preemptive strike and one of the extreme risks is they can retaliate. a preemptive strike you d have to be 100% confident that you can hit 100% of the targets in 100% of the locations or else you re going to have missiles being launched at seoul or japan or at guam or potentially towards alaska. so that is obviously not a scenario we want to find ourselves in and even if you could launch success itful preemptive strikes and take out everything then you have a north korean state on your hands and that s a whole other set of problems within itself. so i don t think we should really be thinking about that right now. i think we should be focused on de-escalating this, on containment and deterrent for the time being, pressure with the sanctions and trying to get parties to the table to resume multilateral talks. and should we be contemplating what happened during the spiraling last days of richard nixon with schlesinger essentially prepared to ignore the president s
authority to launch a nuclear war just in case richard nicxon completely melted down? schlesinger told the military officers that if the president gave them an offer, an order, they should check with him first. that s completely illegal, unconstitution al, that s not te way it s suppose to work but we re glad schlesinger did that. can the so-called adults around this president intervene? i don t think they have control of the situation. this administration is in a deep state of strategic incoherence and it starts at the top. there is something very wrong with the president of the united states. his statements do not make sense. he strategically, even logically, we are in very, very dangerous territory now and it s not just because of the unstable leader in north korea, it s because of the lead ership we have here in our country as well. we ve got to be very worried that we don t repeat the mistakes of that quiet august 100 years ago when no one
injured when motorists joined the truckers in protesting the fuel shortage. the crowd of 2,000 to 3,000 mostly young teenagers, packed the intersection then it turned violent. this is levittown, pennsylvania, the quintessential perfect symbol of middle america. middle america is in torment about the gas crisis. sunday, july 1st, because of the gas lines, carter flies home from the tokyo summit and announces a television speech to the nation thursday. then to camp david by helicopter presumably to work on that energy speech. but then, a sudden change. the energy speech is canceled with no explanation. critics speak of indecision. carter decides that he wants to meet with advisers from all walks of life. the latest group include schlesinger, several nonoil experts and three governors. now he has been up there eight days and there is still no word on when the camp david domestic summit will end and the
0 wants to do great things, and preventing a third war with iran and against those who would deny others of different sexual orientatio orientations. it s a strange battle between a man who wants to do great things and an enemy making sure he does not. howard fine and jonathan capehart, howard, i painted this in strong terms and strong black and white, but i have to tell you. i don t see a republican agenda, except to destroy obama. the president s enemies have tried to destroy, kill, defund, block or destroy everything in his program. the president in contrast has made it his goal to fight to extend rights to minority, the uninsured and the oppressed. his opponents are trying to take away these rights. the opponents of the president prevented millions of people from having access to health care under the law. they ve suppressed voting rights of minorities, specifically african-americans. they have derailed the principles of fairness. let s look at the first one of these segments. re
coolness. so, in december he told the senator his assessment didn t tally what he was hearing from the administration subordinates. afterward kennedy said i got angry with mike mansfield and i got angry with myself because i found myself agreeing with him. i want gets back to his distrust of his national security advi advisers and the joint chiefs. what would he have done with vietnam? you know, my answer is i don t have a ghost of a thought in the sense that nobody can say gee i don t think he himself knew what he would have done. i love the antecdote and schlesinger says what will i do there and kennedy says i don t