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Countrys chief prosecutor. the panel has named a prosecutor one sanctioned by the u.s. to be the nations number two law enforcement official. venezuelan president nicolas maduros government has stripped congress of its powers. massive demonstrations against the government continue. a lot to cover across the world by lets talk about the presidents foreign policy challenges, the most pressing of course north korea. elliott and grams his senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the council on fo...

Dangerous chicanery which poses not only a threat to u.s. interests abroad but now apparently even here on the homeland. >> the era of strategic patience is -- has failed. many years and its failed. frankly, that patients is over. >> despite the emphasis, the reliance on china has produced precious little. >> i do like president xi. i wish we would have more help with respect to north korea but it doesnt seem to be working out. >> that hasnt stopped beijing and moscow from working to de-escalate...

Heard from the president today it was about military families on the fourth of july. we saw it on the south lawn. secretary tillerson taking point on the statement. between early from the presiden president. "north korea has just launched another missile. does this guy have anything better to do with his life? hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with this much longer. perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all!" >> that sort of ge...

This and to confer about how the vice president should greet the allies in especially south korea and japan. theyll be visiting indonesia and australia, but that most urgent visit coming to south korea, obviously a place that has really heightened concern about any rattling by north korea and u.s. troops and south korean troops based there would be of great concern. easter holiday, the vice president plans and his wife and two daughters, they plan to visit with troops on easter sunday. so develo...

Response or will there be temptation among these countries or people within these countries to have their own nuclear deterrence. so what we have here really is a real test of our whole alliance system and our deterrence and its a number one issue and i would put it higher than some of the other issues that have so e be-devilled us in the middle east. >> thank you for your perspective of what were seeing at this moment, what happened in the last three or four hours and putting it into context fo...

Way to try to keep a lid on tensions, to not escalate things further and to not give any further oxygen or attention to kim jong-un for this attempt by elevating it to the level of the most powerful person in the world, the president of the united states. the defense secretary has a clear lane to put on a statement saying that the president and the military advisors, his team, are aware of what took place and the president would have no statement. that is about as muted as you can get for someth...

No statement under the presidents name. not even from the desk of the white house. instead coming from the department of defense, jim mattis, the secretary of defense. thats a different kind of strategy, one that senior advisors had suggested to me earlier was the likely approach and it really does turn down some of the angst on the global stage or perhaps taking some of the sort of response down to a level that is a bit more in line with what took place here. not that the north korean attempts ...

Are aware of north koreas most resents unsuccessful missile launch. the president has no further comments. is this widely seen as were not going to give kim jong-un satisfaction this is of any consequence to a greater degree to the united states and we are still monitoring and were aware of whats happening. is that the takeaway? >> reporter: that seems like a fair interpretation. this statement from mattis is similar to the statement we had from the secretary of state tillerson so we have this m...

Eastern time where they expect the vice presidents aircraft to reach its destination in seoul. were also told -- i mentioned earlier that statemeometimes a statement is only in paper form and sometimes its an on camera appearance by the president. the paper only is what is expected. that too should be an indication of the level of seriousness they are giving this in the grand sweep of the developments and tensions that exist. paper only. the president will not be making an on camera statement. n...

There in. more information. we understand the secretary of defense we were just reading moments ago here did come out with a statement. do you have more? >> reporter: i think whats interesting is the posture that the white house and the trump administration has taken on this. theres been so much build up about what would kim jong-un do. now that the dust has settled on this failed launch attempt, everyone has been briefed and assessments have been made and then comes the place where the white ho...