respect to north korea. kristen welker is at the white house with it. kristin. hi, ali and steph. president trump just announced during his cabinet meeting today that he intends to designate north korea as a state sponsor of terror effectively reversing a decision that was made by former president george w. bush to take north korea off of that list. why is this significant? well, of course, it comes in the wake of recent provocations by north korea. it also comes after the death of american otto warmbier and after the president s 12-day trip throughout asia when the whole focus of that trip was to try to turn up the heat and put pressure on north korea to abandon its nuclear program. this move will allow the administration to put stiffer sanctions on north korea for all of those actions. when will those sanctions come? we are expect agannouncement
korea. the worst thing would be do it halfway. to try to make nice and have a clean war. if we must go to north korea with our military force, we need to hammer them and give the world a lesson of what we can really do. bill: thank you for your time and comments. keep that as an if for now. yes. bill: we don t want it. ralph peters there in washington, d.c. thank you. shannon: in the next hour we ll have more on the north korean threat. senator rob portman, a member of the foreign relations committee. he also fought to try to get american otto warmbier back to his family will join us live. bill: is disney spying on your kids by the apps they use online? hum.
obviously we have to be ready, and they are ready to fight tonight as they say. there is a strong military presence there, that s very, very capable. i don t think it suits anybody to let it get to that point. i do think there are other options here short of it. if anything, mr. warmbier s death should underscore the brew tamt brutality of this regime and galvanize the international community to put pressure on pyongyang to do the right thing. thank you to both. up next, we ll check back in with john king for the latest vote numbers in the most expensive congressional race in history, $50 million, georgia s special election. also, the latest on the gop health care bill. they re planning on a vote next thursday. so when will they actually reveal the bill to the american people? obster s lobster & shrimp summerfest, lobster and shrimp are teaming up in so many new dishes. like coastal lobster and shrimp, with shrimp crusted with kettle chips. or new, over-the-top lobster and shrimp
the administration, for all the tough talk, are saying that he was unjustly imprisoned, says the secretary of state. the president saying that it was brutal treatment. but they are stopping far short of the term murder. clearly there are three other americans and a canadian still in north korea locked up by them. they would like to bring them home. they don t want to make that situation worse. a lot to contend with. now the question about how the u.s. should take action, if any, against north korea. and the accusation that the trump administration could have been could have done more to help him. joining me now are john kirby, a former state department states person and pentagon press secretary. he was in the obama administration when otto warmbier was captured. also with us, david gergen. admiral, the president at least laid implicit blame at president obama s feet.
allowed to happen, and frankly, if he were brought home sooner, i think the result would have been a lot different. he should have been brought ohm that same day. the obama administration is responding to that. and warmbier s parents have made a decision on his autopsy. so let s talk about warmbier s family. they are electing not to have a full autopsy done? they objected to the coroner s office to performing a full autopsy. it is not clear why they asked that, but the office, the coroner s office did say they were still performing they did an external examination and they are doing interviews. they have not, they said, issued a cause and manner of death yet. but they did seem to leave open the possibility that a cause and manner of death could be concluded from the medical tests that have been done, the mri scans that have been done and the interviews they are