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What i think is a reasonably coherent strategy. the administration had a win over the weekend at the u.n. by getting the chinese and the russians to sign on to very tough sanctions resolution. now with this new war of words, weve pushed off of that strategy seems to me and tried to go back to threats, which are only going to get the north koreans to pursue their weapons programs and missile program more aggressively. so i think we should lower the temperature a bit and get back to what the secre...

New sanctions resolution. what does that mean to you? >> it means that that defense system that weve been working on needs to continue to be enhanced to protect our troops, friends and allies to the south as well as in japan, and we need to continue to work with all our allies in the 15 countries who voted with the united nations this weekend to level sanctions against the north, and we need to ready defenses. >> but the sanctions frankly seem to have only made north korea more bellicose, in ter...

Im sorry, robert, forgive me. of course youre not going to respond until i use your actual name. how big a diplomatic victory was this? and a subset question, how normal are the comments from tillerson as opposed to and compared to u.s. policy going back two or three presidents? >> well, its a significant accomplishment to achieve the u.n. sanctions resolution. it will cut off perhaps one-third of north koreas exports, $1 billion out of $3 billion. to put that into context, south korea has expor...

North korea vowing to retaliate against the u.s. in response to a new sanctions approved unanimously this weekend by the united nations. this as the secretary of state calls on the rogue regime to stop its missile tests. rex tillerson was speaking at the regional -- excuse me. regional security conference in the philippines. >> the best signal that north korea could give us that theyre prepared to talk would be to stop these missile launches. so this is not, give me 30 days and were ready to tal...

Enforce -- >> so what does the u.s. do. >> according to the past crypt, three or four months from now well start with a new sanctions resolution. it will take three or four months to get passed. you know, the one that was passed on saturday was the seventh sanction. these are incremental. and the north koreans have learned to adjust, because every time that we increase the pressure a little bit with these sanctions, the north korea ngs find a way around them. then the chinas dont enforce them. a...

Spent fuel back to russia, so the iranian government cant use it for weapons purposes for now. >> okay. what does russia have to gain by working with iran on this plant and what are their political implications of that? >> russia sees iran as a potential source of leverage vis-a-vis the united states and the middle east. the two countries have formed a relationship of convenience really. there are a lot of issues dividing them. for now theres been some cooperation. over the last few months, ther...

Now they are in a courtroom in norfolk facing some serious legal problems. shannon: thank you very much, brian. the youth is pushing for more u.n. sanctions against iran just as iran is flexing its muscles conducting war games in the arabian sea. are we doing enough to control iran? some say yes. our next guest says no. joining us from washington is ambassador john bolton. also a fox news contributor. what do you make of the latest round of war games being held in an area known as a route for oi...

But, really, what could possibly be on the table, we cant, then, launch sanctions against china to get china to launch sanctions against iran. that sounds nutty. >> well, no, thats true. its thought the best sanctions at least for our purposes would be on the oil and gas sectors. iran imports a lot of refined product, so the thought was perhaps we restrict the inflow into iran and that would make them rethink their nuclear program. the sanctions resolution might also try and further restrict the...

Get from iran, what the u.s. can help them with in that regard. thank you, sir. >> heres what i know. the chinese have sent official representatives to negotiations in new york. to begin the process of drafting a sanctions resolution. that is part of the p-5 plus one effort. and the united states is not moving this process alone. weve got the participation of the russians, as well as the other members of the p-5 plus one. all of whom believe that it is important for us to send a strong signal to...

Get from iran, what the u.s. can help them with in that regard, thank you, sir. >> heres what i know. the chinese have sent official representatives to negotiations in new york to begin the process of drafting a sanctions resolution. that is part of the p5 plus 1 effort and the u states is moving this process along. we have the participation of the russians as well as the other members of the p5 plus 1 all of whom believe that it is important for us to send a strong signal to iran that their con...