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Victor penning an op-ed in "the washington post" laying out some of his concerns about potential strategies to confront the north korean missile challenge, particularly this notion of a bloody nose, preemptive limited strike. he laid that out in his op-ed. again, he had long been rumored to be the trump administration's first choice for the ambassadorship to south korea position that remains unfilled. some say is a really important position given all these mounted tensions. we'll look to see what the trump administration seeks for that new post. >> ryan, thank you very much. our own coy wire...

Robin, i'm going to put up this poll because this is a pbs/npr/marist college poll, shows 54% of americans think trump's dealings with russia were unethical or illegal. if you're the president or someone advising the president, don't you look at those numbers, at that number, and think that you have to confront putin about it? even if it's a short meeting, as you said? >> well, i think it will be brought up but i think it will probably be in some nuanced way rather than a confrontation saying as president obama did, cut it out, that there will be an effort to diplomatically or kind of slide ar...

Part of the conversation. remember, you've got so many big subjects that the world is depending on. president trump faces his first real crisis with the north korean missile challenge, intercontinental missile l. he needs russian cooperation to impose new sanctions. they have some big things that have to happen only if it's to agree to have their foreign ministers, you know, engage in the details of some kind of future talks on these issues. they have a lot of substance and so trying to figure out a way to talk about something like hacking, like the two men is going to be very tricky, i think....

The north korean missile challenge is the biggest security challenge facing us. current policy has not worked. will china do something? we can try to reassure them about the political complexion of a korean peninsula. i don't know if that will be enough. we can threaten them with missile defenses, greater nuclear presence. i don't know. we have got to bring japan and south korea onboard. >> let me suggest is it possible that we need to do something much more dramatic in the sense that as you said, we have to reassure them. do we have to tell them, look, if you push the north koreans and the re...

Crimes in syria that's wildly liberal at home, why he would be going out of his way to pick a fight with china, a country that's an important partner that can help deal with the missile challenge, that could be possibly the biggest national security crisis of donald trump's first term, and why he's focusing on the domestic crowd side issue, i just don't get -- he in hherits an in box that is the most confused in box in history. he's inherited president obama's world. he needs to focus on. asia has world problems. that's what we need to focus on, not these national domestic issues. >> it is a d...