president xi jinping. china of course is key in having sanctions be effective because of the trade and energy that flows between the two countries. latest set of measures that was voted on by the u.n. security council, the toughest set yet, still had to be watered down in order to secure the necessary support from china and russia. so the subtext to that, stephanie, is that sanctions are at their max. even nikki haley is admitting that it s going to take some time to see them through. so add into that a lot of military messaging as well. with those joint drills that were held today over the korean peninsula. the u.s., japan, south korea, flying super sonic bombers and stealth jets, using live weapons to try to increase the pressure on pyongyang. one defense official in south korea s defense ministry said that it was a very rare maneuver that they performed today in having these aircraft go quite close to the demarcation line between north and south korea. so this is all trying to ininv
allowing national corporations and countries, trillions overseas so that they can hire thean new workers and invest rit here in the united states. and also, building at least 300 miles of the wall and funding the entire wall and do it before the 2018 midterm elections with the american people looking to say good-bye to you. energy independence. it s so important. the lifeblood of our economy. repealing and replacement ofic obamacare for so many americans that are suffering. it s time for congress to come together and get the job doneom for once. with a sense of urgency. and finally tonight, very scary situation out of north korea the puts the entire world in p jeopardy tonight. over the weekend, the rogue regime conducted its sixth nuclear test of a hydrogen bomb they claimed could fit on the end of a long-range missile. we ve been seeing they ve been test firing that.on pyongyang is also threateningir america by saying they will send gift packages to the u.s.th and according to sout
fix the problem we have in the aging society is by bringing in productive and immigrants who are of working age and the secretary is wrong they are not net takers, they are giving by paying taxes into our system. it s personal and political, so many things in washington are. it s interesting and kristen alluded to this. it s jeff sessions making the announcement, not the president from the east room or at the white house, it s the attorney general over at the doj. one of the things that we ve gotten a sense of from the white house is that there was a lot of pressure on the president from the attorney general from steven miller who is an extremely hawkish on immigration, that these two advisers pushed the president to make a decision to kind of go along with the timing and threats coming from the state attorneys general and that kind of forced and made today the decision day. and it sounds like the president by all accounts is kind of a
countries, other countries. you can only do trade or business with the united states or with north korea. not both. so would that be eeffective? a lot of folks think that is unrealistic. that is unrealistic, but secondary boycott of entities that do business with north korea are not realistic. we have started doing it and i think we re going to see more secondary boycott. i m not sure about the overall trade, but i think that is unrealistic. hang tight for a second. i want to bring you two in here, heidi and jennifer. as we talk about trade and economic sanctions discussion in the white house of pulling out of a free trade agreement with south korea. in the last couple minutes you had senator hatch and head of ways and means to finance and our producer on the hill put it, big guns coming out and urging the president not to do that. he s facing some political pressure. that is exactly why lawmakers are so concerned right now that right at the time when we need to be locking ar
so we re following some new developments this morning after kim jong-un s latest nuclear test. north korea s ambassador is warning the u.n. that more gift packages, as he says, are on the way if the u.s. keeps putting pressure on pyongyang. vladimir putin is asking for some dialogue overnight. warning that ramping up what he calls military hysteria could lead to a global catastrophe. richard engel is in seoul, south korea. new military drills were held there today, right? so, oortanother show of forc that came from the south koreans. we ve seen many of these over the last couple of weeks. the south korean military trying to reassure its people, trying to project messaging towards north korea that it is strong. that its army is robust. it s not just a pushover. but i think that the big news came out maybe with that