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>> right. so theres no question that president obama ordered a stepped up cyber operation against north koreas missile program. and for a while the north koreans were failing in 88% of their launches, until kim jong-un suspended that set of launches in october of 2016. the question is, how many of those failures were a result of our cyber operations or not? the reason the book is called "the perfect weapon" is for the americans its an unattributed way to go out and do an attack without causing a...

Friends, israelis, all of those in the region, they are right alongside us. even when i speak to the europeans who whom we have a difference about the jcpoa. they, too, understand the malign activity with hezbollah, yemen, syria, iraq, or its missile program that is launching missiles into airports that westerners travel through. there is a unified understanding of irans malevolent behavior and will be an incredibly united world if they head down that path. >> you mentioned soleimani. they are t...

Of warfare for you. the trump administration has been quietly trying to tack will a massive cyber attack that could shut down financial markets and beyond. joining us now is david sanger. his new book, which is out tomorrow, is called "the perfect weapon." its about how cyber weapons from transformed geo politics. david sanger is joining us. great to see you. >> great to be back with you. >> just when you think you have enough nightmares. >> well give you a few more. >> have we already been tack...

Trash. >> so listen, the iran deal was terrible -- this isnt just republicans saying this, t senate minority leader chuck schumer. if i would the list in front of me, i would read the long list of establishment democrats, progressive democrats, lots of democrats who thought it was a terrible deal. wait, wait, hold on. it did nothing to address their missile program, and more importantly, it did nothing to address their -- the irgcs spreading terrorism around the world. >> look, you didnt even wr...

Know what it is. yet the iran deal, which is a real deal that the entire world got together on, is considered trash. >> so listen, the iran deal was terrible -- this isnt just republicans saying this, this is senate minority leader chuck schumer. if i would the list in front of me, i would read the long list of establishment democrats, progressive democrats, lots of democrats who thought it was a terrible deal. wait, wait, hold on. it did nothing to address their missile program, and more import...

This pageantry and all the honorifics? after every other president said no why did this president say yes? what was it for? i mean, north korea made no new promises in order to get this summit. no new promises about their weapons program or their own behavior toward their own people or anything else. the north korean dictator did reassert what has been a long-time vague assurance from the north korean government that they seek to denuclearize the korean peninsula. but you know what? north korean...

Hes a key member of the senate foreign relations committee. what is your analysis of this agreement signed by the president of the united states and the leader of north korea. >> wolf, first, it is good to be with you. and we want to see diplomacy succeed. that is the only safe way to deal with the nuclear problem on the korean peninsula. the presidents communique from singapore is very short on details. the united states did make two major concessions. we gave kim jong-un an international platf...

To curbing north koreas missile program. since 1985, u.s. administrations have tried and bar goes, sanctions, treaties, appeasement. no combination of sticks and carrots has ever worked. why could it be different this time? lets go back to the panel here to discuss it. mike, you want to address a point how things go behind closed doors and how we talk about them as members of the media. i want you to touch imap but i want you to touch on the one end on point that trump made. he basically said yo...

Return to the truculant face he put on all these years? in other words, does he win if he goes back to the old way of dealing with us? >> probably not. it seems like he could now go back to his people, go back to his generals, go back to his pilot bureau and say that he won. that under his leadership and his leadership was questioned. he was a very young person when he took power from his father. that he accelerated the missile program, accelerated the nuclear program, and has now been welcomed ...

If you remember under the last regime, the last dictator, kim jong-uns father, about 2 million people died in famine in that country. >> yes. >> and there was, there was serious unrest in the coury and they may have lost the tire system had there not been some food aid that came in. had the situation on the ground not changed and the famine got significantly better. so, i think kim jong-un does have to engage with the world to try and sew his people that he has some interest in their economic pr...