what can be done in the region. shannon: there are things, of course, the president can bring to the table that i would think just about everybody who is part of this meeting can agree on. fighting terrorism. they may define it differently. there are common threads that the u.n. can be used for and used for good. how do you see the president addressing that particular issue with this body? he has a great historic opportunity to form larger coalitions that never existed before in the united nations. what we saw this morning was a formation thanks to ambassador haley as a coalition for reform. 120 countries signed. now the president on the issue of counter terrorism and specific issue of extremism he has an alignment of planets. he addressed 50 muslim and arab leaders and europe. if you do the count between 50, another 27 plus countries from east asia, india, africa, we may form a very large alliance
only for the reason that the united nations was here that that turned out to be such a successful project. so i want to thank you, ambassador haley, for your introduction and for your steadfast advocacy for american interests on the world stage. on behalf of the co-host countries i would also like to thank secretary general gutierrez for you have been fantastic. for joining us and we affirm our commitment to the united nations reform. reform is what we re talking about. i applaud the secretary general for laying out a vision to reform the united nations so that it better serves the people we all represent. we support your efforts to look across the entire system and to find ways the united nations can better and be better at development, management, peace, and security. the united nations was founded
contests. but he didn t win the delegates. shannon: he did not. thank you so much. bill: mary anne ticked it off one after the other. you were ready for that. i do this every day. bill: thank you, ladies. 20 minutes before the hour. breaking news to the united nations. president trump arrived for the first big meeting of the day. a major focus, the threat north korea poses to the world. nikki haley in front of there walking to his left. will world leaders act on his message or will it fall yet again on deaf ears? i think the fire and fury, while he said this is what we can do to north korea, we wanted to be responsible and go through all diplomatic means to get their attention first. if that doesn t work general mattis will take care of it.
nimble and adaptable. shannon: he has talked a lot about the recent rounds of sanctions against the by the united nations against north korea. some of them having been unanimous which he counted as a big victory. he called on them to do better and with nikki haley at his side that will be his message this week. bill: sharing should not be disproportionate to a country given their duty, responsibility, military or the money they spend. the whole vision about reform is something that will continue. shannon: we ll keep track and see what he will focus on and how he is being received. that s coming up next. my dell small business advisor
the threat from north korea. what s the challenge now? i think the biggest challenge for the white house is making sure that diplomacy and sanctions are kept front and center when it comes to the bilateral relationship with north korea but that they do maintain the credible threat of military force. because that s what everything else hinges on. i think that s what general mcmaster and ambassador nikki haley and president trump are trying to do here. people accuse them of ratcheting up everything but it is really the north korean regime what has ratcheted up the threat of military force, not the united states. they re responding and reacting in the smartest way they know how. bill: i thought nikki haley said perfectly happy to allow james mattis to handle this. which is a very interesting