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Star than world leader, are destabilizeing at a time when we need his focused leadership. >> senator coons, catty kay here. we hear a lot about the idea we are sleep walking towards a confrontation, that the war talk is being ratcheted up. but what are you seeing specifically is there anything that you see is on the military side with north korea that is happening now that is particularly concerned, we are getting closest to a military conflict? anything concrete? >> catty, thats what makes it p...

Missiles and they can upset the status quo in much more consequential ways than they could before. >> shepard: when kim jong-un hears only one thing will work and its clear that one thing is not diplomacy because the president said it hasnt worked for 25 years, how is that taken? how if at all does it change the equation? >> theres one way for anyone, including kim jong-un to take that. that is basically trump is saying only war is going to work. that is contradictory. the president has this rea...

Korea. he sent out a tweet today referring to the leader of north korea as rocket man. he seems to undermine his own policy of economic sanctions. calling them not a big deal. suggesting theyre not going to change course. is that helping de-escalate the situation or driving us more to confrontation? >> its sending mixed messages. rocket man was sort of funny, but this has gotten to be less than the laughing matter recently. even though kim jong un does sort of strike us as being weird and odd. t...

World as it is. but thats not the way the world should be. we dont want to use force. that would be horrific. and we ought to try everything we possibly can before we start talking as shes talking about. war talk is really premature. >> what the north koreans are doing here, this is not the first time weve seen a provocation like this. they are well aware of the basic military capability of the united states. well aware of the united states relationship with south korea. is this a statement ever...

Diplomacy. thats consistent with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said in july, theres only a few more months for diplomacy. were seeing a point in the administration where theyre starting to think now is a time to pivot to something for coercive. >> what could that entail? >> it could entail the use of force. but i think ambassador haley is wrong. yes, the security council looks like it wont go further on sanctions but thats only because the united states has not put a lot of pressure ...

With us. gordon chang, lets talk about real options today. what are the real options? >> theres way too much war talk. i think how do we use our economy and financial system to deny kim from building missiles and nukes. >> how do we do that? >> i think we talk about embargo. the last sanctions adopted on august 5 only restrict a small portion, in this case a third of north koreas legal exports, and it doesnt even take into account the stuff that north korea is sending to iran which is about $2 b...

On moscow and beijing. we can certainly do that because the largest chinese mpeg think of china in the 2016 u.n. report , theyve been money-laundering north koreans in president trump by designating them a primary money-laundering concern can put a death sentence of the largest chinese institutions. god exposed the chinese financial system into turmoil, rock the economy and bring down the economy. we have the tools to do this. we just dont have the political -- trained to do with the strength ad...

Promise to unleash fire and fury at north korea, you could be forgiven for your confusion about whether youre listening to the fictional hungarian on "game of thrones" or the very real president of the united states. trump spent this week ratcheting up the rhetoric even as his own cabinet tried to take it down. the war talk between rounds of golf at bedminster has made it difficult to tell trumps words from those of the brutal 33-year-old dictator of north korea. take, for instance, some of the ...

Is the guy who will not have a war. now you have all of this war talk about north korea. they have icbms that can hit the united states. he got advice from a paid consultant at a new york restaurant who has no experience. talking about a shooting war with north degree. and republicans are down with it. >> i cant wait for them to release their "how trump should do foreign policy." that is what he said when he brought in the 21 club analogy. i think there is some very smart diplomacy going on at t...

Against some of this. is just plain old wrong. lets keep one thing in mind. sanctuary is a very american concept. this is un-american. im thinking about the underground railroad. it is an american concept its also emotional and its complicated. we shouldnt try to just make it black-and-white. why is a sanctuary south part of the the north was sanctuary for slaves. yet understand. this is the war talk with neil caputo. and im out of time. the ultimate fighter and the