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Idea that north korea could put those weapons onto intercontinental ballistic missiles. that's something that alters the game. i think what you will see coming up now potentially, tougher action on china. we have had the president announcing the intellectual property theft investigations. we could see more action at the wto. i expect you're going to start seeing carrier battle groups out there. the chinese, as much as they present this image they hold the cards, the degree to which they do not want american military strikes is significant. trump's random tweets help him in that regard. >> why ...

>> first, he actually had a phone conversation with japanese prime minister shinzo abe just yesterday. north korea obviously came up in that conversation. on friday he had a conversation with the south korean president, moon jae-in. it is something that continuously has come up in conversation for the president through his tweets and his statements to the press. it's interesting, the sort of disconnect between the president and some of his closest advisers. this there has been speculation that the administration is playing this good cop/bad cop tactic on north korea trying to paint the preside...

Trump last night about the diplomatic side. we didn't hear a lot of details about how that actually would happen. >> right. >> the specifics are there's no confirmed ambassador. reportedly tillerson was the only person from the state department who was at these camp david meetings this weekend. representative for afghanistan and pakistan, but not somebody who's there permanently. how exactly they'll get this done, how they'll get the taliban and afghan government to the table, those are big questions we don't know. in the meantime, we have an open-ended nil te eed military the -- >> one word, ...

In venezuela and that it can be achieved peacefully. columbian president added every country in latin america would not favor any form of military intervention, leland. >> leland: all right. rich edson in washington thank you. back to north korea. you do get the sense the administration is playing good cop/bad cop with the tillerson and mattis op-ed in the "wall street journal" and sending the top chiefs to south korea. >> shannon: they were clear a lot of it rests on china's shoulders and more they could be doing. that kicks in september 5th is the new embargo on the import and exports from n...

Is a serious threat and the administration will treat it as such. >> leland: is this a good cop/bad cop situation? you're getting very different messages from the chairman of chiefs in south korea now, from the two secretaries and c.i.a. director. >> i think dunford is delivering the same message that tillerson and mattis are. force is on the table but we prefer the diplomatic solution. >> leland: everyone keeps talking about the diplomatic solution and this came out over the weekend. iran authorizing $300 million for its ballistic missile program perhaps shall we say following the north korea...