joining me on the phone, gordon chang author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world.irst of all this is very significant development. it comes as the u.s. president is meeting with the japanese prime minister in florida. talk to us about the significance that north korea is carrying out this alleged ballistic missile test, the first in the trump presidency. >> trump tweeted out that north korea would not test a ballistic missile, so this is a direct defiance of the american president. we have to remember trump just lost an important test of will with china's whichpresident. trump is going to be tested by china's only military ally, north korea. also there's another important aspect to this and that is there were fundamental reasons why north korea should not have tested at this point because it undercuts their interests. north korea hast has a vital -- in south korea where a progressive is going to win. by firing a ballistic missile they empower the conservatives in south korea and because of that if a conservative does win, it will be just more difficult for kim jong

gordon chang, appreciate your perspective. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> here with me to discuss all this, national political reporter for bloomberg politics, bernard whitman, former pollster to president clinton and former republican congressman from new york. thank you, all of you, for your time. when you have the president's response and you say somebody like gordon saying that there's got to be a much more humble approach, what's your take on how the president responded? >> it's an interesting response by president trump. it's somewhat more traditional than we've expected from him, someone who is a very nontraditional presidential candidate and has proven himself nontraditional in the way he communicates, kind of fires off a tweet. he has not done that this time. his response so far to north korea's provocation here has been what you would sort of expect from previous presidents. he has gotten together with his allies, sent his defense secretary to seoul, tokyo, saying the international community will respo

i want to bring in gordon chang.what's the message that north korea is trying to send here, do you think? >> there could be various messages. i think the important thing here is that this launch undercuts north korea's interests in south korea. it also undercuts china's interests in south korea. it's curious they would launch at this time. china does not want south korea to deploy the u.s.-made t.h.a.a.d. antimissile system. when north korea launches a missile, it gives south korea impetus to go ahead with the u.s. plan. china can't be happy about this, unless there's some motives we don't know about. the north koreans have an interest in roiling the political scene because a missile launch could help the conservatives. it's very strange timing for north korea. >> ministry of defense official tells cnn it was a ballistic missile and traveled 500 kilometers. that source adds that further details will be analyzed by south korea and the u.s. lieutenant general hurtly, now that we know it traveled 500 kilometers, does th

"forbes" columnist, gordon chang, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> and that's it for me thismons in munich. thanks for joining me. jacob soboroff will be you on the other side of the break. he'll have much more on president trump's rally set for this evening in florida. and the anti-trump rallies taking place across the country all day. your path to retirement may not always be clear. but at t. rowe price, we can help guide your retirement savings. so wherever your retirement journey takes you, we can help you reach your goals. call us or your advisor t. rowe price. invest with confidence. youthat's why you drink ensure. sidelined. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. >>> good afternoon. i'm jacob soboroff at msnbc world headquarters. it is 3:00 p.m. eastern time, here in new york. and in melbourne, florida, where president trump is expected to hold a campaign-style rally, just two hours from now. it is a rally that we will carry live, right here on msnbc. while the p

gordon chang. and joe serincioni, author of "nuclear nightmares."ucy, let me start with you and the latest reporting. north korea says the test was, quote, a show of force to the new trump administration. what else do we know? >> hey, kate. it certainly was a show of force aimed at getting the attention of the new administration in the white house. donald trump and the japanese prime minister were sitting down to their wedge salads when they learned of this launch, according to the reports out there. if this was intended to provoke donald trump into a bellicose reaction, the north koreans failed on that end. but there is reason to be concerned, this missile as we understand flew farther than previous north korean tests, over 300 miles before dropping into the sea of japan. it's also reportedly the first time the north koreans claimed to have used something called solid fuel. if that's true, that's a pretty big step forward because it means instead of relying on missiles that have to be fueled on fixed launch pad, the north korean military could fire

i want to bring in gordon chang, the author of "nuclear showdown: north korea takes on the world."le test. obviously crucial. new capability. harder to detect. mobile. farther than they've ever been able to send a missile. they have reporters in pyongyang right now, the only western journalist is our will rippley. obviously proud of this. >> they should be but this is probably a chinese-based missile, the jl-1. there are lot of things we have to ask. how did the north koreans do this? because they didn't do it on their own. this is too much of a technological leap. they did it much too fast. >> all right. and now this comes as kim jong-un's half brother mysteriously killed in the malaysian airport. pretty stunning story. you have a police chief there saying that someone literally may have put something over his head. he breathes it in. he goes and asks for help. he dies moments later. a mysterious woman is seen nearby, unclear whether she's involved. what happened? >> the latest malaysian reporting is a woman came up from behind and put a cloth over his face and that's when he star

gordon chang is an author and columnist with the daily beast.ant general mark hurtling is also with us. we heard matt rivers say the u.s. is still trying to determine if this was a successful test. what would make it successful? >> if it stayed together, first of all, ana. if it broke apart, that would give an indication. the north koreans have often filed these launches toward the sea of japan. the accuracy of their weapons just are not very good. they aim and shoot and don't care where they land. they're trying to get distance. they're trying to read things like does the missile fall apart. they may have been testing some type of heat shield on the reentry vehicle. they may have been testing whether or not the missile could withstand g's. it could have been a weighted payload, not a nuclear payload, just to see how the missile reacted when something was placed on the top of it. i'm not a missileer, but there are a lot of things those who fire missiles are testing when they do these kinds of things. the interest pieing piece is, n korea has fil

gordon chang, forbes columnist and author of "nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world" and malcolm nance, author of "the plot to hack america." it's an authors roundtable here on "a.m. joy." thank you all for being here. jordan, wow, what a strange story. but it seems like sort of the strange you have to consider to be true in north korea or is it true? >> well, i think it certainly is true. and the important thing here is this shows instability in the regime. in february we've learned of three incidents. one of them is the purge of the minister of state security. that was the beginning of the month. when they fired off the intermediate range ballistic missile last sunday, the head of north korea's strategic rocket forces was not there, indicating instability at the top of the regime and now the killing of kim jong-nam which is heinous because in north korea bloodline is the legitimacy of the regime so it's even worse than we would consider it here. >> are there other members of the family still alive that could succeed kim jong-un or has he gotten rid of them all? >> he has an old

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a big party tomorrow to celebrate those changes might crack a cold one with bruce gordon who got a close the changes. >> reporter: cold beer at a wawa in pennsylvania? you're not dreaming. not at the store at 202 and naamans creek starting thursday morning. customers let's just say they're on board with the idea. >> i think it's great. i mean come here after work, get yourself a nice hoagie and six pack and go home and enjoy the rest of the day. >> reporter: leaving is good. >> pretty much. >> reporter: wawa viewed this 7400 square foot store as big enough to fit pennsylvania law and its own poll policies. restauranseating for 30. upgradeupgraded amenities and br sale. up to 192-ounce mace be purchased for take out. the chain now 750 stores in six states, considers this the next step in its evolution. >> we've heard a lot of excitement from the community. we see a great response to our offer in florida and virginia where we have stores that, you know, offer beer. >> reporter: southeastern pa is, of course, wawa's birthplace. long-time customers say adding the combination of beer and sitt

gordon smith the future of television as fcc has changes to landscape mrchlt smith is nterviewed by technology report reporter. >> on the television side holds promise for the american people, for the consumers. broadcasting, it let's you do data casting and let's you do the best pictures that are out there, immersive sound and internet operatability. his making that, putting it up the mprn calendar suggests and its value is to the american people. >> watch the communicators 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from san lauren wright, the author of the new book

changes. our bruce gordon is live at that very wawa probably itching to try a cold one. >> reporter: i may sleep out here overnight. look, this is just natural evolution of mankind. first we learned to walk up right, then we learned to invent the printing press then we learned to fly, now we can by buy at a pennsylvania wawa. for the past five weeks or so, it's been gas pumps only at the wawa store on route 202 in naamans creek road. but come thursday morning, a grand reopening featuring drum roll, please, beer. customers can't wait. >> i think it's great. i mean, come here after work and get yourself a nice hoagie and six pack and go home and enjoy the rest of the day. >> reporter: life is good? >> yeah. pretty much. >> reporter: 7400 square foot store will be wawa's first in pennsylvania, first in the region to offer beer. a single container may be consumed on the premises and up to 100 into ounces for take out. they'll be restaurant style seating and upgraded fixtures, too. but make no mistake this is mostly about the beer. >> it just increases the accessibility to things that help simplify t

communicators," national association of broadcasters ceo gordon smith looks at the future of television, as a new republican-controlled fcc weighs changes to the communications landscape. mr. smith is interviewed by technology reporter amir nassar. >> aps 3.0 on the television side holds enormous promise for the american people, for the consumers. not just for broadcasting, but it lets you do data casting, it lets you do the best pictures that are out there, immersive sound, internet operablility. it suggests he gets this and its value to the american people. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >>> so which presidents were america's greatest leaders? c-span recently asked 91 presidential historians to rate our 43 presidents in ten areas of leadership. top billing this year went to the president who preserved the union, abraham lincoln. he held the top spots for all three surveys. three our top vote getters, george washington, franklin roosevelt and theodore roosevelt. dwight eisenhower from 1953 to 1961 makes his afeerns in the pop five this year. rounding out the top tern choices, harry truman, thomas jeffe

yourselves, america. 33 >> he's talking about the war, he's talking about poverty, changing as an artist in a way berry gordonhave marvin gaye making a protest record about the war. that could potentially ruin good money. you don't lightly talk about the government. ♪ yeah, i want to know what's going on right now ♪ >> ultimately when he agrees to put out "what's going on," berry tells marvin, okay, if you're right, i'll learn something, and if i'm right, you'll learn something. and of course, as berry will say, i learned something. >> every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say, so, they put you in one category. they say, he's a soul artist, that's all they expect for you to sing and that's all they want you to sing. that's not true. soul is being able to express yourself. >> stevie wonder went to berry gordon and he negotiated his creative freedom and he used every bit of it. ♪ every superstition ♪ writing's on the wall >> stevie wonder making some of the greatest records anyone has ever made in popular music in america, back to back to back. ♪ writing

change all of that, folks. >> bring in a veteran to the airline industry, gordon, former continental airline ceo and cnbc contributor, explain something to me. every time we fly in and out of any new york city airport, there's all kinds of user fees, and yet we users don't seem to see a better airport. is there money there that's not being allocateallocated? can it be fixed quickly? >> it's not going to be quickly. it's trying to keep up with a vehic volume as they grow. obviously, newark is an easier airport, but there's big investments in laguardia, so they are addressing those concrete brick and mortar issues. i think the biggest upside is the air traffic control system as mr. kelly mentioned to make it an efficient air transportation system, thereby saving billions of dollars of people's time and money. >> give me an example. i mean, does that mean you're not sitting for 20 minutes waiting to take off when you know your ticket says you take off at this time, but there's all kinds of ran don delays that happen? >> we're running a world war ii type of radar tracking system in our aircraft traffic control. that mea

communicators," national association of broadcasters ceo gordon smith looks at the future of television as a new republican control fcc makes changes. mr. smith is interviewed by technology reporter amir nassar. holds enormous promise for the american people, for the consumers. datacasting.o it lets you do the best pictures out there. and internet operability. i think his making that, putting that up their on their nprm ealendars, suggests het gets the value to the american people. >> watch the "communicators" at 8:00 on c-span 2. historians discuss the results of c-span's presidential leadership survey, which is available on our website at www.c-span.org. this is one hour and 20 minutes. c-span has just released our third survey of presidential leadership, looking at 10 different qualities of leadership and ranking the presidents to 43 men who served as president of the united states from george washington through barack obama. we are pleased to be joined this morning by our three academic advisors to the project will stuff from the west coast, doug ,rinkley with rice university presidential biographer richard norton smith from gr

communicators, national association of broadcasters ceo gordon smith looks at the future of television as a new republican-controlled fcc makes changes to the communications landscape. mr. smith is interviewed by a technology reporter. on the television side, it holds enormous promise for the american people, for the consumers. different broadcasting but it lets you do data casting, lets you get the best pitchers that are out there, immersive sound and internet operability. i think then putting it up there prm calendar, he gets this and its value to the american people. announcer: watch the communicators monday night at eight eastern on c-span two. at the munich security conference, vice president mike pence met today with more world leaders including the belgian prime minister. concentration the camp. he gave his first major foreign policies each discussing the u.s. transpacific relationship and nato. this is about 20 minutes. [applause]

gordon has advised drug companies on this issue. he believes it's dangerous for judges not doctors to decide when a drug change is big enough as even small changes can make life much easier for a patient. >> i don't know what it means to say technically little or no benefit and who gets to make that decision. >> reporter: generics do compete. fda records show in 2015 about 15 new generic drugs were approved for every one brand name. >> the risk with overzealous enforcement and attack on what's been called product hopping is the fact you increase the cost of innovation. >> outline what they're going to give you. >> reporter: critics say the impact on wright and their patients is pronounced because their knowledge of drug options and pricing is limited. >> a lot of people don't know and i'm embarrassed to say i should've known. i should've done more research. >> wright is confidence many of her clients are in the same boat. for the investigators, george spencer nbc10 news. >> now watch dogs and drug company advocates alike say the single most important thing patients can do is speak to their doctor and pharmacist about generic option

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gordon fox 29 news. >>> the young north jersey boy kick out of the boy scouts because he's transgender can now rejoin his troop. he's got a lot to say. boy scouts of america says it's changingtury old policy to let trance jent children to enroll. eight-year-old joel maldonado from see saw cuss says he's happy to be back. >> gave my mom a call that i can't go any more. because the mothers were having issues with me being there because i was a girl. it sounds stupid to me. the kids -- it's none of their fault. all transgenders should be septembered of who they are. >> there you go. joe says he's excited to get back to his friends and all of the activities he missed. >>> some students are putting new meaning to peaceful protes protests. ♪ music students at rider university's west minster choir college are in marathon mode. hoping to keep the college in princeton. pianists and singers other musicians are protesting using their talent in this 24 hour marathon because of declining enroll many and financial concerns rider officials are considering moving west minste minster's choir college to the university's main campus but students fear such a move would mean they lose programs

changing. here's a reminder, folks. the side of the road is not your trash can. in wood lapped, delaware, county, bruce gordonox 29 ne news. >>> unexpected twist in an alleged carjac carjacking child abduction. philadelphia police now say the incident last night was all hoax. a 22-year-old pizza delivery driver said he was babysitting a four-year-old boy when someone stole his car at 15th and courtland with a kid inside. police found the car not far away. marcus fletcher is now charged with making false reports. police say he admitted lying about the missing child and said he did it because he was the victim avenue holdup and didn't like the way it was investigated. he wanted to watch police quote work harder. >>> if you built it, they will come. well that is the hope of philadelphia developer bart black steen and he's just dropped a loft money on that gamble. which brings to us the boardwalk near the former showboat casino. black steen just bought up property right there including garden peer across from the still shutter the revel casino as well as volleyball between it and the showboat. he's hoping to draw

changes. patrick hennessey is a barrister and former army captain who thinks this will make the mod less accountable. hamish de bretton—gordonalso, simon harmer, who lost both legs in afghanistan in 2009. tell us what happened for your family after chris was killed in terms of compensation. it was quickly dealt with, but not as well as it could be. i am more interested in the duty of care. he was killed ina in the duty of care. he was killed in a warrior. in the chilcott report, in 2003 it was condemned for not having protection. he was killed in 2007, and still it had no protection, even though in 2003 the mod were putting protection underneath. therefore,... we are struggling to hear a bit because of a bad line, so i will move away from you for a moment. let me bring in simon, you lost out of your legs in afghanistan in 2009. what is your view on duty of care, compensation, and whether people should have the right to go through the courts to get redress? there needs to be an independent body that looks after us. when i was initially injured, i had to go through the process myself, i have the support of the veterans charity