about this to smash the sig mas th -- stigmas like mental health. >> it speaks for a lot of people who deal with that publicly and privately. thank you. thanks so much for joining us. "inside politics" starts right now. thank you, kate. welcome to "inside politics" i'm john king. it's patriots day back where i'm familiar. says patience with pyongyang's missile test and nuclear program is running short. >> the era of strategic patience is over. >> plus there's more anti-trump energy at congressional town halls.

>> but with's ktee test on georgia in tuesday -- >> i believe you're going to see it in mon unanimotana. working people are going to wag up and say wait a second, republicans want to cut social security, medicare and medicaid and give hundreds and billions of dollars of tax breaks to the top 1%, no that's not what we elected today. >> and it's easter monday. the easter egg roll at the white house, the first for the new president and new first lady. >> we're going to come out and join you and enjoy your company for a roll, a great easter egg roll, and i don't know if we're going to be successful, but i know a lot of people down there are going to be successful. i've seen those kids and they're highly, highly competitive. that i can tell you. >> it's good to see young baron

trump and the easter bunny there. >> we begin with the trump administration's high stakes stare down with north korea. vice president pence is the messager in words and in images. >> just in the past two weeks the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president. in actions taken in syria and afghanistan. north korea would do well not do test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the united states in this region. >> that musk cular rhetoric was after a meeting with the south korea's vice president. he got a first-hand look across the fence separating them from north and south korea. snapping pictures from of the

american v.i.p. the vice president's emphasis was more diplomatic. >> we're going to abandon the failed policy of strategic patience, but we're going to redouble our efforts to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bare on north korea. our hope is to resolve this issue pieeaceably. >> earlier, though, standing in the region, remember it's not just what he says. it's where he says is. the vice president is standing in south korea. earlier there starting by making a reference to what we've seen in the past couple of weeks with this president. that seems a direct message, this president, my boss, not afraid to use force. >> absolutely. this is something we've seen this president willing to do with syria first of all in the meeting with the chinese president in mar-a-lago a couple weeks ago. so i was struck by that language, actually.

it was not by accident that he said it there. but the reality here is they're still waiting on china. we're seeing a much more diplomatic approach from this administration and, boy, a complete change in language, a 180 or a 360 from the rhetoric of the campaign against china. because now the president hopes and believes that china will be a partner in helping in north korea. we'll see. >> and yet this president hopes, and he had a good meeting with the president of china, that they will exert more pressure. they've turned some coal shipments back, had some other economic pause. one of the chinese airlines said they won't fly into north korea. we all get the message they've been trying to send. we've been through this boeefor. president clinton wanted the chinese to help. the chinese don't want a unifede korea. so history tells us the chinese

will help up to their line. >> you're seeing, toor, the un predict ability. you have two leaders who are very unpredictable. donald trump over the weekend tweeted we'll see what happens with an exclamation point. i think that is what is unsettling to the chinese and maybe successfully pushing them to put more pressure on north korea. >> the hope is that a believed promise of force can prevent you from having to use force. speaking of where you say things, the bombing in syria was going on while he's talking to the head of china, which i think was a pointed statement in and of itself. but we have been in the situation a long time and when you're doing diplomacy, it essentially is strategic patience. but this is with a different tone, which i think they're hoping -- >> a different tone, but this is the vice president in south carry today. i want you to listen to the secretary of state in south

korea exactly one month ago. >> the policy of strategic patience has ended. we're exploring a new range of diplomatic, security and economic measures. all options are on the table. >> so it's the same message. obviously it's an echo now. you've had -- since secretary tillerson was there you've had the military strikes in syria, the use of the largest bomb in afghanistan. they're in a holding pattern still waiting on the chinese. the question is what the chinese want and they made it clear again. they want to go back to the six-party talks. russia involved, china involved, the united states involved, other parties in the region involved. this administration and secretary tillerson specifically when he was there a month ago said we're not interested in negotiations. the question is if the chinese say to the trump administration we want to help but you have to come back to the table, will they change their position? >> you imagine they'll have to. they're saying that the aera of

strategic patience is over but they're essentially practicing strategic patience. they have to rely on china. you've got donald trump who is learning to the job how difficult this situation is and saying he didn't know how complicated it was. you have him changing his positions, him trying to use leverage, this idea of not labeling china as a currency manipulator, to try to figure out what they're going to do. again, this idea that they can use the example of syria and afghanistan, two theaters of war in action to kind of have leverage and to show that they will use force, north korea is a totally different animal, different country. it's not clear that sort of threat is applicable to north korea. >> and the stakes of confrontation are different in the sense not to use for a second or minimize for a second the horrors we see in syria where bashar al assad used weapons, including chemical

weapons against his own people, if you talk about the proximity, but the millions of people who live in seoul, if this turns into an artillery ba raj the stakes are enormous. the president's credibility is on the line. at the easter egg roll earlier jim acosta tried to ask this of the president. let's listen. >> any message for north korea, sir? kim jong-un? >> better behave. >> mr. president, do you think north korea can be resolved peace fully? what are your thoughts on kim jong-un? >> probably it can. >> probably can or hopefully it. saying got to behave, the other message. words matter. the vice president going into the region. the trip was scheduled before. a failed missile test over the weekend. they did it again after secretary tillerson was there. so far the words of the trump administration have not convinced kim jong-un to stop

what is in violation of international law but certainly in violation of this line the new president is trying to draw. >> i think the missile test fail suggest a big indicator of the direction of things. it's not much of a threat from north korea to continue having failed tests. had that been successful you can imagine a different posture from the trump administration. they do have a little bit more patience to be strategic for at least the time being. >> but the president's message of got to behave, you know, it's sort of easy to say that but what if they don't. this is something that this administration, the last president, president obama said that this is the biggest threat that's facing the u.s. when they were having their one-on-one there. this president realizes. that he also told jim he hopes for a peaceful solution to this. >> the question is how do you get there. >> they don't know. >> the structure the chinese want us to go back to the big negotiations. this administration has said that has failed. it failed the obama administration and the bush

administration. why are we going back to a structure that has failed which is understandable. the question is when you hit the wall and nothing's changing, what's next? another thing that happened, the north korean ambassador to the united states is accusing the united states administration of gangster language and if there's any mill appear provocation that north korea is prepared to have a military confrontation. but it was interesting on the chinese question. to get the chinese involved, one of the things they don't like is that the niunited states is sending this missile defense system into south korea. the chinese don't like an escalation of south korean capabilities in the region. so as the president asks for help, vice president pence was publicly doing something that pokes the chienese a bit today. >> a change in tone has led to differences in china's behavior. that's a good beginning. the fact the missile launch failed makes many people feet better. >> it also makes them nervous.

it an embarrassment to an irrational actor. between now and the 25th is when they think there's a possible of a nuclear test. the question is he's mad out now because this is embarrassing, does he lash out. >> the messaging on this has been fairly consistent where they are which is not something we always see from this administration on foreign policy. it seems like they are taking this very seriously in a way in other parts of the world we have not seen. >> even though we haven't heard much from president trump, he's tweeted about it, the main people are mcmaster, pence, tillerson, it's interesting he's using twitter diplomacy. he said on the way out this is what you're going to have to do. we saw early on in the administration with having some of the missile test sos far. >> i think the public is not

speaking because his new relationship is president xi is going to bring results. the question is how much patience does the president have? everybody sit tight. in just 88 days president trump said he has exposed foreign policy failures of the past eight years. the president's actions and his twitter diplomacy next.

welcome back. the president likes to watch fox and friends in the morning to be reminded of the flawless job he's doing. and today as he often does does he tweeted his approval the first 90 days has exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy. so true. without a doubt the mill ter strikes in syria did win

bipartisan praise in part of the bipartisan frustration that president obama drew a red line and then failed to enforce it. and the military's use of the nonnuclear bomb no doubt sent a noechlk is . it would be mistake to equate two successful military operations to a foreign policy. president trump is now asking china to use its influence in north korea. russia iran are still aligned against the inside just as they were. isis and the taliban are still making gains in afghanistan. >> i support what he did and i support the bunker buster bomb, but we've got to develop a strategy. there is still not an overall strategy that he can come to congress and his advisers and say this is how we're going to handle syria. we've got to have a strategy and

i'll give them some more time but so far that strategy is not apparent. >> i'm making light somewhat of his, you know, state tv or his love of watching fox and friends in the morning. but this is a question that many republicans have. even some people if you talk within his administration, some of the established foreign policy team, the very experienced foreign policy team, yes, we think it's important and we think it's right. it is not a broad policy just yet and it's 88 days in. give them grace and patience, but the question is does the president think that when you launch a missile strike and you drop a bomb and it's a 3 successful operation that in and of itself is going to change factions on the ground. >> we have seen that he is flexible above all. and i think the -- he railed against what china has done to america's heart land. he said it was the rapping of the u.s. now has changed his tenor and

tone. we heard before he barely speaks about foreign policy at all. >> he doesn't give that many public speeches. he's not had big rallies like he said he would. he's not given a big speech since that one to the house and senate. but i think there are a lot of people wondering what the trump doctrine foreign pls olicy is. he's willing to use of force. one thing that is also clearly, h.r. mcmaster is definitely in the driver's seat now and a lot of his commanders, the defense secretary james mattis and the pentagon also sort of driving things. i think we're seeing it shape. we seldom hear him talk about it. >> a lot of people say we need to hear more from the president. if he's thinking things through, that's one thing. but the team itself is getting a lot of praise. democrats may not like some of the things they do but they look at the team and say that's an a

plus team. >> that's right. and some people concerned it's too heavy with generals. a lot of these typically civilians take them. we've seen from this president that he likes symbolism in terms of these muscular approaches to foreign policy, the mother of all bombs dropped in afghanistan, 59 missile strike in syria. and he certainly must sit back and look it through to the television reviews of this and sort of the televised nature of this and think it's a success. and what i think the question beyond all of this is what happens next. and then obviously john mccain laying it nicely. he's going to have hawks who praised him what is next, what does the trump doctrine look like. >> one irony is the america first president. the guy who talked about fixing things at home domestically is now in the past week and a half

involved so much abroad in all of these conflicts and it's one area i think that he has a lot of latitude in foreign policy. you often see presidents toward the end as a lame duck had a broad to try and do things. pu president trump has had a lot of trouble with congress and in his congressional period he's strengthened his hand and polling is probably taking up for him in approval ratings which may change the dynamics when congress returns. >> strength and toughness is without a doubt a brand that emerged from the campaign. but the specific actions are somewhat at odds from a krd a candidate and then a private citizen. the america first part is a little odd. >> i think there isn't a trump doctrine but it's promising who it looks like the folks are in charge of forming it. there will be people who are angry about the political

rhetoric from the candidate being abandoned when he's sort of faced with reality of the world stage. but we are a country that was -- voters were frustrated by the obama doctrine and wanted something different. americans also love divisive action but maybe not too much. these moments, i don't think it's a terrible political bet that even without the cohesive message around them americans will say yeah, i like that. they don't want to be in these deep conflicts on the ground. >> and the issues we see before us, whether the civil war in syria, the islamic terrorism fight, three of the most vexing complicated issues. a lot of democrats liked the america first part. let's not have military involvement. let pull back and create jobs at

home. listen to bernie sanders kr criticizing donald trump. >> i do not want to see the united states get sucked into warfare. trillions of dollars being spent. >> that is not something on day one of the trump administration, you did not think the democrats were going to see that opening. it's politics. bernie sanders said some of that during the obama administration as well, through the drone strikes. it's striking that's where we are three months in. >> but it's also -- in some ways it feels like donald trump could have said those words bernie sanders has just said. he has given no indication he wants to get sucked in either. that he's going to put troops on the ground. all of his folks have essentially said there isn't any intention to get bogged down in syria. i think the way he's going about this, i think it does in some ways dove tail with the america first because it sort of easy. you go in. you do something. it makes headlines. it's big. and beyond that he doesn't seem

so interested. >> when it comes to how trump perceives things, the reviews will be pretty good until you get roped into something that's far more complicated and has more blood and pressure at stake. then the reviews go bad and he pays a lot of attention to that. >> everybody sit tight. next anti-trump energy is a staple as neighbors hold town halls back home. why do people put why does your tummy go "grumbily, grumbily, grumbily"? no more questions for you! ouph, that milk in your cereal was messing with you, wasn't it? try lactaid, it's real milk without that annoying lactose. good, right? -mmm, yeah. lactaid. the milk that doesn't mess with you.

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welcome back. congress now halfway through a two-week recess. they prefer to call them homeworking periods. we're seeing a healthy dose of energy at some of the town halls held by republican lawmakers. >> shame on you. shame on you. >> that's arizona republican senator jeff blake. plus the president was taken to task in tax marches saturday across the country. i wrote it. critics asking sometimes colorfully why he refuses to release his income taxes. take a look at some of the pictures from those marches.

the challenge for democrats is to translate all this anti-trump energy into a win at the ballot box. tomorrow in atlanta. 31 jon ossoff in a crowded field for the house seat that was held by tom price. among those trying to boost democratic turnover, samuel l. jackson. thought we had an ad there with jam sa sam jackson. i guess we don't have that. >> no snakes on a plane. >> there was a special election. the democrats came close. they were heart ended by that. but they still lost. this one is tom price, if you look at the district, it's a republican district. but democrats see some hope in the presidential location results there. they see some hope in anti-trump energy in the suburbs. republicans enter tomorrow much different mood than they were ten days ago. the republicans i talk to think

they're confident. if he gets 50%, he's the congressman. who's got the intel? >> the rules help them a lot here. there will be a runoff in georgia and it's in june so it gives republicans a lot of time to sort of rethink this in a rally there. but if democrats would get over 50%, that would be huge. i think that's pretty unlike ly. you can add every singer, actor, dancer into the district. it's four months into the year like a democrat like them. he's a former house staffer. it's not like he's been on the school board or state senate. the problem for democrat system recruiting candidates. during the obama administration, just because a loss there, it

means that they have a very, very weak bench. >> they've got to figure out sort whof what is the kind of candidate? you saw the elections, blue dog democrat who was able to appeal to independents and republicans. we don't know what that looks like this go around. it will of course be different for each seat that's open. i imagine that they think the sam jackson ad, maybe that will rally african-americans, people who were fans of the 500 movies he's been in over the last many years. i don't really know. i guess his connection to georgia. >> maybe the credit card commercial by charles barkley. trump tweeted about this. >> put that up. super liberal democrat. wants to protect criminals and allow legal immigration and raise taxes. >> he knows sort of what drives

the republican party base, and sort of what keeps them together. it's not clear what the democrats stand for other than being against donald trump. >> and i think the closeness of the kansas race was a bit of a bat signal to the rest of the resistance. like we can do things. we came really close. i think that will improve their chances here. like lie not to get him over 50%. i think the question is whether the excitement of that move ment, which is very left leaning, helps you win -- special elections are weird. in subsequent years, who do you need to be appealing to and do those candidates and does that energy help get there? >> you mentioned the bad bat signal to resistance. we sit in washington and have conversations about national politics. close race in kansas. we'll see what happens in georgia. this is a congressional town hall, republican congress member and republican senator.

joint taown hall in reno nevada. listen to the question here about the president's budget and more importantly the response. >> when i hear that donald trump wants to severely cut the e.p.a. budget, i'm angry. this is not acceptable. we cannot go backwards. >> the president is going to submit a budget. obama submitted eight budgets and in eight years he got one vote on his budget. now we've got trump. trump is submitting his budget. and the house is going to propose their budget and the september is going to propose their budget and i guarantee you this. it will look nothing like the president's budget. >> that's a republican speaking. not exactly embracing the trump budget blueprint. and e.p.a. is a concern to voters. but also republicans. a lot of republicans are environmentalists in a slightly different way, but

conservationalists of the land, particularly out west. >> including the president's son. >> you see there from republicans, the whole idea that -- some new polling out, president's job approval, 39 approved, 54 disapproved. so there's this sort of anti-washington mood there that benefited candidate trump. the outsider coming to wancchan washington. his title is approximamr. presi. you get the baggage. >> that was a useful exchange. a republican congressman offering a congress lesson. the president's budget slaps some unicorns on it. it's an idea whof what he would like and he will not get. it was the same in the obama administration. but you see this hesitancy to

embrace his priorities that showed in that budget because part of the constituency are less like me and don't want to cut so much. that is a sticking point they will continue to have. >> part of this is how much can democrats tag trump with all of that? you see that in georgia where health care is becoming sort of one of the referendum items which is not all that -- there's some similarities, but in 2010 in scott brown's election, which was a shocker, health care, again, was what that was over. and it drew sort of national referendum on obama early on. this similarly, that was ted kennedy's seat. this is newt gingrich's old seat. it's a very conservative district. depending what happens tomorrow and over the next two months if he doesn't win is a lot of national lessons. >> you mentioned the weakness of the democratic bench. they lost the house and senate. and this is not a criticism of

any current democratic leader, but the democratic party future appears to be its past. let's listen again. bernie sanders who is about to go on a tour across the country, how do you take that energy, how do you put it in a bottle and make it work on election day. >> i believe you're going to see it in montana. i believe you're going to see it all over this country. the so-called red states. working people are going to wake up and say wait a second, republicans want to cut social security, medicare and medication and give hundreds of dollars of tax breaks. no, that's not what we elected trump do do. chie climb change is real. >> we fact checked the president. there is zero indication that bernie sanders said they want to cut medicaid and medicare. yes, there are republican budgets that have been put on the table in the past, but to be

fair to the president he has said no. we'll see what happens when we get to that process. it's unfair to say the president wants to do that right now. >> i mean, bernie sanders in some ways sounds like a broken record. this is what he was campaigning on. this is what democrats -- you've heard from them all along. >> he thinks he would have one if the quote/unquote establishment. >> they don't have any sort of unifying message. you can tell in what he's saying. talking about the epa and climate change. i mean, the democrats have always thought that diversity was their strength. in many ways it's not. there are too many sort of competing factions competing demographics in many ways and you have republicans who have a very solid message in many ways. they have the presidency obviously and these voters are committed to donald trump. there are emotionally attached to his message.

i think again from that tweet he knows what pushes their buttons. in this case it was taxes. >> donald trump has a ceiling. we've seen this in all of these approval ratings. the challenge for democrats is not to be pulled too far to the left but is this going to be sort of a repeat on the left-hand side of what happened in 2010, 2014? we don't know. there are those voters in the middle. whoever speaks to them. but bernie sanders is one of the leaders of the democratic party right now and that is both a blessing and a curse for the democratic party. >> if we learned anything from the hillary clinton campaign, no matter what party you're in, spend a lot of time on what you're for, not just what you're against. my two cents worth. up next, why some of trump's legislative agenda has gone nowhere so far. where's frank? it's league night! 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. bowl without me. frank.'

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health care, tax reform, infrastructure. to get it all done sean spicer promised the president would assume the role of traveling salesman in chief. >>y are out in full sell mode all around the country talking about how we think this is the best way to solve the problem that the american people face. and why we believe that the solutions that we put forward in this bill are the right ones. and that will benefit them. i think you will see a lot of travel and a lot of activity by the president and all the administration. >> now, though, 88 days into the trump presidency most of his legislative objectives have failed or remain stalled. many of the is the's supporters believe he has not barringed ge. only seven public events. by this time president obama had been overseas three times. president george w. bush had

visited nearly half of all the states at this point. again, those numbers compiled by the new york times calling the president a home body. i think that is surprising given his brand at rallying his voters, you talked to a lot of his supporters who say i didn't, especially during the health care debate. why wasn't he out there negotiating in freedom caucus districts as opposed to bringing them to a table in the white house? >> well, i think the question is what is trump selling and does he want to be selling it. when he was on the trail he was selling trump so he was very excited about that. the health care bill he was not i don't think ideological committed. he wanted to get a win. but the question becomes when do you get that win? i think this white house feels good about some of the regulatory stuff. they feel good about gorsuch. but at some point i do think you have to get something on the board. it doesn't get any easier after 100 days. he has some of the schmoozing,

combined with the ability to make the sales, but he's not making the sales. >> he went to louisville, national v nashville, what i'm struck by is when he's having these bag rallies he still sounds like he's running for office. they say there are some growing participates and being president does not translate as much to these big rallies. they are time consuming. he does like the oval office. he has more people inside to visit him in the west wing than treefs presidents. and communications have changed since president bush. he was not on social media. so this president is more visible in a sense, but i think it is one of the biggest surprises that he's not been out there selling it more because he only sort of wants to have these big rallies as opposed to to small events. >> at the white house he's been and on weekends he's been at trump properties. this is not a transparent administration. president obama didn't come

close to becoming the most transparent president in history. this white house has refused to follow the obama's administration policy of making the visitor logs public. we don't know who's going to see the president or golfing with the president. in this environment is it or is it not appropriate. the white house is a taxpayer paid building. should we not know who is going in and out of the white house and if there's some particular guest they have to keep secret for some national security reason, they have a waiver for that. grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands visitors annually is the reason they're going to go back to the ol wad ways. >> there's ways around that. we should know that information of people coming in and out. am i shocked that we're not? no. trump did not release his tax returns. he's been untransparent in other ways. i think you're seeing him implement some of those lack of

transparency guidelines that he's run by. >> in some ways see how much they can get away with and to see if it works essentially. and it worked on the campaign trail. you did have i think sean duffy on this morning criticize the white house and then talk about the need for transparency. you've heard the white house call the -- you've heard trump call the white house the people's house. if it's the people's house, it would be good probably to know who's going into the people's house, taxpayer funded building. and you're right, i think they are using this convenient excuse about privacy, national security. we'll see if they can get away with it. >> trump himself also used the information from the visitor logs to criticize obama. based on information gleaned. >> that was then. this is now. >> to me the visitor logs is a no brainer. it's one of the greatest things the obama administration did. no, it doesn't change the town.

they still had the meetings at the coffee. but you have a standard and you have some idea of who is there. i think that is an obligation to the american people. you should absolutely do it. the question is whether the constituency makes noise loud enough to make them change their mind. >> the question this week is to stay or pull out of the paris global climate change. inside the wha-- scott pruitt, ep administrator who went on fox news and said so publicly. >> paris is something we need to look at. it's something we need to exit. it's a bad deal for america. it was second, third or fourth kind of approach. china and india had no obligations. we front loaded all of our costs. >> not a surprise in his

position, but that's consistent with his views when he was oklahoma attorney general. given what we've seen with the rise and fall of steve bannon, when you're going into these conversations, is it smart to get out publicly on an issue where you might be at odds with the president's daughter? >> no. this is one of the times we're reading about palace intrigue about who's up and who's down. this is one of those tests about really does who carries weight and on the jared kushner and ivanka trump side carries weight. we've already gotten rid of the things we would need to do to satisfy the agreement. >> he called it political lie binding not legally binding. the democratic party is not in control. >> up next, nearly 18,000 eggs on a roll. big fun and a big test for the trumps today. the first easter egg roll as the

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and we will be stronger and bigger and better as a nation than ever before. we're right on track. you see what's happening and we are right on track. >> the easter bunny clearly agreed that we are right on track. that's the president of the united states. we're going to have a little fun at the end of the program. beginning the 139th annual easter egg roll, the first of the trump presidency. it's a surreal picture. any president standing there with the easter bunny next to him. those future trump voters, those 6, 7, 8 year-olds down on the lawn telling them we're right on track. there was a lot of conversation in town, will they pull this off, it's going to be smaller than it was in the past. washington sometimes obsess about things it should not obses

about. it's a fun event and you see melania trump there and you see baron trump. you don't see him often. >> is that an executive order? >> little art class there. anything to make of this great event except for being partisan for a minute? . president is on the lawn hanging out with kids. >> that's the great thing about this. you saw obama reading to kids, shooting basketballs. he missed a bunch at some point. so i think seeing donald trump in that atmosphere -- >> it humanizes him. he knew the cameras were on and that's why he said we're -- everything is going along just fine. he knew he was on television there. it's a fun moment. >> you can also get him the pomp and circumstance of the white house. he does that at mar-a-lago. new england patriots coming on

wednesday. >> i think there is an element when you talk about things this town and media gets obsessed about. the new york called it the -- i'm willing to buy it could be sort of a van halen, but this is not the biggest thing. >> thanks for joining us. we'll see you back here this morning tomorrow. wolf blitzer is up tomorrow after a quick break. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $509 on auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.

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hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington. two 2:00 a.m. in seoul south korea. we start with a warning for north korea from vice president mike pence. during a stop in south korea and a visit to the zone between north and south the vice president warned kim jong-un not to test the strength of the united states military forces or the resolve of the american president. >> the era of strategic patience is over. just in the past two weeks the world witnessed the