this war. when you explain this to people, you say 85,000 kids have died of starvation or disease, the worst cholera epidemic in the history of the recorded world. it s that the the u.s. is watching it, but it s u.s. bombs, u.s. targeting assistance. there s nobody who is for that. there s this vague notion in foreign policy circles that you always have to support saudi arabia because they re always fighting iran. but in this conflict, the longer it goes on, the further we drag iran in. iran and the houthis, who are the folks fighting in yemen, weren t that close in the beginning of the engagement. they re close now. because the longer the civil war goes on, the tighter they become. so even if you stay about iran staying in this war, is empowering their authority. aside from this vote, it was going to happen and there s going to be some question whether a shutdown will or will not happen. what is your read post the
and the reason for that being that either diplomacy will run its course and it will be successful or north korea will likely continue to advance its nuclear weapons program and this administration has made clear that it is not taking the military option off the table and it is also considering this potential of a preventive strike something that has received a lot of criticism from foreign policy circles in washington, this notion of going after north korea before it attacks to prevent it from obtaining the nuclear weapons capability to strike the united states. stand by, will ripley our correspondent is in pyongyang, he is joining us on the phone. will, what are you hearing over there from your sources as this summit on june 12th in singapore between the president and chism goi kim jung-un going to take place? reporter: i think there is a lot of questions on the ground here in korea about whether the summit will take place. north koreans have said that they would walk away as well
bears fruit is when it erupts between the united arab emirates on one side and the qataris on the other and the administration jumps in quickly and takes the side of the saudis in a way that raised eyebrows in foreign policy circles. what it looks like is help from a foreign government during the election on one side and a payback by the president and his team after he took office. a little more detail. here s what we know happened after these meetings. these meetings that don jr. s attorneys say were nothing. nader after the meeting met more often with trump advisers. at the end of the campaign, nader and that guy joe zamel, guess where they went, they visited the white house after the inauguration. the new york times goes on to say, quote, since entering the white house, mr. trump, this is exactly to max s point, has allied himself closely with saudi arabia and the uae. his first overseas trip was to riyadh. he strongly backed the saudi and emiraty efforts to isolate their neighb
being in north korea, it was not included in the scripted remarks. whether he planned to say that or not, it is certainly even just in republican foreign policy circles, it is debatable whether or not the gaddafi example and now the iran example strengthen or weaken the president s hand in dealing with north korea. it s certainly a significant tell that he couldn t resist stepping away from the podium but still talking about north korea. west wing aides we ve been talking to say that s where his focus is right now. he believes that some sort of deal with kim jong-un, that is sort of the ticket, replacing what he thought middle east peace could be. that that will be something that he could achieve that none of his predecessors could. there s been some chatter as a
what was so fascinating about this at the time was it was not just a departure from the obama administration. it was departure from almost every leading foreign policy security expert on the republican side who had come to the conclusion that what they wanted was more lethal assistance for the ukrainians. at the moment, this is parked, as the ambassador says on, donald trump s desk. but it is not clear that donald trump wants to go there. that he wants to give assistance that the ukrainians need. based on his public commentary, i don t know time trump is spending, the meticulously analyzing this, a chess piece this putin s strategy. mr. ambassador, i want to read to you from the campaign e-mails. you ve been around the foreign policy circles. you know these players. there was now documented evidence that has become public that they were directly working this in contra doiks what paul manafort did. as for the amendment page, carter page e-mailed, excellent