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I don't understand where the president's logic is here at all. i never understood the threats through his twitter account to china either. china is not going to be bullied into doing more and there is a real limit to what china can could. i agree they can do and should do more, but there is a limit on the kind of influence they have on pyongyang. tweeting this stuff out to south korea absolutely befuddles me. iron clad security commitments we have to meet to defend our south korean allies. while president moon jae-in is taking a different approach to his predecessor, it still pursues diplomati...

Say unpopular things when politics is not necessarily their way. so there is quite a bit of irony here in that. thank you for that, live at berkeley where it's just gone 18 minutes past 10. still to come here on cnn news room, the new u.s. defense secretary is on his first official overseas trip trying to reassure asian allies that washington will keep its security commitments. critics say the immigration ban won't protect america. it will have the opposite effect. ahead, what's showing up in jihadiist communications. both those stories right here on cnn news room. if you're gonna make a...

We subsidized the armies of other countries for far too long. and we don't seek to impose our views on anyone. that also is something that vladimir putin will be glad to hear. poppy? >> jill doherty live for us in moscow. and not that far from the border. any talk along the border, with kim jong-un, whether they're eager to test this new president? >> everybody has been watching to see whether or not kim jong-un will make some noise, but poppy, what we are hearing is the reaction in south korea because they got the message, america first. the message that was sent around the world even to u.s....

We've heard mixed messages from president-elect trump and his picks to lead various national security departments including his defense pick. when it comes to the role of nato and russia, et cetera. nato is obsolete. it's vital to american security. i asked vice president-elect pence, which is it? >> i think what the president-elect said in the course of the campaign is that nato has a role, but we need to do two things about nato that are very important. number one, we need to ask member nations to begin to live up to their minimum commitment in security. the reality is the vast majority is n...

Peninsula as well as other operational and strategic assets in the region. we're fully prepared to meet our security commitments under that alliance and nothing's going to change about that. but i'm not aware of any new requests. >> john kirby, thank you so much. >> my pleasure, jake. in our politics lead, ted cruz might be done talking about his canadian birth, but donald trump definitely is not. and one other major republican is also announcing there's a legitimate question about cruz's eligibility to be president. plus, a woman from bill clinton's past is back and tweeting an ugly accus...