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From washington, with a look at axios a.m. political reporter for axios alexi mccammen. good morning and talk to us about axios one big thing today. >> last summer the united states was closer to war with north korea than was previously known according to sources close to the white house who spoke with axios. last summer was a time in which north korea was testing missiles and kim jong un and president trump were exchanging aggressive rhetoric. president trump referring to kim jong un as rocket ...

Theyre looking at the white house. >> victor, let me ask you, are we in a more dangerous situation now than we were before the whole summit acceptance situation happened? are we back at the line of scrimmage? if so, maybe thats okay. or have we taken a sack at 20 yards and are we in a more dangerous situation? >> i think potentially jeremy, we could have taken a sack here. particularly if the north koreans feel that dialogue between the united states and the dprk is now cut off. they may go back...

And in terms of when, he wants it to be in his first term. but if diplomacy fails, then military action is the only thing left and it would be the utder destruction of the north korean regime which would come at a high price. >> is that where we are, talking military options already? >> i certainly hope not. i think the -- there is of course the possibility that north korea will start testing missiles again. they tested 20 of them last year during the first 12 months of president trumps time in ...

Up to pyongyang. will there be a return to hostility and tension? north korea had already promised south korea that it would stop testing missiles. but it has made no promise it would stop building them. and even with the dismantling of that nuclear testing site today, it still wont be verified, perhaps never will be verified, and it will change nothing about north koreas nuclear capabilities. >> no.s janice mackie frayer. thanks very much. for more on this im joined by daily beast columnist and...

Koreans will play shuttle diplomacy to get them to get them to use the channel to create the right conditions for a summit. what i think nobody wants is for this to head down a bad track where the north koreans abandon their testing, missile testing moratorium, which they agreed to at the beginning of this diplomatic process, and if they start testing missiles again or launching things into space, then well end up in a very bad place like we were in 2017 when they did 20 ballistic missile tests ...

Has a role in this. at least according to president trump. we can look at those comments that he made earlier this week about the change in attitude that he noticed in north korea and in kim jong-un since that second meeting that kim had with xi jinping. then again today, the president talking about dialogue being good until recently, and he thinks he knows why. so it is unclear whether hes apportioning some blame to china. but it does acknowledge the role that china plays in this. so they now r...

To have the deal but clearly he isnt. the thing i worry about now is that the north koreans might start doing bad things. testing moratorium was based on the idea that we would stay in dialogue with them. if that breaks down north korea might go back to testing missiles and take us to a very bad place. >> in about one hour from now we expect to see the president for the first time in person today holding a bill signing ceremony at the white house. w we will see him. i imagine he will want to tal...

But history tells us, in fact, i think the pages of history literally scream out to us to be careful and to be extremely cautious no matter what north korea does. i look at it this way. yes, north korea might stop testing their nuclear proving ground but they are not -- according to reports some say they are blowing them up and things like that. they are just closing down the actual caves and the places where they are going to test. they could open those back up. its good that they are doing it ...

Decided. >> the iran deal is a disaster. theyre testing missiles. you look at the ballistic missiles theyre going and testing. what kind of a deal is it where you are allowed to test missiles all over the place? they restart theyll have big problems. bigger than theyve ever had before. >> bill: the presidents pick to lead the c.i.a. continues to face a bit of a hurdle ahead of tomorrows senate confirmation hearing that youll see live here on "americas newsroom." should be fascinating. >> julie: ...

Jong-un as well because it takes everyone to make a deal. now, if there is going to be a deal, if its going to be one thats verifiable, then, yeah, i think there will be some nobel prizes handed out for in. >> including president trump you think? >> including president trump. >> trump lit the fuse that caused all this. >> what he did was broke a status quo for ten years that was frozen. he did that by the sanctions, and he did that by making some threats that unnerved both beijing and pyongyang....