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Okay, that is ridiculous. what are the facts? >> it is a little bit late for the president to be saying that he is tough on russia. he needs to do more vis-a-vis sanctions implementation. what he must have in mind is that he did approve the sale of javelin anti-tank missiles to the ukrainians. so i think he must have that in mind when he says im being tougher than obama because president obama definitely didnt do that. but look, let me take a step back. he needs to charge the agency very, very c...

>> so why is he doing this? >> i see this as a very tactical move and not a strategic move. it would be a strategic move if we saw north korea saying that its going to get rid of its nuclear weapons, but this is a tactical move, i think, to loosen sanctions implementation and try to divide south korea and the u.s. >> so you think hes trying to in some way get the sanctions, the implementation relaxed or get some of them reversed? it seems highly unlikely that he can achieve that, because first o...

Limb peubs. what do you think of that? >> north korea doesnt do anything for free. it certainly doesnt talk for free. but for the south korean government, i think those payments was an insurance policy to make sure nothing bad happened, and that the north koreans follow through on attending the olympics and sending the north koreans leaders sister. we have to be careful to be watchful for how north korea is trying to nibble away at the edges of santions. one of the reasons for the outreach is to...

Documents, supplied weapons to syria and myanmar, and is illegally fishing near mozambique. we want to bring in our security analyst. samantha, why are the sanctions first and foremost not working? >> well, i actually want say that they rrnarent working. president trump has spearheaded incredible entinternational sanctions regime against north korea and kim jong-un is desperate to make money. he will do whatever he can to make up for lost revenue. keep in mind that north korea and china used to ...