north korea vowing to retaliate against the u.s. in response to a new sanctions approved unanimously this weekend by the united nations. this as the secretary of state calls on the rogue regime to stop its missile tests. rex tillerson was speaking at the regional excuse me. regional security conference in the philippines. the best signal that north korea could give us that they re prepared to talk would be to stop these missile launches. so this is not, give me 30 days and we re ready to talk. it s not quite that simple. so it is all about how we see their attitude towards approaching a dialogue with us. north korea s government said in a statement today that the u.s. manipulated the u.n. security council to rig up this sanctions resolution. the democratic peoples republican lick of korea will
enforce so what does the u.s. do. according to the past crypt, three or four months from now we ll start with a new sanctions resolution. it will take three or four months to get passed. you know, the one that was passed on saturday was the seventh sanction. these are incremental. and the north koreans have learned to adjust, because every time that we increase the pressure a little bit with these sanctions, the north korea ngs find a way around them. then the china s don t enforce them. and so then we go back and get more sanctions. so we don t have enough time to do this. so we re all bark, no bite? up to now. president trump at the end of june signalled some cost that elwilling to impose on china, including going off the chinese banks for money laundering. i think what happened at the g 20 in hamburg when trump met chicago jinping, i think he said to him, look, if you don t really come to the party, we re going to amp up the pressure by going after bigger chinese banks and
spent fuel back to russia, so the iranian government can t use it for weapons purposes for now. okay. what does russia have to gain by working with iran on this plant and what are their political implications of that? russia sees iran as a potential source of leverage vis-a-vis the united states and the middle east. the two countries have formed a relationship of convenience really. there are a lot of issues dividing them. for now there s been some cooperation. over the last few months, there has been a lot of tension between russia and iran over the u.n. sanctions resolution which russia supported. it s not a completely strategic relationship. but the russians see iran as some source of leverage against the united states. ali, as we understand it, russia signed a $1 billion contract to build this nuclear plant back in 1995. why now? why does this project move forward now all of a sudden? again, the russians have been in agreement with the iran
now they are in a courtroom in norfolk facing some serious legal problems. shannon: thank you very much, brian. the youth is pushing for more u.n. sanctions against iran just as iran is flexing its muscles conducting war games in the arabian sea. are we doing enough to control iran? some say yes. our next guest says no. joining us from washington is ambassador john bolton. also a fox news contributor. what do you make of the latest round of war games being held in an area known as a route for oil. iran is trying to show it s not going to react well to u.n. resolutions. it s a bluff on their part. i think they know the sanctions
but, really, what could possibly be on the table, we can t, then, launch sanctions against china to get china to launch sanctions against iran. that sounds nutty. well, no, that s true. it s thought the best sanctions at least for our purposes would be on the oil and gas sectors. iran imports a lot of refined product, so the thought was perhaps we restrict the inflow into iran and that would make them rethink their nuclear program. the sanctions resolution might also try and further restrict their access to international banking. and perhaps take other measures against the iranian revolutionary guard which is thought to be the heart of the regime, so there s some ideas out there on the table, and the burden is really on us to try and make the deal with china, to get them to sign up to another security council resolution. yeah. the other equation here is what the president was talking about, you know, that that quantity of product that s as big as an apple that i m sure al qaeda o