Companies and banks doing business with pyongyang. And with word that Chinas Central Bank has ordered its Financial Institutions to stop dealing with north korea. John bolton is the former United States ambassador to the u. N. And a fox news contributor. Ambassador, welcome back. Glad to be with you. Paul so since those remarks by the president , kim jong un has now said maybe we will send a missile with a Hydrogen Bomb over the pacific. Right. I think it shows hes trying to demonstrate hes not intimidated by everything thats going on. This would be the first atmospheric test in more than paul 1980, yeah. The environmental consequences would be enormous. But the steps that have been taken, you mentioned the executive order, i think, is potentially quite Senate Although the words china and russia dont appear in it, those are the two targets to make it very specific whos aiding north korea. Paul lets go back to this Hydrogen Bomb incident because that would be a serious escalation on the
Theres no good time to do it, by the way. He made a recommendation, but regardless of recommend, i was going to fire comey. Paul Michael Mukasey served as the 81st attorney general of the United States. Thanks for coming in. Good to be here. Paul first point, is there any doubt in your mind that as a legal matter the president had the right, the authority to fire james comey . None. Paul none. None. The fbi director is a part of e. E executive, the president is regardless of whether the fbi director is appointed for a term or not for a term, the president has the authority to fire him. Paul thats despite the tenyear term he was supposed to yeah. Paul all right. In the chain of command at the Justice Department, some people seem to believe that the fbi is independent. That is not true. It is not true. The fbi director is supposed to report to the Deputy Attorney general who then reports to the attorney general. Thats the way its supposed to work. Paul okay. And the fbi is not some indep
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Okay, so, this morning, of course the big effort is under way to remove all that snow. The federal government and some mass transit lines are closed today. Washington, d. C. , is still reeling and thats where we find abcs lana zak outside in the elements. Hey, lana, good morning to you. Reporter hi. You know, in this storm, everybody has been working furiously to try to clear the streets. But as you mentioned the federal government is still closed down today. And the concern really is on these streets as the snow has melted all of this has turned into black ice. This weekends storm was one for the record books. Nearly 2 feet of snow in some areas of washington, d. C. It was the biggest storm ever in baltimore at 29. 2 inches. And in new yorks central park, a new 24hour record with 26. 8 inches of snow. Grinding to a halt all forms of travel well, almost all turnpike werermarooned for up to 30 hours. Creating a unique situation, sunday mass on theighway. And on the jersey shore, blocks
Hey, good monday morning to you. Millions of people are stilling digging out from the paralyzing storm dumping feet of snow in several states. A lot of people still playing in it, as you can see. Some amazing new drone video out of northern virginia, where about 30 inches of snow fell, blanketing this neighborhood there. The storm creating a travel nightmare, hundreds of flights are canceled today nationwide, as the major east coast airports slowly get back to normal. Okay, so, it wasnt just the snow but also flooding, this is the jersey shore. Chunks of ice floating down the streets. More than two dozen deaths were blamed on the weather. Airlines canceled more than 14,000 flights this weekend. And the snowfall in new york city missed setting a record by just a tenth of an inch. Okay, so, this morning, of course, the big effort is under way to remove all that snow. The federal government and some mass transit lines are closed today. Washington, d. C. , is still reeling and thats where