korea. i ve got to agree. maybe it s not synchronization, but they re pivoting a little faster than they have in previous weeks. i think they re getting better at reacting to him, and pretending they planned this all along. colonel francona, what s interesting is a lot of the threats that the president has been making is talking about threats. in the previous days, it was north korea shouldn t make any more threats against the u.s., and there were questions like, well, did he mean just rhetorical threats or was it actual action? he now has made it clear that it was they shouldn t speak any more threats. and then even today he sort of made it, well, kim jong-un himself should not make any direct threat. well, we ve seen a whole change in the rhetoric coming out of north korea, as well. i think the rhetoric coming out of the white house, this bellicose rhetoric from the president, followed up by what i consider a very strong message from secretary mattis, and even
there are no good military options. you have to have a military option. you have to be prepared to execute it. but that s the last thing you want to do. any military action, no matter what it is, is going to precipitate the destruction of seoul and the ultimate destruction of the north korean government. they know that, everybody knows it, and we all agree no one wants to have a war. but somebody in this equation is going to have to back down or change their position, because if, as peter says, if the president is going to stick to this position that we will not tolerate a nuclear armed north korea with an icbm and the north koreans insist that it s part of their constitution, that they re not going to get rid of their nuclear weapons, all we re doing is kicking the can down the road. i think what s probably going to happen is we re going defuse this diplomatically and be right back where we are and have this same conversation a couple of years from now. coming up, as the rhetoric ge
he will continue to prod them as he should to get back to the table and get a bill passed. and i could tell you they are working on it at the white house. there is an effort which i m going on which i m very ken aau very encouraged by because that is the most important thing in the agenda. but the president ran on repealing an replacing. he could have come up with a plan. you would expect a president to have a plan instead of outsourcing it to somebody else. but i m going to defend mitch mcconnell here tonight. number one, president trump has one substantial agenda, part of his legacy, only one big thing and that the neal gorsuch, but guess what, mcconnell had more to do with that happening than donald trump did. so let s talk about this health care bill. when mcconnell was having a hard time getting 51 votes to has health care. how was donald trump helping him. let s go back.
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in north korea. china is the key here, and that s why the president is talking to them right now, and hopefully that china will help us out and put some more pressure on north korea and defuse this and i how for that golden bridge i mentioned earlier. peter, do you see china stepping up on this? well, i agree with the general, that if they were to do that, that would be the optimal play from our point of view. the problem is that china has never put enough pressure on north korea to put the regime in jeopardy, to put the regime close to the cracking point, which is where we assess they have to be before they would give up their nuclear weapons. and china is reluctant to do that, because they fear the collapse of the kim regime more than they fear nuclear weapons in kim s hands. here s the problem, the president has declared intolerable something we ve tolerated for the last ten