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To utilize the relationships that hes built with president xi. >> reporter: democrats worry the presidents rhetoric is getting too overheated arguing theres no military solution with an unstable regime boasting nuclear ambitions. >> i think because of the unevenness of his statements and positions which he has taken thus far, it is highly unclear as to whether or not he has the ability to be able to think this thing through in a way that avoids an actual military showdown between the united stat...

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Into place, its working brilliantly, were safer. you know, go down the list. ive put up the border wall. whatever it is, he hasnt been able to sort of hold that kind of victory lap of a ceremony to convince the american people that he is accomplishing all of the things he set out to do. instead, he has been thwarted in many of these big initiatives, and i think that that, in addition to sort of the addiction to twitter, not changing his style, the things that make some folks uncomfortable, in ad...

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Patience, strategic patience, is over. what does that mean in real terms? >> it was the policy during the united states of america during prior administrations to practice what they called strategic patience. that is to hope to marshal international support to bring an end to the nuclear ambitions and ballistic missile program of north korea. that clearly has failed. and the add vent of nuclear weapons testing the development of the nuclear program even this weekend to see another attempt at a b...

We are getting back to where the senate was for 211 years. >> jon: joe biden was also a member of the judiciary committee and i want take you back to a speech that you might have heard. it was on the senate floor in june of 1992. in that speech on the senate floor, 1992, june, mr. biden said there should be a different standard for a supreme court vacancy that would occur in the throes of an election year. the president should follow the example of a majority of his predecessors. if he goes forw...

And i think the presidents right in trying to pressure china to step up here. they never really have. and it has to be a diplomatic effort. but china has to say, this is not going to stand. president george w. bush tried to ignore and stand up to the north korean regime in the years of 2000. and the north koreans simply threw a nuclear hissy fit and ultimately he made another deal which the north koreans several years later violated. so i think we are entering a crisis because this third generat...

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Prior administrations to practice what they called strategic patience and that was to hope to marshal international support to bring an end to the nuclear ambitions and the ballistic missile program of north korea. that clearly has failed, and the advent of nuclear weapons testing, the development of a nuclear program, even this weekend, to see another attempt at a ballistic missile launch, all confirms the fact that strategic patience has failed. >> reporter: what does it mean to end it in prac...

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