noted that the war has seen a trump administration taking control of this crisis. after he met them at the white house on sunday. tweeting specifically about putting it on china, the president tweeting among other things. north korea is a rogue nation which has become a great start, embarrassing china, which is trying to help, but with little success. he added later that the u.s. is considering in addition to other options stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. then today the president carefully working the phones, talking to german chancellor, the president of trump noted that the latest publication only serves to increase the international community prohibiting the activities, all is on the table. also spoke with the president of south korea, the white house is wondering about that call, maximizing pressure on north korea, using all means at
has said all options remain on the table. among the options have been sanctions and drafting a package of sanctions. the president tweeting this, the united states is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. now that once again brings us back to china. now there is a lot of daylight between going after chinese banks or additional chinese banks and stopping all trade. what s the likelihood of that happening? i think the likelihood is high in the sense it should be a worldwide measure, not just chinese banks but any country willing to bank with north korea if we ll be effective. so at the end of the day what you have to do is get the world community allied behind the sanctions to penalize the north korean regime and not just the north korean people. that s the hard part. making it effective will be tough but it has to be backed by military strength and willing to go that road. no one wants to go that road
message. where does that land on the statesman like scale? you have one where he accuses south korea of appeasement with north korea and another one saying we re going to stop threatening to stop and considering to stop all trade with any country doing business with north korea. that, of course, is china. what does this do to the conversation? that s a setup question. the lack of statesmanship about it president of the united states is a major destabilizing factor in world affairs. do his words destabilize? absolutely, yes. the words and the actions. what does the president do? he assumes office. one, he limits our influence in the region by getting out of the partnership by continually even more recently attacking our allies when we really need to be focusing on our adversaries. contradicting his top cabinet officials. these tweets are so dangerous and doing so much damage to the united states and allies at a time when we need to be standing
handling north korea put repeatedly said all options are on the table. we heard the same thing from nikki haley at the un. president trump feeted the united states is considering in addition to other options stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. our man on the north lawn, kevin cork, live at the white house. kevin, have you seen anybody head in today, secretary of state tillerson, mattis, mcmaster, the national security advisor? you ve been over here plenty of times, you know how it works. keeping our eye on the west exec and the walkway. so far not yet. this is a circumstance, leland, where theed a mshgs is speaking with one voice. time for talk is apparently over. and i say apparently, because as you heard from nikki haley, it is clear that the united states is pushing, not only the united nations but in particular china. as you point out with that tweet, if you won t act we re not afraid to act unilaterally.
will fail just like they did. clayton: he is comfortable in having his own people be mal-nourished to the point they develop glaucoma and eye problems because they are not getting the proper nourishment they need. abby: i m not sure that china actually cares as much about sanctions. do you know what they re most concerned about? they have already digested, accepted the fact north korea. they are okay with that what china is most concerned about is going to war with north korea that would be a disaster for them. the millions of people that would go over the border into china. you think about losing their dominance in that region. we have to continue to have that tough rhetoric, particularly as it relates to china and say if you do not help us with north korea, we are going to continue to threaten taking military action there. pete: speaking of rhetoric, the president tweeted yesterday the united states is considering in addition to other options stopping all trade with any country doing