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Nonetheless does illustrate things a little bit. >> talk to us a little bit about safety. as much as this is exciting, there is so much risk involved in going into space always. the american space program has experienced some of these highs and some of the lows with the expl explosions. how confident are you that this is going to be a safe mission, especially for branson? the virgin galactic had a test pilot die in 2014. there is something hanging over this scenario here. >> yes. space is, by definition, a very hard place to go and it's a hard place to come back from safely. astronauts -- nasa...

>> hello everyone, i'm melissa francis. president donald trump and german chancellor angela merkel wrapping up their meeting ahead of the g20. we will get a report from our own john roberts on what went down there. plus, growing protests in germany outside the main venue, we are live on the ground with that. press secretary james mattis speaking up for the first time about the north korean missile launch and the possibility of war. his reaction and more on "america's news headquarters" ." >> molly: vice president mike pence getting an up close look at the american space program. during the ken...

Issue we have to address just that because that is what is pressing immediately. if you quickly, robert, see the way the iran nuclear deal has been debated, again, what can we learn from that to apply perhaps to north korea who already have these nuclear weapons? >> you are right, your final point is spot on because north korea is a much more mature nuclear program. i think the decoupling piece is important. if you look at the structure of our debate on the hard cases of iran and north korea, it goes back to the post-9/11 period where there was a divide in our debate over how to address these ...

The table, but it is really off the table because of the catastrophic risk of escalation, and when you can't bomb, won't negotiate come you can acquiesce to a build up i called for a serious diplomacy to freeze the program at its current level, not to roll it back fully as we would hope, but a feasible deb did not -- diplomatic objectivee to use freeze it and i think we can enlist china and other powers to bring reasonable pressure on north korea to do that. >> jenna: why would north korea agree to that? >> a freeze agreement would achieve all of the parties near-term point of optimization, so...