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Jim himes of connecticut is joining us. he's a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> good afternoon. >> you agree with general mcmasters' assessment about this threat from north korea requiring the president now to consider various options including potentially military action? >> well, it's not entirely clear to me what is different now than a year ago or a month ago. you know, for years now north korea has been a rogue state. they have ignored the world community in its demand that they stop their work to develop nuclear weapons and more important...

This threat. kim jong-un pushes aggressively ahead in his threatening enemies with nuclear-tipped missiles. north korea launched its third missile test in three weeks. a short ranged ballistic missile traveled approximately 248 miles splashing down within japan's exclusive economic zone, an area where commercial ships are known to operate. one analysts thinks it was designed to simulate a strike on an american base. >> apparently preparation for an attack on a u.s. marine base in southwest island of japan. this is becoming a routine accelerated launch schedule. >> kim is testing missiles at a ...

Sooner we will run out of it. >> on the same subject this interview with royeuters presidt trump said he hoped to broker a solution. >> there's a chance that we could end up having a major major conflict with north korea. absolutely. >> in some ways that's obvious. they've been testing missiles. they have a nuclear weapons program. the president hass said he's no going to act like previous presidents and just watch. but to hear a president say it just to hear his words and him say it just kind is one of those things makes you go woah. >> it does. but again, this is a president that likes to ta...

Congressman, has the tough rhetoric coming from the trump administration in recent weeks escalated tensions from north korea or is that part of a smart strategy? >> well, you know, it's one of these situations where you're not going to know for a while. we could wake up tomorrow morning to find that there will h been a major strike on south korea an hundreds of thousands if not millions of people dead and maybe, you know, the dictator of north korea just got fed up with the notion of the rhetoric so we're just not going to know. the key really is though that -- that the chinese, and we need to...

Seriously and if so what is that mean? >> they're going to keep testing missiles. in order to build missiles that are capable, dominican hit the united states. it takes a lot of test. they have to test the tracking system, telemetry, the heat shield when he goes into the admission field, that takes a lot of time, takes a lot of resources. also if you take it mine, to build nuclear weapons, you have to keep testing them. think about the united states and russia have a times we've tested weapons over the years. it was hundreds of times. under the north koreans are going to need to do that, but t...