North Korea's increasing nuclear missile capability has been the "number one topic" for months for Senate intelligence committee members, Sen. Roy Blunt said Sunday.
In an interview on NBC News' "Meet The Press," the Missouri Republican said President Donald Trump's "putting everything on the table is not a bad thing right now" to underscore "how consequential" Pyongyang's escalation is.
"In the Intel Committee that I serve on, I think it doesn't disclose anything to say that in the last year, this has probably been the number one topic, month after month, what was happening there, what were we going to do about it," he said.
He said both China and Russia have to be "more helpful."
"Everybody in the world, as well as particularly the countries that are in the region, have a lot at stake here," he said. "Nobody in their right mind would want this to happen."
"You've got a leader who is both spoiled and reckless," he continued. "Spoiled and reckless is not a unique thing to find in the world today. But it is unique with somebody who has control of what may now be hydrogen weapons as well as nuclear weapons."
Blunt also said the devastating Hurricane Harvey is "another reason as to why you want to keep the government open" as Congress considers raising the debt ceiling, calling attaching the relief money to a government funding bill "one way to do it," though risky.
"I never have great enthusiasm for raising the debt ceiling," he said. "But the debt ceiling, remember, is to pay for things that the government has already committed to. This is not a future spending thing."
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