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The militarism down. i think he's trying to take a little air out of the president's tires on this and rightfully so. the only thing the chinese want less than a nuclear armed north are millions of refugees streaming out of their territory because of a violently reunified korean peninsula. they don't want american troops camped out. that's why he said not a violent reunification, not regime change. he was messaging beijing because we're losing the diplomatic trade space with beijing. the constant badgering, tweeting, the trade wars, none of that is going to work with president xi. you need to ...

Continue developing nuclear weapons which the bush administration figured out and then couldn't do anything about it. so why do we have are any reason to believe diplomacy even if it is our best and only option, why do we have reason to believe this time it would work when it's never worked before? >> i think we have less and less chance ever it working. i do feel that that is why we need to be doing the preparations in cyber, special forces, conventional. we need to build that option set. maybe putting a heavy move on something is a musical term. i don't know. but we need to convince china an...

The beggeneral would agree. we tend to think of russia as a monlite, that information goes from up to down and it doesn't. there are disconnects and people at the ministerial level don't always know what's going on on the ground. i think we have to wait to see. i also think that that was the other thing missing from this, and i think hopefully people recognize that. secretary mattis didn't call out the russians. >> yeah. >> he called out assad. more than once he laid it right at assad's feet and didn't specifically talk about russian complicity. i think maybe he's trying to buy a little trade ...

Obama's plans to deploy u.s. forces in europe. i think those are two steps that he could take that would send reassurance particularly to central europe where they are very uneasy about what a trump presidency will bring to that region. >> allies first approach makes a lot of sense. the other thing he's going to have to do is fill in the trade space. for asia, the so-called pivot or rebalance you had diplomatic president and greater military presence and you had trade and economic presence. the fact that tpp, whatever else you think about it, like it but put it aside, that is gone right now. w...

Haven't had before and that's we have i wouldn't call it the luxury but we have the trade space to really consider alternatives under less than a high pressure situation. >> so to clarify, as it stands now they're analyzing data from the pressure tests to see if they should undertake that bottom kill of the relief of the well and inject that mud and cement down here. they're planning to proceed with the drilling of the relief wells to give them that option if they need it. the relief well drilling has been delayed by a storm system which moved through the region. they hope to resume that relie...