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Embolden other regimes to acquire or use chemical weapons. for example, north korea maintains a massive stockpile of chemical weapons that threatens our treaty ally, the republic of korea, and the 28,000 u.s. troops stationed there. ive just returned from asia where i had a very serious and long conversation with south koreas defense minister about the threat, the real threat, that north koreas stockpile of chemical weapons presents to them. our allies throughout the world must be assured that t...

Increasing pressure by the syrian opposition, could feel empowered to carry out more devastating chemical weapons attacks without a response. chemical weapons make no distinction between combatants and innocent civilians. and inflict the worst kind ever indiscriminate suffering as we have recently seen. a refusal to act would undermine the credibility of americas other security commitments, including the presidents commitment to prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. the word of the unite...

Power to get at the chemical weapons. the bombing would spread and probably result in more casualties. if we try to use ground power, well, no one wants to own the syrian conflict by putting u.s. ground forces in there. it is a very difficult situation. there are some things we can do. at this point the obama administration has not shown the mote vags motivation to do those things. >> i read accounts of president obama making that remark with people in the white house saying it was off the cuff,...

This is fundamentally different. it is a commitment by the president to do exactly what he said he would do, get us out in 2014 and move this from a counter insurgency to a counter terrorist effort. >> how tough of a sell is this going to be to terrorist? every year the amount of aid in general and certainly some of the security commitments will have to have been negotiated annually in congress. we know that is probably going to be a lot harder than folks realize. is that a fair assessment? >> c...

Words again, 1967 borders and, he explained it though it was not enough for the prime minister and his coalition. and, the speech split along the party lines and he earned high marks, from the liberal part of the government and publicly saying to keep the 1967 borders and israelis as a whole seemed happy the president continued what he called iron-clad security commitments to israel. in a moment, rarely witnessed during a meeting between two heads of state, prime minister netanyahu came very clo...

Our load. we will not dull our focus on the security commitments we have made or on preserving our ability to thwart the actions of any hostile state in the region. iran is the real loser here. whether they want to admit it or not. theyve had no hand in the change sweeping the region except the one theyve used to slap back their own people. violence only begets more violence, while peaceful protests and government restraint can lead to meaningful dialogue and progress, and a commitment to change...

And thats his goal. >> in his mind its important. these two are good friends. things to discuss, the upcoming north korea summit. they have huge interest that the united states keep up the pressure and get security commitments. thats priority number one. priority number two, trade pressures as the president and shinzo abe move to canada for the summit meeting. well take you back to the white house chlts lets get back to this theory again. the whole idea of the spies. there is a fabulous, ladies ...

Underneath, no preparation whatsoever on these talks, to suggest any inkling that you might move away from your security commitments to south korea is to sell aund the wrong messages, not only to north korea but to our allies globally and so thats one of the dumbest things ive ever seen. >> let me get your reaction to the white house -- the treasury department now, the trump administration finally announcing today sanctions against russia for its meddling in the u.s. presidential elections. do y...

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