anybody i know. this i think is important, though, why would any president in the case of obama ever telegraph what we re going do? he s not saying how many troops or what we re going do. he just promised overwhelming use of military force and decisions made on the ground by the people who know best. the right thing to say and i m not talking about president obama but president trump. i hope the strategy allows room for, if you will, new ideas for the plan of putting non-u.s. advisors who work with the afghan troops on the ground covert operations. plausible deniability. and he didn t talk about it which i consider to be a great thing. some people were thinking he ought to reject it out of him and people on previous shows said reject it out of him and i
that what covert operations might they have against this regime. right. obviously this is a sensitive topic. what can you say is that we have been gaming this out for years, right? and by doing that you are looking at all your options, cyber interference and cyber attacks to spec ops, covert operations: it s a limited table of options in a sense because of the unknowns. what happens when you spin this up and what happens then in terms of the escalation. you work through all the various scenarios and you use all the resources that you have at your disposal and that does include all those things off the radar screen that people don t see and don t need to see. pete: ultimately getting rid of nuclear sites would include something overt and quite robust. what would that actually look like. you mentioned potential special operation forces and
covert operations in the country potentially. we can up our missile defenses, the trump budget actually reduces the funding for missile defense in this country, anti-proliferation, we would board ships if we think they re carrying nuclear material. there is so much we could do and so much is being talked about. sandra: as far as for their sanctions, which we ve talked about on this couch. we talked about it this morning, pete. colonel oliver north was on fox news morning, sanctions take too long. trish: we should have sanctioned the heck out of north korea. there is a lot of opportunity. we sanctioned one banker from china recently, but there is a whole lot more they re doing business here and we should be going after china hard. we should demand that they play ball i north korea. as far as rhetoric goes, this is a crazy man, he might as well know that we can do what we say
melissa: it you also talk about setting up more covert options, what would that includ include? again, look back to the playbook of ronald reagan in the 1980s when they had massive covert operations and eastern europe. today, we are sending about $700 million in total to get radios and broadcasting to north korea. we need to set that up. north korea is not eastern europe in the 1980s. we don t want to go down that path, but there are new capabilities, cyber and otherwise, that should be fully funded covertly to let the regime know that they are in danger. melissa: all these things that you have suggested, recently they ve been rewarded for their behavior with a lack of administration, giving concessions or releasing new sanctions, or trying to bring them back to the table with
attorney general jeff sessions was here and promised to bring millions of dollars and more, it hasn t happened yet, the hope is that with the president s visit, that will soon come, the officers that are seated behind me that will be seated behind the president are those who took part in ms-13 covert operations and arrest, so a big thank you from the president it today. a jon: on long island, where the president is about to speak. thank you. melissa: republicans coming up short again and there are to repeal obamacare, the senate shutting down the so-called skinny repeal in a late night report, senator john mccain, 1 n the bill, chief congressional corresponded live on capitol hill with more. good afternoon, after coming up one vote short, we speak today about next steps. whatever micah meant as we go through the committee process, we take the bill, the original