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Joined u.n. sanctions and recently banned coal imports from north korea. its a very source of revenue for the regime. china continues to push diplomacy, but just yesterday the secretary of state implied that all options are on the table, including a preemptive strike against pyongyang. the other issue between the u.s. and china is that missile defense system thats being deployed in south korea and possibly expanded to japan. china sees it as a threat. they say it will upset the strategic balance...

Been that its doing what it can. that it is complying with u.n. sanctions and banned coal imports from the north. thats an important source of revenue for the regime. they want the you see to pursue dialogue with north korea. but tillerson saying years of talks and sanctions havent worked. heres what else he had to say. >> i think we share a common view and a sense that tensions on the peninsula are quite high right now. and that things have reached a rather dangerous level. and weve committed o...

Preemptive strike against north korea. now, the other issue in these talks is chinas opposition to the u.s. missile defense system that is being deployed in south korea and possibly expanded to japan. they see this as the creation of a security alliance in asia that is aligned against xhochina. so this is a major stumbling block at a time when kim jong-un is threatening a missile capable of reaching the united states and there is also concern of another nuclear test in the works. so these are ve...

Through your employer. that impacts about 180 million people, potentially. >> yeah. listen, i was a single pair advocate, still am. dagen: of course you are because medicare isnt going broke in 11 years. >> this is about putting your resources in the right place. maybe putting $54 billion into the defense budget, which is already the largest ever, we should put into the american people to make sure theyre healthy. but i digress. i think this is a political thing. the problem is republicans dont ...

Trump and bannon and breitbart have essentially eaten the conservative movement in the republican party. is that your feeling? >> oh, yeah. and i definitely think thats what they were -- they believe this was their moment of total domination in a lot of ways it has been. they had a little stumbling block with the milo incident that happened right as the cpac was about to unfold but other than that, yes. they dominate the movement. they dominate the party. they dominate the agenda. and they domin...

You look at the wide degree of opinions in this room, whether youre a populist, a libertarian, an economic nationalist, we have wide and sometimes divergent opinions but i think the center core of what we believe that were a nation with an economy, not an economy just in some global marketplace with open borders but we are a nation with a culture and a -- and a reason for being. and i think thats what unites us. thats whats going to unite this movement going forward. >> joining me now, ben howe,...

That was the right thing to do. i dont think we can afford distractions over white house officials behavior. we just have too many national security threats. so the sooner that they can get someone permanent in that position and start looking forward again, i think the better. ainsley: how big is a distraction is this for the trump administration? >> i think, you know, my guess is if you spoke to president trump candidly, he would tell you that the main reason aside from the lying that he had ge...

Fundamental stumbling block. thats how the system, the system of rules based international world order, thats made them prosperous. that made them safe, and they would like to continue it. this seems to be in direct conflict with what trump says he wants. >> when we come back, i will ask fawaz gerges what he makes of the ban on many muslim majority countries and the policy of extreme vetting. when we come back.

U.s. should go ahead and promote free trade and promote an idea of a rules based global order. trump has said clearly he doesnt believe in any of that anymore and hes willing to throw much of it overboard. as for the rest of europe, this is a fundamental stumbling block. thats how the system, the system of rules based international world order, thats made them prosperous. thats made them safety and they would like to continue it. this seems to be in direct conflict with what trump says he wants....

This is a big stumbling block with them. theyre not interested in working with you if you are pro life. it leaves a lot of women on the fringes that care about the other issues. but because they dont share that position on abortion, theyre sort of shut out. and i do think its a mistake for these women organizers. >> jennifer, does this not underscore one of the things that is broken about our political system? which is that there are so many sharp divides? and that people struggle to come togeth...