Session. Im trish regan, welcome, everyone, to the intelligence report. As we await the briefing to get underway i want to bring in senior fellow for American Progress and undersecretary of defense for ronald reagan, larry korb. Good to have you here, sir. What would be given your approach, given the rhetoric every day gets ratcheted up and up between us and kim jongun. I think you have to tone down the rhetoric, talk calling him rocket man and things like that, particularly doesnt help. Trish it doesnt hurt, larry. Why is that such a bad thing . He is a little rocket man with rockets he wants to shoot off, i know donald trump likes nicknames . Well, yeah, but he might take what trump is saying literally about blowing them up and doing all of this. I thought steve mnuchin, the secretary of treasury yesterday, when he was on the sunday morning talk shows, put great, we got to work. I have authority to put more sanctions on banks and countries that do business with him. Trish i agree with him. I will go to the line of questioning in just a second. Yes, he should take the president seriously. Kim jongun should take the president of the United States seriously. He should take all of us seriously and should stop doing what he is doing whether you call him little rocket man or not. What you dont want him to think well attack him so he attacks. That not what you want to do. Our policy of massive retaliation been there since the eisenhower administration. Anybody that uses nuclear weapons, they know that you dont have to insult them because you feed into his narrative. He is the one who is unhinged, well, trump is unhinged i better do something. Trish he knows what that means, larry. I know he is unhinged but he is not entirely stupid because that is what you would have to be to actually do that because the minute he tries to do something to us, boom, he is gone. He is off the face of the planet. But if he thinks were going to do it to him, that is what you dont want hill to think. His people say, trump is liable to attack you, you better go first, nobody wins with that. He will lose but we will lose. I remember during the cold war khrushchev said the living will envy the dead if you have a nuclear war. So you dont want that. That is what you got to do. Trish i think that the president is trying to make it very clear to him that he has to stop with this. It is not as though were going to stop. He needs to stop. Let me turn, you brought up something very important, that is mnuchin and these sanctions. I keep looking at it, larry, saying why arent we doing a heck of a lot more . China are in complete violation of the wto agreement. Theyre stealing 200 to 300 billion of our intellectual property every year. We could go after them really, really hard. In turn, that would be bothersome, more than bothersome to their economist. In other words, im getting at the china has the ability to affect north koreas fate. Why dont we exercise some of our optionality on china so we get them to do what we need them to do. They are and were doing stuff against their banks and people who work for klein who trade for north korea, wont have access to the american criticizing iran. Why should we make a deal out of north korean deal even though the International Community says that theyre keeping it . Trish we seem to have a little bit of problem with your satellite shot. Well try to get that fixed. Larry, i think there is a lot we can do. There is a lot we should be doing. Before we Start Talking about blowing things up, i would like to know that we have exercised every option when it comes to dealing with north korea, visavis china. Larry korb, thank you so much. Joining me with political implications of all of it, congressman from florida, member of the Foreign Affairs committee, francis rooney. Good to have you here, sir. You heard what larry is saying. Doesnt like some of the rhetoric larry is using. You heard what i was saying. In fact that that is going to happen . I think weve seen encouraging signs from china after both secretary tillerson made clear that we didnt want to take over the peninsula, or enact regime change. We wanted to stop the nukes. I think president s clear talk is exactly whats necessary to end 30 years worth of in and out appeasement which enabled the kim family to make them think they take the United States for granted. Trish doesnt bother you they call him little rocket man . That doesnt necessarily change our policy it drives home the point were not putting up with this. You know, i didnt really, got the diplomats all worried, right . I dont see it he was talking on diplomatic stage. He was talking to his audience there in alabama friday night. We have to be clear. Remember the whole korean problem arose because of unclarity by general mcarthur and dean atchison when they made the chinese think we didnt care about korea in the first place. The more clear the president is, increases the odds that china will do exactly as youre hoping, continue to put pressure on north korea to enter the community of nations and stop their nuclearization. Trish that is important. Do you believe, sir, that china has the capability to really use some influence there . Would they be able to take kim jongun and put him off in a corner, perhaps see a regime change through or get rid of some of the Nuclear Arsenal . What is it that china could do that we cant . I think china can do most anything they want with him. Theyre virtually economic and political colony with china. They share the geography. Almost all of their trade is with china. China has the deeinggraphy to stop this problem, not the United States. Trish i spoke to a lot of people in the military, they keep saying to me, we dont have that intelligence. We dont have that yes, we have the capability to go in and take out kim jongun but we dont he the ability to do it in targethe way, remove him from t of nuclear weaponry. China youre telling me this, is consistently what i hear from a lot of people, china does. China has a history of being there and effectively this regime is in place because of china . I look at north korea to china about like the bahamas to the United States. They depend 100 on china for their survival. Trish yeah. They do. They do. So you know, before we Start Talking about losing lives, i think im okay losing a few dollars here, saying you know what, if we have to cut off trade with china, so be it. I know walmart will not be happy. There is a lot of Big Companies that rely on that marketplace to either have their goods made or hoping that will be a big, new, source of consumerism for them. But if china is not on board with us, is not really being an ally in terms of the military effort, how can they ever be an ally in terms of financial, in terms of the financial world . In terms of our economy . Well they cant. That is why it is important to cut off their oxygen by taking sanctions down to the level of the companies, wherever they are, china, russia, zimbabwe, doesnt make a difference. Anybody that deals with north korea, will not be able to sell goods in the United States. Trish there seems to be a big, big protest that is happening right now on capitol hill, sir, at a Senate Hearing where you have people being arrested there, over the Gop Health Care bill. Lets listen in to this now. [shouting] okay the committee is in recess. The committee is in recess until we get order. [shouting] trish hear people shouting, do not cut medicaid. You can see they are taking the senators out of the session. They are arresting people because protesters there on capitol hill, they are protesting the Gop Health Care bill. You will recall, of course, that senator mccain said on friday, that he would not be voting for it. This was the Lindsey Graham bill which surprised a lot of people because Lindsey Graham and john mccain are very good friend. It was lacking support. There is Lindsey Graham looks like right there. Is that correct . You see some of the protesters there, you can hear them at least, in the crowd yelling, do not cut medicaid. As i said, some of them have been arrested. Theyre saying dont kill us, kill the bill. That has been one of their chants here. It looks like pretty much this bill isnt necessarily going anywhere, as i mentioned. Mccain is not supporting it. Also Susan Collins from maine indicated she doesnt want to support it. Rand paul made his feelings clear on that as well. Doesnt have a tremendous amount of room to go on, but nonetheless, some people just like to protest. Theyre out there on capitol hill today, getting themselves arrested, and causing a big scene. All right, everyone, we are waiting still on the white house. Well be hearing from Sarah Huckabee sanders. We anticipate there will be some discussion of the nfl. The president blasted the nfl from making a business decision, because its a business decision, to allow players to kneel during the National Anthem. Football is part of american entertainment. As an entertainer, dont you need to do what the boss is asking you to do, stand up to be a patriot when theyre playing our National Anthem . Anyway, this is become quite an uproar and you can anticipate that the white house will have a few more things to say about it. Were on it. I will see you right back here after this. You know who likes to be in control . This guy. Check it out selfappendectomy oh, thats really attached. 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This memorandum comes on hills of the executive order the president signed in june to expand apprenticeships giving more americans opportunity to earn while they learn and receive skills training putting them on the path to fulfilling work. The president believes it is our responsibility to give our students, especially underrepresented groups, minorities, women, those from Rural Communities every chance to. Trish having technical difficulties. There is miss sanders. The timing of memo will be important to the americas underserved communities is particularly fitting today. September 25th is the 60th anniversary of the little rock nines first day of class at central high school. A few weeks prior to the first day the governor called in the Arkansas National guard to stand by as segregationist blocked nine black students from entering the allwhite school. One of the nine students, elizabeth ekford recalled, and i quote. They moved closer and closer. Somebody started yelling. I tried to see if [no audio] trish we heard one of the senators say, lets let them get out of their system. Kind of theyre protesting, that is just what they love to do. You heard democrats say we really need to. Some maybe votes. They will be out. Trish see if miss sanders has anything to say. Lets listen in. Central high is one of the most racially diverse and high achieving schools in arkansas. This is the testimony how far we have come in the last 60 years. It is not lost on the president or his administration that there is more work to do. We need better schools, and we need better jobs to provide safer, stronger more prosperous future for every american. President trump is working to make America Great again for all of our citizens. His actions continue to show how committed he is. With that i will take your questions. John. Sarah, clearly the president has strong views on whether or not players in professional sports teams should stand for the National Anthem. Given the response that the president has gotten over the last 48 hours, even from tom brady of the new england patriots, who believes that what the president said on friday night was very divisive, does the president regret at all describing these players who take a knee for the National Anthem as sobs who should be fired . Look, this isnt about the president being against anyone but this is about the president and millions of americans being for something, being for honoring our flag, honoring our National Anthem and honoring the men and women who fought to defend it. I think general martin dempsey, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said it best when he said this morning, it is important to remember our military is composed entirely of volunteers. It obviously take aspects kind of patriotism for people to volunteer to risk their life for their country. Theirs is not blind patriotism that pretend there is nothing wrong with the country. Every man and woman in uniform knows we still have work to do to achieve equality, opportunity and justice for all to which we aspire but every member of the military also knows that what is right about america is worth defending. And if is worth defending it is worth honoring. He continued, i hope athletes who use the protest, understand why people like me intend to stan during the National Anthem. We do so not because we agree with everything done or everything done in americas name, despite all of that the world is a better place because america exists that seems to me worth of honor of respect during the National Anthem. I understand general dempseys position. I think people would thank him for his service to this great nation but did the president go too far in referring to the players as s. O. B. S who should be fired. It is appropriate for the president of the United States to defend the flag, the defend the National Anthem and defend the people who fought and died to defend it peter. You talked about the president using twitter to emphasize those thing. Over the past 72 hours, the president tweeted a dozen times about sports about kneeling and nascar. He tweeted zero times about puerto rico. The bottom line question, what message is the president sending by emphasizing sports right now and not a crisis he is not emphasizing sports. Youre missing entire purpose of the message. Emphasizing something should be unifying celebrating and promoting patriotism in our country should bring everybody together. When it comes to puerto rico the president has sent both administrator long and Senior Advisor to the department of Homeland Security tom bossert to puerto rico today. Theyre on the ground to assess the damage. With weve done Unprecedented Movement in terms of federal funding to provide for the people of puerto rico and others impacted with these storms. Well continue to do so and continue to do everything that we can possibly under the federal government to provide assistance. To be very clear the president is instead emphasizing something that brings americans together. What message does it send for president to stand behind the president ial seal at a rally in alabama and call an american citizen who is expressing his First Amendment right as son of a b. It is appropriate for the president to defend the flag. Hold on im not finished. It is appropriate for the president of this country to promote our flag and promote the National Anthem and promote it. How about respecting First Amendment. Jeff. North koreas foreign minister said President Trump declared war on north korea. It reserves the right to take countermeasures including shooting down u. S. Aircraft. Does the white house deem President Trumps comments at the u. N. As declaration of war . Not at all. We have not declared war on north korea, the suggestion of that is absurd. What is white houses suggestion to shoot down u. S. Aircraft even not in their airs