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Agreement. you just don't do this to an ally that's under extraordinary threat, extraordinary pressure. but the administration, words can't do it. we have to look at this in a way that's candid, but more than this, there has to be message discipline coming from the white house that we just haven't seen. >> well then, jonathan, following that line of thought, is that why south korea has now conducted this ballistic missile test? not knowing, they're unsure of the support coming from the united states. >> i think there's some symbolism in it. i just wouldn't really -- i mean what the capability ...

Of capabilities that north korea has. very, very close to seoul. there's nothing new in that story. that's one of the reasons why deterrence has been so compelling and kept in place, more or less now, for 65 years. >> jonathan pollack, thank you, sir. >> thank you. coming up, actor harry connick jr., a new orleans native, saw his fair share of disaster after hurricane katrina. now he's moved to houston in the last 24 hours to understand the catastrophe they are going through and we had a chance to talk with him about hurricane harvey. reminds me of how geico has been saving people money for ...

Bomb that was exploded over hiroshima. does that sound consistent with the understanding you have? >> there's still discrepant reports about the magnitude about the seismic event. also, we don't know how deeply the warhead was burr lid when it was tested. when we can fill in those two variables we can have a better assessment of what the yield of this test was. but it does, however, appear it was several times larger than the hiroshima bomb and the kind of bombs we understood north korea to have previously. it looks like this was a significantly higher yield. they told us for months -- for yea...

Development, and indeed, with one of the current vice foreign minister was threateninging a few weeks ago that they are going to be testing the all of the time, and every week, every month, every year, and whether it was an idle threat or not, we don't know. but having not proceeded with the things that people were worried about a sixth nuclear test, and the possibility of the long range missile test, this would go against the grain of the believing that north korea is going to hold back for many continued developments in the areas, and it is going to be certainly nice to know that we have mor...

Korea, 28,5000 military personnel. we have augmented forces that are there in the region right now. air power and at some point in the next week or more, a u.s. aircraft carrier that has been making the rounds, including to australia and the indian ocean. so -- and then we, of course, have 50,000 troops in japan that give the united states a whole array of possibilities to address and to deter and to caution north korea against any kind of unilateral action. >> those forces also in the line of fire. jonathan pollack, thank you for joining me. that wraps things up for me. i'm stephanie gosk. up...