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Rex tillerson had to say overnight in a statement. north korea launched yet another super meade i cant tell range ballistic missile. the united states has spoken enough about north korea. we have no further comment. underscoring theyre not going to engage in every provocation. but this is what a white house official said yesterday during a briefing. the clock has now run out and all options are on the table for us. steph, that would indicate theyre looking at military options as well. expect pre...

Its complicated. no easy answers. sb we have to look at all options and encourage the coalition of partners in the region to do their part and come to the table. and the whole world has to respond to this. >> before i let you go i want to hit on the other big international head line of the day. north korea obviously launching a missile overnight. the secretary of state basically giving a kind of no comment, right, the idea apparently being dont give kim jong-un the provocation, the response that...

People of the person in their presidency and certain expectations the world has of the united states. if he wants to go out and defend his isolationist instinct, now is the time to do that, and that is going to be a tough sales job in a way that it might not have been during the campaign. >> it is also on congress who did not even put up for a vote the authorization of the use of military force. what happens now? at the same time you have got this administration confronts what do we do on north ...

Provocation by north korea. and because of that chemical weapons attack that we saw out of syria. the question for this president today will likely revolve around what are the next steps of this administration as it relates to syria, and should bashar al assad go? this is a president who has been very hesitant as a candidate to advocate for engaging in syria, saying the russians are already there, and theyre defeating isis. will this change the equation for this president? thats going to be one ...

Economic and political help from pru russia, you heard political hawks this morning saying do something. take out command and control centers. pocket the air strips. crater them. take them out. is this a president of the united states who is also going to deal tomorrow with the chinese president and the possibility of provocation of north korea, is this a president who is prepared to do that with syria? >> well, you have a president who has two conflicting world views. he cares more about the pr...

Protect. >> shannon: you are going to win the live shot of the day. >> bill: very cool. technology is out there, we are going to have to find a way forward, north korea fires another missile, white house response is kurt details on the latest provocation, president trump meets with chinas president trump. supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. well talk to senate leader live next. why do we put so much effort

>> and does kim jong-un take something from that? do we have a way to know? >> shepard: what kim jong-un would do, he has links with iran and syria which are established. that i have china in the background. the problem here is that if he thinks the u.s. is going to commit military force in the middle east, he knows that were not going to do very much in north asia, which means he could starting a provocation against south korea. thats how these things really sort of spread from one region to th...

Dealing with you, we dont even think youre worthy of comment, which could be the opposite of scary. that could be almost a provocation. the truth is we shouldnt be sitting here trying to figure out what the secretary of state meant to say when he reacted to world events. >> what is that little chinese pr proverb, may you not be living in interesting times? >> may you be cursed to live in interesting times. >> we live in interesting times. yay. thank you. that was my favorite discussion of the pa...

Rest of the civilized world takes it. >> this white house has said that north korea is the greatest international threat to this country. do you agree? >> im there. i mean i think the issues going on in the middle east really cant be left on their own. i mean there are some issues, you try to leave them on their own and hope they go away. thats not going to go away, so thats tough. but i think in terms of a country that kind of threatens us with nuclear weapons, i think we have to take it very s...

Talks with the ramping up of economic pressure. you never want to take military options off the table. its smart to keep that in the mix. that would have their honey set of repercussions. north korea seeing that as provocation and responding. >> neil: its sort of like the red line thing. you cant make the changes and threats without following up on them. >> exactly. thats why the administrations was clear not to make a specific red line. they left it vague. they want to see what happens at this ...