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Special forces from the u.s. helping out? >> u.s. pacific command sent 30 special operators with special equipment including a 12 person search and rescue team. these air force specialists flew from a base in japan straight to thailand to help the search five days ago. they joined british and australian divers and thai navy seals. u.s. pacific command put out the following statement. "the united states is through the u.s. pacific command has sent a search and rescue time to assist in locating th...

Pacific command. ive seen north korea do this we petedl -- repeatedly. this is a very disturbing story. its showing that north korea always intended to deceive our president. they want to hide nuclear facilities and nuclear weapons. another story says theyre wrapping up nuclear fuel production. if these stories are true, then i call on the president to resume u.s. military readiness exercises. >> so this is how the presidents national security adviser sees it. listen. >> theres nobody involved i...

>> all right. i would love to see -- i wonder who wrote the oath. do you think ultimate lit that the president -- that the presidents performance in north korea is going to endure in terms of how he thinks about what happened there and has people on capitol hill think about it. >> i previously served active duty under u.s. pacific command. its clear to me the u.s. has no good military options. i supported the summit and diplomacy. honestly too early to tell if north korea is going to denucleariz...

Korea is going to endure in terms of how he thinks about what happened there and has people on capitol hill think about it. >> i previously served active duty under u.s. pacific command. its clear to me the u.s. has no good military options. i supported e summit and diplomacy. honestly, its way too early to tell if north korea is going to denuclearize or do the same thing they did with the previous administrations and break all their promises. we do know as of today, north korea has not gotten r...

Two? >> well, i hope the joint statement will basically initially work out the logistics of this summit. not only the logistics but the security and things that have to be implemented so the leaders of north korea and the united states of america can satisfactory accomplish their goal. in that vein what president trump is doing is a breath of fresh air. it has been a long time since there has been this kind of reach-out to north korean leadership. if that is successful, who knows. peace may brea...

The u.s. pacific command in hawaii he met with his japanese counterpart in a sign of just how quickly things are moving and how potentially concerned japan as an ally is about having its concerns reflected in any potential deal cut by the u.s. president. japans prime minister slated to meet president trump at the white house a week before the proposed summit with kim jong un. mattis is in hawaii for the change of command ceremony for the head of the u.s. specific command admiral harry harris who...

Should look at the u.s. constitution. theres nothing in our constitution that says that a president cannot be indicted. but lets just take a step back. why are we even talking about this? this is pretty amazing stuff, right? were talking about impeachment, about indictment. so why dont we wait to see what the report is the that special counsel mueller puts out and what he actually does and i think its best that we wait to see what the actual evidence is. >> i want to turn now to north korea. its...

Program continues and if those tests we saw so much of with missiles being launched and so forth and have on the line here and we see president moon is sending and sending end couragicourag -- encouraging signals. >> joining me is member of both the judiciary and foreign affairs committee in the house. he thinks military conflict is not off the table. >> thank you, alex, for your question. i serve on active duty on the u.s. pacific command and the united states has exactly zero good military opt...

Within the administration and the world is watching so kim jong-un is not only thinking about the libyan model but hes also looking at the iranian model which is maybe well get into a deal and build confidence and open things up, whoops, lets pull the rug out from under you so all of this makes it incredibly hard. theres another player entering the equation. weve been talking about mike pompeo and jim mattis and the national security team. the new ambassador nominated to korea is the former comm...

This administration deserves credit for bringing them home. >> thank you, john, and poppy, for that question. yes, i believe the trump administration deserves credit for bringing in these hostages back from north korea. but also i want to note that two of these hostages were taken under the trump administration, one under the obama administration and north korea had no reason for taking these americans. they had done nothing wrong. north korea should get no credit. >> given that, do you think it...