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When asked when he spoke to kim jong-un. im not saying i have or i havent, i dont want to comment. what do you make of that. >> its hard to characterize the presidents relationship from a distance, but im not aware of contact, but thats clearly up to him. he surely does talk to world leaders on a regular basis. gillian: why not just say no? >> looking at it from the outside, i think this is probably the most challenging and difficult relationship that hes got with everybody in the world. clearly...

Is the north koreans have always used negotiations to advance their technology program and it was during negotiations that back in 2005 the so-called six power talks that they actually acquired nuclear weapons, so this administration is very clear-eyed about whats happening here, that north korea is feeling maximum pressure which is the policy defined by the administration and the economic sanctions are finally starting to take hold gas stations are indeed closing, others have long lines as evid...

Can annihilate america. this is a very touchy issue. how does the presidents provocation with kim jong-un affect south koreas attempts as peaceful talks recently? >> i think certainly south korea wants to talk to north korea. i can understand their motivation. they are sitting under the potential barrage of thousands of artillery rounds landing in seoul. that is a motivator. but the fact is, this is a chapter out of an old playbook. kim jong-un and his father and grandfather before him have alwa...

How many people are enrolling and what kinds of plans theyre choosing, how healthy they are. hhs refuses to testify before congress, at least so far. so its really a black box here. >> kim, political accountability for any of this? i know thats an unheard of concept in washington, but if anything like this happened in the private sector, the vp or the senior vp would be out on his ear. who is going to be held responsible? >> one of the problems here is because we just spent two weeks with all th...

>> this is the worst they have ever seen. thats saying a lot. again, what is the president going to do? what can he do? weve seen the fact that obama really sort of tends more toward the, less toward the moralistic view when it comes to foreign policy. more someone who will look at what are the vital national interests. it is very difficult to identify what those would be and it is very difficult to identify who should we be giving aid to. if you give weapon to rebels, you will be getting weapon...

militant group that may be as big a threat to the united states in afghanistan as al qaeda or the taliban. the obama administration appears ready to formally call the haqqani network what so many people believe it is, a terrorist organization. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the state department, shes been digging on this story. what are you learning? >> wolf your know, the political pressure here in the united states has been building to put the haqqani network ...

decade after 9/11 as investigator investigato investigators investigate a suspected plot. scientists are still working nonstop to identify the remains of 9/11 victims. and thats enabling some loved ones to find closure. were taking you behind the scenes. and president obama hits the road to prince william up support for his job creation plan. his first stop is the home turf of one of his sharpest critics. im wolf blitzer in tampa, florida. the site of mondays cnn tea party debate and y...

But its good for you guys to get more learning and be in the classroom more. you know, you still have time for the video games. you guys never catch a break. you dont even get snow days down here, do you? and youve got a technology program here thats preparing kids for the manufacturing jobs of tomorrow. i saw some of the work that they were doing in this -- in this lab. it was outstanding stuff, and it matched up with when i go to factories all across america, you cant -- you cant work on a fac...

Republican top three leaders are collectively 60 years younger than the three top democrats. maybe we ought to top about ages. >> greta: we moved on to the debt commission. i have didnt see cheering when the news is leaking out as to what the debt commission might be suggesting. how are we doing with the debt commission? >> im not going to cheer either. what disappoints me is that there are number of fundamental improvements in government that would save an amazing amount of money. which for som...

Are collectively 60 years younger than the three top democrats. maybe we ought to top about ages. >> greta: we moved on to the debt commission. i have didnt see cheering when the news is leaking out as to what the debt commission might be suggesting. how are we doing with the debt commission? >> im not going to cheer either. what disappoints me is that there are number of fundamental improvements in government that would save an amazing amount of money. which for some reason, when you get politi...