Plan to launch four missiles near the waters in guam. The rogue nation will send the plan to kim jongun for approval. It will be up to him to decide whether the plan is actually carried out. The question today, will the United States intercept the missiles or do we strike first . The president is in bedminster, new jersey being briefed on we his National Security advisors presumably. Former nato ally problem commander wesley clark. Good to have you here. Stuff boeing on as what is your recommendation here . Can we go in and take out north Koreas Nuclear arsenal . We probably could to go in with Massive Force and destroy the whole country. The country had 50, 60 years putting things in underground tunnels. To get it you have to use Nuclear Weapons to get it. If you send in a few teams of special forces, you may get some of it. You wont get all of it. To do that you have to disable the air defense network, shut down their security and so forth. So you alert them. The idea you can really do a massive strike without somebody saying something totally surprise gets china offguard is unlikely. Seems likely china would alert north korea. So, because they dont want to see the United States take out north korea and then move all the way to the border with china. So lots of different motives in the region of the best course of action for us right now, trish, is talk directly to the leader in north korea, facetoface. No bellicose public statements. Dont get the public alarmed. See him personally say, dont be doing this. Youre bringing yourself to destruction because trish are you criticizing what has been said . When you say dont be making public statements just curious . Seems you want to get some kind of a message through. Since youre not meeting with him, you need to let him know how serious this is . The best way to get the message through to meet with him personally, and there are ways to do that. That can be done. It was done in 1994. Jimmy carter was sent over there. Trish that didnt work out so well. I was sitting in the white house sit room. It worked out well because we didnt bo to war with north korea. Trish now where we are . This is tougher than iraq. Much tougher, because it means hundreds of thousands civilian. They have ability to hurt japan and south korea, and wreck major parts of asias con economy. Likely consequence of United States going to war with south korea, sorry, north korea, is that asia would be in turmoil. Who would come out as the real victor in that . Probably china would emerge as much stronger in the aftermath. You bring up china. That is an important elephant in the room if you would. Everybody is excited about the billion dollar sanctions. I keep making the point talking about a 28 billion roughly estimated economy. A billion dollars isnt going to be that big of a it had. That is assuming china will follow through on those sanctions. I think that is a big if and probably unlikely. Why arent we going after china way harder . Why arent we sticking it to them, guys you have to get north korea in line, youre the answer to that . We can only do what we can do . Why not threaten china with more sanctions . I think we are behind the scenes putting a lot of pressure on china. I think we should do even more because china does have some influence, although this leader, kim jongun, has done his best to eliminate any chinese agents of influence in the government. He had his uncle killed. He got his brother killed. He purged his military a couple times to get rid of chinese agents might be in uniform in his high command. So he knows about personal security. This is a guy who is absolutely determined to stay in power. He is ruthless, but china could put more pressure on him. Here is only thing i would say, trish. Got to be careful on sanctions in this regard. His highest regime priority is regime survival. He needs those Nuclear Weapons and missiles. He will sacrifice anything and anybody to keep them at this point. Trish so in other words, any dollar he has. Starve a million people, absolutely. Absolutely. Cut hospitals, cut schools. Starve them. Coop those Nuclear Weapons. Trish he is supporting a lifestyle for himself. He had a liquor bill totaled at 30 million for his friends. Among other things. So you could choke him financially to a certain extent in terms of his infrastructure around him but i heart what youre saying, that ultimately take whatever money he has from his own people before he is out of business as far as nukes go. Yep. When a guy starts shootings members of his own family you know this guy is seriously wanting to stay in power. Trish the question, where does it head . I think what youre going to see is, continued determination, strong resolute rhetoric from the United States. I think youre going to see start scrambling figuring out do we, do we start shooting out missiles. Trish of course we should shoot down the missiles, general. Well, it is we could shoot them down but do we . If were going to shoot down the missiles, then maybe we want to take them out before theyre launched. Trish all right. Then, in addition to all the military stuff, there is going to be frenzy of diplomatic activity. Somebody will have to go in to speak directly to the president of north korea. Trish general clark. Good to see you. Thank you. Trish joining me right now how we can denuclearize north korea. Lieutenant colonel ralph peters. I point out compelling oped in the New York Post you peaceally said youre not sure that people really understand what this means. In other words, if we are at war, we need to be going, be willing to go to certain lengths, none of which make anyone feel good. Walk us through your thinking on this. The bottom line, trish, is that greatest immorality in war far for us is not collateral damage. It is not accidental civilian deaths. Greatest i am more ral for the United States to lose. When the United States loses, civilization loses, we all lose. My concern for generations now, you heard some of it from general clark, we conditioned people, including our military that war can be relatively sterile. That we should break things and not hurt people. If we are compelled to fight north korea. If north korea continues on the current course, if it continues aggressive actions toward us and our allies, if it is on the verge of nook clear blackmail or Nuclear Attacks on the United States, we have to go to war, we need to do everything it takes to win, noholdsbarred. Do what it takes. If they are, indeed general clark pointed out directly, theyre bunkered well underground, networks of tunnels. If it takes Nuclear Weapons to take them out, use Nuclear Weapons, dont do it halfheartedly, give the enemy a chance to react, if youre not willing to fight the war to win, stay and cower in your basement. Trish i will share with viewers one part of what you wrote. We taught our troops to break things but to go to absurd lengths to spare all lives, yes in warfare there is no substitute for killing your enemy and all those who support him and you keep on killing until the enemy quits unconditionally or lie there is dead and rotting. Colonel, i havent heard anyone quite say it like that. Youre saying what people dont want to hear. It is not politically correct. We have thousands of years of history of warfare. Warfare has been mankinds most successful human endeavor. Warfare is how human beings collectives solve otherwise intractable problems. I wish it were otherwise. I wish we all could be quakers. The only reason there are quakers left alive because other people done the fighting for them. There are malevolent forces, there are evil people. People desperately want to hurt us in large numbers. We need to take the world seriously as it is. I come back to my bottom line. If you have to fight a war, you fight to win and you use whatever tools it takes to win. You win fast and hard and reserve mercy for after the shooting stops. Trish think back to world war ii. Think about what we had to do in japan and you think about some of the words that the president said, with fire and fury, and colonel, do you foresee us looking at a situation in any way similar to that . Lord we all hope not but we certainly hope not but one thing weve got to get over, trish, this madcap delusion that china would solve things for us. Look at a intelligence officer, from beijings per speck what is the number one goal for china longterm, become number one power militarily and economic power in the pacific. What is only obstacle to chinas ambitions . The United States. They perceive us as the enemy. Who is chinas only military ally . North korea. Who is tying down, who is obsessing us right now and could tie down our forces in wartime . Who might nuke our military base without china lifting a finger . North korea. Yet we expect china to turn on north korea for our benefit. It is folly. It is time to get past that. General clark, you especially were really right when you raised issue of more sanctions on china. If china doesnt feel enormous amount of pain they will not lift a finker to stop north korea because theyre benefiting from it. Trish you know what, they rely on us. They do a lot of business with us. It might be a little economic pain for us but ill tell you, i would rather see economic pain colonel peters, than the kind of pain youre talking about. Absolutely. Trish bank of china, right down there, i walked right by it, couple blocks away. Fully in business. We can do much, much more and cut off china economically. I think that is where it needs to head there and needs to head there very soon because youre right. We need to put pressure on them. This is our dream of getting china to help us with north korea, has paralyzed our Economic Policy toward china because were afraid china will get angry at us. Were in the drivers seat for gods sakes. Idea of negotiating with kim jongun of north korea. Were not supplicants. Were not the beggars. Were the world owes only superpower, by god, if he do not act by it, circumspect tiffly and decisively, koreans will die in large numbers, japanese may die in large numbers because you cant let a madman have Nuclear Weapons. This guy killed his uncle, killed his own brother and we think he is a rational actor that would not attack the United States . Im sore, im a pessimist on this one. If we do not get coherent policy, a coherent bipartisan policy against north korea soon, americans will die. Trish thank you for the realism, colonel peters. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you. Trish i are folks check out piece in New York Post. Markets off 127. You get tension there clearly on north korea. Why in this market were looking at record highs. Were still way up there near 22,000. Where does this go from here . Well talk about it right after this. Well see you in two. Poor mouth breather. Allergies . Stuffy nose . Cant sleep . Take that. A breathe right nasal strip instantly opens your nose up to 38 more than allergy medicine alone. Shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. Breathe right. The dinosaurs extinction. Got you outnumbered. Dont listen to them. Not appropriate. Now im mashing these potatoes with my stick of butter. Why dont you sit over here. Find your awesome with the Xfinity Stream app. Included with xfinity tv. More to stream to every screen. Trish stocks on pace for biggest drop in a month amid rising tension with north korea. This flight to safety is sending investors into u. S. Debt. We have Nicole Petallides at New York Stock Exchange and nicole, i want to put this in perspective. Youre talking about 118 points right now. As i look at the market out of the corner of my eye here, were down really barely half a percent here. So, yeah, some people may want to take a little money off the table but are some of the Mainstream Media folks making a little much out of this . Hard to say whether people are making too much out of it or not. No doubt the market was near highs. We had three days of selling. Concerns about north korea tensions. We lost 70 points last two trading days. About 120 right now. I will say some traders i spoke with took some risk off the table for now in a waitandsee mode. I think most people big picture are bullish, on mystic, policies will go through. We have the 10year bond, you noted bond, that is at a six week low. Stocks off most in five weeks, six for the nasdaq. S p 500 with which has been so stagnant, 58 days without a 1 move, will today be the day it has a 1 move. So be it. We need a little volatility on wall street. Trish it cant always go straight up. This isnt bad. Trish heather, are you worried here . Do you think this is people taking a little money off the table saying, all right, this is a good excuse, the whole north korea situation, might as well keep a little bit of my profits for now and go on vacation for the rest of august . Yeah, right. That would be nice. I think that, look the markets are still within one to 2 of their alltime highs so they are hanging in there fairly well given the catalysts of the geopolitical risks and tensions. I get it, there is some downside pressures on the market but selling off today, only 114 on the dow, that is not a big deal. Retail sector is getting pummeled on earnings. Look at other sectors across the board, tech rolling over, but rolling over into financials and energy, it will be a positive rotation. I think the markets can hold so long as north korea does not escalate. Trish all right. What are you hearing about earnings down there on the floor, nicole . You hit it right on the head because that is the truth of the matter. Earnings overall is very good. She just made a freight point what we saw with retailers. For example, kohls, macys getting killed, those are getting hit hard but overall earnings season has been particularly good. More than 90 reported, most of those, 73 beat on earnings per share. Another point to the market youre seeing a little bit of selling, some traders said, look were winding down earnings season were in the thick of it, then you move into the last couple weeks of august. This is traditionally not a very busy time where people take large positions and the like any way. Trish well leave it there, heather and nicole. I want to point out were off the lows of the session, down 111. Well keep watching. President trump blasting Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell after the senator blamed the president for the republicans inability to get anything done. 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Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you have any medical conditions. So now that you know all that, what do you think . That its time to think about jardiance. Ask your doctor about jardiance. And get to the heart of what matters. Trish President Trump swinging hard at Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell today, blasting him in a phone call. Fox news sources trump told him he expects obamacare to be repealed, and he was unhappy with those comments mcconnell made to a rotary club in kentucky. Watch. Part of the reason i think the storyline is that we havent done much is because, in part, the president and others have sets these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point. Our new president of course has not been in this line of work before and i think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process. Trish isnt that why he was sent there, right . Because he would be a disruptor . Trump taking to twitter today, three times in 24 hours i should point out including moments ago, mitch, get back to work and put repeal and replace, tax cuts, infrastructure a bill on my desk for signing. You can do it a little bit of positive reinforcement, i guess. Tell you why shouldnt our president expect more from d. C. . Why shouldnt every single one of us expect more from d. C. . Joining me American University capri cafaro,. Good to see you, trish. Trish capri, i will go to you first, this is easy attack line for you. You are on the left. Say this president doesnt know washington, et cetera, et cetera. Th