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He says there are sounds, for those who can hear them, of the preliminary and muffled drumbeats of war. do you think hes ahead of his skis on this or is this something there? >> theres certainly something there. theres too much war talk. you hear that from senior white house officials, h.r. mcmaster, you hear it from voices outside of the administration in washington saying we really only got two choices, acceptance of north koreas nuclear weapons program or actually striking them. what weve bee...

The atlantic which was titled, waiting for the bomb to drop. its a very stark recounting of what he thinks is going on. he says, there are sounds for those who can hear them of the preliminary and muffled drumbeats of war. do you think hes ahead of his skis on this or is there something there? >> well, there is certainly something there. there is too much war talk. you hear that from senior administration officials. for instance, h.r. mcmaster, national security advisor. you hear voices outside ...

Elliott cohen who was a bush staffer, had an article out in the atlantic which was titled "waiting for the bomb to drop." its a stark recounting of what he thinks is going on. he says there are sounds, for those who can hear them, of the preliminary and muffled drumbeats of war. do you think hes ahead of his skis on this or is this something there? >> theres certainly something there. theres too much war talk. you hear that from senior white house officials, h.r. mcmaster, you hear it from voice...

Policy is to cut off the flows of money. thats a sound policy. the problem has been poor implementati implementation, the vigor has gone out of the sanctions campaign. thats why were hearing more and more war talk. thats really frightening. you talk about the tweet on tuesday evening, thats frightening, but also frightening what other people in washington are saying. >> gordon chang whose friends i imagine ask him every day are we going to die of nuclear war today. >> no, my wife asks that. >> e...

Flows of money. thats a sound policy. the problem is poor implementation in the last couple months. the vigor has gone out of the sanctions campaign. thats why were hearing more and more war talk and that is really frightening. you talk about the tweet on tuesday evening. yeah, thats frightening. but its also frightening what other people in washington are saying. >> gordon chang, whose friends i imagine ask him every day, are we going to die of nuclear war today or tomorrow. >> my wife asks. >>...

>> and so you feel like we need to do more against countries like russia and china that are enabling north korea? >> oh, absolutely, because you know, at this particular time, we have sanctions on north korea. i mean, theyre strict, but we have very few secondary sanctions on the really important players in this drama, which is china and russia. because china and russia are supporting north korea in many dangerous ways. for instance, the chinese are supplying ballistic missile technology and equ...

On that. theres a lot more to do and we can do this without the use of force, but unfortunately youre hearing a lot of war talk in the administration this week, last week and that is indeed worrying when you talk about has anything changed? well, not so much on the north korean side but on the american side its changed. >> you may be alluding to this, marine general warnings to troops and military.com quoting that interview saying, i hope im wrong but theres a war coming. this is according to ge...

Yesterday. and if war comes, make no mistake, the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed. >> wow. senator lindsey graham was blunt about the prospect of going to war as well, here he is. >> were headed toward a preemptive war with north korea if things dont change. >> im joined now by gordon shank, columnist for "the daily beast," author of "nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world." what do you make of these -- what is the impact in pyongyang in north korea, of these war-like sta...

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