They continue d to develop weaponry and they are getting to aint they might be able to threaten the continental United States. I can understand the president this is something that president obama left him with. The urgency of the north korea problem. Its understandable he would try to reframe our policy to do something about it. When we talk about the idea that strategic partience is over, wht are they replacing it with . The defense secretary is a strategic thinker because hes a military scholar as well as a military veteran. So i think it will be interesting to see what the administration devises and if they are able to communicate that to the American People. At some point, in order for people to understand how serious we are and to bring the American People along with this idea we may have to threaten military action, the president can have support for that, but hes going to have to do a better job of communicating that. All options on the table. That comment sort of shows you that this issue of north korea has overshadowed trumps whole plan to go out and get better trade ill dooels for america. Its something he actually did, but now mike pence is over in asia trying to reassure our allies that we are committed to the region. Ask we do want to build economic partnerships as well as have Strategic Military partnerships because that area of the world and china is an important part of it is incredibly important right now. And as trump says, he wants chinas cooperation in dealing with north korea. We saw them parade missiles we have never seen before. Luckily, they failed. But they are tstill trying to d it. The pomp and the circumstance and try to set off this big missile. And four seconds later. The president has effectively overhaul ed a great portion of his foreign policy. On the campaign trail, it wasnt just nato that he was bad mouthing. He had talked about our alliance with south korea and with japan. What do we get out of it . What do they pay us . Ask we have an administration that is going to south korea, talking about the importance of our alliance there, assuring our allies in the asiapacific were not going anywhere. And instead of taug about what they owe us, talking about all the things they have to gain. I talked to a lot of republicans that were hopeful he would learn about the peace dividend e we get from stationing military and equipment over in asia to rapid ly react without having to charge across the pacific. But its a very interesting change of position from this president. What about kim jongun . Kimberly dozer, how does he respond . Does he try to go bigger next time . The worry is that he will try to go bigger next time. Theres nothing like curing your shortterm humiliation with another missile test. What i think we see forming is a Good Cop Bad Cop strategy. China is the good cop and trump is playing the bad cop. We just in the past hour had a brief iing by a state departmen official who explained their preference is for north korea to return to talks brokered by the International Community that they hope china will be able to convince north korea. Thats the direction to go in. But first, the u. S. Needs to see some sort of sign. They wouldnt tell us what sorlt of measure they needsed to see, but Something Like some good faith measure to show that they are step wag from their nuclear program. It certainly doesnt seem with the temperature as it is right now that were anywhere near that. Play some sound from dana bashs interview with the Vice President at the dmz. Well get to it in a second, im being told. Its thot just the words he used, time for strategic patience is over, all options on the table, but its the fact that hes stand right there on the dmz. What message to you think thats sending . I think that was a clear show of force by the administration as the rhetoric has ratcheted up here. This has come more into the for the American People. Pence was measured in his tones. He was saying all options on the table. And its a fascinating contrast to what he heard this morning from donald trump. Gotta behave. So again, youre seeing pence kind of fill this role, this strong diplomatic role for the white house at the same time trying to kind of ratchet things down, but saying well do whatever it takes in this situation. Thats such a fascinating contrast to President Trump, because there are a lot of people in washington who dont like the saber rattling and the fact that President Trump is tweeting about north korea and see it as a very serious threat as president obama told him rightoff the bat that was going to be his biggest challenge. Heres the Vice President. What dauz does that mean in real terms . It was the policy of 9 United States of america to rack tis what they called strategic patience. That was to hope to Marshal International support to bring an end to the Nuclear Ambitions and the Ballistic Missile program of north korea. That clearly has failed. And the avent of Nuclear Weapons testing and development of the nuclear program, even this weekend to see another attempt at a Ballistic Missile launch all confirms the tact that strategic patience has failed. What does it mean to end it in it practical terms . Its either use military force or find a diplomatic solution that has alluded all of your predecessors . As the president has made clear that were going to abandon the failed policy of strategic patience. But were going to redouble our efforts to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bare on north korea. Our hope is we can resolve this issue peaceably. I know the president was heartened by his discussions with president xi. We have seen china begin to take some actions to bring pressure, but there needs to be more. What did you think . I thought it was a remarkable intervow because hes standing at the dmz. Hes the second in command, if you will, to the commanderinchief. Hes making clear that not only are we standing with south korea, but were not going to tolerate t tolerate a nucleararmed north korea. Thats about as blunt a sort of statement as you can get. This symbolism standing on their doorstep, the president , our high officials go to south korea all the time. Seoul just happens to be located near the dmz. For the north koreans, thats a very big deal. Thats a thumb in their nose. The question is as we have been talking if about for this administration to spell out what were going to do from a broad sense of a framework. Not tactics. On tuesday were going to do this. On thursday if you dont play nice were going to do that. Whats the broad framework were going to be approaching the region with. Let me ask you to standby. Much more to discuss as we wait for sean spicer to begin briefing the press pool there. 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The 30yearold film maker is going after donald trump if you watch his ads, hes pledging to say if trump embarrasses us or acts recklessly, i will stand up to him. Democrats are not complaining about money in politics because they are it benefitting from it millions of dollars pouring into this race. Hes also facing a fractured gop. So the key is he has to get above 50 to take the seat. If he doesnt, youll see a run off and he may not win because its still a red district. Intense media attention. Here is sean spicer. Had a chance to czech out the activity on the south lawn. We have a few waves to go. The president and first lady welcomed thousands of families for the 139th annual easter egg roll. When its all said and done, we will have thousands of guests including active duty military, veterans families, children from local schools, patients from local childrens hospitals all here to share in this historic event. Right about now, the president is finishing up his regular meeting with the secretary of state. The Vice President , of course, is currently on a tenday trip visiting japan, indonesia and australia. The Vice President participated in an Easter Church service. And has been holding bilateral meetings with representatives of the south korean government. The Vice President is delivering a message to the people of the republic of korea on behalf of the president that even in these troubled times, the United States stands with them for a free and secure future. Our ironclad alliance will be even stronger. Our nations will be safer and the asiapacific region will be more secure. From south korea, the Vice President will head to japan. Continue to provide updates as they warrant during the Vice President s trip throughout the rest of the week. Looking ahead, tomorrow the president heads to wisconsin where he will talk about his buy america hire america at snap on tools in wisconsin. For those who arent aware, snapon is a prime example of a company that builds americanmade tools. Well have a background briefing here in this room later this afternoon with Senior Administration officials regarding the details of the trip. Turt guidance should be coming out momentarily. On wednesday, the president will sign the Veterans Choice Program extension and improvement act. The president is proud to sign this legislation. The bill ensures that veterans have certainty and continuity of care while this administration works with congress to develop a plan that reforms the va system and gives our nations heroes the care that they deserve. They congratulate them on their fifth super bowl win. And thursday the Prime Minister of italy will be here for an official visit. With that, ill kick it off to the birthday boy. Ill take it. Thank you. Does the president have a red line when it comes to north korea that if they cross it they will bring about military response from the u. S. . I think what we talked about the use of red lines in the past, the president has made that drawing red lines hasnt really work ed in the past. He holds his cards close to the vest. I think youre not going to see him telegraphing how hes going to respond to any military or other situation going forward. Thats just something he believes has not served us well in the past. We did this with mosul when e we start to talk about what the action is months in advance and it gives the sbepded recipient of action a heads up. So i dont think that youre going to see the president drawing red lines in the sand. I think the action that he took in syria shows that when appropriate, this president will take decisive action. When they happen to clear ambitions the way they do. When you talk about we did this to syria and to afghanistan, is that i think bombastic rhetoric. I think please dont read too much into that in terms of trying to make an analogy. Its kite quite the opposite. But with north korea, the president had a really good meeting with president xi where i think he spoke extensively about the relationship that they made down there and continue to work to improve. The results of that are paying off. You e see china playing a much more active role in the with respect to north korea. That they can continue to apply pressure to achieve results. Were goimpk to continue to exhibit influence to get better results. I understand that and it failed. Were well aware of whats going on. We monitored that situation. The president was kept up to date, as you know. Were going to continue to work with china, in particular, to help find a way forward on this. President xi would be meeten olt north korean government to prevent is the type of missile laun launches like we saw over the weekend. It seems as if that effort in terms of leaning on north korea did not work. In addition to, that the vice foreign minister said to the bbc today that north korea will test its missiles on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis. So my question is what kind of pressure is china putting on . This goes back to the not what jim was asking for us to telegraph what were going to do or what were going to asked others to do would not be a smart strategy. But i think if you realize on the economic side of things china is the number one importer of coal. To see them curtail some of that it has real Economic Impact on the region. Theres a lot of political pressure points that china can utilize. And we have been very encouraged with the direction in which they are going. North korea is essentially based on what they tried to do over the weekend is thumbing its nose. I understand the question. I think were just not there yet. We have a lot of tools left and a lot of conversations that are ongoing. But lets not get ahead of ourselves. We have had a very productive direction that we have seen china move in. Theres an agreement by everyone so far that a Nuclear Capable north korea is not in anybodys best interest. Were going to continue to work with the chinese on this case. What was the review of the white house visitor logs . What was the reextent of the review . What made you change your minds to not continue releasing them . As was noted on friday, we were following the same policy that every administration from the beginning of time has used with respect to visitors log. We will comply with the federal records act and president ial records acts as stated by law. Why does the president object to knowing who is coming in the white house . Its not a question of objecting. Its about following the law. Were following the law as both the president ial records act and the federal records act prescribe it. Its the same policy that every administration had up until the Obama Administration. The faux attempt that the Obama Administration put out where they would scrub who they didnt want put out didnt serve anyone well. The president wants to make sure people can come and provide details and theres people who want to be able to come have that conversation with members of the administration the same way they would do with members of congress. Why didnt he he one up the transparency game. We recognize theres a privacy aspect to express their views. We maintain the same policy that every other madministration did coming up here. And the last one frankly was a faux level of doing that because when you go through and scrub everyones name out you dont want everyone to know, that really is not an honest attempt at doing it. Were going to follow the law theay that every administration has followed up until the last one. Rational friday for the business logs was that the National Security and privacy concerns were exemptions in the policy that led to the scrubbing you described. Why the reversal . There may be a third rational . No, i think i just touched on privacy. The problem is we dont know what the they said what it was, but you dont know who got left off and who didnt. They chose to not put people out for whatever reason and they gave an excuse and no questioned it. Were going to have the same policy that every president has had through time and comply with the law on both fronts. I think