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attempts to take taiwan by force. doug luzader has details. hi, doug. >> doug: this emerging trade pact is called the framework for prosperity, but other headlines are emerging and the white house had to clarify a surprising comment the president made about taiwan. >> you didnt want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons, are you willing to get involved militarily for taiwan, if it comes to that? >> yes, that is the commitment we made. >> doug: that soun...

Are going to see, i think, is the president having to walk it further back and whatever next remarks in front of the press here in japan in the next 24 hours, but one thing for sure, there is inconsistency with his position and the fact he said the burden to protect taiwan was made even stronger after russias invasion of ukraine led many to wonder if china is ramping up provocation. weve seen in recent weeks chinese exercise in the south china sea, seen chinese aircraft buzzing taiwan and would ...

Russia. im not saying they are equivalent. im saying though that the p provocation after baker promised gorbachev that the west would not go one inch beyond germany and under the clinton administration we kept pushing, pushing, pushing. for every action we put out there there is a reaction. we need to think this through. its not a moral equivalency or justifys russias behavior, from russias perspective, they see nato xangs as a threat and nationalism may be inherent to the tides of the current c...

Missile launch north korea has executed. there have been three missile overflights of japanese territory. there was one in 98. there was 2009. this is the third. but the big difference here is that this is a military ballistic missile. they were for pay load delivery of satellites. this is again ratcheting up provocation in a way we just dont need on the peninsula. and the fact that china has already, through its foreign minister made a statement about unnecessary provocation tells you just how ...

Question is there an isolated incident or is this potentially a new round of north koreans provocations? >> very important question, barbara. youre live at the pentagon. thank you very much. lets talk more about this with our chief correspondent jim sciutto, who is here with us today. barbara is asking a very key question. is this an isolated incident or ratcheted up provocation the u.s. needs to pay more attention to? what are you hearing? >> its clearly not isolated. its one in a series of thi...