l's militaryou exercises with the u.s., calling it a deliberate provocation. >> kim could be saying,f the u.s. backs down on the military drills, maybe i have the upper hand more. each side is trying to get the upper hand heading into the negotiations. >> in a statement published in the news agency, a north korean foreign minister warned that if the u.s. is trying to drive us into a corner to force unilateral nuclear abandonment, we would no longer be interested in such dialogue. >> i would characterize this as a second round in a boxing match after north korea is coming back after being cornered and punched the last few weeks by the u.s., particularly by trump. all indications are today is they are saying, hey, we have got skin in this game, it is high-stakes, and we have leverage here as well. >> i think the risk for the u.s. is whether to really engage in this discussion publicly with north korea or try to keep the waters as calm as possible and get to june 12, get to singapore, and see what president, who frequently markets himself as the master of dealmaking, is able to do. >> i

have some people unfortunately in washington, bolton being one of them, who believe that war and militaryisms the answer to everything. we have spent over $2 trillion in wars in iraq and afghanistan. yet today our infrastructure here in the united states is crumblin crumbling. we have millions of people can't afford to go to college or leaving college deeply in debt. maybe we might want to be investing in the american people rather than inflated military budgets and more and more wars. >> you heard ambassador bolton say some nice things about senator john mccain after this white house aid kelly saddler made this disgusting joke president his vote doesn't matter because he is going to die anyway. you served with senator mccain for more than a decade. it was a meaningful moment when he returned to the senate. you gave him a hug on the senate floor right after he returned from arizona where he was being treated from brain cancer. what is your response to the comment from kelly saddler, the white house official who joked that mccain was dying anyway so his vote doesn't matter. what was your reac

departments nationwide are lining up for the bear cat, despite some citizen concerns about the militaryizationf law enforcement. cops swear by the vehicle and as we found out last week, sales are through the roof. you may not know what a bear cat is but you've probably seen one, deployed by s.w.a.t. and tactical teams responding to violent protests and barricade situations or to save people trapped in floods and mud slides. police department have been stocking up on the armored incident response and rescue vehicles, taking advantage of a federal program allowing law enforcement access to this type of equipment. a program temporarily suspended by president obama, reinstated by president trump. >> when people are firing guns, everybody runs away except the police. the police run towards the gunfire, just as firemen run towards the fire. so you want to give them the best equipment to protect themselves. they want to go home at thend of the day to their families. we're putting them through as fast as we can. >> reporter: len light created the first bear cat in pitsfield, massachusetts nearly 20 ye

years ever since the late 1960s, has wrapped itself in the flag, wrapped itself in patriotism, militaryism, nationalism and that's the way it has sold its game and really ramped up that effort in the 2000s when it started demanding that teams stand at the sidelines while the national anthem was being played and while gigantic 100-yard flags were ununif you recalled on t -- unfurled on the field and b-52 bombers were flying overhead. they made it part of their marketing. that's why they reacted as they have. >> chris, you and i talked last time when leaked audio or transcripts from a meeting between players and owners where the players thought the meeting was ostensibly to talk about how colin kaepernick who as you told me was skilled enough to be on the roster and the owners were there with a different mission, one was the p.r. problem with the anthem protest. talk about where the players' heads are today on a day when they may not be able to speak as freely as you are. >> well, you know, i think that in this situation the players really have a choice to make, and that's are they going to

and border patrol, militaryize the border, you are asking to cut funding for alternatives to detention in your budget. so why is the department not asking us to expand the use of alternatives to detention in order to save taxpayer money? >> we are looking to do both. so as you know one of the alternatives to detention is an ankle bracelet. we do utilize those in situations where appropriate. if somebody, however, has broken the law in the sense that they there multiple re-entry or have some other reason to be criminally prosecuted, we actually turn them over to the marshalls. we defer them over for prosecution, in which case there is no option for an alternate to detention. so if you look at all the numbers, we are trying to find ways to do t but i do want to just say, again, if you cross in between the ports of entry -- it's a long-term respect. go to the ports if they need to come to seek asylum. expand the use of it. it seems to me it's taxpayer saving and much more humane. thank you. senator langford. >> thank you. senator nielsen, would you pass onto thank you to the committee law