optimism, huh? it s allowed. we can have it. so before the president goes to asia, he said he s going to make a decision about who the fed chair is going to be, and it s reported that he is leaning toward the more conservative choices in either john taylor or jerome powell. but janette yellen, the current fed chair, is not out of the running yet. she has some bipartisan support. and recently the president has bragged a lot about how strong the stock markets are, we see him tweet about that frequently and sort of saying, look, you don t want to change course right now, a change of course or a change of the top of the fed could have a negative impact on markets and you wouldn t be able to brag about that anymore. really, no one knows what he s going to do until he does it with, but janet yellen is out of the running yet. doesn t get enough attention. i ll close with this. the official line from george w. bush s aides after his big speech this past week was is that it was no big d
had a strong meeting coming out of that with the consensus that the nuclear rising north korea is a priority for all in the region and eventually could be direct us north korean talks. when the president goes to asia he will have behind him the wind of a lot of strong efforts in the us and the top envoy will have a follow-on meeting based on the vice minister s meeting and the navy drill between us and south korea, and something that will not stop, consistent with our long-standing pattern with our partners into a signal to the chinese and the north koreans that it is business as
potential military options. the president repeatedly expressed frustration that his predecessors haven t done enough. he also says he does not want to forecast what he would do. but his actions against the secretary of state and certainly not giving the secretary of state the typical power to be speaking for the president, you see with president trump trying to put a little daylight between himself and secretary tillerson when it comes to things like negotiation or possible talks with north korea, the president s demeanor on this has been the talking is over. yet he s not gone as far as to say there would specifically be military action. how this plays into it is hard to determine. the president goes to asia next month. this is going to be a huge topic with all of those partners in the region when the president visits. all right. well, let s stay on the president s demeanor. dave sherman s piece in vanity fair says fears the president is unraveling nep report goes on
vinson s training routine, part of annual military exercises involving tens of thousands of americans and south korean troops. north korean has vowed a merciless response if the u.s. carrier violates the sovereignty of the regime. this is as rex tillerson goes to asia where he will visit south korea, japan and china with north cree at the top of the agenda. previewing the trip, a state department spokesman outlined the secretary s thinking. what are the next steps to put pressure on the regime, to make them feel and pay a price for their behavior. so all of these things are on the table. none are easy. last week north korea launched four missiles which landed 190 miles from japan in response to japanese government announced their largest warship will sail to the south china sea soon. stuart? stuart: reaction now from someone that says backing down would just embolden north korea.
official. doesn t implicate interests in that way. but certainly a political component here because being the individual who signed the paper to send letter back is nothing a politician wants to be known for. and i m curious, how does it work if someone, a foreign national, comes into our country, is found guilty of committing a murder, then they are sentenced under our laws and guidelines, and they serve out their time here, correct? i mean, so the same absolutely. so there is an absolute parallel here. there is. the more common parallel is somebody who commits a crime in the united states and who leaves to go to europe, goes to africa, goes to asia, before we have an ability to arrest them. then we re in the position of trying to get that person back over here. that happens all of the time. there is an office in the department of justice that deals specifically with that issue. and we are often trying to get people extradited here. we have done it a lot in south america, wi