jong-un, the 29-year-old, spent any time with these leaders at all. it s probably safe to say dennis rodman has probably had more face time than the president of china. which adds a scariness of all of this is that there is no communication with him even among some in china that might have some economic influence. you mentioned earlier and jim clancy talked about how much north korea craves this kind of publicity, if you will, and that it always wants something in return. and generally gets it. has the president has president obama been smart about not getting into this? we ve heard from the secretary of state. we ve heard from the secretary of defense. and certainly we ve sent assets over the pacific. but we haven t heard from the president. why is that? well, the president i think is playing the right hand. and that is we ve deployed a couple of aegis class destroyers with missile defense capabilities. we have ongoing military-to-military exercises with south korea. we ve scram
communication with him even among some in china that might have some economic influence. you mentioned earlier and jim clancy talked about how much north korea craves this kind of publicity, if you will, and that it always wants something in return. and generally gets it. has the president has president obama been smart about not getting into this? we ve heard from the secretary of state. we ve heard from the secretary of defense. and certainly we ve sent assets over the pacific. but we haven t heard from the president. why is that? well, the president i think is playing the right hand. and that is we ve deployed a couple of aegis class destroyers with missile defense capabilities. we have ongoing military-to-military exercises with south korea. we ve scrambled some long-range bombers, b-2s and b-52s. so militarily we are at a level of preparedness with south korea that is very, very good. of course north korea hates that. and beyond that the talk within
felt convictions on both sides. john and i clearly would not agree, but we certainly should at least be allowed to get on the floor and have debate. secretary of state john kerry landed in te landed landed in tel aviv this morning. he has already met with mahmoud abbas after meeting with turkish leaders on the first leg of his trip earlier today. secretary kerry talked about the state department staffer killed in afghanistan yesterday. kerry met her just a few weeks ago and described her as vivacious, smart, and capable. north korea continues to provoke its southern neighbor. south korea says it is now expecting a missile launch by wednesday. former ambassador to china and presidential candidate, jon huntsman, talked about u.s. preparedness this morning. listen. we ve deployed a couple of aegis class destroyers with missile defense capabilities in the region, we ve got ongoing military-to-military exercises with south korea. we ve scrambled some long-range bombers, b-2s and b-52s
the u.s. has done a lot of that over this past month and over the past years. they continue to do that. we saw that with the b-52s and the b-2s and the other moves made these past couple of weeks. they re reassuring the allies and trying to restrain south korea so south korea doesn t end upstarting a fight on its own. that s an important function. at the end of the day the old policy of strategic patience has not worked, and we find ourselves in the cycle of sanctions, provocation, sanctions, provocation. i think we ll have to think about what is this end game look like? how is it this ends up a good story in the end and right now i think what we re doing is sort of day-to-day management. all right. jim walsh, thank you so much. always good to see you. good to see you. it is pretty remarkable. inmates running wild in a prison and it is all caught on tape. they re doing drugs, drinking, playing around with guns. this is unbelievable. we take you inside. up next, my exclusive
and many ways very strange regime. i don t think the south koreans understand it. the japanese understand it or the chinese. all of us are standing around watching this guy who s dangerous. he s not likely to do anything and if i were betting i would bet he probably won t but it s a pretty high stakes bet. seoul, korea, capital of the country, the largest city, is within easy reach of his artillery pieces. he doesn t need a very long range to kill millions of south koreans or millions of japanese. nobody, by the way, ever notices that that same range covers a good part of china. so all of them have a good reason to be worried. i think the president, this may shock you, piers, but i think the president has actually been pretty close to correct in the way he s handled this. i think having the b-2s go there, making them visible, indicating we re prepared to be as tough as we need to be, having a senior officer say earlier today that if anything, if this does come to war, we will replace t