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Development is this? >> unclear. north korea never wavered in this determination to have a nuclear weapon. they have often engaged in the talks to get aid as a carrot. food aid. which they pocketed. i don't know how significant they are. it doesn't seem to me that there is anything that north korea think it wants more than nuclear weapons. >> bret: new leader kim jong un. steve? >> our mistake is assuming that food aid is the only leverage point we have. meeting itself is point of leverage. north koreans are constantly wanting to enhance legitimacy in eyes of the world meeting with the united ...

Development is this? >> unclear. north korea never wavered in this determination to have a nuclear weapon. they have often engaged in the talks to get aid as a carrot. food aid. which they pocketed. i don't know how significant they are. it doesn't seem to me that there is anything that north korea think it wants more than nuclear weapons. >> bret: new leader kim jong un. steve? >> our mistake is assuming that food aid is the only leverage point we have. meeting itself is point of leverage. north koreans are constantly wanting to enhance legitimacy in eyes of the world meeting with the united ...

States. while we have been supportive of giving some of that money for humanitarian purposes, it seem to me as i have said to secretary of state hillary clinton that we need to make sure that the transitional national committee is cooperating with us both in access to alg megrahi who is in libya and to others in the gadhafi regime who may have been part of his government and who may have been part of this whole process of determining the execution of pan am 103. i think if we get that type of response, of course, then we can have those assets flow fully to libya. if we don't get that type of r...

Humanitarian purposes, it seem to me as i have said to secretary of state hillary clinton that we need to make sure that the transitional national committee is cooperating with us both in access to alg megrahi who is in libya and to others in the gadhafi regime who may have been part of his government and who may have been part of this whole process of determining the execution of pan am 103. i think if we get that type of response, of course, then we can have those assets flow fully to libya. if we don't get that type of response, we should use it as a leverage point. >> i want to play more f...

marketsite. "american morning" starts right now. >> no vote on the debt plan again. i'm christine romans. as the u.s. economy lurches closer to a financial crisis, the political crisis continues. house speaker john boehner calls off a vote, unable to convince hardline conservatives in his party to sign on to his plan. >> i'm kiran chetry. more than 90% of texas is now in extreme drought. the state could sure use a lot of rain and now tropical storm don is expected to make landfall along the southern coast today. >> and it's happened again, a muslim-american soldier in police custody ...