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Straight for us. thanks for your time on a saturday. tell us if this latest weapons test increases the likelihood of some kind of military confrontation with north korea? >> north koreas number one issue for the size of the military they have and why theyve got ballistic missiles and weapons, its the preservation of the regime. theyve felt grandfather before kim jong-un, father before him, that the ultimate objective was to change the regime out. its likely the weapons capability as oppose today...

Its important to see forces that are potential threats. >> reporter: the russians denying the u.s. assertion that they trying to weaponize satellites. >> translat lartranslator: the unfoundunfound ed suppositions and so on. >> reporter: the russians again pressuring americans to join a treaty that would ban weapons in space. the americans are resisting joining that treat sy saying theres no way to verify that russia and china are curtailing weapons and say the treat has too many loopholes allowi...

Out several hours after secretary mattis was on the airplane in south america on a trip thats when the pentagon came out and said they were postponing the whole idea. >> barbara, were also learning about an important new report about china and what the chinese military is preparing its pilots for through its training. what are your sources saying? >> this is a report the pentagon delivers to congress on a regular basis looking at chinese military capabilities. budgets what theyre spending and wh...

A stunning revelation just ahead of a planned meeting with trump. rogue nation leader kim jong-un says his countrys quest for nuclear weapons is complete and it no longer needs to test its weapons capability. plus, republican redo? their campaign spats, some of the most heated moments of the 2016 race, why ted cruz is now pulling a 180 and swooning over his former foe. and later, touching good-bye, family and friends honor former first lady barbara bush in houston today. hear her son jeb rec...

I think that if we have to go in again, we are going to be going for approval by nato and have as many additional countries be a part of the coalition. when i was supreme allied commander in nato, we conducted campaigns, and we had canadian, and belgians, and italiants and spanish, and virtually all of the members of nato participating which is going to put more emphasis and gravitas, and the reason of france and u.k. is because they are the most capable militaries in the alliance after the unit...

Government has been working intensively with our international partners to build the evidence picture and to kor what actions we need to take to prevent and deter future humanitarian catastrophes caused by chemical weapons attacks. when the cabinet met on thursday, we considered the advice of the attorney general, the national security adviser and chief of the staff. we were updated on the latest assessment and intelligence picture and based on this advice, we agree it was both right and legal t...

To avoid collateral damage, civilian deaths or deaths of russian or iranian fighters. they didnt want to escalate on that front. everyone in the pentagon saysitis up to assad, if he uses chemical weapons, the u.s. will try to muster a coalition and respond in kind. >> hans, walk us through how the military planning works. how does the pentagon do, as you say, an operation that focuses on taking out weapons capability, not people? >> it starts with a whole lot of assets, really, up in the sky, ta...

Attack. thats a strong statement, what do you think? >> i agree with lindsay that assad is a legitimate target. what we really need to do is do this through the prism of looking at north korea. what the president wants to do as a demonstration effect for the north korean regime of what will happen to them if they dont stop. >> martha: i understand what youre saying, but it is a decision of itself that brings us to something that we cant simply walk away from. >> i agree with ben and general jack...

Circumvent them, they are going to reach their endgame and have a fully developed weapons capability. >> leah: i want to talk about russia. reuters is reporting that russias foreign minister lavrov has offered to help us talk to north korea about this issue, to quote, unquote, ease tensions. you and i both know russia only acts in its own self-interest. do you see any reason at all to get russia involved? >> its so generous of them, isnt it? maybe it has something to do with christmastime and th...

Iran has been able to unfreeze about $100 billion worth of foreign assets. thats about a third of irans g.d.p. huge amounts of money are flowing in to tehran as a result of growing business deals largely between european countries and tehran. also money flowing in from russia, china as well. and so the iranian regime is growing far, far richer. it is growing more aggressive and more assertive. its building up its conventional weapons capability. its testing ballistic missiles. eventually within ...