failure, no other way to put it. it s a total failure, and it should not have happened, right, because the work should have been done in advance . you don t send leer e you dot send leaders in like this. it s not clear where we go from here. you wrote a piece on human rights. we were talking about a remarkable exchange between david nakimura, and president trump about otto warmbier, who died after being sent back to the united states. the president committed to them that he was going to hold them in his heart and mind as he dealt with the north korea issue. he said something extraordinary here. let s take a listen of what he had to say about otto warmbier in response to the question. we spent pretty much all day with kim jong-un who is, he is quite a guy and quite a character. and i think our relationship is
chairman kim promised me last night, regardless he is not going to do testing of rockets and nuclear, not going to do testing. so, you know, i trust him, and i take him at his word. i hope that s true. taking him at his word. taking the north korean leader at his word. we have a national security analyst. she has toured one of the facilities. asking pointed questions about accountability, about what the u.s. government was weighing, agreeing to. let s talk about the one nuclear facility in particular. the one in north korea. i know you have seen it, evelyn, yourself. it was a huge sticking point going in to the negotiations, what did you make of what the president had to say about it? hi, david, so, basically, it s interesting, i had think the positive thing is if we can keep deterents and economic pressure, maybe we will get to
the inspections of north korea will take place and will, if we do something with them, we have a schedule set up that is very good. we know things that, as david was asking, about certain places and certain sites. there s sites that people don t know about that we know b we would be able to do inspections, we think, very, very successfully. president trump talking about a ease with which the united states could do inspection of and accounting of nuclear weapons and ballistic weapons of north korea. the bomb scare, the history and future of nuclear weapons. joe, let me just have you react to the sound that you just heard there. we don t have an accounting as we were just discussing. we heard an admission from the
and we have to do it we are changing enemies and circumstances and changing equipment. it s not for nothing that each combatant commander in every area of the world has to submit and certify the efficiency of our operation plans. and we have operation plans that do just about everything that you can think of to, to defend our interests worldwide. so, it s not, it s interesting, he calls them games. hm-mm. they are not games. and that is what you call them when you don t understand what military exercises or the use of the military instrument is all about, david. colonel jack jacobs with us. it s nice, president trump said, they play the war games. as colonel jack jacobs just
for february. the president has a number of things he s going to get to. quickly, david, wanted to ask you about liz cheney abandoning her senate bid. a surprise when she announced she was going to run. now she s announcing she s dropping out. what happened? we can only speculate. she was having trouble getting traction but also with her own family. obvious lit the gay rights issue which she has not supported and her sister is guy. it would be the pressures from internally and the uphill battle she faced in the senate race forced her to decide to resign and not keep running. david nakimura with the washington post. happy new year. yeah, you too. coming up, bill karins and betty nguyen will join us with first buzz. coming up, a case of being