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North koreans. this has not worked. this is the policy of the 1990s which was a complete failure. also, he does not want the united states to place on south korean soil. he might either curtail future deployments or he might reverse it, getting those batteries off south korea. that would be terrible. this is what beijing wants. clearly, we cannot have china, which is on north korea, to tell us not to protect ourselves. >> heather: what do you think north koreas response will be to this today? >>...

Negotiation. not a recollectnciliation after difficult nato conversation throughout the campaign. the basic issue is, all nato countries are supposed to spend 2% of their gdp on their defense budgets. the germans are laggards. theyre about 1.3%. theyre far, far down. the u.s. is about 3.5%. now, merkels response to thi was that the germans actually are doing quite a bit in afghanistan. there theyre a much larger part. that seems to be germans response when pressed. within merkels own government,...

Korea. dial this down. dont dial it up into a military confrontation, and now he is saying negotiations are off the table, and that if north kor shows signs that they are evating their program to the level that is not sustainable, then this military option is on the table. so its not a retaliatory strike, it would be a pre-emempe strike, and its lowering the threshold for what could trigger such a strike, all done by a novice diplomat on his first trip, after going to the dmz, so its certainly d...

Support this. >> he doesnt want it to be called trumpcare, want it to be called ryan care. >> well, we call it the american he health care act. >> he says were all on the same page, but are they? >> well, i think theres a grand or broad strategy and we talked about the three-step process, one is passing a reconciliation process, number two is regulatory chie regulatory changes led by dr. price and the third phase theres a lot of skepticism because it has to pass through the 60-vote threshold, bu...

Theories and a lot of the stuff youve been hearing but when you see just the sheer volume of questionable things, you know, flynn lying to the vice president, you know, all this sort of the little pieces which theres no evidence yet of any kind of collusion, to you are all those pieces just too many to be a coincidence? >> anderson, i look at it from a counterintelligence perspective and admittedly that is a different threshold from a legal perspective or from bringing somebody to trial or court...

And then the seniors, the elderly that were getting basically on the average of 6,000 or $7,000. to cut that down and put a cap of 4500, theyre not going to be able to pay. you know what theyre going to do, go back to the old ways. you know what the old ways were? go to the emergency room, they cant refuse you. thats the highest cost of delivery. did youre a working person, a working poor person, youll claim workers comp in order to get insurance. >> thats not good either. >> thats the highest c...

The drone strikes. people will remember years ago cia was doing a lot of strikes in pakistan especially and was quite successful at that. in recent years, the obama administration reigned in the agency and allowed it to assist in finding targets, these terrorists that they wanted to take, but leaving the actual pulling of the trigger to the military to conduct because theres more oversight of that process, that was the logic, and theres a chain of command in place. so i think that the agency has...

Presidential approval to do that and go through a committee of the presidents national security advisors. so over the past three years, what weve seen is this process really tighten up and the threshold going up and being more oversight of this by policy makers and not just leaving this to the agency to conduct on its own or with, you know, relatively less input from the white house. >> well,oes that maybe allow donald trump to skirt accountability on his own for this? >> well, itll be interesti...

U.s. civilian and an italian civilian in pakistan, do you see any decent coming from the decision? anything from republicans potentially or democrats going to say hey, pull back. >> i think yeah, youre probably going to see pushback for sure on this on the hill and people ive been talking to on that question have said they do have concerns about these changes that may be in store. and they dont want to see these thresholds lowered. it is important to remember though that when the military and th...

Civilian loss of life in any of those strikes. and the obama administration really did that in response to human rights groups and wanting to set standards and really high thresholds for how the strikes were done in the future. because the thinking was, were going to hand this off to another administration. and we to want leave some really clear policy and seem rigger to this process for whoever comes next. of course, subsequent administration can and is rolling back some of those restrictions t...