tweet softly. and put the rhetoric down, move towards the negotiations, the six power negotiations have not taken place for six years now. get that under way. there are many things that we can accomplish in the negotiation process and i believe it is possible to denuclearize the korean peninsula in a serious negotiations that would come after these sanctions begin to take hold and they will. they re going to put an extraordinary amount of pressure on north korea. and that s what we have to get to. congressman, you took a trip to south korea this summer. how will this war of escalating words be received by south korea? when the president refers to kim jong-un as rocket man, that s a predictable response. what is your opinion about how the south koreans will responds
rockets. the problem here is, we need to back away from that. and i really would help that the president does not respond to this most latest words from north korea. what are the chances that he s going to tweet on this this snee evening? about 98%. and if he does tweet, tweet softly. tweet in such a way that you re encouraging negotiations. build upon the words that have been said with regard or actually the sanctions, build upon those sanctions. you don t need to be bellicose. the facts are there. the banks are going to be restricted in dealing with north korea. that s a very important and a very powerful sanctions. tweet softly. we want to get to negotiations, which is what the president did say. use that line of rhetoric or that line of tweets rather than rocket man or any other kind of thing that you might use if you
we are following the scramble for republicans to pass their bill to repeal obamacare this month. cnn congressional correspondent phil mattingly says president trump is pushing for this bill and claims it would cover pre-existing conditions, but that is not necessarily the case, right? reporter: a lot of concerns from wary senators and outside groups. when you dig deeper into the bill, doesn t necessarily hold up. as the senate plows toward a last second attempt to repeal obamacare next week, president trump is weighing in on twitter, trying to soothe skeptics in his own party. he tweeted, i would not sign graham/cassidy, did not include pre-existing conditions. it does.
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north korea s nuclear weapons and missile development is a grave threat to peace and security in our world. reporter: president trump announcing a new round of u.s. economic sanctions on north korea aimed at deterring the regime s rapidly advancing nuclear program. a new executive order will cut off north korea s efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind. reporter: the announcement with leaders of south korea and japan comes a week after the rogue regime fired a intercontinental ballistic missile for the second time in a month. make a clear choice, do business with the united states or facilitate trade with the lawless regime in north korea. reporter: but years of sanctions, including the toughest ever to be approved by