Taking part in any kind of sales of oil that would violate u. N. Sanctions. The Treasury Department note d last month that there were north korea ben shipping companies that were attempting these ship to ship transfers likely of oil to evade u. N. Sanctions, but the president is on vacation here in maralago. He was on the golf course when the tweet was sent. Weve reached out to a number of of his aides at National Security counsel. Was there something new that set off the president . Some new piece of information he had confirmed . Did he know there was a new Transfer Attempt and we got no response ch its Worth Remembering that the president travel wg a very thin staff when he goes on vacations like this. So its possible that even his own staffers dont knowd the pr to send this tweet today. All right, thank you very much. With me now, the author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world, gordon
chang. And cnn security analyst, bob. Gordon, let me begin with you. The word fs f
chinese don t know for sure. but let me go back to what trump said 1 ye8 years ago. he was right. that s when it should have been done. they re well armed. they re going to use those missiles. they can do a lot of destruction. the only way out of this situation now if the chinese and the russians by the way do not clamp down completely and there is no falling apart of north korea, is regime decapitation. and but that s hunlly risky. it s a hail mary that could turn out very badly. so it basically, the president is totally frustrated with north korea, he promised to do something about it. and now he understands once he s seeing the sbintelligence and t reality, it s not going to be easy. let s listen to how the president has continued as president to call out china. time and time again. calling on china to cut off north korea. here are just a few examples. china can fix this problem
this you can t address the problem of isis without getting rid of assad. we re led to believe that iran would be a sort of integral partner in foe meanting what you might call regime decapitation or transition. russia would have to work to see that forward too. what s happening in syria is interesting. the regime is losing losing badly and so is iran by the way, in northern syria, islib provis has fallen out of the regime s control, southern syria and the regime and guard corps of iran have been badly defeated. the u.s. sees this as an opportunity. aepts skeptical a nuclear deal with iran or any kind of friendly overtures with the kremlin will bring about this sort of grand ambition. but remember as you pointed out, wolf last time kerry went to moscow was for what to sue for peace in syria get russia to stop selling s-300 anti-aircraft missiles to assad and the event of that was the announcement of the geneva 2 peace protocol
until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad that it is time for a transition. it s time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. despite the words, the killing goes on. we said at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday, according to activists. and the shelling, this was the 21st day of the bombardment for people living in the baba amr section of homs. in the middle of this, crews from the red cross managed to evacuate a small number of women and children. the two western journalists remain in homs, so do the bodies of marie colvin and remy offlic, and so do tens of
according to activists. secretary of state clinton had a warning for the assad regime. assad can still made the choice to end the violence, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will chemopressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad that it is time for a transition. it s time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. despite the words, the killing goes on. we said at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday, according to activists. and the shelling, this