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>> sandra: joining me now, ari fleisher who served as white house press secretary for george w. bush. thanks for being here. that moment went largely unnoticed. that call to action, was that more of a policy shift than many are pointing out? >> its deeply significant for two reasons. number one, combine it with the weapons package the president sold to saudi arabia. the arab/sunni nations will take the lead in doing what they need to do, which is police their own neighborhood and stop the terror...

Students walking past. after three minutes and 30 seconds, three students appear to taunt and kick him. then, after four minutes and 40 seconds, adult help finally arrives. two days later, the 8-year-old committed suicide. his mother says she was only told gabe had fainted, but never about the alleged incident. >> if the school had told mom, your son was assaulted, she would have immediately taken him to the hospital. >> reporter: authorities first suspected bullying after a detective obtained t...

Would be structured in the affordable care act. there would also be an end to the extra medicaid expansion money thats been so crucial to the funding or insurance of more than 11 million americans through obamacare. you would also have an end to the limits of insurers charging older enrollees just three times more than younger enrollees. this is an age band issue which is a big deal and i think the crux of all of this, what weve seen over the course of the last week that has kind of changed the ...

Would change. theyre not as generous as they would be structured in the affordable care act. also that money that has been so crucial to the funding and insurance of more than 11 million americans with obamacare. and you also have them charging older enrollees just three times more than younger inreallies. i think this is also a big deal. incrux of this, the willingness to allow states to opt out of price protections for those of with pre-existing conditions. again, this was a late change for th...

Be, e quote, honored, to meet with kim jong-un if the circumstances were right. it is a stunning policy shift, but it likely welcome news to the imprisoned 22-year-old american being held in north korea. and desperately hoping their son will be relowsed as part of any negotiations. he was arrested on jan of 2016 after being accused of taking a pop began da sign with a hotel. at the time, he was a 21-year-old economics major from the university of virginia. and decided to stop by north korea duri...

Job hes doing and what seems like an outright policy shift to the secretary of state being open to a possibility of direct negotiations with north korea. >> i think all of this is very carefully calculated. i heard from an administration official that all of these public messages from president donald trumps specific input. they want to leave a very narrow path for him to denuclearizing via talks and to signal to china that this time we are serious. we might take military action. so we know you ...

Created during his administration. so -- >> i think the president could take credit for a change in the way companies do their pr. they are very quick to say, hey, we are investing in the united states and we are going to grow jobs in the united states and we are going to build factories. >> great to have you with us this morning. thanks so much. minutes from now the united nations security council holds a special meeting on north korea. rex tillerson will speak there. he indicated the united st...

Nations. on the right-hand side of your screen there, you can see the secretary of state, rex tillerson. he has entered the chamber of the u.n. security council. this meeting is getting under way. we will go back in there the minute the secretary starts speaking. lets go to the white house now. cnns joe johns is there. not only do we get this sort of policy shift from the secretary of state, joe, but also more words from the president, beyond just major, major conflict on north korea. he sort of...

The white house calling for a comprehensive review of the iran nuclear deal. what will that mean? so far, we heard secretary of state rex tillerson warning the iranians that they could soon pose the same nuclear threat to the u.s. as north korea. what will that mean in terms of the policy shift? cnns joe johns live at the white house. >> reporter: chris, the latest example of the trump administration essentially appearing to move in two different directions at the same time on an important forei...

Chinese newspaper warned that north korea, warned north korea specifically that it must rein in its nuclear ambitions or risk losing vital chinese trade. it wrote "chinese society will be willing to see the united nations security council adopt severe restrictive measures that have never been seen before such as restricting oil imports to the north." it seems to be something of a policy shift for china. do you agree, and if so, do you think president trumps policy of leading on china is the reas...