Korea taking a grim turn after the country tested a missile that could be capable of hitting the United States. The wall street journal is reporting the white house warned the hermit kingdom that the u. S. Is prepared to go to war. This latest round of escalation started yesterday when the north launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile. Limit experts say this is a major step forward towards the Nuclear Attack capabilities. The state media claiming its leader kim jongun was pleased with the test. President trump said hes on top of the crisis. The president also put pressure on china, tweeting trade between china and north korea grew in the first quarter. So much for china working with us. But x l but we had to give it a try. You would agree china ignored sanctions. It has benefited continuing to trade with north korea. They havent joined the party to contain that regime. So what now . President trump needs to impose costs on china. He started that last week with a series of actions that made the chinese very upset. Including cutting off a chinesebacchain da chinese bankl banking system. The bank of china was engaged in Money Laundering for the north koreans. Trump will be meeting with xi jinping on the sidelines at the g20 and it will be a difficult meeting for them to hear. Dagen the wall street journal is advocating for regime change. Saying we need to start shooting down these missile launches. There are a lot of things we can do before kinetic options. Yesterdays launch came off a chinese missile launcher. President trump needs to ask the chinese how come the north koreans have all these chineselooking equipment in its missile inventory. There is all sorts of stuff the chinese wont like that the u. S. Should be doing. When we do that we give the chinese for the First Time Ever an incentive. We are telling the chinese we are serious about our tone security. Dagen china being the second largest foreign owner of our debt. Being an important exporter into the United States market, do we need to be willing to feel financial pain in the United States to contain this growing Nuclear Threat by putting pressure on china . Thats an important point you make. Every solution is going to cost us. Because of misguide policy. Everything we do Going Forward will cost us. But its going to cost china a lot more. They have taken economy gears to selling stuff to us. They are the trade surplus country. We are the deficit country. Deficit countries dont worry about trade wars. We have an economy that is twice the size of the chinese economy. That gives us enormous leverage. But what we havent done in the past is use that leverage. Trump can do so. Dagen will we be at war with one entity or another . There probably will be a trade war with china. The chinese have been even gang in increasingly predatory practices against the United States. When we step back with this, we are drifting towards war but there are thing we can do that are short of kinetic options. And we absolutely have a responsibility to try those things because war with north korea will be horrific. Dagen the Trump Administration has seemingly put north korea on notice. The secretary of state Rex Tillerson warned other nations to steer clear of the regime. In a statement secretary tillerson said quote any country that hosts north korea guest workers or fails to fully implement u. N. Security Council Resolutions is aiding and abetting a dangerous regime. Is there a chance this could turn into a wider conflict . Lets bring in the party panel. Kat timpf. Carry sheffield, she is founder of bold. And tom shillue. Hes author of the book mean dads for a better america. Lets start with kat. Being a libertarian, just the idea of military conflict with north korea is unfathomable. Kat it should be unfathomable to everybody. When we talk to about a military option it will likely lead to world war iii. There are no good solutions. Its not that im not concerned about it. Because i am. But there is no good way to handle it. Dagen i am a big geek so i look at what we havent done. There is a division the bank of china was doing hundreds of transactions on behalf of north korean companies. Any entity conducting business with north korea would be cracked down on by the international community. 95 of north koreas economy is flowing from china. I think President Trump has taken a more measured approach. He just signed an arms deal with taiwan. But i agree its unfathomable. We should not want this at all. But that being said, inacross is action as well. Obama has had no action for 8 years. Dagen this was a problem never solved by the last administration. We always make fun of kim jongun. Maybe we should stop. Tom its just because he looks funny and he has a funny haircut. The chinese have not been that concerned about it. What are the numbers you said . 40 . Dagen trade has grown 10 fold in 10 years with north korea. They benefit handsomely from the cheap labor coming out of north korea. The truck used for the icbm test was a chinese truck. If we have to go to war, its bad times for china. I think they simply wont do it. Dagen mean type the president today left for europe a meantime the president left for europe for the g20. Perhaps the biggest event of all, the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and vladimir putin. Political analysts have been curious whether he plans to bring up russias alleged interest neerns in the 016 elections. How do you shake his hand . Tom it doesnt matter what they talk about. Because all anyone is going to do is play video of that stupid handshake. Again, what happened between him and macron . Nobody cares. Because all they want to do is show video of the dumb handsha handshake. People are like he needs to step it up about 2016. Apparently obama said that. Cut it out. How is saying cut it out in a fiveminute meeting going to do anything. You have to do the hard work behind the scenes before you get there. I think its a good idea that President Trump is going to poland, and poland is an ally president obama neglected the whole time. I think its great that trump is going there and showing we have a robust relationship with poland and we are not going to neglect them anymore. Dagen putin and russia dont get the first dance. Kat no matter how he handles it, everyone will say it was wrong. Too friendly or wasnt friendly enough. Even russia doesnt like us because trump is too bad. Or they like us too much. If i were trump i would give him a big hug. It just doesnt matter what he does. The coverage of it wont be positive. Dagen i think you are right. I said earlier, punch him in the nose and bring up the russia hacking thing and lay it on the table and see how he reacts. You know putin has studied up on trump in terms of how to interact with him. Just lay it all out. I think thats the best thing he can do. But when he walked away, i didnt see him hold melanias hand. But i agree you. I would love to see that happen. Dagen new jersey beaches are back open after. 4th july shutdown. Christie remaining defiant in face of wide sprayed criticism saying he had every right to use the beach house baits was part of an official governors residence. Kat timpf, somebody on mornings with maria, that is the governor trolling his own people. Kat thats what giving up looks like. Why was he even wearing a shirt. Put it all out there. At this point you just quit. It doesnt matter that he hadder right to use the beach. But when a lot of people cant use their beaches. No matter whose fault it is, you cant figure it out. And you say im the governor and you are not. Dagen if you dont like it you can run for governor and use this beach that was closed. Tom thats a true answer. Its a mansion, he lives on a beach. Whats he going to do, hide in the kitchen . I have said this for years now about Chris Christie . I would not trust that man with my lunch money. I used to rate bond. Hes been downgrade 11 times by the bond analysts. But hes an amazing fundraiser. Let him go be like this bravado charismatic person. Dagen hes not even bravado. Hes a Big Raspberry to new jersey. You would lay it out on the beach. Tom he has a house on the bea beach. Im defending him. He should go back and tell everybody to sit down and shut up its so true. Whos trolling is the people who get in the plane and fly by almost. If there was a young hottie next to me, he was there with his family. Hes fine. He would have been the king george during the revolution. Tom he has the best song in hamilton. Dagen speaking of elitists. You have seen hamilton . There is tom shillue with his spf800 sitting on the beach watching hamilton. The weight of expectation of the Healthcare Plan that works. The democrats have their share of problems. Ill ask Chris Stirewalt which party has a deeper hole totototo art. It can be sculpted, bringing to life beautiful detail. Or painted in luxurious strokes. And in rare cases. Both. So we need tablets installed. With the menu app ready to roll. In 12 weeks. Yeah. The world of fast food is being changed by faster networks. Data, applications, customer experience. Which is why comcast business delivers Consistent Network Performance and speed across all your locations. Fast connections everywhere. Thats how you outmaneuver. So new touch screens. And biometrics. In 574 branches. All done by. Yesterday. Banks arent just undergoing a face lift. Theyre undergoing a transformation. A data fueled, security driven shift in applications and customer experience. Which is why comcast business delivers Consistent Network Performance and speed across all your locations. Hello, mr. Deets. Every Branch Running like headquarters. Thats how you outmaneuver. Dagen Mitch Mcconnell is known for his ability to get Senate Republicans on the same page. But repealing and replacing obamacare is proving a challenge. Hes under pressure for the lack of pressure and faced criticism from allies like rob portman, john mccain and lindsey graham. While republicans keep going back to the drawing board on healthcare, democrats are also in disarray. Now a couple billionaires from the Silicon Valley want that party to reinvent themselves as the party of billionaires. A project called win the future where people can discuss and vote on issues important to them on twitter and let their congressional lead terse know what they think by but the putting up billboards in washington. Which party is in greater dire straits. Chris, lets start with healthcare. It looks like an absolute disaster on repeal and replace. Is it that way in d. C. . Chris in part you good people in new york are at a disadvantage. People in the Business Community want to apply rational choice to the irrational act of governance. When you putt 50 people together around something one say you need to do this for xy and z. And you should make this happen. And then they say, i have interests that are unique to me and my state and my reelection and unique to who lives in my state and those concerns. Then you find this is hard to do. If businesses did their earnings estimates the same way washington did its estimates on passing legislation, the sec would be a very busy entity shutting everybody down all the time. Dagen where are the republicans in the senate . It seems like the idea of a bold repeal, then worry about replacement was gaining traction. But based on the way its nutty reconciliation rules work, that would seem like an impossibility. You would have to do the repeal under the reckon significance was for last year and do the replacement under the next years. So logistically that seemed like a nonstarter. Chris requires possible a repeal now replace later could work. You could do the replacement under reckon sill bracing next year. That is certainly a possibility. The problem is of course there are plenty of republicans that dont want repeal. The big pressure is the growing realization that voting for this will be voting for higher premiums for people in the independent market. And the premiums will be really high for people in the inltds market who are older. When you are talk about 63yearolds in the independent market, and thats big trouble for the gop. Dagen if they dont do something, i argued the republicans already own the continuing collapse in the exchanges. You will have more than 40 of counties in this country that will only have one Health Insurer or no Health Insurer next year, thats on the republicans now. Chris the republicans have worsened their situation. They love to talk about how the exchange is staying and the statistics you cite. Every time anthem pulls out of this or blue cross pulls out of that. The republicans tout it to the high heaven. But they have to couple a patch because they will write rate books and they will be out by november. The clock is running fast on what to do to patch obamacare. Any idea the republicans will stand idly by and let millions of people lose their Health Insurance and say its obamas fault. Thats death nell talk. Dagen you have half of these rough candl ofthese republicg im open to keeping the tax on Investment Income so we can keep that 172 billion it raises over 10 years. That temperatures ideologically not republican party. Chris you have a tighter eye roll game than almost anybody i know. When you roll your eyes hard its serious business. The republicans have a terrible problem on their hands in this way, which is democrats are waiting, hoping, yes, please vote for legislation that cuts benefits for working class voters, the voters who helped fume Donald Trumps president ial victory. Do that and do it in exchange for a tax cut for wealthy americans and the investor class. Democrats are look at it, come on. This is the problem with populism. If you do things on the basis of what is popular and what everybody likes, guess what you are going to do . Nothing. When you talk about something as big, complicated as Health Insurance, there is always going to be losers and always going to be winners. Dagen you will wind up enjoying spending other peoples money. The two Silicon Valley billionaires will reform the Democratic Party through this resist effort . Chris yes, it will be awesome. Where they are starting is putting up billboards to tell democrats that people who are online think democrats should be more liberal. If i would say during h and duh. Obviously. It would be like what is the republicans grassroots think the party ought to be . They think it ought to be more conservative. Democrats wont get anywhere until new leaders arise. Put them in some sort of governable working fashion. Until then the billboards wont help. Dagen single syllable words need to be made into two sillables. So it am not duh, its during hhu. The Chicago Public schools have a new plans to keep younger people off the streets. The panel returns to explain next. Can i give it to you straight . That Airline Credit card you have. It could be better. Its time to shake things up. With the capital one venture card, you get double miles on everything you buy, not just airline purchases. Seriously, think of all the things you buy. Great. Is this why you asked me to coffee . Well yeah. But also to catchup. Whats in your wallet . Dagen the hits keep on coming at cnn. After a series of highprofile retrakss, they are being accused of blackmailing the reddit holder who made the wrestling logo. They said cnn is not publishing the name because he showed his remorse by saying he has take down all his offending posts. Cnn reserves the right to reveal his identity should any of that change. It had many people accusing cnn of shakedown tactics. Joining me, tim carney. This trending topic on twitter took over on the 4th of july. It smacks of cnn being so solveinvolved they cant see the rest of the world. It seems that cnn is what cnn says donald trump is. Thin skin, an organization using its power to harm anybody who criticizes it. You have cnn issuing threats saying stay on my good side or well come you have a even harder, demanding an apology. As journalists we are given this access, given this megaphone to help people in the country figure out stuff and know stuff about the way the country runs. But cnn is using its resources on this. Dagen cnn had to issue another statement. Cnn decide not to publish the name of the reddit user out of concern for his safety. User who is an adult male, not a 15yearold boy apologized and deleted his account before speak with our reporter. Cnn never made any deal with the user. The fact it was a joke. Why are we treating this like it was some threat to the safety of our nation. I think it was embarrassing that President Trump tweeted that out. Thats the story the way the president behaved. That somebody made something stupid on the internet is not a story. That cnn defends him is misleading. At least it conflicts with what we saw saying the apology came after cnn contacted them. It all came down, then the guy responded. If you read the last line of that cnn piece, it clearly read like a threat. We reserve the right to publish his name if he acts up again. This is why people go along with Donald Trumps tirades against the media. But now people actually fear the media, that the media will come after them if they criticize the hide yeah or hold ought wrong position, hold pot wrong view. This guy had some pretty nasty stuff. Antisemitism, racism. But you can get the same stuff if you oppose gay marriage or hillary clinton. Thats why people see the media as the enemy of the people. Dagen violence spread through chicago over the long Holiday Weekend leaving 101 people shot, 14 of whom died. In an evident to keep some of the citys youth safe. Mayor rahm emanuel is pushing a new rule that will prevent students from graduating from high school unless they have a plan for the future. Student will have to prove they secured a job, acceptance to a college, a trade program or the military. Will this help chicagos youth or will dropout rates be on the rise . I begin with you, tom shillue. It seems like people wont bother graduating from high school. Tom according to these rules i wouldnt be able to graduate high school. I had no plan, i had no job. I graduated and went off to summer man the fall i finally found a job. But i didnt have a plan. I wanted to waste some time and get my act together before i went to college. You have the luxury of having a mean dad. 45 of these kid are drifting without a father in the home. This could have potential to force kid to think about their lives. They have mandatory military service. It create a sense of belonging and purpose and a sense of you know what . I have something bigger than my little world view. Dagen it take government rules and regulations. The government knows better. Its all the rules that always make everything perfect. Kimberly kat there is no way for the kids to find purpose without the government mandate. Whats a job. Babysit your cousin. Does that count . Its ridiculous. If you graduate, if you graduated, that means you completed high school. And a lot of these schools dont have the resources to help these kid find anything. So this wont help the people who need the resources the most because they are not there. Its not set up for mandating graduation is a bad way to do it. But we have to do it. We already mandate dont kill people, yet they are doing it. Dagen murder is bad but the government chronically oversteps. There is strong capital. Chicago is falling to pieces. Dagen if the dating world wasnt stressful enough. There is a new question plaguing todays singles. Who should pay for the first date. In a survey done by chapman university, 39 of women said they hoped the man would pay for the entirety of the bill. But some women claim they get stuck paying for the whole thing. With the cost of dating on the rise, should couples just dine and dash to avoid confusion . Kat i dont date in the traditional sense. First date. I dont know. I think that it varies. If one of you is very rich, then you pay. Stuff like that. But i do that all the time. I pretend im going to pay for it. If they dont stop the reach, they are toast. If they make me pay. No. Im a proud conservative. Dagen somebody made the argument to me, if you were dating somebody and they were overspending at dish and ordering expensive bottles of wine, it was a sign they were deep in credit card debt. Tom guys reach for the check and then the thing is, you have got to give the women an out. If you are on a first date and she is not impressed shell go in for the fight. The more she fights the less she likes you. That was the signal. When you see that money. Kat i dated a man who was in clown college. I would pay for a few more things because he was in clown college. Dagen i dated a lot of clowns. I believe in civil ar in chival. Like holding the door for me. 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Despite these deaths and all the money that has been spent there, the taliban still controls onethird of afghanistan. To try to change that a group of senators visited afghanistan to push for more military action. We need a strategy in the United States that defines our role in afghanistan. That defines our objective and explains how we are going to get from here to there. Having more American Forces with nato forces with more aggressive rules of engagement. Utilization of american air power will turn a stalemate into success. Dagen the Trump Administration is thinking about sending in more troops putting the surge at 3,000 to 4,000 americans. Here to discuss whether a true surge would do the job is buck sexton. What do you make of the idea we are going to send 3,000 to 4,000 more americans into afghanistan . Its not going to be enough. Repeating the word strategy when it comes to afghanistan is not a strategy. To be fair to the administration, we should see. Maybe they will come up with something. But so far everything we are hearing from members of congress and those being open about the challenges we face in afghanistan is much of what we heard for a decade. As long as the taliban has the ability to reequip, to train and do everything it wants to do on the pan andy side of the border, we are in our best case scenario. The reality right now is the taliban is in the strongest position its been in arguably since 2001. So to talk about sending back a few thousand troops. That may temporarily stabilize the situation. But i dont think anyone will seriously make the argument a few thousand troops will be sufficient. During obama years, he had the whole surge. I didnt think the way he did the was putting National Security first. But the idea that we are going to be able to do this now with 4,000 more when we werent able to eradicate the taliban, a selfsustaining active government. These have been the goals for over a decade. Dagen would you send those troops . Would you put those lives at risk if its not going to be enough . If they dont have a enough idea, committed to a new strategy. The answer is we should be committed to a drawdown. It sounds defeatest. But i dont think there is anybody who can win a debate on the other side of the argument that somehow 4,000 u. S. Troops will change the situation. Its worse than it has been in a decade. Dagen a dog lost on stage dagen a dog lost on stage during a musical concert. I just want to find a used car without getting ripped off. Dagen a dog lost on stage during a musical concert. Start at the new carfax. Com show me used trucks with one owner. Pretty cool. [laughs] ah. Ahem. Show me the carfax. Start your used car search at the allnew carfax. Com. Number 360™ smart bed. It senses your every move and automatically adjusts on both sides. Right now save on sleep number 360™ smart beds. Plus, its the lowest prices of the season with savings of 500 on our most popular p5 bed. Ends sunday. We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Dagen the following five stories were picked out by ken difficulties staff during the morning pitch meeting. From the looks of it i think they were still drunk from the 4th of july. But im not going to judge because at least they made to it work. There is a saying that the only thing certain in life is death and taxes and cnn lying about donald trump. Joey people say is like the michael overdafn hot dog eating contests. But judging from the amount of food he feet webs more like it charts barclay. He wolfed down 72 dogs. Nobody is going near that dude for at least three weeks. Topic number two. If you are at a party and someone asks you to do a few lines in the bathroom, do not assume you know what substance they are talking about. There is something called cocoa loco, its a fast and legal buzz when you are in the mood for a rush. European clubgoers have been doing snortable chocolates. Just ask the spice girls. Or sign for obamacare. Topic number 3. A dog wondered on to the stage during a Classical Music concert and set the internet on fire. He was hoping to go to the jersey shore and catch a few fril afew is from bees but cs christie closed the jersey shore. Meantime, people are calling this dawght most exciting thing to happen at a Classical Music concert. Thats like being called the smartest kardashian. Topic number 4. A bear fat moscow zoo was asked top dp predict the winner of a soccer match. For the record. The russian bear chose the german bowl. She picked germany to win over chile. And its not her only talent. Hillary clinton claims the russian bear helped hack the election. Topic number five. And finally anybody can take you to a horse race on the 4th of july, but it takes a few patriot to take to you a camel race. You are looking at Louisiana Downs where they held their Exotic Animal race yesterday. I didnt get to watch but i hear the russian barrel predicted the winner. I think the camel races would be a lot more fun if the people smoked camel cigarettes. Art. It can be sculpted, bringing to life beautiful detail. Or painted in luxurious strokes. And in rare cases. Both. Dagen thank you for watching the show tonight. You can follow kennedy on twitter and instagram kennedynation. And email her at kennedyfbn foxbusiness. Com. Tomorrow on the show ambassador john bowl attorney and his fabulous mustache. Mike barrack without a fabulous mustache and kmele foster. Im Dagen Mcdowell in for kennedy. Good night. 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