similar channel. with the ongoing public rhetoric between north korea and the white house, world leaders are asking both sides to stop threatening each other. i am firmly convinced the an escalation to the rhetoric will not resolve the conflict. when it comes to a fight, the first one who has to take a step backwards from the dangerous line is the stronger and smarter one, we hope so. the chinese minister of former foreign affairs says they hope for caution rather than advancing into escalating tensions. the state department has his head in the past that china is making progress on that issue but needs to be doing more. bret: president trump said
were going to get a movement out of the regime in north korea. i think the president has made it clear he prefers a diplomatic solution. what the president is doing to is trying to support our efforts by ensuring what the stakes are. i think what we ve seen over the last 48 hours is the formalization of trump s tweets that we saw earlier in the week, he read from a statement earlier today that had more of those formal trappings of foreign policy language. there is this cohesion now around that. we also have reports that they are back channels going on, and has been for some time. to byron s point, emphasize the idea that trump is talking publicly, putting this pressure on north korea that we haven t seen from past administrations. there s some diplomatic work that is taking place behind the scenes to try to resolve the situation peacefully.
he s much more likely to carry out a preemptive strike in north korea that hillary clinton would ve been. what he s done is make idle threats, the fire and fury comment, when he said if kim jong il and makes additional threats he would see fire and fury and then he made those threats and there was no fire and fury. today again, he said that if the north korean regime makes overt threats he s open to a military response. he s got to be careful to not become the boy who cried wolf. the tough talk is just fine but i think people have to continue to believe that you might actually do these things and the more you make those kinds of threats the less effective they are. bret: byron. i think what we saw a few minutes ago from the president and the secretary of state was the latest performance of this good cop, bad cop thing that they ve had going for the last
press pool, taking a number of questions. this time dealing with the threat from north korea. questions about russia. a question about venezuela in which he said venezuela is a mess and options are on the table including a military option. he also answered questions about the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and talked about what they had going forward. unprecedented access to this president over the past few days from reporters traveling with him, the biggest issue at hand at this moment north korea, the back-and-forth earlier today the president said that the u.s. military is locked and loaded to react to any aggression if kim jong un does anything against the u.s. or an ally, he will regret it fast. today, the president adding that kim can t keep threatening the u.s. saying if he wants to hear him say those things,
me what your goal for improving the quality of life are the people in illinois? he said i manage power and i make money for managing power. that s why our system is so broken. bret: president trump wants to repeal and replace obamacare, do you agree? so much of our affordable health care act is broken, it needs to be repaired. i ve expressed concerns about what it might do to some of our most vulnerable residents in illinois, i m sure that with the federal government. you can look at the insurance exchanges, look at the ritz, look at the insurance companies dropping out. we need big changes in the system. bret: you have a decision to make about solving school funding. the democrats cut school funding four times in the prior ten years, we had the worst funded schools in america from a state government as percentage of overall spending.