are not u.s. military, because they would not be flying near u.s. military aircraft as they so often have. and it seems like we would know if foreign countries have this knowledge. i ve no idea what it is. the bottom line is, this is a potential threat, a grave one to our country.d what is dod doing about it? i cannot speak on the half of the dod right now, but i can speak to what they were doing about it and what they were not doing about it when i was part c of the program. i think dod is a very large complex organization. i think that it is very good at what it normally does. but in this particular case, we had a very ill-defined problem set. when you are going to the boss and you say, look, boss, we have something here. we don t know what it is. we sure k don t know how it wors and by the way, there is nothing we can do about it, that s a very difficult conversation to have an organization whose sole mission is national security. tucker: i think it s
tucker: we know that they are not u.s. military, because they would not be flying near u.s. military aircraft as they so often have. and it seems like we would know if foreign countries have this knowledge. i ve no idea what it is paid to the bottom line is that this is a potential threat, a great one to our country. what is the dod doing about it? i cannot speak on the half of the dod right now, but i can speak to what they were doing about it and what they were not doing about it when i was part of the program. i think the dod is a very large complex organization. i think that it is very good at what it normally does. but in this particular case, we had a very ill-defined problem set. when you are going to the boss and you say, look, boss, we have something here. and we sure do not know how it works coming by the way, there is nothing we can do about it. that is a very difficult organization to have an an organization that sole mission
they knew and what the president knew and when he knew it. yeah, and when you have a team of folks who fundamentally lack the integrity as we ve been discussing, you know, they re not going to be straight when they re interviewed, when they give testimony, and that s goin give testimony and that s going to expose them to more legal jeopardy. it s going to give bob mueller more tools and it will ensnare more people in this legal problem set. thars a story in politico magazine which i m not plugging because michael is here. it was just delicious. it s about why the men there were no women dlalds, interestingly. why the men in donald trumps circle were easy prey for the russians. let me read you some of this, michael. it spoke to how with paul manfort that there was a pressure point around money. withed jared kushner, money
but we are running out of time. we re running out of time. this is a problem set that we have to take on with a great sense of urgency. the president has been extremely clear on his perspective on north korea. he is not going to accept this regime threatening the united states with a nuclear weapon. he won t accept it. so, there are those who have said, well, you know, what about accept and deter? accept and deter is unacceptable. so this puts us in the situation where we are in a race to resolve this, short of military action. steve? richard, look, i can t disagree with you, obviously, that the threat of war is real. it seems to me that war there is it s just unimaginable. 250,000 americans in south korea, 20 million people in seoul, 60 kilometers or something like that from the dmz. it can t possibly go well. it can t possibly end well. it has to be one of the it
even though those have been devastating conflicts and have taken up resources, this is a major theater war and it would take a lot of equipment that s currently not on the peninsula and nowhere in the area. we have equipment there, we can fight there, we would prepare to fight there but we need reinforcement. the thing i d say, erin, i spent a lot of time in the military, i ve learned lessons, the who most important ones i ve learned is number one, these are universal truthings, when soldiers go some place, they can never pronounce the names of the towns they re fighting in and most importantly it s easy to start a war, it s a whole lot harder to stop it. what does this look like at the end? what is the t the s end game going to be and what is he trying to do? there are 52 million people in south korea. there are 26 million people in north korea. i just heard senator rich say wel risch say we re going to take them out. what are we taking out and how? it s going to be a difficult prob