States. Chilling words. I couldnt help but go back and Jesse Rodriguez called me up and we talked about it. Couldnt help but go back to something that we had talked about on the show a year ago. Lets take a quick look. Several months ago a Foreign Policy expert on the International Level went to advise donald trump and three times he asked about the use of Nuclear Weapon. Three times he asked if we have them, why canty use them . Thats one of the reason he just doesnt have Foreign Policy experts trump asked three times . Three times in an hour briefing why cant we use Nuclear Weapons . Be careful, america, and be careful republican leaders. Your party is blowing up. I want to ask one more time and it may be classified but the steps, donald trump decide to use a Nuclear Weapon, what is the time frame between his decision and when the Nuclear Weapons are launched . Joe, its scenario dependent but the system is designed for speed and decisiveness. Its not designed to debate the decision.
Is urging President Trump to show restraint this morning. As nuclear tepgsz are escalating with north korea now. President trump initially called president xi last night to pressure him on a trade issue. He wanted to warn she that u. S. Investigation into chinas practices could start as soon as monday, but she in return pressed President Trump to tone down threats like this one. If anything happens to guam, theres going to be big, big trouble in north korea. And japan now ready to respond with massive missile interceptors that are in place this morning should north korea make good on their threat to strike guam. But aside from the north korea challenge, President Trump is signalling possible military intervention in venezuela. Officials there calling the president s warning, quote, cow wardel, insolate and vial. We have many option for venezuela. And by the way, im not going to rule out a military option. We have many options for venezuela. We have correspondents covering all angles fr
Jon north korea has repeatedly threatened to launch a missile attack on guam in response new sanctions. A state run newspaper says the mainland could be reduced to ashes at any moment. Rich edson is live at the state department. As the white house and north korea continue to trade threats, we are getting news from the Associated Press the senior u. S. Diplomat is conducting back channel talks with north korea. Ongoing discussions that have been ongoing for several months. This is the president tweeted about north korea again this morning, saying in a tweet, military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should north korea act unwisely. Hopefully kim jongun will find another path. The Korean Peoples Army say its developing a plan to develop muscles around guam. Its planners say they will finish the proposal by the middle of the month and then kim jongun will decide whether to implement that proposal. Japan and defending its ally, the United States essay and will intercept
Mentioned this intelligence assessment determined that north korea has the ability to miniaturize Nuclear Weapons and fit them on to a ballistic missile. This hasnt been tested yet. This is just an assessment. It would mark Significant Development in the countrys Nuclear Weapons program following last months test of two icbms that could reach the u. S. Mainland. This is just one development. We saw that warning from pyongyang directed at guam in response to the flight of the b1 bombers. Pyongyang threatening a retaliatory strike against guam. This came and was followed shortly there after by this stark warning from President Donald Trump against any additional provocations by north korea. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and furry li fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state. As i said, they will be met with fire a fire, fury, and frankly power, the likes of which this world has neve
Whats described as backchannel diplomacy going on in private. Elise labott is with us. What are you learning about back channel diplomacy . Reporter wolf, even since President Trump took office there have been talks between u. S. And north korean officials. In fact, this has really intensified since President Trump took office, and especially on the release of u. S. Detainees in north korea. You remember otto warmbier, released from north korea, unfortunately he died, but then his release was the product of talks between the u. S. And north korea. A special representative for north korea, joseph yune, had been meeting with north korean officials for the last several months. They were supposed to meet in february, but then kim jonguns brother was killed in malaysia. Those talks have been ongoing, wolf, primarily about the release of americans but also in the sense of, lets try and get our relationship back on track. We understand those talks have continued. Joe yune met in oslo with som