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Demilitarized zone, it is 30 miles from seoul. they have thousands of short range missiles that are aimed at a metropolis of 25 million people and also 25000 u.s. troops. if we are to launch a preemptive strike against their nuclear program, there missile program, were talking about human catastrophe, arent we? >> yes, this is why the president said this is something we do not want to do. what the president has done is he is now connected what our military options are with whatec were trying to ...

Sanctions. the chinese wont put the pressure until their own interests are at risk. >> jon: you get the impression that kim jong-un listens to only his own council. he wants nuclear weapons. he has nuclear weapons because it will ensure the survival of his regime. can sanctions do anything to dissuade him? >> they can. i think if youre going after the revenue that kim uses for his nuclear program, his missile program and for the elite, you start to get at the stability issues that the chinese do...

>> they can. thats exactly what chuck schumer has been trying to do all along. it has members of his base worried. i was speaking with the democratic senator last week who really was concerned about the stranglehold that chuck schumers progressive base, the progressives went democratic party seem to have on him. they are moving him more to the left with each day. instead of encouraging him and him encouraging democrats then to work with the republican congress and with president trump. heather: ...

Jinping, and today president trump said that china is beginning to put pressure on north korea to deescalate its missile program, but he also believes more pressure is needed, and in order to get china onboard with that, he said the u.s. may be willing to the make some concessions on trade deals. molly: all right, garrett tenney, thank you so much from washington. eric: prominent journalists gathered last night for the white house correspondents din or. the annual event took an unusual turn, as ...

25,000 u.s. troops, if we were to launch a preemptive strike against their nuclear program, their missile program, we are talking about a human catastrophe, arent we? >> this is what the president said this is something we dont want to have to do. what this president has done is now connected military actions with what we are trying to do politically. for too long those things were disconnected from each other. so you need the viable option, the military option to help make what youre doing econ...

25,000 u.s. troops, if we were to launch a preemptive strike against their nuclear program, their missile program, we are talking about a human catastrophe, arent we? >> this is what the president said this is something we dont want to have to do. what this president has done is now connected military actions with what we are trying to do politically. for too long those things were disconnected from each other. so you need the viable option, the military option to help make what youre doing econ...

Time like this, given the option that could come in any kind of conflict with north korea. >> admiral, the north koreans have done a number of missile launches since trump came to office. but this one comes after key meetings with china. this one comes after many official statements from the administration and the state department. you said earlier, you think this is kim jong-un giving the united states essentially the finger? >> i do, i believe that, but its also kim giving china the finger, an...

Technology as well as nuclear technology. its a real concern for anyone that knows about the possibilities of them linking a missile to a weaponized atomic device or nuclear device. >> its believed to have been a failure. has the u.s. used its cyber arsenal to sabotage north koreas missile program? >> well, if i knew that, i couldnt comment. but i dont know. this missile technology business -- im not a scientist or a techno-type. the missile technology business is complicated. they have some pre...

>> its believed to have been a failure. thats the word right now. has the u.s. used its cyber arsenal to sabotage north koreas missile program? >> well, if i knew that, i couldnt comment. but i dont know. this missile technology business -- im not a scientist or a techno-type. the missile technology business is complicated. they have some pretty good scientists, obviously. but they dont have people like we do and the numbers we have. but its a pretty complicated business. whether it was destroye...

Koreas missile program. >> could you support a first strike by the united states? could there be some risk of a nuclear act by north korea that would cause chris coons to say we need to move first? >> well, we are not there yet and im not going to address the hypothetical, but i do think we have to take seriously the prospect that kim jong-un has nuclear weapons, is developing ballistic missile capability that could reach beyond south korea and japan and hit american territory and he has publicl...