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Explain why the exercises are happening. just another ratchet up of the tension here. michaela? >> nick paton walsh in ukraine. thank you for that. clearly the president has a lot on his plate right now while he is on the second stop of his asia tour. at a news conference this morning in seoul the president said the u.s. and south korea stand shoulder to shoulder in refuses to accept north koreas nuclear program amid reports pyongyang is about to conduct a nucleare nuclear test. the family o...

Against the interests of others. but in this case, theyre not even willing to listen to those who are most vulnerable and those who are uninsured. so if theyre going for the yahoo vote, as david corn said, maybe somebody ought to go for the google vote and figure out how we can, you know, ratchet up -- the intensity of understanding that these senators are vulnerable. yes, david corn is right. he may not be self emulating, but hes destroying his party and if his party is destroyed, he doesnt hav...

Leader in south korea, made it clear she will not tolerate that. and they have to stand up to what is this very belligerent behavior. he is 28 years old, untested. we dont have the same predictable profile we had for his father. so theres a lot of great reasons why you need to stand up, not let them get away with threatening nuclear exchange with the united states, threatening war with the south koreans, ratcheting up almost on a daily basis what some new -- telling south koreans they should pre...

According to an international investigation. tensions have been running high. this is yet another ratchet up in the escalating tensions on the peninsula. >> it sounds like from north korea more mouths moving versus military movement. but explain -- you kind of hit on the exercises here. again these arent just routine. specifically, these exercises were done to send a direct message to north korea. >> youre absolutely right. robert gates, the u.s. defense secretary, said that this is being done a...