second summit and you are not getting concrete prop is out of the north koreans. we need a complete declaration of all their missile and nuke sites and a firm timetable for disarmament. we are not anywhere close to that right now. we should be there already. thearthel: there are other plays at the table. china who is double dipping on trade. how does the president play his hand toward those countries? president trump should be putting pressure on moscow and bay jim and seoul. secretary pompeo says our policies haven t changed. well, they have. we have relaxed sanctions. they are getting the money they need. arthel: sanctions on china,
a u.s. official tells cnn the russians are also expanding their operations now flying from a third air base just as the administration is trying to keep up the pressure on moscow. we ve been saying they have a strategy that is doomed to fail. and behind the scenes pentagon officials will tell you none of this adds up to being a game changer to ultimately defeat isis. even this will not be enough. and it will be a very long road ahead. jake. barbara starr, thanks so much. a stark warning from ted koppel, the u.s. government is entirely unprepared for a cyber attack that could wipe out power for years. but koppel says one religious group knows exactly how to react. he joins me to explain next.
administration is tries to keep up the pressure on moscow. we ve been saying they have a strategy that is doomed to fail. reporter: still no one is even suggesting these new options will be a game changer. this will, they say, be a very long road ahead. wolf? certainly will be. all right. barbara, thank you. tulsi gabbard is still with us. you think, congresswoman it s a good idea to keep troops on the ground, but it s important to make clear exactly what their mission is. do you understand what their mission is in syria? that s exactly the point. first and foremost, we need to make sure that we, our troops, our resources, are not doing anything to help these islamic extremist groups further their goal, to reach their objective of overthrowing the syrian government of assad. unless and until the united states changes its position of conducting this illegal and counterproductive war to reach
the u.s. military exercises are going to be taking place. they re going to take place in two nato allies that are to the west of ukraine, poland here. you can t actually see estonia, just north of belarus up here, one of the three baltic states. a company of u.s. troops in poland and another company up there as you can see close to ukraine and close to russia. i wonder if i can ask you. you ve been there a long time. you ve talked to people on ground. how important a gesture would this be for the government in kiev and for other nato allies in the region? reporter: i think it would be a very important gesture and it will be a very important gesture. i spoke to the country s prime minist minister just a couple of days ago and i asked him what do you think the united states should do. he believes at this point in time the west and the u.s. are doing what they can, they re trying to mitigate the situation, they re trying to keep dialogue open, but they are also ramping up the pressure o
that is that flurry of phone calls between the u.s. officials and russian counterparts. of course, they don t want it to happen and they want it back, but the question remains does this, the fact that he has now left the airport and does that change the calculation for the administration. do they have more options available to them than what they have been doing right now which is a pressure campaign? i think the pressure campaign will continue at this point. they can t go on the streets of moscow and arrest him against his will and bring him back to washington. that is not going to happen. pressure on moscow and continuing pressure on any other countries. some of the countries that has been talked about that might take him venezuela, ecuador, some of the other countries, cuba. that he might have tried to go to. it looks like that will not happen now. that he will stay in moscow for some period of time. but, you know, you are going to see exactly, i think, what you talked about. this