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The panel has named a prosecutor once sanctioned by the u.s. to be the nation's number two law enforcement official. venezuelan president nicolas maduro's government has stripped congress of its powers. massive demonstrations against the government continue. a lot to cover across the world let's talk about theor president's foreign policy challenges, the most pressing of course north korea. elliott engrams is senior p felw for middle eastern studies at the council on foreignli relations. michael hanlon at the brookingst institution. gentlemen, standby. we received a statement from rex tillerso...

Heard from the president today it was about military families on the fourth of july. we saw it on the south lawn. secretary tillerson taking point on the statement. the tweet earlier from the president, "north korea has just launched another missile. does this guy have anything better to do with his life?hi hard to believe that south kore and japan will put up with this much longer. perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all!" >> that sort of gets to the question charles mentioned. japan and south korea really can't do anything. i ask these questi...

Tillerson statement comes out rather ineffective. putin is talking about using this crisis as a way to detach the united states from south korea. in other words, china and russia together want to see an end to the u.s.-south korean alliance. they want to use the issue as a kind of exchange in order to do that. we see this and we should see this as a direct threat to the security of the united states. it is an icbm that can hit u.s. territory and that would be absolutely catastrophic. we have completely different understandings of what the threat is and tillerson's statement simply says it's no...

Chinese ideas. freezing the nuclear capabilities of dprk and large-scale military exercises by the united states and republic of korea. >> the era of strategic patience with the north korean regime has failed. many years and it's failed. frankly the patience is over. the united states, and other regional powers and all responsible nations to join us in implementing sanctions and demanding that the north korean regime choose a better path and do it quickly and a different future for its long-suffering people. >> bret: that was president trump friday. this happened last night. firing of an icbm,...

>> bret: the only time we heard from the president today it was about military families on the fourth of july. we saw it on the south lawn. secretary tillerson taking point on the statement. between early from the president. "north korea has just launched another missile. does this guy have anything better to do with his life? hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with this much longer. perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all!"" >> that sort of gets to the question charles mentioned. japan and south korea really can't do anythi...