Nuke taste. april 15 is when the north korean military gets frisky. the u.s.s. carl vinson aircraft carrier is leading the group. the president s national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster called the decision prudent. north korea has been engaged in a pattern of provocative behavior, this is a rogue regime that is a nuclear capable regime. president xi and president trump agreed that that is unacceptable. what has to happen is the denuclearization of the peninsula. the president has us ready give him a full range of options to help the region. north korea put out a statement in response to the strikes in syria promising to defend itself with tremendous
Have. they often do that and the north koreans have been sending heavy or more to the border that is a sign that the north koreans and chinese are not getting as long as well as they thought they would. clearly on that border, it sometimes gets tense. they won t fight because of various reasons. where we are really concerned is the dmz separating the two crees. there s been incidents where south koreans have been killed by north korean soldiers. shepard: kim jong-un has a lot of problems. he s concerned about the population rising up against him. he s killed his own brother. with a chemical agent. how unstable is that regime? i think it s unstable. from the end of january, we saw four instances of instability. the minister of state security a really important figure was demoted and detained. five of his senior subordinates.
And the missile test, the head of the missile forces wasn t there. indicating problems there. you put that together in a short period of time, it means the regime is fluid. kim jong-un has a low threshold because his power may be slipping. and what does the u.s.s. carl vinson mean being there? we need to do something to bolster the south korean public. they re nervous about the american commitment. clearly we re trying to do walk that line. kim jong-un sees that as provocative. so do the chinese, by the way. we have to deter pyongyang. thanks, gorden. thank you. shepard: christians in egypt burying their dead after attacks on palm services sunday killed
Let s face it. they beat back the opposite forces out of aleppo. they consolidated the regime s holding. russia was able to succeed and accomplish what they intended to do, prop up the regime when they were in danger of being overthrown in 2015. they accomplished what they wanted. i think for them to do anything that would aggravate the situation further doesn t make a lot of sense to me. after 37 years in service and we thank you. you have a lot of good contacts. i wonder what your understanding is of the next steps. well, i think certainly as sad is controlling fate here. if he wants to continue to use wmd, we ll take down those other five air fields and make certain that all of his aircraft are grounded permanently. so he holds that fate. i don t believe the russians will do anything to aggravate the situation with the united states. they do not want to have
If there were another chemical weapons attack, there s no doubt that president trump would respond and escalate his attack. the more interesting question is, because he didn t go after the regime, he didn t get involved in the civil war, he made a statement about chemical weapons, what happens if assad goes after civilians in northern iraq with conventional weapons? then what doespresident trump do? chemical weapons are over the line but slaughters thousands with conventional weapons isn t? that and more. shepard: chris has a exclusive interview with one of the mans helped trump plan the strikes. lieutenant general m.r. mcmaster. this will be his first interview since getting that position.