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Bringing various agencies, departments, all together to the table. >> so we used to sit in the window of the situation room with members of the national security council, secretary of state and secretary of defense, sit at the head of the table and ask everybody what their analysis was as member of the intel community and what their recommendation was for the president on a key issue, for example, like negotiating with the taliban or a draw-down strategy in afghanistan. that way the secretary of state to opine on the diplomatic track, secretary of defense could talk about drawdown options. sec...

If you've been following this for a few weeks, it can be confusing where the president of the united states stands. iran at once making excuses for them. on the other side, taking a remarkably tough stance. looking at military options and now look at sanctions options. >> reporter: the sanctions options appear and i would stress, appear to be a response to some of the events of the last couple of weeks because the white house and the president himself haven't been clear that these sanctions are in lieu of military strikes and they haven't said that military strikes are off the table. what's cl...

Lieutenant rick francona and terry blanken is here. the president will meet with his cabinet and national security team. take me inside the room of that national security meeting. the principles are meeting this morning. the president is meeting with them later today. what happens now? >> this will be john bolton's first test, a bit of trial by fire. right now they'll all have to figure out how they'll address the immediate situation, vis-a-vis the chemical attack. of course the president has also gone out on twitter and boxed himself in to a bigger response than the last response that they ha...

This is the fault, we are where we are now because of kicking the can down the road. jimmy carter kicked the can, carter shifed president clinton in his going around clinton and doing things he shouldn't have been with the north koreans. h.w. bush, w. bush and barack obama all kicked it. you can't kick it any more. people need to get behind the president and give him a lot of support in dealing with this. he's been left with very few option. >> i don't disagree at all. laura, i would add not as if previous administrations weren't trying? things. and none of those things. north korea's attitude...

Your report and also that example of the truck. the lifeline for north korea is to the chinese economy. china has a lot of potential influence there. to be fair to china, it has increased pressure on north korea to some degree over a long period of time, about a ten-year period. but it hasn't been sufficient. what we need to see now is exactly, as general clark said, there is no good military strike option. so we need to use other tools and make those more effective. that's going to depend upon china doing that. and the fact that we may be forced into unpalatable options, like mmt or other thi...