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Couple years has allowed us to enlist chinese and russian support since 2016, to put sanctions on north korea's economy. of course that hasn't produced the desired result of deterring further testing, but there's still a lot more sanctions that can be applied if china was willing and i think if north korea carried out an atmospheric nuclear test the chinese would join us in supporting even stronger economic sanctions. >> do the sanctions that were announced yesterday by the u.s. administration make a difference? >> well, they'll make a difference in the sense that they will cause additional da...

Resolution last month, largely in response to kim jong-un's refusal to stop testing, and i think again kim jong-un is giving us an opportunity to work with china for stronger economic sanctions. whether that works at the end in terms of giving us bargaining leverage, i think, is very unclear, so in the meantime it's important that we continue to strengthen our defenses in the region. i noticed both south korea and japan are talking about strengthening missile defenses and i think it's a very wise precaution because it's unlikely that diplomacy is going to solve this problem for us. >> what sho...

Bargaining leverage, including with a number of our west european allies who themselves are wondering what is america planning to try to do in the middle east? >> you know, general, the ambassador said that vladimir putin is trying to increase his leverage. what about the leverage from secretary of state rex tillerson? he's flying into moscow, just landed after making these statements saying vladimir putin is either incompetent or complicit. does he go in with more bargaining power now because of what's happened the last week? >> we just dropped 59 -- the united states just dropped 59 t-lams i...

The congressional budget office said -- >> people can't afford it! >> one at a time. >> the congressional office said there was no death spiral at all and there can be minor fixes. it's not perfect obviously. you don't want the major insurance companies to merge as quickly as they are merging into three or four giant insurance companies that have extraordinary bargaining leverage to jack up prices. >> the idea the white house could be willing to work with democrats just days after blaming them for the healthcare bill's failure, do you think the democrats would work with the administration goin...

Enterprise institute and joins us right now. zarif is about to go back to tehran to consult with the supreme leader. now another delay. what could come of this? >> well i think this consultation is a little bit of theater. this is just the ran yawns outnegotiating john kerry yet again. if the iranians took the deal that was on the table from the u.s. point of view this instant, it would still be an enormous victory for them. i think they simply sense, however, that there's no bottom to the number of concessions that the obama administration will make and they will try and squeeze out a few mor...