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It is a very dangerous situation for the soldier and implications for u.s. foreign policy. >> sandra: you mentioned the leverage it would give north korea. based on what we know at this hour, dan, what would you expect from the white house? how should we be handling this right now? time is of the essence. >> i would expect the white house to be reaching out to secretary kerry who is in china now to see whether china might play a positive role. we can't really expect anything from them right now. the biden administration tried to engage in north korea. offered talks without pre-conditions and k...

Beginning of the outbreak while we treaded water during february and march. so partially as a result of that, they have 256 deaths and we have almost 80,000 deaths. i find our testing record nothing to celebrate whatsoever. >> reporter: so far this month, the u.s. has conducted about 3 million tests. >> by september, we project that our nation will be capable of performing at least 40 to 50 million tests per month, if needed, at that time. >> let's get right to mary bruce. so many questions about the testing. also about the timing of a vaccine. the president dialing back any promise of a vacci...

More seriously than in the past. >> so you think the bellicose rhetoric had an impact on the chinese, and the chinese then leaned on the north koreans but you don't think -- you discount that trump's rhetoric had an impact on kim himself? >> it might have but there's really no empirical evidence to prove that one way or another. it's obvious the trump administration would like to claim that kind of credit. it's just so hard to know why the north koreans make the decisions they do. we know from the past they respond to bellicosity with their own. they have sort of legendary for the rhetoric the...

It could definitely knock down north korean missile. but experts tell me that claim is highly questionable. they point to the testing record. this system has failed eight of 17 tests since 1999. as you mentioned these are large missiles fired from alaska and california designed to attack and hit the ballistic missile in space. that's been compared to hitting a bullet with a bullet. even more so because the system was deployed before it was ready. government investigators like the congressional accountability office which is general accountability office, investigative arm of office has been ve...