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Would be someone willing to pay them. >> bret: do you have a good window into the capabilities and intent of north korea? >> capabilities, yes. the intent is proven and incredibly difficult intelligence problem. we think we have an understanding. we think kim jong un wants these weapons for protecting his regime and ultimately the reunification of the peninsula. there is still a lot the intelligence community needs to learn. >> bret: has china been doing more to reign in north korea? >> yes, they have been doing more. but we know there's more they could do. 80% of the hard currency trade with ...

Trying to do business with donald trump can you trust him? >> this kind of pretty inflammatory language, what does it do to the cooperation the u.s. is seeking from many majority muslim nations working to fight isis, al qaeda and other terror organization snz. >> president trump reaches in these moments for whatever statement makes him look like the strong man, the tough guy, not necessarily the guy who is going to bring people and allies together and that is the tendency and that is what you see in the tweets. what he doesn't seem to have gotten his hands around or brushed aside is that both ...

Word catalisma and not catastrophic. >> would the u.s. know about it ahead of time from areal surveillance? >> heck no, i give that about a zero. there is two aspects of any intelligence problem. that's capability intense. you have seen the u.s. intelligence assessment in particular from the agency of capability. can north korea put together a missile dl missile delivers a target like guam, i suspect it is not true. the second aspect of this is more difficult. if you have that capability and you are a north korea's leader, how confident are you that you know what the north korea's leadership w...

Life in real estate in new york, only it doesn't work in international diplomacy. and it certainly won't work with north korea. >> i think i said he used the word cataclysmic, but i think it was catastrophic. are you confident that if north korea was serious in carrying through with their threat, the u.s. would actually know about it ahead of time from aerial surveillance? >> heck, no. i would give that about a zero. there are two aspects of any intelligence problem. that is capability and intent. over the past week you've seen u.s. intelligence assessments in particular from the defense intel...

What might have been shared and how important it is? >> i think from a messaging perspective and i think they are trying to treat this as a pr problem, which it is an intelligence problem, no question about it, and they are trying to stuff the answer into a shell that they created by the president getting this out there. i mean, you got h.r. mcmaster, secretary tillerson out there trying to put context on this, a nondenial denial and then you have the president coming out in tweets this morning and saying, hey, it is no big deal. that it is a big deal, you don't have to look further into the f...