctions against the pyongyang regimes and at suspect missile prog...

Transformation of relations, a peace treaty? what is the timeline for lifting sanctions? these are issues for the negotiators. >> what does the u.s. know about the nuclear ambitions and capabilities of north korea? are you confident that it is accurate? >> you know, i think the -- i think the intelligence community has done a great job on north korea. i think they understand the nuclear program, missile program. i think theyre looking at that reality and we have all seen it with the nuclear test...

Il-sung to negotiate with the clinton administration over its nuclear program. he returned in 2010 to free a hostage being held there. and then former president clinton went in 2009 to free two american journalists being held hostage by kim jong-uns father. >> before the historic handshake between president trump and kim jong-un, the president was asked how the substance of the relationship has changed through the meetings. watch the way he answers bloombergs margaret talon. >> hope youll indulg...

By watching this along with us. weve got to talk about those weapons purchase they were just talking about, it sounded like the president sort of defending this weapons purchase that has kind of been a source of tension. talk about what he just said. >> actually, it has been peer to the president just acknowledging there that he is making progress with china, that these trade negotiations that have been ongoing with the united states and china, massive trade fight, tariffs are supposed to increa...

An american missile program. turkey wanted to produce some of them and turkey. when the u.s. and turkey couldnt reach an agreement over that program, turkey turned to russia, purchasing the as/400. the president said earlier today that turkey is on track to purchase that program, they expect delivery by the next few weeks of that missile program, but the problem is that turkey is a nato country, and a russian missile defense system, according to defense officials within nato, say that is not com...

A broader agreement that would take into account the nuclear nuclear program of iran but also ballistic missiles also other provocative behavior in the region this is a very very complicated dance for both europe and the united states and were just seeing the beginning of it now with secretary espers appeal here at nato and with. the u.s. . with iran not being on the table did they manage to discuss anything that actually was on the agenda. they did and i think iran came 1st but after that we ta...

Without pre conditions, iranians say there are pre conditions because you have the sanctions on the iranian government. today, a senior adviser to president rouhani, he came out and said to them, war and economic sanctions are two sides of the same coin as he put it. one of the things that the iranians are saying, they called it economic warfare. i want to read a little snippet from one senior iranian law maker. he said, mr. trump, until the sanctions are suspended. only the military forces will...

The international community. it is leading the way in standing up i think they will be appealing to all of americas allies. they work together with the united states and is hell-bent upon building an extremely strange missile program. all of americas allies seen together with the united states. and as they point out the deal would have given them potential a clear path to a nuclear bomb in the next decade.

Have an adventurous foreign policy in places like yemen and in the gulf and syria. and so they have been trying to reorient the strategy. that is to say iran has to normalize its behavior. so were not just talking about its nuclear program, were talking about its missile program, its support to terrorist groups, its human rights violations, all the things that its doing as a disruptive force in the middle east and beyond. and so thats the frame of reference for the trump administration. thats wh...