refugees it is more important than ever to make sure we know who is coming into the country. listen here. it has publicly been reported those were individuals who had come into england through a refugee program and it simply underscores the strong leadership that president trump has provided. we have to continue and we will continue to make sure that anyone coming into the united states of america does not represent a threat to our communities and our families. something we ll keep watching. the president has to do something by sunday. shannon: more broadly the supreme court will hear the case october 10th unless something changes. nice to have you here in new york city. bill: president trump is on board the latest obama repeal and replace bill. senator john kennedy will tell us if the votes are there coming up a bit. the unmasking of trump officials during final days. former u.n. ambassador samantha
bill: we understand south korea is making a humanitarian gesture toward the north. what is that about, greg? this is significant, bill. announced today here in seoul $8 million humanitarian aid package to north korea via unicef and the world food program. south korea has been knocked by president trump and ally japan for being a little bit too close to pyongyang. according to seoul, this aid will not go to the regime itself. will only go to the people. on the other hand, it is guns and butter in south korea for north korea. those exercises we watched firsthand earlier in the week involving u.s. army and south korean forces continue just a couple miles away from the dmz and north korea practiced today loading and airlifting ammunition and other gear to the troops on the front line
the tone is different. policy is the same. every american president has said if we have to defend ourselves from north korea we ll end the regime. trump puts it in more stark and robust terms than past presidents and uses the belittleling nickname. calling kim jong-un rocket man will he put a nuclear weapon on and hit the united states? he is already doing this. shannon: in response to her comments he said previous administrations shouldn t be criticizing me. what they did led us to that moment. is it fair? that s true. it is a bipartisan failure. bill clinton failed, barack obama failed and george w. bush failed. but there is the so-called agreed framework that the clinton administration hailed as a great diplomatic triumph that north koreans cheated on and advanced their program while the deal was in place. george w. bush had a breakthrough deal where they released the frozen north korean funds. got nothing. obama s policy was strategic patience saying we ll sit back
shannon: republicans facing a big test now in their last-ditch attempt to appeal obamacare in part. a vote could come next week on the graham-cassidy bill. replacing it with block grants to the state. president trump announcing his support. president trump: graham-cassidy will do it the right way. it is doing it the right way. there is tremendous support from republicans. certainly we re 47 or 48 already senators and a lot of others are looking at it positively. i think it s much better than the previous shot, which was very sadly let down. but again, we ve been hearing about repeal and replace for seven years. it has a chance. shannon: john kennedy of louisiana joins us now. good morning, senator.
the u.n. general assembly. there are one-on-one sessions on either side. as always north korea stealing the show. foreign minister of the regime responding to president trump s comments that the u.s. would totally destroy north korea if it threatens the u.s. and its allies with nukes, if they thought he would scare us with a sound of a dog barking, the foreign minister is quoted as saying, that would be a silly dream. this referring apparently to some north korean proverb about barking dogs. as for branding kim jong-un as a rocket man in that tweet, president trump did that. the foreign minister is quoted saying i pity his aides. he speaks to the general assembly on friday. you might be wondering what kim jong-un is doing all this. according to state news agency today he was inspecting an orchard.