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State department the appropriate action right now? you have this moment where south korea has reached out. north korea has agreed to meetings. they said we'll have a heart to heart sitdown with the united states. what should happen in your eyes from right now? >> in a conventional administration, significantly stepped up diplomacy. coordinating efforts with japan, with china, with south korea, even engagement with russia to try to put together an international effort that would get clarify about this opening, to get a deal on the table and to get it done. in the last administration in confront...

Five-hour pause. cnn's sam kiley has the latest from istanbul. >> reporter: the humanitarian pause once again in place this morning in east ghouta and reportedly according to sources on the ground, five dead also since the midnight time last night. the result of air strikes and artillery from the syrian regime. clearly no impact whatsoever in terms of the united nations head of humanitarian coordinating efforts. no impact at all of the so-called cease-fire demanded of the united nations particularly of the russians and syrians when it comes to east ghouta. the russian effort to come up with th...

We know this from testimony yesterday. and the white house chose to knowingly disregard the advice of the intelligence community yet again. i worked for two presidents. i had clearances under two presidents. i have never heard of the white house saying to the intelligence community, okay, we don't take your advice. we don't believe you when you say this person is a counterintelligence risk. i think it follows a pattern, frankly, of the white house listening to the intelligence community when it fits their political or personal interests, like with the nunes memo, and disregarding the intellige...

>> there's no one in charge. when we did this during the told war, the focal point for coordinating efforts. actors, musicians, artists, they were ambassadors. they did what they did and we put that out there and we did democracy pro motion. if you look today, what does the united states really want? we are not promoting democracy around the world. we don't really have a message we want to send and we don't have good messages to do it. there is no coordinating body. the u.s. information agency is gone. the mission is sort of broken down to state department, which has been very defunded and a l...

Officers. talk to us more about the coordination that may be taking place now. as you pointed out, this is a small rural town that will be needing the help of the bigger cities. >> well, and i think you'll see just like with the hurricane and the flooding so many texans volunteer to step in, lots of charities, lots of churches. i think you'll see the same thing here. texas has a reputation for rallying when we have incidences like this. and i believe you'll see the governor very involved in this, and i think you'll see just like the last horrific incident, you'll see that he will do a very goo...