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This is very flowery language, but i think hes saying to the north koreans, get your act together. kind of said in this letter, like a lovers quarrel between the two of them, but the president is saying get your act together, lets do this, if you change your mind about the summit, i hope we can meet in the future. and officials are telling jim sciutto and others that this isnt dead, but the u.s. just felt it needed to take a step back. you just heard secretary pompeo say i dont want to say too m...

Bring in now peter brooks senior fellow for the heritage foundation, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense, and a former cia officer. good to have you here with us. >> good to be with you. arthel: what lies beneath kim jong-uns move? i mean whats his motive? any specific reason for security talks with sweden? >> well, its interesting. i mean, you know, sweden has longstanding ties with north korea. in fact they were the first western country to open relations with north korea back in th...

Was too much politics involved in the clinton fbi investigation. there would have been time to prepare, review e-mails and everything else before somebody went into an interrue -- interview like that. eric: will we see this report? >> oh, yeah, typically ig reports are public. i suspect it will be released -- it is much broader than andrew mccabe. i think it is going to look into doj and fbi. we have seen some of the fruits of the report, certainly some of the fbi text messages back and forth wi...

So we have to deal with our allies in japan, major powers like russia and china. so theres significant challenges here in moving this -- moving these negotiations and the challenges on the korean peninsula forward. arthel: peter brooks, thank you very much for your analysis. i have to leave it there. >> thanks for having me. eric: i see peter got the memo. wear a green tie on tv on st. patricks day. arthel got the memo, wear a green dress. there really isnt a memo. on 5th avenue, the grand st. p...

I do. i think the administration needs credit reminding north korea if they start a fight with the united states, it will end badly for them. the increasing economic pressure, there is a lot of pressure on north korea getting others to come along. i think they deserve credit. i think its been helpful. >> the president tweeted about it this morning saying it might work. it might not. well see what happens at any rate. scepticism is a good plan. peter brooks from the heritage foundation. >> new de...

Just how volatile the situation was today, for a brief period of time israel temporarily shut down its main airport over concern that syria and its allies could launch missile attacks from the north. arthel. >> arthel: david lee miller in jerusalem. thank you. >> eric: for more on this lets bring in peter brooks, a former caa officer, also senior fellow with the heritage foundation. peter, always good to see you. >> good to be here. >> eric: this is a bold and brazen move by iran, apparently 1e7...

Goal of reuniting the korean peninsula under the democratic peoples republic of korea, which is north korea. and they plan to do it militarily if necessary. thats why its so important that seoul and washington stand shoulder to shoulder on isolating the regime over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and deterring them on a conventional level with our brave troops already out there. >> eric: vice president pence did not acfollowing o acknowledt shake the hand of kim yo-jong who is the new...

Eric: they are putting their money where their mouth so. we will see what happens. arthel? arthel: a former cia officer was arrested this week for suspicion of spying on china. some intelligence officials believe he helped the chinese government identify cia informants in that country. last year the paper reported between 18 and 20 cia sources were killed or imprisoned by chinese authorities from 2010 to 2012. joining me now to talk about this is peter brooks, a senior fellow at the heritage fou...

And photographed two small notebooks with hand written entries containing top secret information, including the locations, the telephone numbers and the real names of cia informants and under cover agents working across china. it ap paoeurs that information was provided the chinese authorities who then began the process of disassembling the entire cia u.s. human intelligence network across china. we heard as many as 20 people may have been arrested and perhaps as many as ten were executed, some ...

Gotten worse considering what they have done in syria, the shiite crescent they are creating, the instability in lebanon, what theyre doing in yemen, iraq, afghanistan. i think we should take every opportunity we can to counter anybody who is an ally of e ira. >> tucker: especially dumping drugs. more than 60,000 americans died of drug over these last year. if not a small thing to know that your government wasnt doing anything to keep the illegal drugs out of your country. >> thats critically im...