now that we re having a standoff with words, u.s. diplomats in cuba are the ones who are being hurt. not elsewhere in the world. this just underscores how the world is volatile. we have situations where world leaders are trying to test how far they can push this inexperienced president. do you agree with this assessment? there s a lot of republicans who want the it to escalate. marco rubio has met with the president three times to talk about reversing a lot of what barack obama did in terms of normalizing relations with cuba. you have a different position from the get go on cuba. this gives them more ammunition. when you look at what the state department is saying, i want to tell you what else they had to say more broadly about the situation. listen. the cuban government has a responsibility and an obligation under the geneva convention. that s why this is a concern of
north korea, as we all know, president obama, in his famous meeting with president trump at the white house said, north korea is going to be number one on your plate. so this has been in the works. but certainly, the focus has become more intense since the second icbm test. that s for sure. cynthia mcfadden, i know you are continuing to follow up on this. thank you for joining us here. i appreciate it. i m going to ask jim and amber to stick around. because with everything going on in the world right now, president trump is tweeting about the leader of his own party in the senate. and he s turning up the heat on that fight with mitch mcconnell. quote, he just couldn t get repeal and replace done, the president says. well, up next, senator mcconnell s former chief of staff is joining us to respond and to talk about the fallout. for your heart. your joints. or your digestion. so why wouldn t you take something for the most important part of you. your brain. with an ingredient originall
through the facts, right? the nuts and bolts about this u.s. nuclear arsenal, this revamp that is happening. so there s been some increased interest in this in the past 24 hours because president trump tweeted about it yesterday, saying that under his presidency, it s more modernized than ever and it s the strongest it s ever been sp. so the reality has been, in 2010, president obama agreed to a nuclear modernization effort, that actually began several years later in 2014, when he ordered it to begin. what this is is a 30-year, as you said, $1 trillion, estimated $1 trillion project that would modernize all three legs of the nuclear triad. so that means, at sea, in the air, and on land. that includes, as you mentioned, hallie, that includes nuclear submarines. it includes, potentially, also this new surface-to-air missile, that s one of the more contentious parts of this, and one of more expensive parts of this, is the development of this
our top priority. we re taking that situation seriously and it s under investigation right now. reporter: so seriously that the u.s. has already retaliated, in fact, by expelling two cuban diplomats from the united states. cuba calling that move unjustified. they insist they are the diplomatic security service as well. peter alexander in new jersey. e we miss you in washington. we ll see you soon. amber, what does this say about the relationship right now under president trump between the u.s. and cuba? that it s volatile and the world is volatile. president obama s way out the door he opened up relations with cuba. made a big show of it. president trump came into. office and basically started closing the door. it wasn t popular with most people in congress. republicans and democrat, except for a few republican hawks, but that was kind of it. it was a weak story and president trump s administration was going to carry forth those policies.
got not enough appreciation, which was, their success in getting the u.n. to actually put really series sanctions on north korea, to get the chinese, the russians to do that, president obama couldn t do that. so that s a whole new level of pressure that this regime is feeling. and it certainly creates this heightened level of urgency on both sides. but the pressure, the idea from us, we have to put more and more pressure on them. and this is somebody who only responds to lunacy and bellicosity, perhaps. well, you talk about in the response from the president, the very strong statements that he s made. but our next guest, coming up in just a couple of minutes later on in the show, amber, talks about cory shake, a member of the bush 43 administration, talks about how the surprising part has been so little alarm has been expressed so far by the governments of south korea, japan, and china. this suggests that governments are beginning to ignore the president s statements. yeah. we kn