now we turn to news that could be an onion headline. are you ready? chris christie the famously short tempered and sometimes verbally abusive new jersey governor, has decided on his next project. a think tanking to address civility to the address today s ugly and divisive politics because people aren t having civilized conversations. he is anointing himself a civility cop today. obviously, this has us thinking this is like rab on your wedding day or 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. isn t it ironic as alanis morissette would say. i was wondering why you think it s fair to be cutting school funding to public schools. what s your name. first off it s none of your business. i don t ask you where you send your kids to school. don t boger me where i send my into compensating me for my
to $3 billion, protections for tps and dreamer populations. that is the easy way out. the president also toying with an idea of an emergency declaration. i think it is a nonstarter, diverting moneys to take care of our service members and their troops and their families for vital housing, education needs, infrastructure needs or taking it from the natural disasters is also a nonstarter. so over/under, i m not optimistic. if congress is able to negotiate this, they can do it. the problem is the president gets in the way. i m reminded of an onion headline. eldest dead, is he alive? we are back to where we were in terms of negotiating positions here. i m wondering if you are concerned because a poll shows the danger for democrats.
the third in a family dynasty, that has wielded absolute power over the country for nearly 70 years, does not seem to be yielding. he sees his nuclear program as a source of national pride. and the right to keep it as a matter of life and death. so the more our president vows to end it, the more tests kim conducts. senator gardner dismisses the north korean leader as a madman, who needs reining in, by force, if necessary. i think most people agree that kim jong-un is a whack job. you call him a whack job, they call you a man mixed with human dirt, who has lost basic judgment and body hair. he doesn t like my body hair. not sure if that was an onion headline or if it was real. but we re not in the schoolyard. the consequences are real and serious. they are and that s why we have to ensure we have these tools we must ewe to change the situation. president trump said of president kim at the u.n. general assembly, and i quote,
onion headline. the point is, we re not in the school yard. that s why we make sure we have these tools that we must use to change the situation. president trump said of president kim at the u.n. general assembly, i quote. the united states has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allie, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. the regime responded by calling our president a deranged dotard, is that the way two world leaders should be conducting diplomacy over such sensitive issues? i would have said something different if front of the united nations, but i think it s very important that we be clear he s not going to get away with what he had in the past. we got a president of the united states who is publicly
the peninsula of the crimea in the south with the territories in the east that separatists that it backs control. a lot of volatility, a lot of explosions, suggestions of 13 dead on the ukrainian side since sunday, possibly two or more civilians on the separatist side. hard to get totally clear facts, but not at all hard to see here. tempers are frayed. the situation very volatile indeed and all because donald trump hasn t really shown his hand when it comes to this. it is fast becoming europe s longest running conflict. pam? all right, thanks to nick payton walsh and thank you for spending part of your thursday with us. i m pamela brown and the lead with jake tapper starts right now. thanks, pamela. at the national prayer breakfast this morning president trump mockingly asked for prayers to god for arnold schwarzenegger s ratings. that really happened. that s not an onion headline. the lead starts right now. president trump s phone