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President trump meeting at the white house just in the last few minutes with key republicans who will vote ultimately on the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. the group hes meeting with, he says some of them were leaning "no" before. hes trying to convince them to get to "yes." what did he say to them in this meeting and did it work to get those key votes? well get to that but meantime i want to go to south korea,where alexandra field is there. we have a major development in south...

They wiped out gadhafi. >> david, i saw something and maybe its nuance but i saw something in what the secretary said. he didnt say we will have the military option if they attack, if they do this. he said if they expand their program, their weapons, missile program and nuclear program beyond a certain level, we will take military action, it seemed it was hinting at preemption. >> he was moving into the preemption world which is a phrase we last heard during the bush administration, and thats wh...

Tillerson said the era of patience is over. he is trying to figure out a new approach to counter north koreas missile program and nuclear weapons program. he visited the demilitarized zone earlier today and we spoke with him and asked him do japan and south korea as a way to counter north korea, is the united states ruling out further weaponization of those countries including nuclear weapons? >> are these options on the table as were discussed in the campaign? >> we are exchanges views as i did...

United states for years and china has done little to help. that last phrase important, the u.s. tried to get china to intervene and the u.s. feels china has not done enough and north korea moving ahead. what is the threat right now? u.s. intelligence officials and military officials say north korea working away at its underground nuclear test site. they could conduct a sixth fr ground nuclear test at any time. they are working on their missile program, recent satellite imagery shows them moving ...

Speech followed by donald trump tweets so now we truly are in the age of almost the parody -- >> you know, you put these two guys together. well, lets do it. lets just game this war. if this guy drops a bomb in the middle of the pacific as a test to scare the world and would scare me and everybody else or actually uses it against an adversary like the south whats trump going to do? you know trump. its cowboy time. >> trump campaigned on the whole idea of not having a weak united states engaged i...

Matt. not a lot of daylight between washington and tokyo on most issues. >> reporter: thats right. these are two very close allies. the meeting is under way right now at the top american and japanese diplomats sitting down. its not the first time theyve met. in brief comments before the meeting rex tillerson did say that part of his goals here was deepening not only the bilateral relationship between tokyo and washington but also the trilateral relationship that includes south korea, and this, o...

With every test kim inches forward to reaching u.s. mainland. president trump tweeted it wont happen. >> north korea is a big, big problem and we will deal with that very strongly. >> reporter: china treats north koreas nuclear program as a regional problem, aimed at the more than 20,000 u.s. troops stayinged on the koran peninsula. but with the ability to have intercontinental missile program and his killing of his half brother, u.s. is enlisting europe and others to put the diplomatic squeeze ...

Could hit these missiles as theyre coming off the launch pad. the chinese are upset about it. the russians are upset about it because it can reach into their territory. weve been working with the chinese since the clinton administration to try to turn north koreas missile program and nuclear program off. it hasnt worked. im glad to see us moving forward. the other thing i wanted to mention, also the leaks from snowden, the cia cyber packing tools just leaked, that represents an important middle ...

Way out, this is what the state department has to say about this. well continue to work with prime minister geun-hye and we look forward to a productive relationship to whoever the south korean people elect. this is a domestic issue for the south koreans and its up to them and the u.s. will take no position on who they should elect as their next president. the rules there, the law theres, say they have 60 days to elect a new president. it was the last president, president park, that agreed to al...

Rate in the launch of their intermediate missiles. but we dont know how much of that you can attribute to cyber and electronic warfare efforts because the north koreans are not the worlds greatest manufacturers. welding errors, bad parts, just sheer incompetence can also contribute to that. in the early days of the u.s. missile program, we were not so hot at it, either, and even to this day on occasion, we lose. >> jon: the north koreans, you mentioned cyber warfare as one potential chink in the...