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Senior aides around president trump in mar-a-lago. i think that indicates there's no serious concern that there's going to be a war starting in the next couple of days. and so i think trump is taking north korea seriously but it's not in his interests to get into a military fire fight with the north koreans, especially given that they are volatile and you just don't know what kim jong-un who is kind of this 30-year-old crazy person is actually going to do. >> you know, it's been said that kim jong-un is one that is unpredictable but in his unpredictability, he is predictable, you might say. wh...

And balances. the united states could walk away, reimpose sanctions, but china, russia, the european states are probably unlikely to follow suit. you could then try to pressure your allies. also to break away from the deal. but it wouldn't be so easy as tearing up the agreement because it is a six-party agreement. the war on isis which is going to be a war starting on day one. the promise to tear up the iran deal is going to be a challenge which he promised to do. that's just one of many. i think you were going to ask about israel as well. >> the point is we have had other incomes presidents, ...

Able to then focus on the issues they think will be germane as they try to maintain control of the senate and in the election of 2016, trying to win for a democrat. >> etc. go to richard engel who has covered afghanistan extensi extensively, what's your reaction to today's news? >> i think this is an attempt to bookend the 9/11 era. as you know and everyone in america knows, we had two ground wars in the islamic war starting in afghanistan, moving in iraq. the iraq war wound down, but the afghanistan war is continued on and became the longest war in u.s. history. and there was a lot of ambigui...

Than just ending it and he clearly opted not to do that and he sent those signals almost immediately upon taking office and by contrast surged forces to afghanistan. >> and didn't talk a lot about afghanistan either. >> he didn't say a word about it. and right now i remember saying i think it was last week, the support for the afghan war is the lowest of any war perhaps in american history. as long as we've actually had polls. and the reason is, americans don't like wars and they shouldn't. they'll only support a war starting with fdr or all the way up until today if the president will go out ...

i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. we're going to start with breaking news just into cnn. her story was one of the most amazing and the most tragic that you're going to hear from the tornado zone. a toddler named angel babcock loses her entire family yet somehow she's found alive in the middle of a field possibly carried away for miles by a twister. with 38 people dead in a rash of killer tornadoes, she has become a symbol of hope in the destruction. but her hold on life was just too delicate. we have learned that her extended family was forced to take her off life support and ...