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He has invited service members of the united states coast guard to join him and as he speaks he is going to be obviously addressing what has been going on in washington. of course our military, recently president trump signing into law -- just before leaving the $700 million budget for the military which included additional spending on missile defense program to counter north korea's growing nuclear weapons stress which certainly has come into play the last couple of days. china who has been part of this massive sanctions agreement has basically according to president trump, china is now comin...

Minute longer to get to new york city and chicago if they fire a missile, that is how long it takes to get here, a nuclear warhead. and@the administration will try to shoot that thing down but that gives you the reality of the situation. would you trust our system to take care of that threat if they fired first? >> great question, the obama administration cut the missile defense program, the ground-based defense system, cut the missile defense program in half, the first couple years in office. it cut the number, the obama administration cut the number of interceptors and when they realize nort...

Level, they would probably impose something like the territorial-based sanctions we've seen on iran in which case there is no exception to the sanctions. you look at the country, the entire country is sanctioned, not just the government and certain individuals or institutions within it. that's the direction i would expect the trump administration to take. it would align the approach we use on north korea from a sanctions perspective. with the approach we've used on iran. we treat north korea the same way we treat syria and the trump administration will step that up. >> julie: the move mostly s...

Of china, just has consolidated power, and he has explicitly said that china's going to step in and play a global role in economics as the united states seems to be -- julie: right. you also have to think about military here, and our missile defense program or the t.h.a.d. missile defense program. trump will be making that visit to obey ginning to make the case to -- to beijing. how should we deal and protect our allies such as south korea when it comes to our missile defense program in. >> well, i think president trump has actually done a really good job of increasing the credibility of the m...

Over the pacific ocean regarding which measures to take, i don't really know, it is what kim jong un does. is that something kim jong un will actually follow through on or is it just bartok? >> it's hard to say, it really depends on the psychology of kim jong un and the degree that he feels his back is up against the wall. i will say that an open air test of a nuclear weapon would be a remarkable event, it would be a historic event. not just for north korea but northeast asia as a whole, you can already see the chinese government, the japanese government, the south korean government responding...