the bomb that was used today, the 57, which is 50% bigger. but they have their stuff dispersed. you would have to have more bombs than just the one. and it would trigger the kind of things that jeremy is talking about. i think it s much more likely that we are going to work behind the scenes with china to continue to put pressure on north korea. matter of fact, china sent a message to north korea just a couple of days ago saying don t test another weapon. you pop another nuke and we re going to cut off oil and gas supplies. and we really mean it. i really think this is the way that this president and president xi want to go and they are working behind the scenes the make it happen. that would be great if your prediction turns out to be right. thank you kristen, jeremy, jack. coming up tonight after our first break, learning to.the be jochl that s what mitch mcconnell says about president trump. he is learning the job. and that is next when the 11th
and jack jacobs one of only 75 living recipients of the medal of honor. colonel jacobs is on the faculty these days at west point and an msnbc news military analyst. kristen welker we ll begin with you because you were in the loom. what did you look of this scene. i should add our pentagon producer says the president did not give any authority to drop this particular weapon because he did not need to. that authority had been transferred to the pentagon during the obama administration. so it made for an interesting dynamic. let s say the president s permit doesn t lend itself to say, not didn t come from me. that s right. i think that he clearly wanted to give a full throated support of the military action that was given, brian, but as you pointed out at th p, he didn t say yes to what was a very specific