jong-un s regime in korea because at the end of the day his government in beijing fear a collapse of north korea more than they fear north korea nuclear weapons. i m highly skeptical we could ever get the chinese to put enough pressure on north korea to make kim jong-un cry uncle. it seems like if they are getting all this pressure, it appears to have be having the reverse effect. instead, we re seeing an acceleration of the nuclear development and their program. no? yeah. i think we are. look, kim jong-un is going for i mean, he s had a nuclear capability since at least 2006 when they exploded their first nuclear weapon in a test that year during the george w. bush administration. what s really concerning over the past year is the possibly development of the capability to strike the united states homeland with the development of
we wonder what their game is. it might be trying to complete this missile program before china really cracks down on economic sanctions or they are trying to keep the pressure on china to say, you do know what command do not squeeze us so hard, because we are half crazy and if you squeeze us too hard, we can do things you do not like in response. try to play the game of perfecting their missile capability but also keeping beijing on edge, tighter and tougher than sanctions get doesn t necessarily make north korea cry uncle. these are the various messages on today s launch. shepard: the white house pool, the camera people have just been brought into the roosevelt room. soon the president will start speaking. if you are advising the president today, michael, and what sort of rhetorical flourishes that are appropriate to what you tell them? secretary mattis has been
in reno we get a lot of president candidates and we really are a place where we get a lot of touch downs. so maybe we get more than the usual place. but it is an honor to have him come here, but the uncertainty of the times are putting stress on cities. and we re a city that is so stretched, my counsel and i we have had our backs to the wall and we ve had to make decisions on being insolvent. when you re the a city level and trying to make budgets and manage your overtime with your police department, you have to make the you know, cry uncle when you re seeing other service demands jump up above your priorities. our priorities are neighborhood patrols, traffic enforcement and crime investigation. and these public assemblies, this one and other ones, are really ramping up and keeping us from doing and meeting those priorities. i think that my call for him to come at another time would have
middle a battle. reporter: how does the battle end? when there s lots of destruction and lots of dead people, at some point everyone will lift up their hands and cry uncle. someone will broker a cease-fire. the question right now is who? reporter: brokers to end the cycle of violence are in short supply. and former egyptian president mohammed morsi of the muslim brotherhood played a key role in negotiating the 2012 cease-fire, but the current president treats hamas like a terrorist organization and u.s. credibility with the party is also very low this week. a top white house officials speaking in israel slammed the occupation on the west bank as wrong, walling it a recipe for continued incitement and instability, wolf. yeah, we know that the new president of egypt general al sissi, he believes the hamas is closely aligned with the muss limb brotherhood in egypt, the
they feel they have to cry uncle. so, no, i think that s their mindset here is that they re not going to lose faith, the public s faith as fast as republicans are and i think you ve seen the polling play out that way. i have a question, you talked a little about this yesterday, in terms of the legislative toolbox the republicans i think have been pretty shrewd in constantly fuvending these funding bills, now there is a committee to talk about a resolution herewhile that may be political theater or legitimately rounded in the desire to goerkts it appears they are being quote/unquote reasonable t. democrats in the senate have not used any of those mechanisms to further their talking points. do you think we reap a point where they are going to the legislative toolbox on the part of the senate democrats? it will be interesting to do