region. if it s serious threat and getting ready to build a war with this country, you have to have democrats and republicans that say okay, this is the plan, this could be costly and painful but it is necessary. shannon: right now what you have are democrats and republicans telling the president to tone it down. they seem united in that. some of them. we had governor huckabee on moments ago and didn t count it as bipartisan when we threw in john mccain. we ll leave that to him to make that argument. there are domestic things happening. the big senate race in alabama. that is the replacement of jeff sessions who left being a senator to become the attorney general. the man who stepped into that role strange is the senator now. the president endorsed him saying luther strange has done a great job representing the great state of alabama and has my complete and total endorsement. you know there are many other people running down there. some other prominent republicans including congressm
were going to dismantle and get rid of nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars of aid we poured in there because we want to help the people of north korea. it is the leaders we have a problem with. we see now where we end up all these years later when diplomacy didn t exactly work. this was 23 years ago. the world and china was a different place and we were in a different place 23 years ago. prior to 9/11, prior to the nuclearization of countries in the middle east. we have to look at it differently than bill clinton looked at it. in fairness to him i m not saying he shouldn t have perhaps negotiated a tougher deal but at the time it didn t seem unreasonable. but now while we hope for some diplomatic solution, let s be clear. the north koreans have to understand that we re not going to just allow them to continue not only to make the threats but let s keep in mind, they are lighting the candle on
you make a lot of sense to me. let s talk about what he ll do to us in this country. the washington post /abc poll out last month. you have to figure these numbers will be more extreme than they re showing. people don t think this war makes any sense for us, 64% to 31%. it s hard for me not to believe the numbers will go to 80/20 or 85/15 when people realize the so-called ally has been unleashing the mob on u.n. workers because some billy bob character somewhere in the outskirts of florida somewhere decided that he was going to do some koran burning. yeah. and what you ve just nailed it. these good-hearted, big-minded u.n. workers were sold down the river by the guy who claims to be the leader of a liberated afghanistan. look, chris, i think the u.s. government needs to call this buster out. i really do. i realize that diplomacy doesn t work that way. but frankly, i mean, diplomacy didn t work that way in the age
u.n. workers were sold down the river by the guy who claims to be the leader of a liberated afghanistan. look, chris, i think the u.s. government needs to call this buster out. i really do. i realize that diplomacy doesn t work that way. but frankly, i mean, diplomacy didn t work that way in the age of ronald reagan when he said tear down this wall. and completely threw away the notes that the state department gave him. here s the point. can i just finish up my thought? sure. i think that u.s. government needs to say to karzai, look, you publicly asked us to condemn this koran burning. we have. now we are publicly demanding that you go before the afghan people and tell them that we have condemned it in no uncertain terms. let s see if he s willing to do a quid pro quo. no, he s not. you haven t caught up with his latest act. hi continues to argue that our government should go down to the bayous of florida and find this guy and arrest him. he knows that s not in other words,
were sold down the river by the guy who claims to be the leader of a liberated afghanistan. look, chris, i think the u.s. government needs to call this buster out. i really do. i realize that diplomacy didn t work that way. but frankly, i mean, diplomacy didn t work that way in the age of ronald reagan when he said tear down this wall. and completely threw away the notes that the state department gave him. here s the point. can i just finish up my thought? sure. i think that u.s. government needs to say to karzai, look, you publicly asked us to condemn this koran burning. we have. now we are publicly demanding that you go before the afghan people and tell them that we have condemned it in no uncertain terms. no, he s not. you haven t caught up with his latest act. he continues the to argue that our government should go down to the bayous of florida and find this guy and arrest him. he knows that s not in other words, not only is not on him, he s putting the