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During the trump administration. china's initial apology for this latest incident that they claim was a weather balloon has turned in to indignation. china says they want it back. >> what i can say is that the airship belonged to china and not the united states. >> reporter: shortly after the u.s. downed the balloon saturday afternoon, the defense department reached out to china to see if it was possible to set up a call between defense secretary austin and his chinese counterpart. the pentagon said that that was rebuffed. china rejected to have that call. this is important for a number of rea...

Correspondent. eric, as we just heard either seen as show or stunning breakthrough, they did sit down for an hour after the dmz handshake, how do you think it's seen as soon as the president lands back home? >> well, i think representative mccarthy is wrong in one key point which is that even democrats will have to approve of the president's action especially when it comes to democrats running for president that saying anything positive about donald trump is one-way ticket to nowheresville and with 20 or more candidates they can't afford to say anything positive about the president on diplomac...

Chemical weapons capability. i truly doubt that we have been able to knock it out entirely, and a second point would be to send a very strong signal that there is more where that came from. and then thirdly, we also wanted to send if you will a signal to the russians that we are not looking for regime change, and we are not looking for a fight with russia, and we are going to do this carefully, and that is why the very graduated escalation of the next level of the strike, david. >> was this coalition big enough with the allied commander, and you had the secretary-general speaking to reporters ...

And one last point, david, on diplomacy. president trump has to make a decision about the joint conference of plan of action which is the iran nuclear deal by may 12th. most of us believe he is going to leave the deal, and that is going to mean that iran going to be back on its way to getting a nuclear weapon. the very hard, hard-liners in iran will have won out. the united states' security is even more at risk in the middle east and throughout the world. >> i hope that we can talk more about that in the coming weeks. thank you, ambassador wendy sherman. >> thank you. and wasting no time, ru...

I think that if we have to go in again, we are going to be going for approval by nato and have as many additional countries be a part of the coalition. when i was supreme allied commander in nato, we conducted campaigns, and we had canadian, and belgians, and italiants and spanish, and virtually all of the members of nato participating which is going to put more emphasis and gravitas, and the reason of france and u.k. is because they are the most capable militaries in the alliance after the united states. so it is logical to go to them as a first-order response. we have the other allies in wai...