north koreans, is that the sort of saber rattling they re going to brush off or are they going to take that as some threat of a first attack. lanhee, why our pentagon correspondent hans nichols reminded us of something that s been true. our intelligence inside of north korea has gotten worse, not better. most of that is a south korean problem. why has it gotten worse? i think part of it is because kim jong-un, believe it or not, has become more repressive than his father and his grandfather before that. the part of it is because kim jong-un north korean leaders have been irrational. kim jong-un may perhaps be even more irrational in some ways, if you can believe it or not. that is why so many analysts believe this is such a huge threat to the u.s. that and the fact you can argue our intelligence cooperation has degraded with the south koreans to your point. we don t know as much about what is going on. it doesn t help donald trump is going to pay for the missile
intelligence works and there are a lot of people in the intelligence community, even high level leaders in the pentagon, former leaders in the pentagon talking about how this will hinder intelligence cooperation when we paint the brush with everyone in the countries. i want our television viewers to see part of an ad you released today, john. you lost the popular vote, having trouble drawing a crowd and your approval rate something sinking, banning muslims won t help, that s not the america i sacrificed for. keeping an eye on the left side of your screen where the president will show up shortly. john, talk to me about what you re hoping to achieve with that tell ligs meadvice message. we empower the voice of veterans and this veteran has a message for the president. the president shut the phone lines down at the white house and today he ll speak at macdill
governments. the question is, what is in the best interest of european security. intelligence cooperation, trying to integrate rather than ostracize their own muslim communities, trying to enlist and mobilize them in the fight against these jihadi this terrorist intenterprise. i think this is a problem that the europeans are uniquely faced with, in large part because their muslim communities are not as well integrated as in ours. first and foremost, i care about what we re going to do. i m hoping that when the transition comes january 19 to january 20, that we have the same kind of foresight and vision and smarts and prudence that s required to deal with this problem. aaron david miller, appreciate the perspective on these breaking events. thank you very much. thank you, chris. alisyn? first lady michelle obama looking back at her eight years in the white house. what is she doing now to help the trumps? that s next.
puzzle. how does that get fixed? you re right. we need better intelligence and more intelligence cooperation. i think, unfortunately, there are a lot of people who felt we could just pull out of the middle east we could let this problem fester and let people over there solve it for themselves. isis is a national security threat to us and our allies. they brutally killed americans and europeans abroad. they have every intention of killing them here at home as we saw in paris this weekend. we ve got to confront this threat head-on. i think we need a more serious long-term and comprehensive strategy than we have now one piece of that strategy is confronting them on social media where they are recruiting europeans and americans as we speak. we don t have a serious social media strategy to defeat isis. that is another example what i mean of a comprehensive strategy. not just dropping a few bombs or sending a few troops in without a clear mission. that is something we heard more and more
to me that there are clearly sensitivities. i think the u.s. authorities would like to do more intelligence cooperation. russians don t necessarily want that. perhaps you could understand it if we had an olympics in atlanta or los angeles, would we be inviting the russians to help us out? maybe not. this looks like a case where they may need help. jim sciutto, thank you so much. despite the russian assurances that they have everything handled, it s not alleviating worry. several lawmakers are expressing their anxiety very clearly ahead of the games. i would not go. and i don t think i would send my family. we don t seem to be getting all of the information we need to protect our athletes in the game. senator angus king and senator mike rogers of the house intelligence committee right there. what will the committee do if