to return a denuclearized korean peninsula, and also how we re going to maintain peace by keeping our militaries alert while our diplomats, japanese, south korean and u.s., work with all the nations to denuclearize the korean peninsula. mattis s trip comes just a few weeks before the u.s. president s first trip to asia. as the u.s. president prepare futures that trip, he discussed north korea and its nuclear program in an interview with fox news on sunday. mr. trump praised china for stepping up, and boasted that the u.s. is prepared for anything. they have been helping us. they re closing off their banking systems to north korea. they have cut the oil way down. look, 93% of the things going into north korea comes through china. china is big stuff. i believe he s got he s got the power to do something very significant with respect to north korea. we ll see what happens.
his counterparts from the association of southeast asian nations. speaking with reporters earlier, mattis emphasized diplomacy as a way to de-escalate the crisis. we were talking about how we reinforced a diplomatic efforts to resolve this campaign to try to gain a denuclearized korean peninsula. and also how we re going to maintain our peace while keeping our military alert while our diplomats, south korean and u.s. work with all the nations to denuclearize the korean peninsula. mattis s trip comes just a few weeks before the u.s. president s first trip to asia. and president trump prepares for that as he does, he discussed north korea and its nuclear program in an interview with fox news on sunday. mr. trump praised china for stepping up, and boasted that the u.s. is prepared for anything.
decades. also with me maggie haberman. maggie, the president does seem to have the habit particularly on weekends of getting on the twitter machine and going for it. yeah. it s usually times when he s isolated either by himself in the residence or whatever reason or if he s at work, but when there are fewer people around, fewer activities. in this case it s not clear precisely what set him off, but most people in the west wing think it was some combination of watching fox news on sunday where there was some reference to corker and tillerson and this was a front page washington post story about the budget, which corker has also been involved with. but it can be almost anything, as you know. he can have a sidebar with someone and something sets him off. there are all these strategies that have gone into place over nine months to figure out the bess way to manage him. i think that john kelly has come up with some. even when he controls the inputs and information throw you can t
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