intelligence briefing for president trump, the president was saying to his own intelligence advisers, i don t believe you on the north korean missile range, the threat of their missiles, because vladimir putin told me i believe putin. i believe putin. that s right. president trump in doing this, pursuing this dialogue with north korea, has established this dangerous and cartoonish binary. it s either fire and fury and a rush to war or it s this in some ways even stranger bromance we see now between donald trump and kim jong-un, the fact that they are in love. i personally would much rather see engagement and diplomacy than a rush to war, to quote churchill, jaw-jaw is better than war-war. what the president is set up in hanoi over the long term is a very dangerous recipe because you have a naive and gullible president who crucially needs a win on the world stage given what s going on here at home, meeting with crafty american