new york state and does not adhere to the language of diplomacy. how much does this worry you and secondly are you going to tell me any of this is by design? it may be by design but it s hard to tell from the outside. of course it should concern us, but we ve also go got to remember that diplomacy is going on with full steam. we ve got diplomacy thaish there s a lot going on. the one area where we re not talking is with the north koreans. this crisis, i think, will end with us talking to the north but only when the north koreans understand that they ve got to aseed to the wishes of the international community and give up their weapons program. we have a president who is now using pressure tactic to stop the flow of money to north korea and he s proebt not going to want to the north koreans until
with somebody, which is we bring home non-essential personnel from our country like south korea. we increase our armaments to these folks and we start talking publicly about what it looks like if japan and south korea have to defend themselves as we do from a nuclear north korea. that includes returning nuclear weapons to south korea maybe and not standing in the way of japan doing what it needs to do. all of this is severe pressure tactic against the chinese. it doesn t necessarily mean it has to happen but part of the pressure tactic. ed: stakes are enormous. we appreciate your insight this morning. molly: u.n. ambassador nikki haley says north korea s regime needs to rethink its course of action. they need to recognize the danger they are ore putting themselves in. molly: we re awaiting an emergency security council meeting set to begin just moments from now. ed: the threat of looting as people begin to assess the damage in texas. the good people of houston are
to global banks, requesting information about his account transactions and records. eric, what james did not mention is paul manafort hiring this new legal team and apparently, robert mueller and his team receiving out, reportedly to paul manafort s son-in-law. are those is that a pressure tactic potentially? to reach out to his son-in-law? it certainly could be. his son-in-law is someone who has worked with him on business deals. he is, according to press reports, in the process of a divorce from manafort s daughter. and i would not feel very happy right now if i were paul manafort knowing that this man is speaking to mueller s team. gentlemen, i wish we had more time of breaking news cut into our playing time for this conversation. but thank you. eric columbus, a big thank you as well. and that is going to do it for me this friday evening.
value. they re seeing real effects from him, which, you know, maybe it s a pressure tactic to push them, which is already stirring the pot down there quite a bit. there s suggestions now that the president has a risk of finding himself separated from his own party. his approval rating is 36%. very low for this time in a presidency. he finds himself at odds with so many of the republican positions on matter after matter. foreign policy, trade. what is the risk there for the administration in aliening. first of all, he s had more success to bring people to his views. right now what we re seeing is what he ran on. immigration, build the wall. now we re talking about it. that was the issue that catapulted him. he s had success there. i think the risk for him with the gop on this is the gop is in good shape short of donald trump. the strongest they ve ever been
flyers rights.org calling out delta airlines for allegedly shaming passengers into spending more money after purchasing a basic economy fare. the passengers rights group points to a tweet of a warning to face several restrictions including last to board for purchasing a cheaper ticket. joining me is correspondent tom costello. good to see you. this is called upselling? yeah. i think the big issue is are the airlines simply being honest and telling you, listen, if you end up buying the cheapest fare possible you re going to be in the back of the bus or the plane as it were and you may not have bin space or is that a pressure tactic to reel in customers with the promises of lower fares and then encouraging them to pay for the extras that add up quickly? better seats, early boarding, et cetera. these passenger rights advocates claim that delta airlines taking it to a new low by they say is something that amounts to