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Risk of over selling the effectiveness of sanctions when the head of j.p. morgan and goldman sachs and citibank and wells fargo call steve mnuchin and say youre hurting us. sanctions work if youre prepared to bear pain yourself. i dont know if the united states is ready for that. i dont think it would work. thats the real irony of it. we could impose massive sanctions on china and i dont think it would move them. you have to appeal to chinas self-interest here. therefore threatening things i don...

Is begging for war. only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy. we have kicked the can down the road long enough. there is no more road left. >> trish: nikki haley also time a consul she wants to vote for new sections on monday. >> sanctioning the north korean economy is a waste of time. its not an economy, et cetera is in camp for the presidents rhetoric about potential use for military force and i think that does make a difference. we are running out ...

Defense capability. the thaad anti-missile system had been put on hold by the new president of south korea. he wanted to look at the environmental impact of this particular weapons capability. and i would say go forward now, put it into operational effect. i would recommend that japan have a similar type of system, and that will get the attention of not only the north koreans, but specifically china and russia. our allies have to join with us, in posing even more severe sanctions that have been ...

Their generals. remember, if we shut down their economy, they cant go forward with their program. this legislation builds on a bill of mine last year that will give the president of the united states every tool now to do exactly that. >> bill: why would kim jong-un be moved on this one? >> the problem for kim jong-un is this, he has been able to take advantage of strategic patience. that was the obama administrations plan. through strategic patience what he did was to do last year alone 26 missi...

Its a challenging technology. you basically have to be properly positioned with the right kind of weapons capability in order to respond to an immediate launch. >> a stark admission after the pentagon has spent billions on missile defense technology, shep. >> shepard: thanks. gorden clang is here with us, author of "nuclear show down." we talk about their launches and how unstable the regime is. what is different now than a year ago? >> the white house has issued two threats to use force. the cl...

Listen, the u.s. intelligence community view is that north korea has an untested intercontinental ballistic weapons capability. in that they put the pieces together but havent shown they can make it work, in effect. there is a differing point of view. they have to assume that because they have to be prepared for it if it were to happen. the trouble is they are making e enormous progress at the short and medium range. that threatens allies. seoul and japan. donald trump is right, though, it will ...

Take the phone call but he would get the message. the message would be new deal. i dont care what the deal was. heres the new deal. until you open every military facility and every nuclear facility to any time anywhere, really, inspections, we will cut off your access to the swiss system so we make as it difficult as possible for you to move money around the global financial system. the reason that has to be done greta even if congress succeeds in getting past obamas veto. the rest of the world ...

Realistically he might not take the phone call but he would get the message. the message would be new deal. i dont care what the deal was. heres the new deal. until you open every military facility and every nuclear facility to any time anywhere, really, inspections, we will cut off your access to the swiss system so we make as it difficult as possible for you to move money around the global financial system. the reason that has to be done greta even if congress succeeds in getting past obamas v...

>> what do you think that its inevitable iran would develop -- >> theyre 1 1/2 months away right now from breakout. and so we are leaving their enrichment facilities intact. yes, we are reducing the cent refugee centrifuges but in ten years, the blink of an eye, the restrictions start to sunset and expire. >> same question to you. do you think its inevitable iran will get a nuclear become? if talks break down right now, how far away how long away are they away from building a bomb? >> look. i th...

Reached that involves iran just dismantling its entire nuclear infrastructure. obviously thats the preferable solution. but the fact is iran was never going to agree to a deal in which they got rid of their entire nuclear infrastructure. no other country in the negotiation would have supported us taking the position that they would have zero centrifuges. and also the fact of the matter is they know the nuclear fuel cycle. they already have this knowledge. even without centrifuges operating, ther...