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Soviet union despite its claim it is that it would overtake the united states claims that many liberals in the united states believe include the grace and economist pollms never got clos. it never got much beyond 40% the size of the u.s. economy. peak and it fell away. china by at least one measure is a ready larger economy than the united states. on a current dollar basis it could well overtake the united states in next ten or 15 years. so the the soviets never got anything like that close in e...

Of capital trying to make things happen vis-a-vis north korea. he could get sucked into the trap of taking kim jong-uns phone calls every other day. >> one of the things relevant to this is iran. iran is expected to give the north koreans somewhere between $2.5 to $3 billion a year. weapons technology and other things. >> [speaking korean]

Now cracking down on both free speech and americans with president vladimir putin claiming that hundreds of spies have been captured. our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is joining us live from moscow. fred, this all comes as putins popularity, what, is it falling? >> well, its certainly falling and in fact, wolf, it is at an all-time low right now. you know president vladimir putin often portrays himself as a very strong leader, but there are signs he might not be so sure about...

They have access to energy thats not a problem. getting nuclear power plants maybe isnt their end game here. the crown prince of saudi arabia said out loud and bluntly his country may soon develop nuclear weapons. scientifically, nuclear power plant technology and new clear weapons technology are kissing cousins. so there are laws in the united states and around the world about restricting the transfer of nuclear technology abroad, those laws apply to nuclear power plant technology because if yo...

That, and the vice president led the interaction with the democratic staff over the weekend. but they put things in the formal presentation that democrats want in border security. that being technology, counter narcotics technology, along the border, being able to weapons technology, $631 million for the increase of actual screening along the border, the machines that they use. some of these things are specific democrats requests theyre putting into the formal proposal. this is, i think, they be...

The deal through a third party country. saudi arabia has been one of the german defense industries best customers. its repeatedly been ranked number one in the annual the report by the fund was false technically no weapons technology that goes to saudi arabia is very wide ranging. for example airbus is joining together with partner firms to build a complete border security system that uses state of the art technology that nearly all saudi aircraft people had in yemen to contain german made compo...

Ahead of abolish ice, what would happen? >> lets talk about the border. every person that crosses the border, nobody would look for them. every person that gets caught and wants to see a judge, once the judge orders him removed, nobody will look for them. thats open borders. ice does more. we do drug trafficking, terrorism investigations. the most populated law enforcement. we do investigation about smuggling technology to countries that are not supposed to have it like weapons technology. we do...

Sometimes they cannot interpret the images they are seeing civilians are hit by accident very often people who should not be in the line of fire all parties in the government calling for a debate including on what the drone pilots find it easier to kill because theyre further away from the actual war zone. some people raise ethical objections saying that the inhibitions against killing are reduced but others say that a helicopter or fighter pilot has even less time to decide whether to press the...

Limit their nuclear weapons and ballistic weapons capability and what we would have to do in return in order for north korea to take those steps. thats is why these are difficult and protracted negotiations. >> we also have the news this morning that syrian president bashar al assad is planting to visit north korea and if that takes place, how does that affect what the u.s. and south korea have in store here? >> its an important reminder one of the issues on the table for the u.s./north korean n...

Tonight were learning more about north koreas methods and funding for its nuclear defiance including a secret front for weapons technology. barbara starr has more. theres some new evidence of north koreas blatant skirting of sanctions even as the regime gets ready to participate in the winter olympics games. >> reporter: good evening. the dossier on what north korea and what kim jong-un may be up to is growing. the trump administration still determined to try to stop it. >> reporter: four days u...