Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
scheduled exercise. annual military exercises, ballistic missile drills. this requires a level of coordination and diplomatic engagement between the countries that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. as you rightly pointed out these are countries with decades of mistrust and suspicion going back quite a ways now. they have come quite a ways beyond that to say, look. these are our shared concerns. we are putting some of that behind us so we can cooperate here and move forward to work together diplomatically and militarily. here is national security council s john kirby speaking about this earlier today. we are talking about ways to better codify and institutionalize tri lateral cooperation across a wide range of issues not just in the security realm. so again, you ll see these leaders come together today and announce a set of initiatives we hope will be sustainable for the long term.
Developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering, the Yars missile has a range of 12,000 km. An upgraded version of the Topol-M missile, the RS-24 can carry at least six independently targetable warheads – a payload dozen times stronger than the bomb the Americans dropped on Hiroshima
introducing you, from secretary of state rex tillerson. michael. well, my first thought is this sounds like an intensification of the economic pressure. if one listens to mr. tillerson s comments, he reminds other countries they have obligations about north korean workers, presumably about the kind of business they do with north korea. it suggests that secretaryss tillerson is aware that there probably are no good military options. we can try to shoot down missiles before they are launched but that riskss escalation and might not be possible. we don t know where the missile is launched from. the economic instruments, however unsuccessful they have been so far, may still be our best recourse. if the whole world gets behind it.d bret: in conjunction with the statement, at the same time, we are getting news from south korea that the u.s., along with south korea, holding joint ballistic missile drills. south korea media reporting.
ballistic missile drills. south korea media reporting. are going to find out if there is the u.n. security council session nikki haley wants. where are the russians and chinese? are they going to be willing to have additional sanctions on north korea or do they want more talk and we have to do this alone? flying over north korea is a good thing to do but the question really is are we going to get serious about financial and economic sanctions? we work for a while, ten years ago in the bush administration. we let up on them. what i if you are a bank doing business with north korea, you are out. that is significant sanctions but that would affect china, chinese banks. are we going to do that? that s the kind of tough measure we should be willing to take. bret: is that what you hear in the statement? unclear. tough talk but are we willing to go forward with that?