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That note so what is the answer for deterring that? >> what was that? >> whats the answer to deterring that, for that not happening? >> three answers. one is the way biden has reacted to this calmly. no nuclear talks in return. were not seeing any replay of the donald trump, kim jong-un, who has the bigger button, fire and destruction. thats one. number two, you could do more. nato and biden should say that nato and the u.s. have no attention to these nuclear weapons first. nobody should ever us...

Previous presidents have done. kim jong-un knows one thing. if he tries to do it, hell find himself on the receiving end of that bigger button donald trump talked about. thats one thing hes got to know. jesse: so far the on thing america has given up. we suspended a military exercise that was planned for the fall. that can get back up there the minute he starts man kig around with little rocketman with these negotiations. we havent shipped a boatload of cash over there. they havent brought the s...

Previous presidents have done. kim jong-un knows one thing. if he tries to do it, hell find himself on the receiving end of that bigger button donald trump talked about. thats one thing hes got to know. jesse: so far the on thing america has given up. we suspended a military exercise that was planned for the fall. that can get back up there the minute he starts man kig around with little rocketman with these negotiations. we havent shipped a boatload of cash over there. they havent brought the s...

Its not fruitful, ill walk out. is this some sort of free planned show? >> its going back to who has the bigger button. this is not exactly a meeting between george walker bush and helmut kole. a lot comes down to personality and a lot comes down to showmanship and fanfare. a lot of the substance, important work is going to be done behind the scenes by sort of at the deputy level and principle level. you saw mike pompeo going to north korea, acting as would-be secretary of state. but on the othe...

Over who has the bigger button. you really do need to have kind of all hands on deck with expertise. we have a state department that has pretty much been hole he lowed out. >> alone that, on on thursday i thought we would be talking about gary cohn leaving. now we are not. we are talking about north korea. do you hear if changes are more afoot in the west wing? john bolton coming on board to help prep for this north korea thing? >> that is certainly the gossip on the hill right now. everyone is ...

We better get serious about this. north korea will soon not threaten just guam and hawaii, south korea and japan, it will threaten the entire continental united states. thats where this conversation needs to go in congress. >> but you know, general, given the bellicose way that kim jong-un and this president talk about, you know, whos got the bigger button and, you know, fire and fury and all that sort of thing, im wondering, when it comes to the residents there of hawaii, a friend of mine yeste...

Mentioned, its quite clear he sees black people as lesser. its a combination of these things. now, lets face it, when he calls haiti and el salvador and africa shithole places, a canny person usually from the right wing might say he could have shade about a white place like moldova. weve listened to this man for a couple of years, and its clear he has whats called a racist bias. and this is the sad thing about it. its one thing for him to feel that way and say things like that over thanksgiving ...

Couple of years, and its clear he has whats called a racist bias. and this is the sad thing about it. its one thing for him to feel that way and say things like that over thangs giving dinner. but to feel that way about places like haiti and africa that have been through that much, even if youre tlihinking it, youre not going to say it. the lack of control in this person who considers himself the person with the bigger button, et cetera, is truly alarming. my younger daughter is going to turn 3 ...

Control. thank you, derek. a diplomatic is carefully crafted. and often has to be decided by reading between the lines. >> carefully crafted. not so with a message from the president about north korea, he reduced the size of capability of nuclear weapons to the comparison of buttons. you get the point with this. jeanne moos explains how much size matters to mr. trump. >> reporter: and here you thought, button size only mattered in sewing. now the president is tweeting about how his nuclear but...

President trumps disturbing tweet taunting north korean dictator kim jong-uns nuclear capabilities. critics call it a dangerous escalation of tension between the two countries. lets go to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. shes working the story for us. barbara, president trump essentially boasted that he can launch a bigger and faster nuclear attack than kim jong-un. >> reporter: wolf, think of it as the battle of whos got the bigger button, except there are no buttons. for president tr...