today north korea finally responded to president trump s tweet that his nuclear button is larger than kim jong un s. it comes as pentagon officials are sounding warnings about the limits and the dangers of a first strike to knock out kim jong un s missile threat. brian todd has more. brian, what are you hearing? reporter: we spoke to u.s. commanders on the peninsula, people who have stared down the north korea threat at the dmz and people who have prepared plans at the pentagon. a growing chorus of them are warning about potentially horrific levels of civilian casualties in the event of a first strike. tonight warnings are intensifying against the idea of a first strike by the u.s. against kim jong un s regime, after president trump bragged
howie: in total last week you wouldn t see the accomplishments. you would see basically his first year was a flop. he has accomplished things. joe: he has. but so did barack obama in his first year. howie: he most of live got good press in his first year. joe: a lot of the executive orders and things trump was railing against in the campaign is working for him and what he accomplished. howie: there is a christmas tweet for the president. cnn, you see the shoe at the bottom. he crushed it with his shoe. a growing chorus on the russia
location. nobody was sneaking around. all it was was just a place i had to go to be able to review this information. nunes denying if i wrongdoing a any wrongdoing, denying incidental collection about trump team communications before informing his colleagues on the intelligence committee. i wasn t planning on going to the white house the next day. but after i was able to read what i read, i realized it had nothing to do with russia but had everything to do with individuals who were whose names were included into intelligence reports. i was very concerned and i thought that the president of the united states should know and that s why i went and told him. devin nunes has gone rogue. a growing chorus of democrats piling on. actions taken by the chairman have compromised the investigation. reporter: calling on house speaker paul ryan to appoint a new chair. his actions look like those of someone who was interested in protecting the president and his
me. but i wasn t trying to hide. a growing chorus of democrats say the latest revelations about where nunes received his information is a breach of trust. in fact, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee democrat adam schiff said nunes could no longer lead them on their investigation. i think it would be worth while for the chairman to recuse himself from any investigation involving either the trump campaign or the trump transition. he was a key member of the trump transition team. i think that presents an inherent conflict. democratic congressional leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are calling on speaker paul ryan to replace nunes as house intelligence chairman or at least push for his recusal on russia. the wisconsin republican s office put out a statement yesterday saying, speaker ryan has full confidence chairman nunes is conducting a thorough, fair, credible investigation. in an interviewast night, congressman nunes said he would remain in charge. he wa
that is his he s on the record with alex jones on his show saying a previous president committed a massive war crime and did 9/11. w. was down in washington with the plunger. anyway. this is why it s so damaging. there may come a time president trump says he s launching military action against korea. when kennedy had to give evidence about the cubans, missiles in cuba and the whole world had to believe this we only had just the pictures and calls up de gaulle, who could be difficult, the president of france, the war hero, of course, and de gaulle says, of course, i believe you. would that happen today? absolutely there s real doubts about whether it would happen. he s already a wartime president conducting raids in yemen and dropping bombs in iraq and syria. the world has to believe what the president of the united states says. even republicans are having shudders. i think joy is right. not just the people working for him. the flack, republicans really have a problem wi