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Relief that was given through the iran nuclear deal doesn't seem to have filtered down to the people on the streets of iran? is that because it hasn't filtered down yet and it will, or is it just that it's being diverted into military programs and syria, for example? >> yeah. i think it's a blend of both. there's no doubt that iran has been engaged in costly endeavors both in syria and obviously supports -- in yemen, it supports hezbollah. we're hearing protesters say they want to see things stay in iran. when you look at the demographics of the protesters, this is not the middle class of iran...

Mounted nuclear weapon to deter the kind of action that trump is talking about, and then when we makes specific threats against the north korean people which is what he's saying when he says he will destroy all of north korea, it plays into kim jong-un's hands, because he can then take that to the north korean people, increase and solidify whis standing and explain why he has to divert money from food and shelter and health care to the military programs. there's just absolutely nothing that makes sense about this strategy, and what scares the heck out of me is that this shutdown of diplomacy h...

Type of language that has never, ever been uttered by an american president in the modern era toward north koreans over anything? >> right. they see it as justification of their worst fears. that the whole point of the united states is to eliminate kim jong-un. they're very narcissistic in their own way. they think the whole world revolves around them. so when the president threatens them like that, they go, see? we told you so. what do they do? they accelerate their military programs. look, years of sanctions, of isolation, of threats, of ignoring them, hasn't worked at all. that has not stop...

Dealt with and probably dealt with rapidly. >> shannon: the general comment fox news military analyst, always good to see a. we can confirm the authenticity of it, but if it is true, what does it say to you about how north korea's treating people? >> listen, they are the most brutal regime on the planet. they routinely imprison, starve, kill their own population by the tens of thousands, the population at large is -- they keep food from them. they are also paying for the military programs, what they should be giving to their population to each. so we don't know for sure what happened, we may n...

Too, that these are not all tests of us, but they are test of the military programs, and so he is going to be getting pressure from the military to say, look, if we are going to be keeping this kn-15 program on schedul schedule, we need to do a test. so i think that it is a, you know, he is very much focused on a deliverable nuclear weapon, and getting there as soon as he can. >> all right. let's go back to nbc's courtney cubii, and courtney, you are experienced in covering all of this, and how long do these assessme assessments take? >> it depends. a launch two weeks ago friday and two weeks ...