night. watch. for decades you were dealt one devastating blow after another. disastrous trade deals, which i m straightening out. i m not saying hey, there may be a little pain for a little while, but ultimately for my farmers, i love my farmers. they re great patriots. don t forget, the farmers have been doing lousy for 15 years, okay? dana: i think senator, i m from wyoming, you re there in oklahoma. we all love our farmers. that s true. i wonder what you were hearing from people back home about their concerns, understanding that they want to give the president latitude to do what he needs to do when it comes to the economy and our trade deals, but are they concerned this could hurt their business? sure, it is a big concern to them. you talk about cutting off trade, whether it be nafta with canada and with mexico, or whether it be into asia or whether it be into europe trying to get access to the european
which makes beijing very uncomfortable. there have been editorials in the global times saying if the united states were to launch a preemptive strike that china should actually step in. so the rhett writ heating up. if beijing were to think that the u.s. were serious about a military option, would they be more willing to go beyond what they ve done over the last many years that has proven to be very ineffective. i was in north korea last week, we see whine these cars, chinese products on store shelves. china has a lot of leverage, but the u.s. has leverage over china given the hundreds of billions in trade. you saw the tweet from president trump, by the way, saying the u.s. might consider cutting off trade from all countries that trade with north korea. obviously that was a thinly failed threat there. will, you ve taken to north
war on the peninsula. that was nikki hailey and the chinese ambassador at an emergency session of the u.n. council earlier this morning. it is in response to rising tensions after yorng ya pyongyang s claims they tested a hydrog hydrogen bomb. joining us now is the republican congressman from florida. francis rooney, one of them, at least. i want to talk about the president s stance on the north korean threat. we saw him tweeting about it, and now he is talking about ending trade with all countries that do business with north korea.
our allies, in particular south korea, 10 million south koreans there in seoul and the president is tweeting about appeasement, cutting off trade with south korea. how does that impact this entire situation? well, the south korean leadership a few hours ago wasn t very happy. clearly this is, we don t like south korea week, because also just a few days ago before the nuclear tests, there were all these reports circulating in washington that the president wanted to send a notice of termination of the u.s.-south korea free trade agreement. that s not a good idea, even though the south koreans have been cheating on that deal. this is the worst week to do that because we need, as general hertling said, our allies on board. panel, thank you all very much. obviously we ll be covering this top story and whatever breaking developments throughout the morning. to our other top story.
effort to get north korea back into a diplomatic dialogue. right now, the north korean view seems to be build up the nuclear power until they re at the stage that roughly pakistan is at and then basically present it to the u.s. as a feta com plea. the president s rhetoric has had very little impact on the situation, whether it s locked and loaded. kim jong-un has proceeded along the same line. one thing that might have an impact is a tweet that president trump sent out about south korea. their talk of appeasement won t work. they only understand one thing. there s also talk about cutting off trade from south korea. how might that tweet read if you are kim jong-un? i think if you re kim jong-un, one way to read that is to think you re finally having effect on fractioning the u.s./south korea alliance.