going to be important and it s also going to give us insight into who inside the west wing is helping to steer the president in some of these directions. is it steve bannon, nudging him one way, or is it as we have been seeing at least in the run-up to this trip, more h.r. mcmaster, putting him where it is sort of a smoother interaction with some of the european leaders, at least that s the hope, trying to put pressure on china. again, hans said it, you said it, not a lot of great options. there just aren t. so it s a very difficult test i think for president trump moving forward. a little stagecraft question for you. are you really right at the intersection there? that s what it looks like. like you are literally on the corner. reporter: yes. we landed about two hours ago and t the camera ready for you. we will go talk to some folks. you will see a shameless plug later tonight on nbc nightly news. look forward to it. thank you both. we will be talking to you through the course
it had upon reentry but it definitely survived reentry. that s what they are trying to assess right now. been doing the rounds all morning. just dropped by the navy. it doesn t appear as though the u.s. is moving any naval assets into the region. right now it looks like the joint fire exercise, precision firing that can go deep into north korea even though they just shot it into the waters off south korea, that looks to be the only u.s. military response so far. hans, stand by. want to bring hallie jackson in. hallie, the president s got a lot of work to do in europe. he s going to be be heading to hamburg right after this conversation he has in warsaw. he s going to have to have conversations with the chinese about north korea. he s going to have face conversations from various european leaders about nato and russian threats and then he s got this all-important meeting with vladimir putin. first he s in warsaw. what s he doing there? reporter: this is going to be kind of the warm
has not worked. at least i know china tried. between june 20th and july 5th, he s changed his entire view of china s role when i comes to north korea. reporter: what we are hearing from administration officials is that they are still going to give a diplomatic quite a bit of chance. they want diplomacy to work. it s no longer a china-centered strategy. they are trying to enlist allies throughout the region and the globe. look for president trump to do that at the g-20, trying to find new alliances. it s really the importance of international venues like this that could give trump an opportunity to repair some of the damage from his first european outing. but what we are hearing throughout the administration is that the diplomacy is still alive and well but it s no longer china first. that raises some interesting questions because it s china that has all the leverage on north korea. it s very difficult to figure out a way how you will pressure the chinese, the north koreans, without h
here. the president is likely to reaffirm the u.s. commitment to nato. he will probably talk about the fact that poland is one of the countries that meets its 2% gdp commitment to nato. as you know, this is something he has lashed out against other leaders for not meeting that commitment. of course, it helps to have a small economy. when you are poland, to be able to meet that commitment. but i think a lot of people in poland will be watching to see does the president talk about the threat from russia. that is something that concerns a lot of folks here. he then heads over the g-20, as you know, in hamburg. there, it is going to be much more tense, much more difficult territory, given the meeting with president xi. that s taken on new urgency here. one administration official telling me yeah, they expect that to be a little bit rougher than the first mar-a-lago meeting back in april between the two. he s got that all-important meeting with president putin a let s not forget, he s still
we also know that bank of china which is a very large bank, one of china s big four banks, has been involved in moeb lau mone laundering for the north koreans and there have been no punishments. beijing looks at that and says the americans don t have political will, they aren t taking it seriously, why should we take them seriously. they need to do more to the large chinese institutions that have been in violation of the patriot act. so there are more economic options on the table. huge number of things. the new york times had this story saying there are few things we can do. there s a lot we can do. even more important than that, because military force carries such horrific consequences, we have an obligation to try absolutely everything before we actually start to use our missiles. understood. thanks. good to see you. thanks very much. in just two days, president trump is set to go face-to-face with vladimir putin for the first time ever. coming up next, what the white hou