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>> we have medical teams that are moving to be on the ground there. we are -- we are working to figure out what took place both in havana and now in china, as well. we've asked the chinese for their assistance in doing that, and they have committed to honoring their commitments under the vienna convention to keep american foreign service officers safe. >> joining me right now cnn global affairs correspondent, lease labott and john kirby, a cnn and diplomatic analyst and former spokesman for the state department under president obama. elise, first to you. there is still real mystery about what ...

China needs to use much more of its economic influence on north korea. china holds about 85% of north korean trade. that is a staggering fact that president trump really resonated with him when they were doing this review. china also provides north korea with most of its oil and so the administration really looking for china to do more. china already has cut its coal imports to north korea and has stopped, you know, very amazingly flights between china and north korea. so china's slowly cracking down, but the u.s. really feels that in order to make any progress with north korea, china really h...

Today does not call for the deployment of u.s. ground combat forces to iraq or syria. >> joining me now is a lease labott. great to have you on here. it's a huge story today. tell me about what we're learning, where the americans are going and what precisely their role will be. >> well, we're talking about a small team now. it's about 50 special forces. this team of commanders will be going to the northeastern part of syria to be looking at helping kurdish and arab troops on the ground there battling isis. their stronghold is raqqa. that's where they will be expected to help the kurds and