as a world superpower in 2025, and in 2050. the united states, you ve got steve mnuchin and peter navarro telling each other off and they re on the same team a week ago. so what happens if this summit does not happen? does kim jong-un go back to where he was before this and start testing nuclear weapons again? well, you know, his foreign minister in new york last month promised a test in the atmosphere over the pacific. so that will probably happen. so every country that has nukes has done an atmospheric test. but all trump has to do is increase the sanctions on north korea and go after both big power sponsors, russia and china. because those chinese banks, all four of the big four banks have actually been money laundering for the north koreans, that s a violation of international law. we could be pushing them in both directions. and that s what president trump s going to have to do. it he could ignore china s
this is a moment when american leadership really does matter and at the end of the day if the united states does not lead, no one else is going to lead. you have a number of major global actors in particular, the russians and the chinese collaborating against north korea. american leadership does matter, the united states as a world superpower must do what it can to prevent north korea from the merging of the nuclear weapons power that can trust the united states and its allies. this is a time of tremendous gravity at a time for robust leadership. molly: we will see what happens, thank you. kelly: the senate saga that just won t end. a defiant roy moore refusing to concede to democrat doug jones. how the embattled
redline, and if it is stepped over, there has to be a military response. what do you say? i think that s absolutely right, and martha, just to take a moment, this is such a hugely consequential meeting here with president xi. the north korean issue that he was just talking to is absolutely the immediate issue and they have to believe that the north koreans and the chinel take care of this problem or we will. i think president trump is on the path to make them believe this, but the long-term problem, the truly strategic issue here is president xi believing that he is now the united states equal in terms of a world superpower, and he just laid out, if you read his speech, in the 19th community, communist party congress, the path to seats the united states. you look at her actions from gobbling up national resources, currency manipulation, cyber attacks, the death of r.i.p., we have become accustomed in the
and i think with the president is trying to do behind the scenes is to tell the chinese weather it be the south and east china seas, whether it be nuclear programs, that if you do not deal with us on this, the consequences for your regional environment in your perspective of power are incredibly catastrophic. and in these debts, it is perhaps the one good set of these tweets. the unpredictability of the force that compels the chinese that maybe he is series and on any other level the united states does remain a world superpower. in the threat remains serious. marie, as a former spokesperson for the state department under john kerry, what are some of the military problems and diplomatic problems with us getting involved with a military option as the president put it in venezuela? i think there s a was zero chance we would get involved
haphazard knee-jerk reactions. him constantly talking about how unpredictable he wants to be, there maybe is a value to that, but not if you re a world superpower and especially not with north korea. for 50 years they have relied on us to be reliable. they are the crazy ones. if they think the united states will react to them in a crazy, unpredictable way, i think that increases the chances that they pull off a strike. one quick last thing, it needs to be said. they have an intercontinental ballistic missile, probably will be able to reach alaska. doesn t mean they could put an actual warhead on that missile effectively yet. and yet there does seem to be an overall belief that it could happen in the next 18 months to two years. i talked to one u.s. senator this morning who i suggested 18 months and he said, no, but maybe two years. former nato commander james devrities was on morning joe. here s his analysis. it will be on president trump s watch to make this decision and it beco