they say president trump won't make that same mistake with north korea or iran. >> an unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea and take the world along with it. >> reporter: the u.s. is conducting a 90-day review of the iran nuclear review despite acknowledging iran is complying with the deal. secretary of state rex tillerson says more sanctions could be coming because iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. >> evidence is clear iran's provocative actions threaten the united states, the region and the world. >> reporter: thursday morning, iran's foreign minister called the u.s. accusations worn out and says america must live up to its obligations. raig boswell, cbs news, the white house. >> the obama administration kept iran's sponsor of terrorism away from the negotiations over iran's nuclear deal staying would make it hard to get a deal. secretary of state rex tillerson says that that was a mistake. >>> new at noon, a data breach involving hotels in the bay area is bigger than first reported. the intercontinental hotel group says hackers stole credit car

administrations are tried to buy out but president trump won't make the same mistakes with north korea or iran. >> and unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea and take the world along with it. >> the u.s. deal despite acknowledging that they are complying with the deal. more sanctions could be coming because iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. >> the evidence is clear iran threatens the united states, the region and the world. >> thursday morning iran's foreign minister says america must live up to obligations. craig boswell cbs news the white house. >> the obama administration kept iran out of the nuclear deal saying it would make it harder to get a deal. secretary of state tillerson says that was a mistake. >>> to minimize security concerns the secret service has permanently closed off access to the entire fence line and sidewalk along the south lawn of the white house. the new restriction is part of a review of security measures at the complex. just last month a man jumped the white house fence and spent 17 minutes on president trump was inside. >>> traffic

they say president trump won't make the same mistakes with north korea or iran. >> an unchecked iran s the potential to travel the same path as north korea and take the world along with it. >> reporter: the u.s. is conducting a 90 day review of the iran nuclear deal despite acknowledging that tehran is complying with the deal. secretary of state rex tillerson says more sanctions could be coming because iran is a state sponsors of terrorism. >> the evidence is clear. iran's provocative actions threaten the united states the region and the world. >> reporter: thursday morning iran's foreign minister called the u.s. accusations worn out and says america must live up to its obligations. craig boswell cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> former fox news host bill o'reilly will be paid 10s of millions of dollars on his way out. fox new channel fired him yesterday after allegationing he sexually harassed several women. o'reilly spent the past two decades as the face of fox news' highest rated show the "o'reilly factor." five women were paid $13 million in stet. toss keep quiet about the harassment cla

on the global stage we are on the brink of a disastrous situation whether it comes from north korea, or iran, i too would add russian aggression to the list of issues that we face across the globe. this is a president who understands the threats that we face we have to do something about it and show decisive action, and i am pleased we have a president that is doing that. soledad: 100 days in. thanks for joining me. >> next is coal country about to , make a comeback? >> we can tilt at windmills or we can empower people. >> find out why a massive coal company is investing in solar farms to create jobs for the miners they laid off. and later -- the 100 day mark -- for the democrats. soledad: how would you grade the democrats? >> c-minus. drone video over pike county kentucky. you wouldn't knowt from tse piures, but this used to be a coal mine. just eight years ago, 91 million tons of coal were extracted from mines in eastern kentucky -- last year, fewer than 17 million tons. in the same eight years, mining employment dropportunityed from dropped from more than 15-thousand people employed to ju

north korea. would that be something we could use for their under ground facilities? >> it's designed for north korea or iranht using a moab in the past. there are scenarios where we use these types of weapons. as we earlier alluded to, the big danger is what north korea can do to the south in the event of hostilities. one of the biggest constraints on american behavior is the attitude of the south korean government. where the japanese are supportive oharsh nction south korea has a different relationship through much of its political system and the younger generations of south koreans they think differently about north korea. charles: we'll be back with more on this north korean showdown. charles: north korea launching another missile test. bruce, i want to let the audience know, you were former cia deputy division chief in korea. of course, trying to gain something when one of the key players may be i are rational is pretty difficult. how can we see this playing out? how would you assess what's going to that next 48 hours and the next couple weeks? >> there seems to be a hierarchy of responses by the u.n. n

whether it is russia, china, north korea or iran.his president is facing as general kelly pointed out yesterday. this administration is facing an extraordinary range of threatses in foreign policy and national security. it is unprecedentsed. >> the most important thing is he is a fightener the white house. he shouldn't have to fight his own side. that's what the republican ares need to know learn. he is providing us with leadership upon and we need to follow tell. the critical thing is there is a lot of wasted money in the government and he will try to reset. >> lou: the democrats in georgia came close to winning that race last night. the chair woman of the republican national committee last night said if the republicans don't understand they have to deliver on the president's agenda to avoid a devastating result next year they are beyond comprehension. >> i watched her on the show. she is a mechanic and state chairman and understand upons the mechanics of day-to-day politics. the democrat came close to winning. i don't think he will

whether it be russia, china, north korea or iran. this president is right now facing as general kelly himself pointed out yesterday, this administration is facing a extraordinary range of threats in foreign policy against our national security, it is unprecedented absent war. >> the most important thing is we have a fighter in the white house, i believe that president is willing to make the fight, he should not have 52 hifight his son side, own side. this is president we need to stand up and follow. i think that critical thing is a lot of money wasted in this government, a lot of priorities that need to be reset, he will try that. lou: democrat, stree 48.5% of vote in sixths district in georgia came very close to winning that race last night. if the republicans don't understand they have to deliver on their president's agenda to avoid a devastating result next year. >> she did a wonderful job. i think that key thing is she been a state chairman, and a mechanic, she understands mechanics of day-to-day politics, the thing is that the d

if you are going after north korea or iran, that's not the missile you use. s a massive ordinance pen traitor or m.o.p. this is a different weapon. if that's the message they are trying to send, that's not the message. >> trump uses the wrong acronym and the pentagon uses the wrong bomb. what about the fact it might have reminded a lot of americans, 16 years later, we are still in afghanistan. we are still fighting -- every time we withdrawal from an area, the taliban returns. what do we do? >> well, donald trump has promised he will fight wars and win them. the united states has had a long run of inconclusive wars. that's one of the reasons he won the republican nomination. nobody would talk about iraq. we are going to renominate jeb bush, the brother of the man who opened this trauma the party never discussed. donald trump talked about it. now he's embarked on an open-ended conflict. there's no plan that one can see. it is -- it is interesting, how does he psychologically cope with the commitments he's urnds taking on behalf of us all? >> we have the missile

in the ability to intercept missiles once they're off the launch phase and important whether north korea or iranr country that gets this. >> the missile defense system, china is unhappy about that. in terms of sanctions, if we rank up the sensation in north korea, china won't be happy with that and have an impact on china and to do increased banking sanctions would in many ways be catastrophic. last week, the yun sentence a council resolution to contest it done by north korea. china didn't abstain that. >> i couldn't see why we're putting all our eggs in a basket on china. i don't see them stepping up until something else happens. >> china has always looked at it and seen it as a buffer and worried about the humanitarian crisis if the government collapses. they say it is in our interests to not necessarily engage against north korea. president trump did a good thing, talk about currency manipulation? at the same time we are willing to put important things on the table if you help us with this. that is a credible option to destroy the nuclear weapons but the war will be extremely violent and bloo

program by the pentagon to try and determine that it can shoot down incoming missiles from either north korea or iranese upcoming tests in may, just next month, are taking place in the pacific. very much an effort to test u.s. missile defenses against the north korean threat. again, long plan but perhaps timely. one of them will take place at sea. a navy ship will test an upgraded missile with a better warhead, with a bigger booster to see if it works and this will be important because it means they can strike a north korean missile from a longer distance away. a second test in may will test the ability to protect the u.s. homeland. there will be a test of something called the ground-based interceptor. they are going to test fire one of them and see if it can hit a target at a very long-range over the pacific ocean simulating a north korean intercontinental ballistic missile attack. this is a program that's had a number of failures. only about a 50 to 60% success rate. they want to get this program squared away and have it be much more successful to protect the u.s. homeland that it really is right n

north korea environment. you have to push it out of the cargo plane. you can't fly those over north korea or iran. this may be an indication that the president is willing to use more powerful ordinance. maybe they will be picking up on that kind of message. but it's really hard to say how they are going to think about how to respond to this. especially when they can think to themselves, if this plane appeareded in our territory, we can shoot it down. they are dropping it down on people who are defenseless against this kind of weapon and we weren't defenseless. >> robert farley, thank you for your time. general tata, always a privilege. thank you very much. >>> moving on, just into us here at cnn, the trump administration announcing they will not reveal its visitor logs. you walk into the white house, that records who comes and goes. that breaks with the obama administration. the big question, why do they do that? >>> also, as whispers grow of a staff shakeup at the white house, someone is getting more and more of the president's attention and ear. and guess what, he's not a republican. we'll tell

but we cannot, we cannot let either north korea or iran remain on their present trajectory. it is a threat to the united states. it's a threat in iran's case to isreal and we just can't let that happen. unfortunately, this is sort of the harvest of a left wing ideology that simply stands by with a golf club and ignores some of the dangers that are in front of us at this point. >> congressman trent franks, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you, sir. >> up next, strong words from the secretary of state rex tillerson on the threats coming from iran. listen to this. >> an unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea and take the world along with it. >> talk about iran and north korea with a member of the house foreign affairs committee. there you see him. democratic congressman. he joins us after a quick break. and a one-coat wonder named "grams". it survived multiple personalities, 3 staycations, and 1 tiny announcement. behr. number one rated interior paint, exterior paint and stain. protecting and perfecting since 1947. only at the home depo

billion since the 1990s trying to build a system that would thwart a nuclear strike by either north korea or iran, but the "l.a. times" recently reported that in nine simulated attacks since the system was employed in 2004, the system failed to take out their targets six different times. is the u.s. at this time capable of shooting down a missile if it were aimed at california or anywhere else in america. >> anything i have to that knowledge is classified and i couldn't go into it. >> i understand that it's a dod issue, but you are homeland security secretary. do you feel that the homeland is safe from a north korean missile or, you know, any other coming towards the continental u.s.? >> well, it depends on who, there are countries on the planet that could overwhelm any defense that we would employ, russia, for example, but the minute north korea gets a missile that can reach the united states and put a weapon on that missile, a nuclear weapon, the instant that happens, this country is at grave risk. >> how far away do you think that is? >> i think mr. trump will be dealing with this in real term

different views, who need to be a part of the solution moving forward, whether it is china around north korea, or iranria, we need to make sure the international communities are working in a cohesive way. being able to engage effectively with a broad range of actors across ideologies and forms of government is important. john: do you worry about the west and that they are less inclined to get involved in these problems as you are? p.m. trudeau: my focus is very much on what canada can and should do, and how we can be helpful at bringing people together and applying pressure where it is needed, creating a coherent, international approach where possible. this is what i will work on and engage in whatever way works with the various allies of different ideologies. john: where does china fit into that? it is interesting to me that whilst you've been fairly outspoken on behalf of free trade and globalization, one person we seem to have heard more of is xi jinping. seems an odd ally for you to end up with. p.m. trudeau: one of the examples of where china has played a very positive role is around climate chan

that he might decide this is the model, for example, for north korea or iran.e in the ft over the weekend, the financial times, saying essentially this, that this worked as a tactic once. but if you try to translate, or take what happened in syria, if you are the trump administration, and apply it to north korea, north korea is a far more powerfulfoe. they have nuclear weapons. they are protected by china. and so i think the trump administration cannot believe that somehow one size fits all and that one policy can be transferred to an entirely different problem. in fact probably a much more dangerous problem, the problem of north korea with nuclear weapons. 0k, nick burns, thanks very much forjoining us. this is what sean spicer has had to say. russia is on an island with it comes to its lack of acknowledgement of what happened, and the facts are on our side and the actions of syria are reprehensible and russia have been partial to several international agreements that syria is not holding up to and also russia needs to hold up to. the president has been clear

in place, that, in fact, it's a failed approach and will not be applied any longer to either north korea or iranlonel oliver north, familiar with the iranians and way of doing business is here to respond. what do you think? >> i think this is brilliant. the first time we've heard in eight years someone who is putting first the existential threats to the united states. look, there's no doubt that isis terrorism is awful. it's horrific, particularly for people in that part of the world, but it's not an existential threat to the united states. nuclear weapons in the hands of the north koreans and the iranians who are, by the way, working a joint vent our this and have been for years, those weapons in the hands of those governments is an existential threat to the united states, and it's wonderful to hear a secretary of state stand up and say that. we didn't have it with mrs. clinton, sure as the devil didn't have it with john kerry. david the only thing i can think of, reminds me of john bolton at united nations, he used the same language that you don't often here from the secretary of state. what a

>> they spent $40 billion on the system designed to block a system from north korea or iran from hittingnd. but experts -- as you said, as recently as a few weeks ago a top general told congress that it could definitely knock down north korean missile. but experts tell me that claim is highly questionable. they point to the testing record. this system has failed eight of 17 tests since 1999. as you mentioned these are large missiles fired from alaska and california designed to attack and hit the ballistic missile in space. that's been compared to hitting a bullet with a bullet. even more so because the system was deployed before it was ready. government investigators like the congressional accountability office which is general accountability office, investigative arm of office has been very critical of the program. when i called the congress at source who regularly sees classified information, it just doesn't work. >> you also read about u.s. military officials telling you may they could use more than one intercepter. >> that's right. that's called shot doctrine. and when they test thes

and there the audience is not simply syria but it's anyone else including north korea or iran one dayk it's important to strengthen that norm, that rule in international relations because it's clearly gotten weakened over the last four or five years. to use an academic phrase, it's necessary but not sufficient. what syria's been able to get away with russian and iranian help is a war crime on a massive scale. again it, violates another norm, another rule or another set of principles of international relations and there again, i think ultimately the goal has to be protect to lives and see this regime out of power. what we want to do is not sixly stop them from continuing to do what they're doing but accepted a message that any regime that acts so badly can't expect to enjoy power for long. >> just briefly there was a horrific -- two attacks rlly in egypt on palm sunday, on coptic churches, the pope has spoken out against this horror. isis was claiming responsibility. we can't confirm that. but this real presidencicy is sisi is. >> if people are prepared to die for their cause and kill

you have a crazy despite andnd north korea or iran married to nuclear weapons. we have a history of historic proportions. i think everybody would get that. >> diana west wrote of great books called american betrayal which i recommend to everyone because in american the trail, a "new york times" reporter in moscow conspired to not tell the truth about the famine russia had created. stalin had deliberately created to kill off the middle-class farmers. you go back and look again and again, you find the left, fake news has behind it fake education. it's these two groups, the professors who lieht, the reporters who lie, leading to the politicians like obama, rice, and kerry who lied and grave danger for the survival of our country. >> sean: your old district in georgia is in a little bit of jeopardy for the republicans. they have a primary ten tomorrow, they have an election tomorrow but there's so many republicans running in, and aav democrat basically running on challenge. he gets to 50%, that would be your seat going to a democrat. >> that's right, i'm very concer

billion since the 1990s trying to build a system that would thwart a nuclear strike by either north korea or iran, but the "l.a. times" recently reported that in nine simulated attacks since the system was deployed in 2004, interacceptors have failed to take their targets out six different times. so from your vantage point, as secretary of homeland security, is the u.s. at this point capable of shooting down a north korean missile if it were headed towards california or anywhere else in america? >> everything i have knowledge of that pertains to that question is classified, and i really couldn't go into it. >> okay. but i mean do you feel just, i understand that it's a dod issue, but you are homeland security secretary. do you feel that the homeland is safe from a north korean missile or any other coming towards the continental u.s.? >> well, depends on who, i mean clearly there are countries on the planet that have a lot of nuclear weapons that would overwhelm any defense we would deploy, russia as an example, but the minute, i would tell you, dana, the minute north korea gets a missile that cou

he dominates every hour with news about north korea or iran, news that will keep him in the news.ould get dangerous. if the president thinks the only way to keep control of the news, a mission on which he is clearly committed, is to gin things up on some possible warfront, sooner or later we're going to have a war. why is he doing this? why is he talking about opening up the nuclear treaty with iran? since when is it an american practice to cut a deal, then start haggling about the deal you made? weren't we the country complaining that's precisely what other countries do? you know, the way we could characterize the position of other countries, what's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable. how did we americans get to be this way, always stirring things up, never letting anything settle down, always trying to ep coo the heat on? again, you look for trouble. pretty soon you get it. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> the press reported there was like a give up. there's no give up. >> trumpcare

that type of weapon with an enemy that has air defense like north korea or iran, wouldn't work because it's dropped from a cargo plane essentially. this is -- >> literally push it out the back of a cargo plane. >> literally like dropping cargo. pulled out by a parachute and steered with tiny wings into the target by gps. a target like this with tunnels and a confined space with mountains on either side is the -- is the best conditions for delivering this type of bomb. >> you know, ambassador, was there a message here not just to isis, not just to terrorists everywhere, but to countries like syria, like iraq? what do you think about this as a sort of a delivery system of a message, not just a bomb? >> it's really a happy confluence of events in the sense that this as the general said this was the right weapon to use in the circumstance. again, president trump has delegated this authority to his military commanders and the fact that it happened at this moment at this time, who knows. that said, the intended effect is what the president sought to accomplish, which was you have the carrier

or should do the job of defending the united states for us. it also made clear the prior review of the obama administration that our missile defense system is aimed at north korea and iran. and that is not intended to effect strategic stability visa vis russia or china. one of the recommendations in tom's report would say shift that focus a little bit and include as a goal the ability to engage ballistic missiles in very limited numbers from russia or china. and we'll want to talk about that issue and any potential implications for stability. but clearly as we think about missile defense today, the driving consideration is north korea's continued missile testing, its continued efforts on its nuclear program and the reality that while north korea poses an uncertain threat to the united states homeland today, it does pose a threat even today. and that threat is likely to grow in the coming months and missile missile defense is not the only part of the u.s. approach to that problem and to our allies approach, but it's got to be a fundamental part. currently a lot of qualitative improvements under way in the system. i i give great credit to missile defense agency director f

gadgets finds a set of threats, missiles, and vehicles from russia or china with more advanced countermeasures? first on north korea, then iran, then russia, china. on north korea, i don't recall the particular three or four we are speaking of, but i would say the question of home and north korean missiles -- obviously i will be in touch in terms of the new threat assessments, what was done -- back in the 2000 10 p.m. tr, then again in 2013. ok,s looked around and said this is worse than it was in 2013. happened in what is 2013. the new administration will look at that. it is not like anybody has something to say there will be 37 as opposed to 39 icbm threats. that's with the new administration will look at. take a look at the threat again. do notme i checked i think we are better off than we were in 2013. they will look at that realistic terms. >> where is iran and that makes? -- mix? recognizing that iran could break out, and diphtheria. -- period of eight years they could get a sense of that agreement. >> women a prediction about iran. the iranian icbms of come around. this does get looser as you pointed out in some respec

possibly if it were something outside, you know, something in pakistan or iran or north korea that were being contemplated. yes. but in afghanistan, i don't think so. but to go to your question, brian, perhaps there is a psychological piece of this, but my sense, my strong sense is that this was advised by the generals on the ground for the target, for the tunnel infrastructure there to get at the isis target. and if this wasn't meant to send some broader message, about what america can do around the world. >> jack jacobs, what do you make of the learning curve here, what the president is learning about what the military can do and how he's learning it? >> well, one of the things he's learned is to delegate responsibility and decision making. i mean, he's distancing himself from the micro management that took place in the previous administration. and i think he was involved in it at the very beginning. he doesn't want to do it and he sent the decision making down to the field commanders and that's where the decision was made. and i agree he didn't eastern kn -- even know about it until

known, so this is the kind of exercise we go through with russians on arm's control agreement or iran, north koreagreements with them back in 2012, 2013, syria declared stockpiles and what it declared and showed that the un was removed and destroyed. that's not the end of the story, though. it's what they didn't declare that the un couldn't find the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and i'm not sure that our intelligence knew about either. this is a very important question going forward. did the obama administration know of chemical weapon stockpiles that still existed in syria, they briefed the incoming trump administration on it. i would be very curious about that and also intelligence that withheld. neil: one thing it's very clear is we have apparently drawn the line to the use of chemical weapons, the line that president bush used and chemical weapon to justify going into iraq and so it is something that is a deal- breaker and as we look at the 100th anniversary of world war i and chemical weapons was a big issue then. where are we going on this and keep popping up as real t

they are not talking about syria or iran or north korea. what they are talking about is israel.very single month for 10 years they have been i shall rail bashing. -- they have been israel bashing. i couldn't believe they put the time and energy into doing that when we have so many threats around the world. eric: we'll talk to former ambassador john bolton who held that job about china and other topics. and tonight you will see more am balances doer haley's interview at 6:00 p.m. on news *. 6:00 p.m. -- on america's news headquarters. arthel: will the chinese shep calm the situation in pyongyang? a wall of mud and water in clommial as the death toll right. >> we don't know what the death toll is going to be. we'll continue to search for survivors. and the first thing want to say, our heart and the hearts of all colombians are with the victims of this tragedy. so i feed jakew naturals indoor, a nutritious formula with no artificial flavors. made specifically for indoor cats. purina cat chow. nutrition to build better lives. termites, we're on the move.24/7. roger. hey rick, all go

how will russia or iran or north korea react to all of this very visible messaging? alisyn. >> barbara, thank you. russia lashing out at the u.s. for launching strikes in syria. the kremlin says it shows president trump's refusal to cooperate with them on syria. what will happen when secretary of state rex tillerson visits russia tomorrow? cnn's paul newton is live in moscow. what is the situation, paula? >> reporter: they are getting ready for the meeting. a point of controversy. there was supposed to be a meeting with secretary of state rex tillerson and vladimir putin. it wasn't on the schedule, but now the kremlin saying it will happen. the kremlin spokesperson saying there was never one officially on the agenda. if something changes, he will let us know. rex tillerson coming into the country. he has gotten an award from the kremlin for friendship to russia. they would get beyond the pleasantries and cut to the bottom line. the united states wants to know if russia will stick with assad no matter what or can we bring you to the table to ease syria away from assad

from the hip, they are methodically looking at this, whether it's in syria or it's in north korea or dealing with iran think they will work with the strategies that are very tough and will execute. we are seeing a very dramatic change. congressmen who just came back from the middle east said every arab that he talked to said how glad they were that trump fired a missile in syria and they all said america is back. what they're saying to the iranians is this ain't going to be like dealing with john kerry. this is a real adult who knows how to be tough. >> sandra: he's clearly not sharing with us the evidence to say iran is not living up to the spirit of the agreement. >> newt: first of all, they're starting from a terrorism side. i think, this is partly jared kushner's personal passion about this, they would really like to find a way to create a real dialogue between israel and the palestinians. hamas is deeply funded by iran. until you cut off the iranians, you can't get it done. you look at syria. it's a rainy and funding. what they're saying is this is clearly a regime which is in violation of every

and whether it is a bad actor like russia or iran or north korea. and keeping them off balance is a good thing. what the attack doesn't do is increase our leverage in syria on the ground to forge the political settlement or power sharing agreement with assad and sunni muslims there. that is always the problem. you said someone made the point that the american people simply do not want to be involved on the ground in syria. they don't want to be involved if in a fight there. the difficulemma for this administration and previous administration is leverage. when you are not ready to introduce forces of your own on the ground. >> tom, let me ask you something. this ans sum assumption to dr line. why not punish all of the types of efforts against innocents the same way? that's the problem in not just syria, but many of the oppressive insuran oppressive insurance gagss. if he drops a barrel bomb and shoots up hundreds of people, that's okay? >> chris, it is obviously contradictory and there is no simple answer for it. you have to draw a red line somewhere

. >> it's a question we would need to ask him about situations with north korea, or afghanistan or irannada in terms of nafta you have public comments that are in sicindiarincindiary. this is a dangerous machine. if you miscalculate and overreact there's a danger of escalation. >> and jeff you spoke about that regime didn't you? >> we did. and in fact he has somewhat brace comments for kim jong-un, one we felt if he thought the north korean leader was rational and he had no real opinion on that. in fkt he went on to say it's difficult for a 27-year-old to take over a regime as he did when his father died. >> he says he's 27 years old, his father dies, took over a regime, say what you want but that's not easy, especially at that age, i'm not giving him credit or not giving him credit i'm just saying it's a very hard thing to do. as to whether or not he's rational, i have no opinion on that. i hope he's rational. >> that's right. i asked at one point in that interview are you trying, wanting to give him credit. he said i'm not giving him credit or not giving him credit. clearly he's not m

they're not talking about syria, or iran, or north korea. what they're talking about is israel.ry single month for ten years they have been israel bashing. that is something that i cannot believe there put in the time and energy into doing that when we have so many threats around the world. >> it the counterpart in israeli has already noticed a differen difference. what you think of her? >> i think she's great. she comes with the values and tools. that's what we need. we need to bring the un back to its core values. the un is a good institution but it was can happen evil forces. i believe a besser haley and my team to work together and maybe change the un and bring it back to where should be. >> eric: she says is working. >> things are happening. it's changing. the toner is getting better. people realize that we had more important things to do. i think they are tired of me yelling at them about israel bashing. >> eric: tired of yelling at the diplomats. she is the daughter of immigrants born in south carolina and was the governor of that state. she is seen as a rising star in th

economics here at home and tough globally to make sure we don't have the rogue nations, whether north korea or isis or iranking all over us. trump is unpredictable. that's a good thing when you are trying to navigate and negotiate a deal. i think this approach is right. i guess time will tell. i would say, chris, do we want to get into a nuclear -- not nuclear, but military conflict with north korea? can those things unravel quickly? absolutely. we should proceed with caution. again, you don't take anything off the table. >> the idea of why trump was brought to power. you make a good point. for most people, the pressure was domestic. change the economy. change the political culture. do something for me and my family. this does seem to be an interesting pivot away from that. the recent spate of foreign involvement. some see it as political distraction. how do you see it? >> i think president trump is trying to keep promises. he is looking at the economy back home whether meeting with business leaders or union leaders. he also told us he would build up the military and bomb the nono snot, he used a different

it wasn't north korea, china, russia or iran. it was our debt. our debt is what long term with bring america to its knees and we better deal with it quick before it happened. >> see if the president can convince south korea to hand over a million dollars for that missile. mo brooks of alabama, up next, reflecting on his 100 days in office, president trump says the job is more difficult than he had imagined and misses his old life. we're only moments away from the president's speech to the nra, the national rifle association. we're going live to that convention in atlanta when we come back. over hereno!ver here! (dog barking) whoever threw it has to go get it. not me! somebody will get it... ♪ (dog barking) anyone can dream. making it a reality is the hard part. from the b-2 to the upcoming b-21, northrop grumman stealth bombers give america an advantage in a turbulent world. and we're looking for a few dreamers to join us. w...i was always searching for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i had it covered. then i realized managing was all i was

understand it was on isis but was directed towards isis and with that directed towards north korea or directed towards iran>> let's look at last week. the cruise missile attack on the airbase in syria wasn't just about sending message about weapons of mass destruction and syria. it was a message about weapons of mass instruction anywhere, and is also a message about nations that sponsor mass murdering regimes. so you're absolutely right. this president understands that diplomacy without forced behind it is nothing. it's words, it's pieces of pape paper. statecraft and leadership are when you lose use these things to reinforce one another. speak >> eric: i'm sorry to cut you off, assad has said this is all at fabrication. they made up by the u.s. government to find a reason to bomb assad. trump says were not going into syria, but if assad does use chemicals again, will we bomb syria? >> we don't give our playbook away. you're my friend, but we don't do it. that's the last eight years prayed we don't telegraph in advance to the threats out there what were going to do because that's how you lose. that's a str

north korea without the help of china? >> well, my key takeaway is that after a couple of years when people have been rather ignoring north korea because they were focusing much more on syria or iranr russia, now the focus is very much on north korea. i mean, remember stephanie, when president obama left the white house, he left a note saying essentially he thought north korea would be the first foreign policy challenge. and it's certainly turning out that way. and my best guess is what's happened is the nfc have conducted a review of north korea, it's accelerated to make sure it was ready before the president meets the chinese delegation this friday. and having read that, i think the white house is now seriously concerned about what's happening not least because all the signals are that north korea could have a missile that's capable of hitting the west coast by the end of the president's first term. >> you also asked president trump about cutting a deal with xi jinping of china and he said this, quot i would note at all surprised if we did something that would be very dramatic and good for both countries. okay. that quote right there to me is sort of this sound bite salesman at

was the president sending a message larger than no chemical attacks or was this a message to china fan north korea and iran as well? >> i don't think it was intended as a threatening thing to china at all. that's not the context, and that's not reason it was done when it was done it was done when it was done because there was a clear understanding where these horrible attacks came from and the president wanted to make clear he's not going to tolerate putting these horrible gas on women, children and beautiful little babies. maria: this administration set priorities and are keeping their promises with regard to other issues. maria: when you joined me a couple weeks ago you were talking about changing nafta, being among your priorities. has that shifted in any way? are you look at nafta differently than you were even before the election in terms of redoing it. or can you just tweak nafta? where are you on that? >> i think it need much more than a tweak. i think the president has made that exceedingly clear. but what has changed as in all dealing between the administration and congress, it's been frustratingl

across the globe whether it's the missile strike against syria or the tough talk against north korea or ripping up the iran deal. the administration is talking a big game but as rick was noting what are they going to do in terms of their policy and as it still unclear. we haven't heard a lot from the president on how he's going to change the administration's policy. >> he said the trump administration has no intention of pass the buck on the future administration on iran. >> rex tillerson saying iran could be on the same path as north korea. >> which is also true. >> of course. you can look at the sponsor of terrorism. i think what's important here and josh makes this point you have to find a way to get to that end game because these things are out there for a long time. these are regime are relatively isolate and have been impervious to a lot of u.s. pressure and now you're seeing a president and administration adjusting to the reality. need them for certain things. don't want iran to become a nuclear power or korea to be impervious to china and we're seeing adjustments republicans who weren't pro-trump t

host: does the strike in syria as any detriment yl preventative to iran or north korea? does that make them think twice? i would say yes. there's a little hesitation not because of resolve but because of unpredictability. kind of that nixon mad man theory. they're thinking this guy actually could do this. for example, during the iraq war in 2003, the 2003 invasion, i was completely against that. i was at the endowment i would about saying, no, he doesn't have wmd. you don't need to go to war to get the wmd. and i was convinced up until the last moment that president bush wouldn't do this because it was so stupid. but just because something is stupid doesn't mean presidents won't do it. so you do have to be worried that there will be some kind of calculation or miscalculation in korea that could lead to the president ordering a strike of some kind. conventional, maybe. some of his advisers are urging. even nuclear. so yes the risk calculations go up treppedsly and that does into north or korea and iranian calculations. host: lee from minnesota. caller: good morning. i wou