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>> to the point, as you know last week, the biden administration unveiled this new national strategy for combatting domestic extremism. they're calling for hiring more intelligence analysts, screening government employees for possible ties to hate groups, but it does not go as far as to call for new legal authority. so give me your sense of the administration's approach right now. do you think it's going far enough or is this just one step in the process? >> well, we have been spending the last 20 years looking at threats from outside our borders. now we have this growing extremism from within...

>> eventually he will have to test if he wants to advance further the program itself. on the other hand, kim jong-un fully understands that to test long-range missiles is essentially a big red line that the biden administration may not take very well. >> reporter: this comes as intelligence analysts from seoul to washington are keeping close watch on kim's appearance, specifically his weight. side by side video comparisons indicate kim appears much thinner now than he was last year. last fall, south korean intelligence officials told lawmakers they believe kim's weight had ballooned to over 30...

>> and then we fell in love. >> reporter: but kim's agreements with trump were vague, and president biden has indicated he's taking a much harder line on potentially sitting down with kim. but analysts say since those talks with trump and even during the pandemic, kim has been secretly building his weapons program. north korea has tested short-range missiles in recent months. it has not tested long-range missiles recently, but at an october parade in pyongyang, the regime displayed what experts say is a new imposing intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the u.s. and analysts s...

More so. better trying to coordinate with social media companies to keep tabs on the sort of trends that are out there in social media. this is one of the things that many people have faulted the government for not paying more attention to social media, to all the threats against washington leading up to the capitol riots in january. so the government wants to try to do a better job of that. more lawyers to prosecute, more intelligence analysts to look for trends, more outreach to communities to try to counter the violent extremist message. but that's, as i say, more of the same. in one way it...

Would you expect to see out of this meeting between the two leaders? >> well look, i'm hopeful that president biden is going to lay down some clear markers about what is going to be acceptable and unacceptable in his administration with regards the russia. i think that obviously we know, we won't see a repeat of what we saw in helsinki with the former president siding with putin over our intelligence analysts. but, you know, just not being trump isn't quite good enough. i think he needs to lay clear markers on human rights. lay clear markers when it comes to the cybersecurity and the cyberatta...