that determined, quote, north korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery. a mile spoken to many experts believed was years away. today, that is new jersey golf club, president trump issued this warning. north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening beyond a normal state. and as i said, they will be met with fire, fury and frankly, power. the likes of which this world has never seen before. thank you. all right. i ll joined now by nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, special assistant to president obama for national security, and gordon, author of nuclear showdown,
region for 50 years. so where does this go? we ve got, it looks like blustery rhetoric, your response in north korea. that you said. we ll try to wipe out guam. nobody thinks that s where they are right now. but in terms of, with the statement trump put out today, what can he tolerate from north korea going forward that is not going to make it look like he is letting they will cross his de gloo glookt red line? just nasa january, that he said an icbm won t happen. i think he s already embarrassed and that s part of reason he s put forth such bluster. the problem is not what president trump says or jong ki jong-un says never response. is there a north korean fishing investigate that he will gets fired upon? is there a powerer issue? it was said during cuban missile
coming up, the political reaction to the big north korean news. what is behind that hard line rhetoric from president trump and what is next after his promise north korea will not be able to put a nuclear head on a missile on his launch? this is his first grave foreign policy test as a president. that s ahead. plus the news that president trump himself through his attorney has corresponded privately with robert mueller who is negotiating president trump s foreign russia ties. and we have new polls. overall, the numbers do not look very good for the president. we ll find out what it could mean for trump, for his party, and for the democrats who of course are hoping to take back the house and maybe more in those mid-term elections next year. and finally, the round table will weigh in on the north korea crisis and more things you may not know. this is hardball.
roundtable. it hasn t stopped them from digging into trump and his taxes. expect many structural issues about, how he structured his business entities. we ll keep an eye out for that. trump grew number queens. for apparently $600 a night, you can stay in the childhood home he grew up in. $600 a night? yes. how about you? the nice nerdy political thing, glen campbell who died today. country crooner, rhinestone cowboy, by the time i get on phoenix, he stack first night at the republican national convention in 1980. there you go. look at that. we ve got some great footage of
john mccain saying he thought presses s rhetoric was not helpful and he cannot imagine any president from eisenhower through reagan would use that kind of rhetoric unless he is prepared to carry it out and he does not think the president is prepared to carry out military action. let s stay on it. president trump s response. it was so striking. we just played that clip from his golf club in new jersey today. he sat straight up when that news came. just before that he was reading a script about opioid addiction. he was reading. the changing body language was striking, but stay on that point. i think the question is this is a president who says he looks at president obama, what president obama did with syria, he said barack obama s mistake was drawing the red line. he, donald trump, would never draw a red line. those statements he made promising fire and fury if north korea goes any farther with this, does that amount to a red line here? it certainly could be