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House officials tells us that doesn't mean the president's team has made up its mind to launch a preemptive military strike and at the same time secretary of state rex tillerson issued an unusually stark statement saying, quote, the united states has spoken enough about north korea. a military strike would be the president's riskiest move because of the potential for north korea to attack seoul or the 28,000 american troops near the dmz. what's the most realistic option for president trump? >> what is most likely is a step up in sanctions, attempts to cut north korea off even further from the ...

Is the u.s. willing to take a chance like that to knock out let's say a nuclear reactor? >> i don't think so, and the first thing i would ask is your report talked a bit about a strike, and my initial question is against what? mean, what is it you do that actually disarms them? that actually creates the effect that you really want to have, and your point is well taken. i've served in korea twice. my last tour in seoul. my desk in downtown seoul, a city of 14 million people, was within artillery range of thousands of north korean artillery pieces. your report points out i think the best possibl...

That it will, ayman. i mean, the bottom line here, the president tweeted, essentially, what has been found to be fake news. and the reason we know that is the director of national intelligence, james clapper, went on "meet the press" to say there was no surveillance order here. so the next time there is an aspect of intelligence that he needs to report to the nation on, for example, if he has to disclose that north korea is posed to attack seoul and here's why he ordered a military strike, how are we supposed to believe what he's saying? it raises a whole list of questions, ayman. >> you know ...

They will come around. and they take our money and run. it was the bush administration that they lifted sanctions, freed up a bank account that they had. always we have been in the belief that somehow we can entice them into giving up this capability. they are not. they are not. but can i just say i don't think they're going to do anything more than their predecessors did, but they have greater capability. and they don't think like us. and they do have the ability to set seoul on fire. >> yes, they do. and we've seen them actually attack seoul in the last two, three years. not only damage but ...

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