they do some business with syria. they ve sold some stuff they do business with other countries. and that presumably brings in a little bit of foreign currency for them. you re going to ask mr. assad to help us with the north koreans? i want to bring this up, because all of us remember how the u.s. indeed i think the whole world miscalculated saddam hussein in 1990, on the eve of his invasion of kuwait when he moved 100,000 u.s. or iraqi troops from the iranian border to the kuwaiti border, and all the top u.s. officials were telling me, i assume they were telling you, he s bluffing, he s not going to go in and invade a fellow arab country, maybe he wants the kuwaitis to raise the price of oil a little bit. he would never do that. maybe a little border skirmish. it s really a bluff. and it wasn t a bluff, and he went in and went like a knife through butter into kuwait. i think of that now when i see people saying kim jong-un is bluffing. he may have called everybody s bluff
moved 100,000 u.s. or iraqi troops from the iranian border to the kuwaiti border, and all the top u.s. officials were telling me, i assume they were telling you, he s bluffing, he s not going to go in and invade a fellow arab country, maybe he wants the kuwaitis to raise the price of oil a little bit. he would never do that. maybe a little border skirmish. it s really a bluff. and it wasn t a bluff, and he went in and went like a knife through butter into kuwait. i think of that now when i see people saying kim jong-un is bluffing. he may have called everybody s bluff, but the united states assembled, with a coalition, 500,000 troops. over six months. yes. and did the job of getting rid of him. they would thought appease what happened. and he went back. the real bluff was saddam hussein thinking the world was bluffing in 2003. he didn t think the united states was going to invade. and he was busy telling people he didn t have any nuclear that he had nuclear weapons when
moved 100,000 u.s. or iraqi troops from the iranian border to the kuwaiti border, and all the top u.s. officials were telling me, i assume they were telling you, he s bluffing, he s not going to go in and invade a fellow arab country, maybe he wants the kuwaitis to raise the price of oil a little bit. he would never do that. maybe a little border skirmish. it s really a bluff. and it wasn t a bluff, and he went in and went like a knife through butter into kuwait. i think of that now when i see people saying kim jong-un is bluffing. he may have called everybody s bluff, but the united states assembled, with a coalition, 500,000 troops. over six months. yes. and did the job of getting rid of him. they would thought appease what happened. and he went back. the real bluff was saddam hussein thinking the world was bluffing in 2003. he didn t think the united states was going to invade. and he was busy telling people
it s true. read this story. it s fascinating now chris christie called everybody s bluff. and saved new jersey $13 billion. that s one way of putting it. two democratic senators from new jersey announced another proposal to build two tunnels under the hudson river with amtrak as an alternative. hold on, ohold on. they said before that that wouldn t happen for 20 years. no way, huh-uh. so you re saying a month later it happened? well, it s apparently an alternative to the plan that governor chris christie killed last year. remember when everyone was really mad at him? but it s over. it s dead. very bad. senator robert menendez said that more federal funding would help to cover the cost overruns, a concern that christie brought up last october. how much is this project going to cost overall? how much is it going to cost new jersey? i don t want to rehash the battles of the past because this is about looking toward the
they said, oh, well, if we don t do this, it will never be built. you just saw, they said it was pure hokum. a couple of months later, it s being built. chris christie is showing other politicians that you can walk away from the table and say, we re not going to do it. we re not going to waste. as a negotiating tactic, which we we said we believed it was months ago. and good things can come of it. he saved his state $13 billion. chris christie called their bluff, joe. the reason he won was because he was willing to walk away, walk away and have no tunnel. if it meant a risk to his state. and he s going to get his tunnel and he s going to save his money. that s what tough leadership can do. everybody in new jersey,