sanctions, diplomacy, all those kind of things. and by the way, working on our missile defense would be a good thing too. if the rhetoric is not ratch if it s not pulled back, your concern that we could unwittingly back into a war that was unnecessary. yes, because, you know, we don t have that much insight really into the internal mechanisms of how the north koreans make decisions. i suspect it s basically one guy, and he s rational on their scale, but i do worry about this unpress kepted unprecedented bellicose and threatening rhetoric from the president. i really wish he d allow just let his secretary of state and secretary of defense do that for him and that he kind of throttle back, but that s i think that train has left the station a long time ago. director, i want to play something for you and get your
was that that happened yesterday. and regard ltsz of what the president says, that is a significant moment. that s a significant moment, and it shows the seriousness with which the fbi and robert mueller are treating this investigation. and by the way, shows the fact to jim s point, shows the fact that this is short of firing bob mueller, this investigation is entirely out of donald trump s control. this is proceeding down the trackful we know that. you know, mueller using a grand jury, this, subpoenas being out. i mean, there s a lot of things happening that we know that trump really cannot control and no matter how much he talks, no matter and he did it today again about this is there s no collusion, it s an investigation of something that didn t happen, all of his rhetoric doesn t change to jim s point the sort of hard realities of the mueller investigation, and it really gives trump no out. he can t talk his way out of sort of that this investigation
my guess is china and russia would not be keen on this a. what s difficult here is that his words matter. his words are watched not just by folks like us, but folks around the globe. and i m not sure there s that much thought put into them on his part. i think he knows what he wants to say and he says it. the problem is what does it mean? fire and fury, the likes of which the world has never seen, well, what does that mean? does that mean a nuclear weapon? does that mean something else? is it just rhetoric? we don t know. and uncertainty is not a good thing in diplomacy and foreign affairs. and i think the nature of who he is, provok tour, someone who speaks and then kind of justices on the fly is a difficult match for what he is currently engaged in. but my question, fa read is how does that plea in pyongyang, in north korea, because doesn t that play into the hands of what kim jong-un is saying, that
that s a major threat, but almost lost in the mix of this was that that happened yesterday. and regardless of what the president says, that is a significant moment. that s a significant moment, and it shows the seriousness with which the fbi and robert mueller are treating this investigation. and by the way, shows the fact to jim s point, shows the fact that this is short of firing bob mueller, this investigation is entirely out of donald trump s control. this is proceeding down the track. we know that. you know, mueller using a grand jury, this, subpoenas being out. i mean, there s a lot of things happening that we know that trump really cannot control and no matter how much he talks, no matter and he did it today again about this is there s no collusion, it s an investigation of something that didn t happen, all of his rhetoric doesn t change to jim s point the sort of hard realities of the mueller investigation, and it really gives trump no out.
don t have that much insight really into the internal mechanisms of how the north koreans make decisions. i suspect it s basically one guy, and he s rational on their scale, but i do worry about this unprecedented level of belly kos and threatening rhetoric from the president. i really wish he d allow just let his secretary of state and secretary of defense do that for him and that he kind of tlolgts back, but that s i think that train has left the station a long time ago. director, i want to play something for you and get your response, because this is the former national security advisor, susan rice. she spoke to my colleague wolf blitzer earlier today. made an interesting admission by the way that will probably get the attention of this president. watch. this has been a very, very difficult problem that has now veksed four successive american