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Hostages. But doha is now also questioning whether the talks can succeed. The qatari leader saying efforts are being undermined, causing his country to reassess its role as mediator. Take a listen. Translation unfortunately, i mean, we have seen that theres been an abuse of this mediation in favour of narrow political interests. This means that the state of qatar has called for a comprehensive evaluation of this role. Were now at this stage to evaluate mediation and also evaluate how parties eng...

Should be returned to the us and that moscow will take all possible measures, imjust that moscow will take all possible measures, im just reading this as they come, to prevent the appearance of nuclear weapons in ukraine and he has also said that old soviet nuclear technology is still remaining in ukraine and that poses an unacceptable risk for moscow. he said the west must not build any military facilities in any countries of the former soviet union. i suppose this does not come as much of a su...

Though the united states is not necessarily willing to put troops on the ground and defend ukraine, we have other means of deterring and stopping these kinds of actions, including cyber, which is dangerous in and of itself, but certainly more sanctions and more sanctions will definitely hurt putin himself. the people around him, and russia, lindsay. >> joel, on that note. do you think, though, that there would be support from the american people in terms of, again, we are a ways away from this, ...

>> i think the president is trying to continue to engage north korea, and he has got advisors that are going to give him the best available information. he strained to build a relationship to do something that no other president has been able to do, and thats to denuclearize north korea and get to a more solid relationship going forward. >> harris: i just traveled over the holiday weekend, talked with a lot of viewers, and the pressing comment was, "what is the risk of trying something new?" and...

, in a much more intense way, what happened after russia. after the election with the russia sanctions. >> more intense than that? >> i definitely think its more intense. clear cut whatever they heard in this classified briefing. if bob corker said based on what i heard, a jury would convict him in 30 minutes. thats an intense statement for someone like that to say. it reminds me if these members of congress decide to go down the sanctions route or arm sales or pick your legislative or policy pu...

To go beyond the sanctions to cut exports by one-third. aside from the sanctions route and further diplomatic isolation, what other options do the u.s. and its allies have? theyre limited. if president trump thinks talking isnt the answer, certainly that contradicts what secretaries tillerson and mattis had to say when they said that diplomacy is still on the table. that they want to talk to north korea. getting all the sides to agree will be difficult. what north korean officials on the ground ...

Korea or iran, over the years through failed policies or through just willingness to allow them to continue because you at some point you are hoping it will go away as problem, this is where you get to. the decision tree keeps getting smaller and smaller, meaning we have fewer and fewer options. we have basically done the sanctions route and now we are at that point, because we have allowed this to get here over the years, the bush administration, the clinton administration, the obama administra...

Reform or detente immediately. we can conclude that. but given that i think he wants to please his military and perhaps perfect his nuclear weapons arsenal and maybe be able to do a few more nuclear weapons tests down the road, i think hes trying to scare the world into thinking that sanctions are not a good thing. in other words, if he does another nuclear test or this missile test in the next day or two, some people will call for additional u.n. sanctions. and if he was in the mode of simply a...

Over the operation to the coalition and thats nato. >> the united states is a leading member of nato, mr. chairman. do you have any doubt and i understand the figure of $40 million a week was used by secretary gates in the briefings today. do you have any doubt if we go the sanctions route and it goes on for weeks and weeks and conceivably months and months the u.s. taxpayers are in for a pretty hefty bill >> thats true and the goal here is not to go on for months and months and i think were goi...