happens to be the author of a new book, and it s called, sailing true north: ten admirals and the voyage of character. we re so happy to have you back on the broadcast. i guess my first question will bring down the energy. what s the chance our president has been played by the north korean leader? i d say about 100%, brian. i hate to say that. let s do the good news first. the good news is as opposed to fire and fury, and we re ramping up for a war on the korean peninsula, we ve now moved into kind of rope a dope. but on the other hand, here i got to agree with former national security adviser john bolton that we are not progressing toward the stated goal of denuclearizing this peninsula, and i think kim is just kind of playing along. he s right on playbook from his father and his grandfather. he s looking to gain concessions, and i think there s probably a two in three chance over the next couple of days we
author of a new book, and it s called sailing true north: ten admirals in the voyage of character. we re so happy to have you back on the broadcast. i guess my first question will bring down the energy. what s the chance our president has been played by the north korean leader? i d say about 100%. brian. i hate to say that. let s do the good news first. the good news is as opposed to fire and fury and we re wrapping up for a war on the korean peninsula, we ve now moved into kind of rope-a-dope. but on the other hand, here i got to agree with former national security adviser john bolton that we are not progressing toward the stated goal of denuclearizing this peninsula. and i think kim is just kind of playing along. he s right on playbook from his father and his grandfather. he s looking to gain concessions, and i think there s probably a two in three chance over the next couple days we will see a long-range ballistic
let s do the good news first. the good news is as opposed to fire and fury, and we re ramping up for a war on the korean peninsula, we ve now moved into kind of rope a dope. but on the other hand, here i got to agree with former national security adviser john bolton that we are not progressing toward the stated goal of denuclearizing this peninsula, and i think kim is just kind of playing along. he s right on playbook from his father and his grandfather. he s looking to gain concessions, and i think there s probably a two in three chance over the next couple of days we will see a long-range ballistic missile launch. he may not do that and sort of say, well, with my dear friendship with president trump i ll walk it back a bit, but i think kim is hungry for attention right now, brian, so look for that launch. better than even chance. think of the relevance he has craved since he s been in power. think of how we have fed that
stop him. all of their e kxcuses for what the president has done is being torn down again and again. he still hasn t released the full military aid to ukraine and still refuses to allow for the provision to be put in that he would release it. now they have filed briefs saying this should be a matter that s left to the legislative branch and the executive branch and the courts should not be involved. they are playing rope a dope with the judiciary and trying to delay things and stop us from even getting the courts to weigh in. now they are saying the courts have nothing to do with this and this should be settled between
it s an illegitimate inquiry. once that was rejected by the court if it were, they would start over and take that through the court system. so i think it s just a you know, a rope a dope strategy and congress need to stand up and say, we have an oversight responsibility and it s an impeachable offense and not to cooperate with serious charges in the process of impeachment. he seemed to be skeptical on what was being described that donald trump did with ukraine is bribery and our friend has written about this as well but he s just ordered other people. this is a piece that says that s just wrong. under the supreme court s 2016 unanimous decision in mcdonald v united states, the court held that the actions taken by the governor in exchange for secret gifts including sending e-mails and arranging meetings did not