everyone agrees that the north koreans are not fully capable.t is a mistake to say that we need to rush to an israeli military strike or an american military strike. i don't think that the president should take those auctions off the table. you want to combine diplomacy with the threat of force and the possible use of force. and has been 30 years since we have had sustained meaningful negotiations on this. you don't want to stay to the negotiating table and have them play out the clock. within two, three, four months, we will know whether there is a serious possibility of a successful diplomatic lead. we don't know if it turns to russia, china, the largest arms exporter and a large trader with iran. the >> what might they be getting from the north korean experience during the past four or five years of negotiation? offerings of promise. >> these are bad people. we did not negotiate with the run for 30 years. we did not negotiate with north korea as well. what did we accomplish? they developed the ability to have nuclear-weapons. that whole time

obama maties each that there will be dire consequences for the north korean violation of our agreements. there will be economic heightened economic sanctions against north korea. and my students understood, this is just like saying blah blah law. we don't trade with north korea. what will we sanction them with economically when we don't do business with them? on the other hand, sometimes when a president says there'll be dire consequences, as when president obama has to attend sanctions against iran for its nuclear program, which i will come back to. that can have real effects. that's a costly signal. not just because it costs uranian something, if we cut back bank transactions and other activities that the iranians do. because they cost some of our friends money because they do business with iran. and if they abide in the sanctions that we threaten, that's costly to them, which means they will be a little annoyed. and so the president is taking a political risk. and because it is costly, we can take the statement as credible. and of course, the iranians have to work out, is the cost of

south korea claims that a north korean ship was damaged after it deliberately crossed the border. an official says this may have been just an accident that got out of control. that's a quick check of what we're talking about, definitely not all. let's check in on you this morning, sleepy head. i'm robin meade. welcome. during wartime u.s. troops know the risk that they're facing but today in ft. hood a memorial for 13 soldiers killed in the kind of attack no one expected. a shooting rampage on the base and a fellow soldier as the suspect. the president will attend the service and meet with families. some witnesses are still stunned by what they saw. >> people started running and we could see people throwing chairs and stuff at the windows and at first we didn't know what was going on because we couldn't hear the gunshots. doors were closed. as people started running out, you saw people drenched in blood and stuff and people yelling, he's shooting, he's shooting. >> well, the fbi is starting a new internal review to see if it missed any red flags about the suspect. major nidal hasa

north koreans have been pretty vocal, as the chinese, that they have been interested in pursuing cyber wars. what made me a little skeptical about this is that north korea doesn't really have much internet the nativity, much less electricity in some cases, so it leads to some questions on how they were able to do something like this. but i think the key underlying fact, what people suspected north koreans, and no one could be absolutely sure and certainly not with enough certainty that we could at formulative response. when this is one of the deviling aspects of the cyber war, is an ability to have attribution -- knowing precisely. if someone launches a missile at the united states they will know what the missile comes from an they concede that the satellite. not the same thing with a cyber attack. it makes responding to a difficult and legally problematic as well. host: massachusetts. democrat 9. caller: two questions. i cannot concerned as much about cyber attacks, but what would happen in general terms of the chinese not doubt our satellites? the ethics -- i heard you say america's

if the north koreans don't do it themselves, it is in beijing. >> yes, sir? that's it. >> one question, where do we get the resources to deal with the kinds of things being proposed? [inaudible] we haven't got the forces or the manpower. and we don't have the resources financially. or any of the other things going on. somebody please give me an answer. >> i believe we have the military capabilities. there may be a lot of post of and consequences. we do have the military capacity to be able to knock out virtually everything that iran is doing, assuming we know where most of it is. i don't think that is the issue. we're spending billions of dollars on our military costs. by almost any standards, that will give us the military capability. as you know, i think our biggest are not going to be on the military side, but on the civilian side of things. these are going to be enormous and growing costs that are not going to be sustainable. if anybody wants to hear david walker, who is now the head of the peterson institute, he knows these facts inside and out. those co

diplomat wills soon meet one-on-one with north korean officials.t announcement came from a request from pyonyang. the obama administration describes this as a limited effort. the goal is to resume the six-party talks. >>> a janitor is being called a hero for saving lives in a suicide bomb attack. >> that's right. a christian janitor at this school you see in these pictures, saving the lives of hundreds of muslim girls and he's now a national hero. also, police say a pastor is admitting to shooting and killing a teenager. the events surrounded his confession and then a little dress got a woman in big trouble. there it is. there's the dress. her little number caused at a university. that in about 15. >> wow. okay. thank you. >>> some banks are letting their customers spend as much they want, but clark howard warns it may cost you way more in bank fees than you're willing to pay. >> a lot of people, because they've been burned by credit cards, have switched to debit cards. that's where it has a visa or mastercard logo on it, but when you use it, it ta

the hypothesis of course is that ideas like capitalism i guess will be slow the introduced in north koreansand wages garnished by workers there at the resort will trickle down but here is in fact what happened. in fact what happens is that communist party members who were the sons and daughters of the elite are sent to work there. they are adamantly in support of the regime and they don't talk to people who go and about any of these ideas anyway so they are kept at arm's length. so, the reality is that you don't reach the population. what you do is you paid money to bolster the intelligence apparatus or in the state or in the case of north korea of. and i think there is an awful lot of wishful thinking. i think they kim jong-il like castro would never do anything to threaten his grip on power, but he doesn't mind running that hotel out there because the workers are so highly screen, they are party members and they don't get paid. the wages go to the state and then the state leads the communist party workers of the vast majority of the money made at this resort is pocketed by the regime for

the north korean ship fired back, but south korea says it retreat when's he got damaged. a white house official says this could be an accident that just got out of control. >>> so the man accused of trying to blackmail david letterman is expected to ask a judge to drop the case today. a lawyer for cbs news producer be rot haldeman plans to challenge the evidence. the case said haldeman had him admit on his show that he had sex with women who worked for him. >>> if you see one of the hot new toys for christmas, grab it, says jen westhoven. toy shortages are starting early this year. go out and get them, hey, money expert. >> hey. we have been talking about this is the kind of year where you decide to wait until the very end, you could be risking your stuff will be gone. retailers are worried maybe people aren't going to be spending as much this holiday season. look, they're not in great shape either. they can't afford to be stuck with a lot of leftover that's have to be marked down soxt they're ord, so they're ordering in smaller batches. this is a mechanical hamster and h

if the north koreans don't do it themselves, it is in beijing. >> yes, sir? that's it. >> one question, where do we get the resources to deal with the kinds of things being proposed? [inaudible] we haven't got the forces or the manpower. and we don't have the resources financially. or any of the other things going on. somebody please give me an answer. >> i believe we have the military capabilities. there may be a lot of post of and consequences. we do have the military capacity to be able to knock out virtually everything that iran is doing, assuming we know where most of it is. i don't think that is the issue. we're spending billions of dollars on our military costs. by almost any standards, that will give us the military capability. as you know, i think our biggest are not going to be on the military side, but on the civilian side of things. these are going to be enormous and growing costs that are not going to be sustainable. if anybody wants to hear david walker, who is now the head of the peterson institute, he knows these facts inside and out. those co

we have seen in syria, north koreans were building a plant on their own models. iran is more complicated because north korea does not directly threaten any other country with its capacity. potentially, it does, but iran is in the middle of the world in which it explicitly threaten israel. but also, the city-state's in the region are not likely -- the sunni states in the region are not likely to sit by. their traditional ideological enemy require -- acquires a nuclear arsenal. when you have the motivations of the middle east added to nuclear-weapons, restraint is an improbable result. if iran and north korea sustain their nuclear ambitions, it will prove first that the international order and the multilateral system of negotiations is not working and cannot work. second, so that therefore there is no restraint on other states developing nuclear weapons, and furthermore, the use of nuclear weapons somewhere along the lines becomes much more probable. even if it is not on our territory, if it is in our territory, it will create a catastrophic reversal, but even if we

south korea claims a north korean ship was damaged after it deliberately crossed the border. a senior white house official says this may have been an accident that got out of control. >>> 31 minutes past the hour. hello. come into the room and sit down for a while if you got the time. i'm robin meade. good morning, sunshine. >>> during war time, obviously, u.s. troops know that the risks that they're facing, but today at ft. hood there is a memorial for 13 soldiers killed and the kind of attack that no one expected. a shooting rampage on the post and a fellow soldier as the suspect. president obama will attend the service and meet with the families. some of the witnesses are still stunned by what they saw. >> people started running and we could see people throwing chairs and stuff at the windows and at first, we didn't know what was going on. we couldn't hear the gunshots because the doors were closed. as people started running out you saw people brenched in blood and people are yelling h's shooting, he's shooting. >> how awful. the fbi starting a new internal review to see i

the north koreans have been pretty vocal as have chinese and others including us, about the fact thatthey are interested in pursuing cyber war. one of the things making it a little bit skeptical about this is that north korea does not really have much internet connectivity, much less electricity in some places, so it leads to a question about how there would be able to do something like this, but the key underlying fact of this is that while people suspected perhaps the north koreans, no one could be absolutely 100% sure, and not with an uncertainty that we could have actually formulate a response to the attack, and this is one of the bedeviling aspects of cyber war. that this inability to have 100% attribution -- they call it -- to know precisely where the attack came from mixed response particularly difficult. if someone launches a missile at the united states, we could know where the missile came from. is not the same with a cyber attack, and that makes the -- responding to it problematic and legally difficult as well. caller: good morning. i have two questions. i will make the fir

if the north koreans don't do it themselves, it is in beijing. >> yes, sir? that's it. >> one question, where do we get the resources to deal with the kinds of things being proposed? [inaudible] we haven't got the forces or the manpower. and we don't have the resources financially. or any of the other things going on. somebody please give me an answer. >> i believe we have the military capabilities. there may be a lot of post of and consequences. we do have the military capacity to be able to knock out virtually everything that iran is doing, assuming we know where most of it is. i don't think that is the issue. we're spending billions of dollars on our military costs. by almost any standards, that will give us the military capability. as you know, i think our biggest are not going to be on the military side, but on the civilian side of things. these are going to be enormous and growing costs that are not going to be sustainable. if anybody wants to hear david walker, who is now the head of the peterson institute, he knows these facts inside and out. those co

the hypothesis of course is that ideas like capitalism i guess will be slow the introduced in north koreans and wages garnished by workers there at the resort will trickle down but here is in fact what happened. in fact what happens is that communist party members who were the sons and daughters of the elite are sent to work there. they are adamantly in support of the regime and they don't talk to people who go and about any of these ideas anyway so they are kept at arm's length. so, the reality is that you don't reach the population. what you do is you paid money to bolster the intelligence apparatus or in the state or in the case of north korea of. and i think there is an awful lot of wishful thinking. i think they kim jong-il like castro would never do anything to threaten his grip on power, but he doesn't mind running that hotel out there because the workers are so highly screen, they are party members and they don't get paid. the wages go to the state and then the state leads the communist party workers of the vast majority of the money made at this resort is pocketed by the regime for

the north koreans played into his hands. not that he expected an attack there, but he figured the communists would do something sooner or later. that sets in motion containment on a global scale rather than the limited containment. in explaining that, you have to jinx the pentagon loves new missions. -- in explaining that, you have to realize the pentagon less new missions. it is just a static bag. osama bin laden said that all he had to do was send a few mujahedin to a distant country to wave a flag and the pentagon would come running. that seems to be an interesting explanation. i would like to hear your explanation of that threat exaggeration. when you say that the cold war was a farce, the cuban missile crisis takes it to the level of tragedy. now that we know about castro wanting to use nuclear weapons, if you have a situation where the machinery set in motion by containment in the cold war clashes over something that was really very minor. namely, the islanders' team on key but the wind never liked or been able to do a

this is that ideas like capitalism, i guess, will be slowly introduced into north koreans and the wagesill trickle-down, but here is what happened. -- will trickle down. they are the sons and daughters of the least -- elite who are set to work there, and they do not talk about any of these ideas anyway, so they are kept at arm's length, so the reality is you do not reach the population. what you do is pay money to bolster the intelligence apparatus or the state, or in the case of north korea, the weapons program, and i think there is an awful lot of wishful thinking. i think that cameras jong-il, like castro, would not do anything to threaten his grip -- i think that kim chong il -- kim chong il -- kim jong-il, like castro, would not do anything to threaten his grip. this is exactly for the same types of purposes that you called attention to. you also mentioned that the regime thinks it can control terrorism. explain that to us. >> the regime has controlled -- you also mentioned that the regime thinks it can control tourism. explain that to us. >> the regime has controlled tourism. >> t

korean counterpart. topic number one north korea's nuclear weapons. when he returns home he will announce his position whether to increase u.s. troop levels in afghanistan. he discussed afghanistan, in fact, with cnn's ed henry. >> we have a vital interest in making sure that afghanistan is sufficiently stable that it can't infect the entire region with violent extremism. we, also, have to make sure that we've got an effective partner in afghanistan. and that's something that we are examining very closely and presenting some very clear benchmarks for the afghan government. we have to make sure that we are training sufficient afghan troops so that they can ultimately secure their own country. >> and before leaving beijing today, the president walked along the same section of the great wall of china richard nixon visited back in 1972. here's the thing in between the state dinners and closed-door meetings, sightseeing president obama had a rare reunion with his half broner in china. mark obama has lived in southern china the last few years and made headl