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Accompanying the right position we have taken so far. >> sandra: they say they have a strategy. here is vice president mike pence speaking very strongly on this yesterday. we dont have the sound on it? all right. so he is saying we are making it clear to leaders around the world that there can be no bystanders in the struggle of venezuelas freedom. the u.s. calls on every nation on earth to recognize juan guaido as venezuelas president and take the side of freedom. and by the way, this is as joh...

Accounts in social media, players, operatives, political parties, ngos, groups like that into the u.s. audience space, align with them based on interest, financial being a big one, information being another one, common issues, like america first. if america puts america first and the world second, russia can get on the world stage. the angle is a behavior change in target audience. we saw it happen last week. saw senators go to russia and repeat lines that russia would want them to say. sanction...

Korean economy. he believes you give them what they want for an indefinite period time, things will work out okay. that undercuts sanctions and u.s. strangulation campaign. the reason why this is important to us is because if sanctions dont work, for instance if south koreans bus them, it means theres a lot of voices in this country who want to go to war. because they said, look, sanctions arent working. we need a military option. thats why we want sanctions to work. >> has that worked in the pa...

At all with north korea. china is helping us with, russia is denting. in other words, russia is making up for some of what china is doing. what do you think about that? because were getting also some encouraging news from the region that people are happy that the north and south are talking, but if the sanctions arent working, that might be just fruitless. >> yeah. so this idea of the north and south talking im fine with. any time we can explore that, its great. where we have to be cautious is n...

And russians who can help us apply the greatest sanctions on north korea. but the reality is that weve got to work with our allies and the international community to stem this individuals effort to develop nuclear missile capability. >> julie: sanctions arent working. they never have. now you have to look forward instead of looking back. secretary mattis says they launched an intercontinental ballistic missile and it went higher than any previous shot theyve taken before. experts have always fea...

All that would have been hard enough if president trump werent weakened by poll numbers in the 30s now and increasingly testy relationship with his own party. joining me now to talk about what could get accomplished this month is roy blunt of missouri. welcome back to "meet the press". >> good to be with you, chuck. >> let me start with north korea. it seems the conversation is the same and it used to be three months we have the north korea conversation and unfortunately, were having it every th...

Basically our credit card line, keeping the government open, deciding whether and how to pay for mr. trumps border wall, and of course, getting tax reform started and the president claims he still wants to do health care. all that would have been hard enough if president trump werent weakened by poll numbers in the 30s now and increasingly testy relationship with his own party. joining me now to talk about what could get accomplished this month is roy blount of missouri. welcome back to "meet th...

Conversation, and unfortunately were having it every three weeks. sanctions arent working. these joint military exercises dont seem to have an impact on him to wrap ratchet things back and he things to ratchet things up. whats left in the diplomatic arsenal? >> well, for 20 years, the diplomacy by itself appears not to have worked very well. sanctions without russia and china being interested in solving this problem dont work very well. i think the president putting everything on the table is --...

That diplomatic solutions are always possible. remember, mattis made that comment while meeting with his south korean counterpart. the defense secretary from here. the south koreans, as you know, are adamantly opposed to any sort of military strike from the u.s. the south koreans are cognizant of the fact that their border is ten miles from the north korean border, and the north have the capacity to strike back. the new president here came into office recently promising dialogue with the north a...

To make a trip to europe for the g-20 beginning with a stop in poland. the trump administration is making it no surprise that it is going to have a very strong response to what happened thanks to the rogue leadership over in pyongyang. once again formulating what exactly to do following yet another b ballistic missile test. let me say what the state department is saying about that launch the 11th of the year. just incredible. this is rex tillerson the secretary of state the united states strongl...