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>> hans, i want to bring you into this conversation and ask you about that. secretary mattis as andrea just said is warning that it would be quote the worst fight in most people's lifetimes. explain why that would be the case and the grave danger that the city of seoul would be in if this escalates this on the military front. >> proximity. you have 10 million residents of seoul and 300,000 americans right there on the 38th parallel. you mentioned mattis. we haven't heard from him all day. he's been dark and that's by design because -- this is why i'm going to yield the rest of my time to andre...

Democrats have been forthcoming with about ways that they can change the underlying bill without cutting coverage, without raising premiums, without cutting taxes for the wealthy. this doesn't make sense for the american people. trade to very quickly, do they run the risk of having the present flip and say fine, i'm going to make a deal with the democrats and moderate republicans. >> the president is fully supportive of what he will do right now and he will do everything he can. leland: we erred here is making phone calls. rand paul made a joke about that a couple days ago. thank you, both. gr...

Secretary mattis and secretary tillerson talking with china tomorrow, i believe. what kind of pressure do you expect them to exert? >> well, it's clear the trump administration has a china focus strategy on north korea right now. that is a meeting taking place at the state department with secretary mattis and secretary tillerson, their counterparts and this is an emphasis on the diplomacy side. decided to host that meeting at the pentagon, the optics would have been different. it would have sent a different message. an indication they still very much want to focus on the diplomatic effort beca...

Years to get this done. how is this different this time? getting to a different end result. they continue even with every failure to learn something from these nuclear tests, failed missile launches. they're progressing. >> they are progressing, yes, but basically they could at any point in the last 50 years they could have started the war right there because they have enough artillery on the 38th parallel and seoul is so close. so for what's different this time? it's up to the chinese. nothing else is really different. remember, with korea, north korea, there are no good answers. it is not li...

Independent contractoria but soviets refused to allow u.n. observers in the north. they had two elections and separate constitutions. both government declared themselves the only power in the peninsula. north korea involved the parallel and invade the south. responded to what harry truman referred to as a police action. it was united states first undeclared war necessary, the president said to stop communism. the weaker military would have succumbed to the north. instead the war raged on for three years with u.s. fighting for south korea and china and soviet union fighting for the north. 4 mil...