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0 how pivotal is tonight's intel briefing to these deliberations. >> extremely. extremely pivotal. we have now reached the critical stage in this in terms of the administration finally making its case to the american people. it will start at 6:00 p.m. eastern time tonight, as you suggested. the teleconference going to happen. susan rice, of national security advisor, john kerry, other top officials like the director of national intelligence will be on the call. the reason why it's a phone call is that members of congress are on their august recess right now. spread around the country and aroun...

South korea the pentagon's way of saying, hey, we're not playing. >> i don't think we're poking back or responding. the north koreans have to understand that what they're doing is very dangerous. >> so who is the real kim jong un, the chubby, chuckling disco dancing basketball fanatic who is friends with dennis rodman or a reckless, unhinged dictator who worries some in our national security establishment more than al qaeda does? here to talk about it former defense secretary and senator from maine william coen. senator, when you see the crazy propaganda ads out of north korea lately for examp...

0 master. i'm learning something new every day. i get to do something new every day so that's why i'm interested in it. >> at more than 20,000 gallons this is the largest privately owned reef tank in all of north america. hope you watch. i'm back at 7:00 in for erin burnett tonight. in the meantime "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. dennis rodman, call your office. i'm jake tapper and this is "the lead." north korea says it's aiming missiles at u.s. cities and while many are laughing it off the pentagon isn't. it is sending a message of its own with stealth bombers. how scared sho...

Strongly deny there was any pressure on chen to leave the u.s. embassy. they say he was insistent on staying in china and at no time during the stay in the embassy did he ask for asylum. >> ian williams, thanks to you. and william coen served as defense secretary under president clinton and spends a lot of time traveling back and forth between the u.s. and china and knows all of the leaders there. thanks for joining us. this is a very complicated situation. i wanted to share with you and our viewers the difference between what hillary clinton said in china last night and the prepared remarks r...

Department no doubt, the white house had to take into account looking at the longer and the larger picture with the chinese. we'll continue to raise the issue of human rights but we're not in a position to dictate what the chinese will do or can do with their citizens though we're critical of how they may treat their citizens we have to race this as an issue. it's hard for the u.s. to dictate what the out come of this will be. >> william cohen, thanks so much. dispute over chen guangcheng comes as china is reeling from a scandal. bill cohen referred to it involving a former prizing star in the...