overwhelmingly we have polls in the last few days saying americans want to stay on the sidelines here. american allies across the board have increasingly over the last year wondered very openly about what kind of american commitment we have to them. allies in the middle east, saudi arabia, allies in asia, like japan, south korea. allies in europe like germany following the snowden scandal. following the syria debacle. this is by far the largest crisis that obama has had to respond to and american allies want to know, what kind of role does america want to have? we apparently do want to be the world s private investigator, but that doesn t go over very well. so obama has to tell these guys who the u.s. is. and an apathy towards this situation, means there is a built-in cost for the president spending time and energy on this issue. this is distracting from his meat and potatoes issues. he s not doing well on his
allies in asia on the crisis in the korean peninsula and consider a proposal by china to hold emergency talks and, condemning joint u.s. and south korean naval exercises, north korea calling the war games a pretext for aggression. reporter: china launches a bid to cool rising tensions between north korea and south korea calling for emergency talks but all eyes are on the north as it puts surface-to-surface missiles on the launch pad and a calling for 6 party talks north korea walked out of two years ago, in washington, john mccain, the top republican on the senate armed services committee says he doesn t give much weight to china s latest diplomatic move. i m only encouraged by action, which would bring north korea to a point where they would abandon their aggressive behavior and that can only really be done now by china, and