they believe the north korean regime is already cheating on the commitments that kim jong-un made to president trump, they stepped up production of enriched uranium. is this headed for failure. that is a good question. if they re saying one thing and doing another, nobody should be surprised. but here s what i will tell north korea, there s no place for donald trump to kick the can down the road. he offered you a deal of a lifetime he s already been told this information. does it concern you he s yet to act? does it concern you for instance, he hasn t said the exercises with south korea are back on? i ll be honest with you, chuck, i know what i read, i ll follow-up when i get back. it would concern me a lot if they are expanding the nuclear program as they meet with the president. i don t want a war with north korea. it would be devastating. a lot of people would be killed and hurt.
unsuspected today it s right in line with the way he s done business for years. this tactic seems to be out of the trump play book. it is, wolf. while many were surprised about today s announcement, the journalists who have written books about him said this is all trump s tactic. no one should be anxious. we be to get it right. president trump walks away what could be the deal of a lifetime, terminating their planned summit citing kim s open hostilities in a reason american statement. a letter analysts say is extraordinary for its personal nature. it s unusual that the president would use threats of nuclear weapons in the communication with a foreign
one president who would actually do this, who would go meet with the north korean leader. is he going to stop on his way in oslo to get the nobel peace prize? he should be given tucker: [laughs] if he lands this, if he closes the ultimate deal of a lifetime, you give that man the nobel prize. there s no question. tucker: but let s be i mean, the chances of that are right around zero i think. they are maybe around tucker: of getting the nobel peace prize. well. tucker: they give it to obama for getting o elected. he didn t do anything, yeah. tucker: i m aware. yeah. you know what? trump has got to explore this. tucker: so what happens i mean, just to game this out a little bit, and obviously this is speculative. but the end game of course is reunification. the koreas becoming one country again. what would that mean for everyone else? means a lot of good, means a lot of bad. the bad is the toughest part. the cost to reunify north korea with south korea i
tucker: he may be the one president who would meet with the north korean leader. is he going to stop on his way in oslo to get the nobel peace prize? he should be given the peace prize. if he close the ultimate deal of a lifetime you give that man the nobel prize. no question. tucker: the chances of that are right around zero, i think. there may be tucker: of getting the nobel peace prize. gave it to obama for getting elected. he didn t do anything. trump has tucker: what happens just to game this out a little bit and obviously this is speculative. the end game, of course, is reunification that korea is becoming one country again. what would that mean for everyone else? means a lot of good and a lot of bad. the bad is the toughest part. the cost to reunify north korea with south korea is probably something like $10 trillion. you are talking about having to build roads, brings, take care of their people. the economics of that would be totally insane. plus, you would
he he he wrote that letter long before anybody thought president trump would be president. next question. next question. no big deal. politics was the furthest thing from anybody s mind. not only did the governor of alabama just get to give the deal of a lifetime, right, the deal of a lifetime, a job for life as u.s. senator to the guy who may or may not have been investigating him for this thing to potentially get impeached for and picking the replacement as attorney general and gets to pick basically the outcome for the investigation of his impeachment scandal and sex scandal which made today an even better day for the governor of alabama than that day five days before the election. amazing. joining us now is john archibald, a columnist for the birmingham news. nice to see you. thank you for your time tonight. thank you, rachel.