How does the new American Administration see the world and how does the world view the next president . I have a great panel. Kim jongun has threatened to test launch a missile thats able to deliver a Nuclear Warhead all the way to the United States. Just how should america react to this . Is he mad or dangerous or both . And drumpb has threatened to kill tpp, and build a wall. You will pay a large tax. Can he do it all . What will be the consequences . Ill ask president obamas trade representative. First, heres my take. Donald trump has attacked no country as consistently as he has china. During his campaign he said china was raping the United States, killing it on trade and artificially depressing its currency to make chinese goods cheap. Since being elected hes spoken to the leader of taiwan. It was a surprise to me on a recent trip to beijing to find chinese elites sanguine about trump. It says more about how they see their own country. Trump is a negotiator and the rhetoric is all
Major conflict with north korea. Absolutely. The reaction from the press is usually Something Like this. Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say its time for our viewers to crack each others heads open and feast on the goo inside . Yes, i would, kent. Look, in humor theres truth, but lets be serious here, seems like if there was any other president that there was a chance of a major, major conflict with nuclear power, there would be ber views, lester holt flying to seoul. Dont get me wrong the conflict as joe biden might say, a big deal, but lets face it weve been conditioned to discount the president s words already. And thats a big deal too. Folks, this might be the biggest story of the first 100 days, the loss of the power of the president s words. First off the president himself just admitted that this is not the job he thought it was. This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier. I thought it was more of a im a details ori
Progress in north koreas missile technology. Barbara starr is live at the pentagon with more. What are they thinking at this moment about this launch . Reporter whats most interesting, john. A number of u. S. Officials, its july 4th, should be at home, are in at work today from the state department to the pentagon. A series of very quickly called meetings to discuss all of this. When north korea said overnight our time here in washington that they had launched an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile not of shorter range at the u. S. Initially thought, it caused a scramble. All night looking at the data from the missile launch. Data gathered by satellites and other u. S. Classified sensors, recalculating everything. And we could see indeed the Trump Administration come to a conclusion today that this was north koreas first launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. This changing the security calculation across the world, because what it fundamentally means is, kim jonguns Testing Pr
Sanctions bill. President trump called on russia recently here and elsewhere to cease its destabilizing activities. Very soon President Trump will sign legislation to strengthen and codify the United States sanctions against russia. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where the Washington Post is reporting that President Trump played a direct role in trying to obfuscate the meeting between his son and the russians. The question is, did the president know he was concocting a false account . And what are the ramifications . It happened on Board Air Force one on the way home from germany. President overruling his staff, taking charge of his statement about don jr. s meeting with that russian lawyer. That air force one flight took off one day after President Trumps meeting with Vladimir Putin in hamburg. Joining me now, Kristen Welker at the white house and carol ann, part of a post team that broke the story. What are the ramifications of this, of the president taking
Twitter, asking if he, quote, has anything better to do with his life and suggested it is time for china to increase pressure on north korea. This comes as the president of the United States is preparing for a crucial International Trip to germany to the g20 summit where his face to face meeting with the russian president , Vladimir Putin, has gone from a sidelines talk to a full fledged bilateral meeting. So lets begin the who you are ryan brown standing by for us in the pentagon. National security, military, diplomatic officials from the Trump Administration are holding this unplanned july Fourth Meeting talking option. What are the options . . Reporter one of the things that meeting was doing was assessing that north Korean Missile lanch that took place yesterday to determine what kind of missile was indeed fired. Now that theyve revised their initial assessment, they first thought it was an intermediate range missile, something weve seen before. Now u. S. Official telling me the ne