state. we have been at this war for 17 years. you know, the continual use as the number of forces as a judge of the strategy is not a good idea. many of us in the military have been saying this for years. you have to say, what are we attempting to achieve there. is it the total reversal to the afghan president and prime minister. is it having general nicholson, you know, it's been interesting, because general nicholson has been in the news, lately. he will do anything to advance the strategy if he knows what the strategy is, as opposed to just being told, keep doing things and win. that's not a good strategy that should be given by our political leaders. and as you mentioned the aumf is certainly something that congress should take on. many of us have been saying that for many years. >> so we'll see how the president responds. we'll see how these measures are taken up by congress. we'll bring you gentlemen back with your great minds to help understand the situation better. general tata, thank you, as

always. general hertling, always a plus. we're following a lot of news this morning, let's get after it. >> president trump spending his 200th day on the job on a working vacation, as the vice president pushes back against a report he's positioning himself for 2020. >> that is complete fiction. that is complete fabrication. >> let's face it, i don't think that anybody should count anything out. >> it's in president trump's interests for bob mueller to continue this investigation to its conclusion. >> we've been doing this for about a year now. and what is there to show for it? >> bob mueller understands the specific scope of the investigation. it's not a fishing expedition. >> this was a gut punch to north korea. >> these resolutions are not going to change the puyongyang pyongyang. >> we have to provide all options and that includes a nuclear option. >> announcer: this is "new day." >> welcome to your "new day." alisyn is off.

the one and only brianna keilar, emmy-nominated, joining me this morning. >> don't laugh. that's a great honor. >> thank you. >> i'm actually very angry and jealous. >> so president trump laughing out at the media and the polls this morning in a series of tweets during his 17-day working, not a vacation, as he keeps telling us, at his golf club in new jersey. the president clearly exsocorsid watching "new day" this morning. and vice president pence slamming a report saying he's prepping for a run in 2020 in trump decides not to. let's begin with joe in bridgewater, new jersey. >> reporter: the president also tweeted he's working hard from new jersey this morning, while the white house is going through some badly needed renovations, although it's also clear, he's getting in some downtime, as well. this comes at a time the president is trying to get his

policy agenda back on track, and playing down questions about his political future. >> president trump waking up on his 200th day in office at his golf club in new jersey, where he'll be spending the next two weeks on a, quote, working vacation, while the white house undergoes renovations. the president trump stressing on twitter he'll still be taking meetings and calls, while spending time at his resort, while touting the successes from "the new york times" report that some systems are begun build 2020 shadow campaigns, with pence advisers allegedly signals to party donors that he would plan to run from trump did not. pence contesting the story, calling the report, quote, disgraceful and offensive, and dismissing as laughable and absurd that the suggestion that he isn't working solely for trump's agenda and re-election.

>> it is absolutely true that the president is getting ready for 2020, for re-election as vice president. >> so no concern he's segt ttinp a shadow campaign? >> zero concern. >> reporter: the report also cites a number of other republicans allegedly weighing a 2020 bid, as the president continues to grapple with record low numbers and an intensifying russia investigation. >> the special counsel is subject to the rules and regulation s of the department f justice and we don't engage in fishing expeditions. >> reporter: deputy attorney general rod rosenstein asserting that special counsel robert mueller can investigate any crimes during the scope of the investigation during an interview on fox news. >> if it's something outside that scope, he needs to come to the acting attorney general, at this time, me, for permission to expand his investigation. >> reporter: "the new york times" reporting that mueller's investigators have asked the white house for documents related to fired national security adviser, michael flynn, and possible payments from the turkish government.

the president also tweeted just a little while ago something that appears to be his own take on possible contenders for the white house in 2020. he says the failing "new york times," which has made every wrong prediction about me, including my big election win, apologized, it's totally inept. and the president also tweeted he's going back to new york next week, which would be only the second time he's been in the city since he was inaugurated. brianna and chris, back to you. >> and this is a little bit of an impressive show. thank you to joe johns. we're getting up towards close to a dozen tweets this morning. and i think there's two important points that we should make as we get into the panel. the first is, it is a real blessing to have the president of the united states watching "new day" the way he does. it creates an urgency, it creates a relevance and an added benefit to you in the audience, because you're going to get the president's realtime reactions to what's happening in the news. the second point is, there's an

often -- often a criticism of us that we focus on certain things and we should focus on other things. please take a look at the president's thread this morning. see what on day 200 of his presidency he has decided to make most important, because whatever the president says is the most important thing that is being discussed in government. that's just the way it is. the tone starts at the top. look at the thread. let's discuss the choices the president has made and what 200 days marks for the american people in this presidency. we've got cnn senior political analyst, ron brownstein. and cnn political analyst, david drucker and abby phillip. good to have you all here. david drucker, "washington examiner," looking at what the president has decided to do, a lot of his favorite pet projects, on day 200, this is what he has decided. attack "the new york times," say russia is fake, the media is terrible, and then i heard someone criticize me, so i'm going to take them out this morning, as best i can. those are his decisions on day 200. what do they reflect? >> i think they reflect the fact that one weekend into the john

kelly era, some things are not going to change. and i think that's what a lot of us have been watching for. because the party -- because the white house has been in a state of chaos. it has had a lot of republicans worried about this president's performance and ability to achieve things going forward, like tax reform after the health care reform debacle. and so i think a lot of people are watching to see if the president's performance and his governing style changes. now, look, i think what's important about the president's tweets, as much as it excites his base, and in a sense, keeps his base loyal, is that over time, if the president doesn't rack up enough wins legislatively and achievements, there's a, number one, broader republican base that doesn't like his style, doesn't like the tweets, but is sticking with him, because, given the alternatives, they want to give him more time and because they agree with his agenda. i think the second thing is, and this gets to a lot of what we've been discussing this morning, is that there are a lot of republicans who feel as though six months in, they're not

happy. and this is republicans on capitol hill. they don't believe that the president has been effective as a party leader. they feel like he has hung them out to try. they feel like every time something goes wrong, he's a million miles away from it. and it's making it harder for them to take a lot of these tough votes going forward, when they feel like the guy with the bully pulpit, who's supposed to help make this all possible, doesn't have their back. and that's why we've seen so much distrust and backbiting among republicans on the hill. and president trump. and all of that is going to make it difficult for the president to achieve items on his agenda, if he doesn't have a team behind him, and it's hard to have a team behind you when you're constantly badgering them. >> and abby, to that point, it seems as if the president at least understands that as much that he needs to be talking about the things -- the deliverables, really. and that's part of what he's tweeting about today, but he's also -- look at this. the trump base is far bigger and stronger than ever before, despite some phony, fake news

polling. look at rallies. he's taking on poll numbers, even as he talks about record stock market, border security, military strength and jobs. it's almost as if he is doing the rate thiight thing and thent totally undercuts himself. >> he's focused on poll numbers, partly because poll numbers are saying actually that his base is suffering. he has lost 10 percentage points among non-college-educated white voters in one month, which is a huge drop, and has had a demonstrable effect on his approval rating overall. and i think everything that trump is doing at this motment, whether it's his twitter feed, talking about the stock market, it's about the care and feeding of his base. that's all fine, but i think to chris's point, when the president wakes up on a monday morning, in august, and the first thing that he talks about is his poll numbers and attacking a sitting united states senator, that's being

off-message. and there's virtually no one, john kelly included, who believes that they can change that. that's a pertinesonality thing t this president. there's a lot of other focus going on about organizing the white house and restructuring it and making it work better. so that republicans and people in washington can have more confidence that decisions are being made in a rational way. but the president's instincts to go after his enemies and to focus intensely on his base is not going to change, i think. >> ron brownstein, make the case. here's fthe president's argumen, they are small, but they are mighty. my base has an intensity, a love, a passion for purpose that outweighs even their numerical quotient. they're not your 50%. you know, that they're worth 50%, even though they're only 35%, because of their intensity. they've never been stronger. >> you can't repeal math, though, chris. he does have an intense following. and as we've talked about before, one thing he is doing

with increasing explicitness is basically equate himself with his base and argue that any attack on him is really an attempt to suppress them and to roll back the influence that they have grabbed in national politics, as he did in west virginia last week. the problem is, you can't get collected president totally with your most ardent supporters. and if math tells you he won 46% of the vote in 2016, he's polling around 35, 37, 38% approval now, he has lost some of his base. and in fact, in the quinnipiac poll, for example, last week, his approval rating look whites without a college education, his best group, was about 25 points below his vote in 2016. and if you look at adults age 50 to 64, the percentage of those, of people who say they strongly disapprove of his performance is double what it was when he took office. it is not a coincidence that those are two of the groups that would have been the biggest losers in what he spent the first six months trying to do, which is repeal the affordable care act and replace it with the republican alternative.

it would have been very hard on lower income whites and older adults, most of them, two-thirds of whom, are white. there's a reality here, he's pursued policies on the economic side that are very different than what he ran on. when he ran as republican who explicitly said he would protect social security and medicare and medicaid. and now what you've seen in the past couple of weeks is a sharp turn on cultural concern and populism. as an explicit knowledgement that he's got to find a way to shore up that base that he says is so indivisible. >> david drucker, one of the other things the president is tweeting about is this "new york times" article that talks about how the vice president is getting his ducks in a row for a potential run, maybe just in case, in 2020. and the vice president is s hitting back. this is not just one of his staff members who responds, this is from the vice president, a statement, who says, today's article in "the new york times" is disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and our entire team. the allegations in this article

are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this administration. whatever fake news may come our way, my entire team will continue our efforts to advance the president's agenda and see him re-elected in 2020. any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd. is this for an audience of one? >> an audience of one, capital "o." i think the reason why this story is possible is because as a republican told me last week, when we were discussing the sort of split between republicans on the hill and the white house, it's the president's party apparatus, but it's not the president's party. and so you have a lot of republicans out there that don't feel like the president is fully invested in the success of the republican party. and of course, a lot of voters, including a lot of trump voters, would say, hey, that's good. because we need to put party over country. we don't like the republican party all that much anyway. we feel like they've failed us, they've lied to us, so we have a president that is sort of our avatar. he's beating them up the way we

want them beaten up to get them into line. but the problem is, if you're going to be successful at a national level, you need a strong party behind you. president trump found that out. one of the reasons -- i mean, he deserves a lot -- a lot of credit for his victory in 2016, but he relied a lot on the republican national committee, its fund-raising apparatus, its voter turnout apparatus. so what we see then is when a party apparatus doesn't feel like the president or its leaders are invested in them, then they start to sort of freelance and prepare for a time in which the president may not be available to help them or may not be around, because they already feel in some ways as though that is the case. >> david abby and ron, stand by for us. ahead, the deputy attorney general says it's no fishing expedition, but how far can the special counsel, robert mueller, go with his investigation? we're going to discuss with

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expedition. rose,stein says that mueller can investigate any crimes he discovers in the russia investigation, but would need permission to expand its scope. jo joining us now, james clapper, the director of national intelligence under president obama. thank you so much for being with us to lend your expertise on this. >> thanks for having me. >> you hear him saying that, that he can take it anywhere, but there's this step where if mueller needs to go off in a different direction, because he finds some wrongdoing, then he has to go to the deputy ag and ask permission. how do you see that playing out? >> well, i have -- first of all, i have the utmost faith and confidence in bob mueller, who served for 12 years, as director of the fbi. so i think he -- he understands the ground rules very clearly. and i think he recognizes the distinction between a valid

pursuit of an investigation, particularly with a nexus to the russian interference, versus a so-called fishing expedition. so, what the deputy attorney general has said, i think, comports exactly with my understanding of the way these things work. and bob mueller, of all people, clearly has a very clear understanding. >> now, your confidence is not shared by all indications by the president of the united states. he is suspicious of mueller, he's suspicious of the process. i would love your take on how difficult it is for an ag or an acting ag in this case, to say no, in a situation where a special counsel comes to them and says, i would like to investigate the following. because i remember, i'm old enough to remember, ken starr going to janet reno, and reno obviously clinton's choice for ag, she put star in there. he came to her, wanted to go in

a radically different direction. she said yes, because the political optics were so bad, if she were to stunt an investigation that was supposed to be independent. what's your take? >> well, this is a different situation and a different cast of characters. but i think it points well taken in that the same pressures will be there. i mean, this is an investigatory process that obviously has huge political overtones. so i can't say or predict if, in fact, bob goes to the deputy ag and asked to pursue a tangent, just, you know, what the reaction will be. i think it will be up to bob to make the case for why that's necessary. >> i know you're watching this situation in north korea really heat up here. and we've heard from the secretary of state. he's saying north korea needs to stop testing. north korea is saying, look, we're not going to negotiate our nuclear program. and then we're hearing some very

alarming words from general h.r. mcmaster, the president's national security adviser. here's what he said. >> how concerned should the american people be that we are actually on the brink of a war with north korea? >> well, i think -- i think it's impossible to overstate the danger associated with this. right, i think it's kpoimpossib to overstate the danger associated with a rogue, brutal regime. >> high stakes situation here. what does the trump administration need to do? >> well, in my view, in the end, i think we are going to have to find a way to dialogue with the north koreans. i realize we have to keep the military option on the table to use the phrase, but i think, particularly a peremptory military operation against north korea would be disastrous. because i believe the north koreas would unleash all that artillery and rocketry they have lined up along the dmz, and they

would, as they have vowed many times, turn seoul into a, quote, sea of fire. and i think if we were to peremptorily attack, their reaction would be reflexive. there would be no deliberation, they would just go at it. and of course, you're putting literally millions of lives at risk, since so much of the population of south korea is concentrated in the northern part of the country. so i think the best we can hope for is to try to cap what they're doing. and i would be for engaging with the north koreans. when i visited there, i was blown away at the magnitude and the depth of the paranoia and the siege mentality that prevails in north korea. and you're sitting in pyongyang and you're looking south, they find an overwhelming conventional military force with the republican of korea armed forces backed up, buttressed by the united states.

and so i've advocated, i did so in seoul, in the end of june, with due consideration and consultation, that we establish an intersection in pyongyang, similar to what we had in havana, cuba, for decades, to deal with a government we didn't recognize. not as a reward for bad behavior, but to have a permanent residence, a diplomatic presence in pyongyang, to gain a better insight and understanding of what's going on in north korea, which is a huge problem for the intelligence community, and maybe most important, as a conduit of information to get into north korea. so after i visited there, i found the palpable siege mentality. and as we hype up the rhetoric, that just heightens their siege mentality. i would also say -- >> go ahead, please. >> that i lived through the tree cutting incident in 1976. i was on active duty in the air

force, as an intelligence officer, serving at pacific command headquarters. and i found then the eminence of war feeling a lot more predominant then than the situation we have today, if that's any kind of a calming influence. >> so, that's one of the things we've been wondering about this morning. this administration has gone out of its way to tee up this situation as demanding attention and urgency right now. and that gets a lot of accolades, politically. you know, that the trump administration is taking this on. but to what end, in your -- from your perspective, mr. clapper? because if it's as difficult to create any real pressure on this regime, given part of what you're saying about the mentality there and the disposition of the leader, from all outward signs, how do you reconcile giving it more attention with finding a way to make some kind of progress? >> well, there is -- there are no good options, as others have observed with north korea. so i do think a combination of

carrots and sticks, so-called, is probably the right approach. so the recent u.n. security council resolution, unanimously imposing or agreeing to impose more sanctions on north korea is a good thick. you have to do that at the same time, although i do think we need to seriously reach out and attempt to dialogue with them. the last administration saw a pretty draconian set of sanctions in the form of u.n. security council resolution, 2270. so before we do high fives in the end zone with this latest resolution, the real test is, how the various countries involved comply with it. and most importantly, of course, as everyone recognizes, is china. if china does, in fact, consistently and uniformly curtail its ex -- its imports of north korean goods, notably coal, that would have a big impact. but the koreans have an amazing

capacity to endure suffering. and so, i think we need to do that. that's a good thing. and that certainly conveys an international message, but at the same time, i believe we need to reach out to them and seek dialogue. and as the first white house talking point i was issued, when i went there, was, you must denuclearize. well, they're not going to do that. that is just a nonstarter with the north koreans. that's their ticket to survival, it's the only way they get attention. and they want face and recognition. >> and many would argue the ship has sailed on that now. james clapper, thank you so much for joining us. we do appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> yeah, good to have you. he's going to be on now. part of the family. we'll benefit greatly from his perspective, as will you. so, what are we seeing a little bit down in washington, d.c.? a show of bipartisanship. you have two senate bills now aimed at protecting the special counsel from the presidential acts. we're going to speak to democratic senator chris coons about why this is a good idea,

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so we are hearing some information about what the special counsel is doing. using a grand jury. that's an ordinary tool in this situation. it sounds scarier than it is. but, there's so much talk about what might happen if the special counsel does x, y, or z that you have a little bit of a political reaction to it. you have two senators, one republican, one democrat, putting their efforts behind a bill to protect the special counsel from being fired by president trump. the senator on this -- in this couple is democrat senator chris coons of delaware, joining us right now. i mean, couple in the political sense, senator. you're getting together to do this. we appreciate you coming on to make the case this morning. >> thank you, chris. great to be on with you. and i'm honored to work with senator toll tillis of north korea on this important bill to protect special counsel. >> so let's have you make the case. let's test it. the starting position for the administration would be, this is executive authority. you guys just tried to undercut

the president from their perspective, on the sanctions bill. you cut into the executive's ability to unilaterally negotiate. now you're trying to cut into the president's ability again, that he should be able to tell his attorney general that a special counsel is inappropriate in a situation. there is legal basis for that. why abridge it? >> well, right now, the reasons why the president, through the attorney general, can't just randomly fired the special counsel, if he has a bad day or gets in a bad mood, is embedded in some regulations in the department of justice. what we're doing is taking those standards and putting them into law. so that it's clear that we as a co-equal branch in the senate support checks and balances and the rule of law. look, frankly, the president has this situation. if he's concerned about this situation, the only person he has to blame is his himself. his repeated threats on twitter against attorney general sessions, his repeated claims

that this russia investigation is a fabrication have clearly run into opposition from both republicans and democrats in the senate. it is in everyone's best interests, the president's and the country's, that bob mueller be allowed to continue this investigation to its logical conclusion. if there's nothing there, then that conclusion will be broadly accepted by republicans and democrats. if there is something there, then it's in the best interests of the country for it to come to light. and i think this modest step by senator tillis and myself, that's mirrored by another bill, that senators graham and booker also introduced, is one way of asserting ourselves with the senate just as we did with the russia sanctions bill. >> a political question and a legal question. is your bill only doing what is already existent in the regulations for the doj, or are you going further in terms of curtailing the president's ability to move on a special counsel. >> we're going further on providing a specific remedy. if the special counsel is fired, he would, within two weeks,

would go to a three-judge panel. that panel looks at why he was fired. and if they decide it was an inappropriate firing, they can direct his reinstatement. there isn't currently a clearly remedy, and it's not is a swift remedy. but this bill would introduce a clear and swift remedy, which is intended to be a deterrent between this president and future presidents, from an inappropriate firing of a special counsel. this is also part of strengthening the department of justice and its independence. >> why would it be constitutional to put that condition on a president's ability to move on a special counsel? >> there are ways that the congress can legislate, that limits executive power. and i do think that in this particular case, what we're doing is simply putting in statute a process that allows a judicial review of whether or not a firing was inappropriate. there's already standards in executive branch regulations for when a firing is or isn't appropriate. this is simply clarifying what the remedy would be.

>> and is that how it exists right now? you know, there's a lot of misinformation about this. this is why i'm digging down on it with you. as it stands right now, when can a president move on a special counsel? and i use the word "move" colloquially for a reason. because it is a gray area, about how it works. it's an indirect process. it is a nebulous process. what is your understanding about what the peabasis for it is supposed to be? >> if the president respects the rule of law and the process, he would direct the deputy attorney general, since the attorney general, jeff sessions, is recused from this matter. he would direct him to fire the special counsel. now, the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, has already said publicly, he would not fire robert mueller for anything short of cause. so there was concern among some of us in the senate that he might fire either the attorney general, kevin the tweets that he was issuing a few weeks ago,

threatening jeff sessions i' jo or that he might move against rod rosenstein. what he can actually do is indirect, under the regulations of the department of justice. but the president, because he is the president, has the power to fire people at the department of justice, until he finds someone who is willing to override those regulations, and willing to override the traditional independence of the department of justice. that's roughly what happened with the so-called saturday night massacre, back if 1973, when president nixon fired a series of senior department of justice officials, until he found someone willing to do his bidding. >> a worthy discussion, because we need to understand the balance of powers argument here. and then, just as important, we're going to have to see how this plays in the senate. let's see who gets onboard with it, because it will really speak to the level of independence within that body right now. senator coons, thank you for coming on the show.

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time now for the five things to know for your new day. number one, president trump lashing out at the media and polls on his 200th day in office. the president watching the show this morning and tweeting up a storm from his 17-day working, not a vacation, as the president keeps saying, at his new jersey golf club. >> does include golf, though. vice president mike pence blasting a "new york times" report that says he's positioning himself to run for president in 2020 if president trump does not seek a second term pep pen term. pence calling the story offensive. rex tillerson saying the u.s. is open to north korea talks, if they stop ballistic missile tests. north korea vows to retaliate against the latest u.s.-led sanctions voted on by the u.n., and says its missiles and

nuclear weapons are not on the negotiating table. the fbi is investigating the bombing of a minneapolis mosque as a possible hate crime. the explosive device detonated as people gathered for morning prayers this weekend. fortunately, no one was injured. minnesota's governor calling it an act of terrorism. the city of chicago is suing the justice department over plans to withhold funding from police departments that do not assist in federal immigration matters. the mayor there, rahm emanuel, says chicago will not be blackmailed into changing its values. quick programming note. mayor emanuel is going to be on "cnn newsroom" in the next hour. and for more on the five things to know, go to cnn.com/newday for the latest. all right, so we've got a good bleacher report today. former bears' quarterback, jay cutler, hitting pause on the broadcasting career before he even called his first game, demand to get fpigskin back in his hand. coy wire has more in the bleacher report. this was a big surprise, and

i've got to tell you, he looked good flinging those outpatterns yesterday. >> good to see you, chris. a mike dropped before he even spoke into it. jay cutler coming out of retirement to pick up a dolphins' helmet, signing a reported one-year deal worth $10 million. he's going to reunite with his former offensive coordinate, adam gates, now thae head coach in miami, after their starter there partially tore his acl. so yet another team passed on collin kaepernick. the dolphins were reportedly interested in signing them, the question remains, will any team give kaepernick the opportunity to play this season. here's your feel-good for the day. 10-year-old jesse deals with brain swelling and bone loss since the leukemia he has battled since he was 4 years old. well, the cancer is in remission and this weekend he beat cuomo's new york jets into submission. taking the hand off 50 yards for a touchdown, leaving the defenders in the dust. his mom, his dad, his older brother there, all there to watch him score a touchdown and

have the team raise him high above his heads. they found out about young jesse through the marty lions foundation which started 35 years ago by one of their former players. grants wishes for kids with terminal and life-threatening illnesses. and the team, they're also going to give jesse four tickets to the home opener nextm month. >> he was wearing matt forte's jersey there, number 22. the good news is, they gave that kid a memory he deserves to have for the rest of his life. the bad news, it was the only successfully blocked long play for the new york jets in like four seasons. another long season, but made the right statement at the right time. president trump's world views is continuing to evolve, as relationships with allies and adversaries are changing. cnn's fareed zakaria gives us his take, next. ♪

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all right. so secretary of state rex tillerson says a unanimous u.n. vote slapping north korea with the strongest sanctions yet show the world is united againsts the reclusive regime's nuclear ambitions. north korea is taking ate differe a different way. they are vowing to retaliate. this is hardening their resolve of them against the world. let's bring in cnn's ivan watson live from vanilla, where tillerson is attending a meeting of asian nations. thanks for being on the spot for us. there's a very interesting dynamic at play here. it really is a matter of perspective, from the u.s. perspective, the international community galvanized, to stand against what north korea is doing. it seems like north korea is seeing it as an opportunity to double down and say that its nukes are not on the table, no matter how hard you pinch them with sanctions.

>> yeah, the u.s. plan here was to try to internationally, diplomatically, isolate north korea. and secretary tillerson did have some success, not only with the united nations security council resolution that bars north korea from exporting ooirn and coal and seafood, but also with getting southeast asian nations to issue their own statement, expressing grave concern about north korea's two ballistic missile launch last month. also getting the chinese foreign minister to face to face tell north korea's top diplomat, please stop firing missiles. so, there is some kind of international opposition to what north korea is doing. the u.s. secretary of state went on to say that now one of the key questions is going to be implementation of these new sanctions against pyongyang. take a listen. >> the next step is obviously to see that the security council

resolution sanctions are enforced by everyone. we will be monitoring that carefully. we hope, again, that this ultimately will result in north korea coming to the conclusion to choose a different pathway, and when the conditions are ripe, that we can sit and have a dialogue around the future of north korea, so that they feel secure and prosper economically. >> now, chris, the response from north korea has been somewhat surreal. we got a hold of the document, what the north korean diplomat read to the assembled southeast asian nations here. and here he basically discounted all the of the criticism they've gotten from other countries, from china, from russia, from the united nations security council, and framed it all as a confrontation between the u.s. and north korea. and argued that north korea will never give up, will never give

up its nuclear weapons, it needs it as a deterrent against the u.s. and issued direct threats against the u.s., saying that it's a grave mistake if washington thinks that the u.s. is safe being an ocean away from north korea. so, so, we're just hearing defiance coming from pyongyang at this point. >> and maybe not that surprising, ivan, because by all accounts, it appears that the ship has sailed now on north korea, getting a long-range nuclear missile. it just seems like a reality that this administration is confronting. listen to this sobering comment from general h.r. mcmaster, the president's national security adviser. >> how concerned should the american people be that we are actually on the brink of a war with north korea? >> well, i think it's impossible to overstate the disabling associated with this. i think it's impossible to overstate the danger associated with a rogue, brutal regime.

>> it seems like the u.s. figuring out a way to live with the nuclear north korea. this as we've heard some of our guests saying, an equilibrium. there's also a worst-case scenario here, and that's what mcmaster is talking about. >> yeah, the possibility of a conflict, everybody knows, would be horrific, because it would involve north korea, seoul being within artillery range of north korean conventional artillery. and basically, the korean war 2.0, just hard to even possibly imagine. that's something that nobody even wants to contemplate. what is a fact here is that with its actions in the last couple of weeks, north korea has actually managed to get the u.s., russia, and china on the same page when it comes to its

ballistic missile technology, its nuclear tests. i mean, for moscow and beijing to unite with washington on this united nations security council resolution, that's quite a big thing, considering the huge differences there. and it also seems to have attracted criticism from other kind of countries that don't necessarily flock to the u.s. the philippines president, the host of this gathering here, just last week, he call ed nort korea's leader a maniac, someone who's crazy, and called him chubby, as well. that's the kind of criticism that north korea is coming under from unexpected circles right now. brianna and chris. >> ivan watson, thank you very much. we look forward to the rest of your reporting with the secretary of state there in the philippines. appreciate it. all right, it's monday, but always good to start off the week with a little good stuff. what do you say? next. cidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.com.

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the good stuff. a vietnam veteran, joe conningham, wanted to do something for soldiers that suffers from ptsd. this is a huge and underreported problem. so he used his retirement money to start up a nonprofit in tennessee. he's using horses to help

veterans get acclimated to life after returning home from war. many of them find comfort in the program. >> they help me connect again with who i am. and i think all veterans, if they have the ability to take this opportunity, it's a wonderful thing. >> he took his own money to do right by the fighting men and women with a need, again, that's greatly ignored. ptsd. >> that's right, giving back. such a great story. it is time now, on that note, for "cnn newsroom" with poppy harlow. >> good morning, you guys. have a great day. >> you, too. good monday morning, everybody. i'm poppy harlow. john berman has the day off. day 200 of the trump presidency and the president insists, this is not a day of rest, even though technically he is on vacation. working hard from new jersey, is what the president wrote this morning while bashing the media and claiming that his base is bigger and stronger than ever. for his part, the vice president, mike pence, wants the