behavior feel very anxious. i mean it take some doing to be seen as more reckless and less reliable than the north koreans. assumy, weigh in on the two tracks. you have the diplomatic track and the military track. it s something that senator lindsey graham the senior senator from south carolina talked about today. let s take listen to what he said today. he made the decision that he is going the end the nuclear program. the only question is how and when. the preferred route is through peace, through a peace treaty a win/win for them and us. in terms of when, he wants it to be in his first term. but if diplomacy fails then military action is the only thing left, and it would be the utter destruction of the north korean regime. which would come at a high price. assumy,er theory, where where do things stand diplomatically. when you listen to the senator there, and president trump who mentioned he spoke to his defense secretary and south
i think we should go further. we have legislation to do that as you know, it s bipartisan. it s entitled stop the new york enables and china is an enabler. we could do more. about $1 billion of $3 billion, let s broaden those sanctions. be sure to use the u.s. financial system which is our biggest leverage to stop companies from places like china from doing business with north korea because they also want to do business with our financial institutions. chris, i think there s a lot more that can be done. absolutely. and we should move quickly. absolutely. that s why there s talk about should you just be down the military track, hopefully they re following a lot of different paths. we ll see what develops. there s something else we want to talk to you about. we have a documentary coming up about the explosion of sex trafficking here in the united states and not the way people think about it where young girls are taken from abroad and shipped into the united states. there are estima
all american presidents have understood that north korea provokes. it was always important that the president doesn t respond with more provocation. it s either a diplomatic track or some possible military track. but not using the same rhetoric. that heats everything up. that s what the current president is doing. and that s why there s such fear all over the world about where this ends. it s hard to control the military option. it s not as if it s going to work exactly according to some game plan. that s why this rhetoric is dangerous. doesn t he have a point that here we are with the north koreans testing missiles and threatening, you know, threatening guam and saying, still saying they want to wipe out the united states, they could wipe out the united states, and no one was able to stop this? they can t wipe out the united states, let s remember that. that s important. and no one disagrees that north korea is not a problem. the question is what do you do
belgium who have already been radicalized. the thing we have to understand is, the more successful we are in the battle field, the more they scatter, the more they go back to their home countries and the challenge goes from raqqa to london to paris to belgium. the more they are radicalized. two previous post 9/11 presidents, bush and obama, were on two tracks. one aggressive military track, strikes in afghanistan, also track to change the long-term relationship between the west and islam. we currently now the second track is in disarray or doesn t exist and that s a longer term problem. all right. up next vladimir putin floats conspiracy theories as he battles back questions over interfering with the presidential election. that and much more still ahead on morning joe.
agenda today. publicly the relations between the united states and russia have been very strained. behind the scenes through diplomatic channels the tone has been different. we ll learn more about the phone call from the russians than the white house. the white house has a close hold on these phone calls that the president has with leaders particularly since the leaks early on in the administration. shannon: what about the president s offer to meet with kim jong-un raising eyebrows from some? his strategy is operating on two tracks and two tracks converge and work together. first of all he has the military track. he has the aircraft carrier group parked off the coast of north korea and then on the other hand he is working the diplomatic track as well. president, rex tillerson sending a signal to kim jong-un. take a deep breath. the president saying yesterday he would be, quote, honored to meet with kim if the circumstances are right. listen to what sean spicer said about that yeste