Personnel from the region or civilian personnel i should say. right. there s no indication of moving civilians off of guam. the guam government, the governor seemed pretty calm about the whole thing, issuing those bulletins, communicating with his citizens on guam. they have a pretty active program there. i want to play what the president had to say about venezuela option. we have many options for venezuela. this is our neighbor. we re all over the world, and we have troops all over the world in places that are very, very far away. venezuela is not very far away, and the people are suffering, and they re dying. we have many options for venezuela, including a possible military option, if necessary. so what s the pentagon saying about this? is military intervention seriously being considered? you know, on a friday night in august in washington, this caught the pentagon by more surprise than almost anything
To be a war footing. yeah, you wonder whether all of the wires are connected here, from the president s lips to our diplomats, to our military people on the ground. and i just worry about i don t object, let me simply say, to the president raising the profile of this issue. i think the kascharacter of the issue has changed. north korea, a highly erratic, isolated country is building a missile that can, with a warhead that can hit the united states. it s not tomorrow or next week or next month. but in the next year or two. that changes the strategic equation, and the president doing a little madman act, it s not such a bad thing, as long as it s connected to as long as that stick is connected to carrots that the north koreans can bite into and possibly stand down on, and that our allies
Criticizing vladamir putin where you can find him criticizing mitch mcconnell, jeff sessions, other world leaders. no, i think he the weakest president he eve hwe ve had tow moscow in my time. what putin respects is power, he respects toughness, he respects people who speak their mind. and president trump has been nothing like that. i don t think that the president is putting us in a strong position vis-a-vie russia. of course we want to have an open channel to putin. we have to talk to him about north korea, about afghanistan, about iran, about our nuclear weapons standoff with the russians. but you also have to exact a price when putin crosses a line like hacking our election. so i think it s been entirely misguided, and i hope he listened to rex tillerson and jim mattis. i think they have a much more realistic sense of how to work effectively with the russians.
Politely, has long claimed there will be a u.s. invasion and a u.s.-backed coup attempt against his government. there is a lot of concern tonight that donald trump may have played right into the hands of a very unpopular venezuelan president. barbara starr, thank you. i want to bring in our panel. retired general tony tata. peter fever, rick francona, and kimberly dozier. general, what do you make of the fact that despite all the rhetoric coming from the united states, and obviously the very real concern here, that the current u.s. military posturing does not seem to have changed nonessential personnel aren t being recalled from the region. right. well, anderson, i think what you re seeing is the very deliberate and synchronized application of the elements of national power against north korea. so you ve got military power
President xi about north korea. that s a critical part of solving the problem with north korea, because china is seen as having some kind of leverage over pyongyang, although they haven t shown a lot of that lately and the president has shown a lot of disappointment. one call the president has not made, from what we understand, he s not spoken with the governor of guam. that is despite the fact that government there in the u.s. territory has been handing out bulletins to the residents on what to do and what not to do in the event of a nuclear blast. so for all these questions we re seeing the president take over the last couple of days, white house officials are telling us the president wants to have his message carried over, other senior officials like the secretary of state and defense secretary and so on. but tonight this message out of the white house that s coming from the white house is continuing to create a lot of uncertainty around the world. and despite comments by tillerso