Revealed that a senior u. S. Diplomat has been having conversation with north korean counter parts, another sign that the Trump Administration is quietly trying to calm this down. Joining us now, john bolton. Good evening, ambassador. Seems like weve never been closer to it Nuclear Brink than we are now. Is that a correct statement . Were at a crisis point because of the advances that north korea has made in the last eight years, so donald trump inherits 25 years of a failed policy of Negotiating North Korea out of these programs and his options are few and not very good. What is interesting is the
regime and the threat of Nuclear Terrorism against our country. Without looking backward for too long, do you see the way that some of the administrations, particularly the Clinton Administration, giving money to north korea, and then the parallel of the Obama Administration giving money to iran, do you see that the appeasement that seems to be going on is only to our detriment and its time
flowing and there is serious disruption to the market, what we see is plenty of spare capacity. the reason is the buoy. opec was production cuts which were quite big so for instance saudi arabia has spare capacity of around 3 million barrels per day so whatever happens, there are people who can move into barrels that are missing from the market should that be necessary. trailing market should that be necessary. why do ou market should that be necessary. why do you think market should that be necessary. why do you think secondary sanctions have not been placed on iran? it is those that could seriously impact their oiling industry, isn t it? because it targets banking? yes. their oiling industry, isn t it? because it targets banking? yes, the bankin: because it targets banking? yes, the banking sanctions because it targets banking? yes, the banking sanctions but because it targets banking? yes, the banking sanctions but again - because it targets banking? yes, the banking sancti
leaf. josh, to that end, what do you make of the comments from the nato general that said there are signs that russia has requested this lethal aid from china, although there s no evidence yet that they re delivering any weapons? how serious is that? right. that s no change from what we heard last week from u.s. officials, however i think there is some evidence they ve been getting some limited amounts of ammunitions and guns. meanwhile, they re getting tons of nonlethal support. body armor, drones, those microchips you talked about earlier. china s all in on the russian army. the only reason they re not giving them more weapons is because they re afraid of getting sanctioned. that s what the nato secretary-general has tried to do. he s trying to threaten sanctions. to be honest, i don t know if putin and xi care about that anymore. they busted out of the economic sanctions, they busted out of the banking sanctions, they busted out of the energy sanctions and busted out of the food
the conflict and being the escalation itself, i think we ll see tomorrow what the appetitive initiative is at this particular state for responding. but some kind of response will have to come out the appetite in nato. probably a fairly the appetite in nato. probably a fairlj w the appetite in nato. probably a fairl ,, ., the appetite in nato. probably a fairl , ., fairly quick response from bali charles michelle fairly quick response from bali charles michelle has - fairly quick response from bali charles michelle has called . fairly quick response from bali j charles michelle has called for fairly quick response from bali l charles michelle has called for a meeting of eu leaders over the striking poland. iwould meeting of eu leaders over the striking poland. i would think very quickly there will be a unified response coming out of the eu? absolutely. the eu has been meeting with foreign ministers over the last couple of days discussing the right package of sanctions the eu has a
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