there. there s a lot of process and the process is continuing. we haven t seen any real progress, the only progress being one meeting leading to another meeting, leading to another meeting, which is all given vladimir putin time to build up his forces. this week is so critical. u.s. intelligence officials have been pointing to this week in particular, and u.s. officials in their public comments have underlined that russia has the capacity. don t forget that russia could act before the end of the olympics. the olympics end this sunday, so when you have that alarm being raised and you have u.s. officials underlying that it could happen before the olympics, the time is now. this is the week. the curtain has gone up, so to speak. we are all just watching and waiting to see if it happens, how it happens and how it would unfold, but the diplomacy piece, it keeps spinning without appearing to have any progress.
divided nato. what was brexit with some of the changes within the german government, the french government. so all of these things were contributors towards it. to your other question about what jake sullivan said early this morning. i have repeatedly said on various cnn shows that there are four elements of national power. information, economy, the military, which should always come out last and diplomacy. we ve been working hard on the diplomacy piece the last several months with multiple elements engaged. not just the united states but all of nato. the information piece is something, jim, and i served over 12 years in europe. this is the first time i ve seen the united states use information against russia. using the things that they are doing and publicizing them. because most of the things they do are very nefarious across the board. for the first time in my life fo
a migration crisis. weapons of mass destruction. he is saying enough. let s let everyone fight and get the out of here. dana: now, he s trying to figure out the diplomacy piece. i think you could agree, let s get out, but maybe just trying to find a way to get out with less bloodshed. emily: people are dying in syria, and turkey, and everywhere. my tax dollars are paying the salary for those people who are sitting there and storming out at meetings like it s too little kids or three kids. no he did it, no he did it, mom. i don t care. i want them to figure it out. thesi m so sick of the civil war happening and the insults from this branch of government. we pay them and we put our faith in them to pay these offices to come up with a consensus. juan: but how do you argue
it you re doing the diplomacy piece, you have to do the isolation, but it has to be a credible threat that s on the table and i believe that s what president trump is trying to do and say, look at, utter annihilation, catastrophic results will come for more. we saw china put out a couple of statements just yesterday that they understand this and they told north korea, we are not going to come to your aid if you strike the u.s. first. melissa: what would that look like you try to pressed china into service question rick we talked about how we need to assume the strategy of being ready for battle, but for china to intervene, what does that mean, raining them in? do they have to push for a regime change? what would be convincing that this is no longer a threat? for china, i don t think it needs to be a regime change. china wants the status quo. the north korean peninsula or the korean peninsula is a very
and use diplomatic relations to have russia play a more appropriate role as opposed to sending warships to defend them. what i find fascinating about this, i say this not left/right, is we wonder why there s an isolationist streak running right now in both parties. where suddenly you have this sense of you know what, this stuff is very hard and no matter what, they re going to hate us. i think because of the past wars and the past deployments there s a reluctance on both sides to get involved. i think that s a new part of our politics that s changed since ten years ago. but we are involved very aggressively diplomatically. the diplomacy piece is important. you don t always see it. i m telling you, it goes on. this administration s done quite well with it. we ll talk more raw politics later in the show. coming up, a look at who the democrats need to win over to keep control in the senate and who s really at risk of losing their senate seat. turning into a small battlefield but a