anyone on the world has been okay south korea after north korea s nuclear test. we ve been down this path before, if you go back to 2000, when the south korean president kim dae-jung tried to achieve a level of appeasement and a reunification through diplomatic efforts. he went to pyongyang and won the nobel peace prize, spent billions of dollars and it went nowhere, so you understand that there s some legitimate skepticism in terms of where we think an agreement between seoul and pyongyang would go. what s different obviously fast forward 17-plus years, you now have a north korea that is acknowledged as a nuclear power, has an icbm capability, certainly can threaten internationally. so there s great reason to understand why there s got to be some discussion between washington and seoul that this path is not acceptable. so robin, that brings us to the u.n. and the emergency security council meeting yesterday. spider just laid out for us how
took office and even before have not shown that they are able to do a lot of these things on a high wire act, even if we re just talking one of them, let alone the list i just ticked off. the very first words out of david drucker s mouth were no big deal. this is the art of the deal. president who as far as i can tell really hasn t made very many deals at all and now he s got this menu, this list of things that needs to get done, abby. has he shown any ability to work washington the way it needs to be worked to make progress? no. really not at all. one of the interesting things is just the resistance to understanding how washington works, and how deals get made here and you know, david really pointed out something that i think is probably going to be the dominant force as we go into this week and the following week, the relationship or lack thereof between donald trump and mitch mcconnell is a really, really big deal. between of two of them mitch
and it protects them currently from being deported but that could change. the president is punting the fate of these hundreds of thousands of dreamers to congress. cnn s joe johns is live at the white house with more. what are we expecting, joe? alisyn, what to do about daca is a question the president has struggled with over weeks and months and today does appear to be decision day with the attorney general set to make the announcement at the briefing here in washington later this morning. sense of drama continues to hang over this, because sources have told cnn even this late in the process, the president could still change his mind. president trump taking to twitter monday night touting a big week ahead, a gross understatement considering the wide range of issues on the president s plate, starting with today s announcement on the so-called dreamers. he can expected to end the program protecting some 800,000
it is not a new development, but it is a problem for decades, and compounded by more than a decade of war. that is why when i came into the office i said that we would systematically work to fix these problems, and we have been working hard to address them. my attitude is that for folks who have been fighting on the battlefield, they should not have to fight a bureaucracy at home to get the care they have earned. the presumption has always been that we have to do better, and rob s review is a comprehensive look at the veteran s approach to ook cess to care. i want to know what is working, what is not working, an to work washington. we made disability pay to more vietnam vets exposed to the agent orange. making it easier for the veterans with the post-traumatic stress and mental health illness to get care, and care for women v veterans. because of these steps, and the number of veterans increasing for services, we did have an increased backlog, but now it has been slashed in half. we wo
destroyed. but the muslim brotherhood ied logically, they dislike the united states but have accepted a sort of partnership and now they claim not helping them. we re talking 33 million demonstrators and majority in egypt, they are shocked that we basically are partnering with the muslim brotherhood, are not trying to find a political solution whereby egypt will move forward to democracy. there s a lot of work washington needs to do ahead. you reference the christians there, they make up about 8 million of egypt s population of 80 million. they ve been victims of muslim attacks for years. and some christians were worried when islamists took over egypt s government back in 2012. and they were relieved when the military ousted them from power last month. but since the july 3rd coup that ousted morsi, christians have actually faced a spike in violent attacks. and the egyptian authorities have not prevented them, at least that s the perception. so what more needs to be done to protect th