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North korea. a third of the country's economy sanctioned. >> right. >> and basically, said it doesn't matter, we're going to nuke them. i mean, it's a question of will president trump support her. i think tillerson's increasingly dealing himself out of the deal, but they've got climate change, north korea and iran all front and center. so, the work coming up this week is incredibly important, and i hope that they engage in a way that brings the world with us as opposed to confronting them where we don't need to. >> yeah, she had benchmark wins there on the security council getting those sancti...

On north korea, get the sanctions tightened and this is something that president trump is going to have to ensure that he spends a lot of time on. i haven't seen that yet. the fact that they put a statement out instead of a tweet is progress. >> and lastly, yes or no, ash carter talked in the past about the administration and the defense department having a plan to take out kim jong-un, how close are we to enacting a plan like that? >> well i'm not privy to what the planning on that, but we've said that all options are on the table. what happens is you take the more extreme options off and dea...

The president about whether or not the military is going to be a welcoming place for those in the transgender community. and the president sent out this series of tweets kind of catching everybody off guard. and we had nancy soderberg saying that those within the pentagon they thought the president was announcing a war situation until the tweets were finished. but if folks didn't vote for president trump but heard them on the campaign trail and promising rights to the lgbtq community, this tweet catches folks off guard. it is seeking a solution to a problem that doesn't currently exist for the...

This is not our friend. and we need to make it clear and stand up to him, keep the sanctions on, stand up to on ukraine and i don't think that's what happened in this meeting. eventually we'll find out, but today, what actually happened down there, we're getting two very different stories from both sides, and it will be a while before we know. >> sure are. very grateful to talk to you today, ambassador nancy soderberg. appreciate you being here. we will turn from hamburg to health care right after this break and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell suggesting republicans may not be able to...

Former diplomat to the united nations under president clinton. what do you think about president putin saying that about president trump and their conversation about the election. >> we'll never know exactly what happened in that meeting because there was no one other than the principals, the translators and the foreign minister and secretary of state, each spinning it very differently. president putin made, i think, the first to rforay saying, yea stuck it to him and tillerson saying the president really pushed putin on this issue. i think over time we'll hear more about what their two views ...