and once you re nuclear powered, you will have a seat at a table that guarantees your existence. you re kind of untouchable. it s a matter of survival. but they are facing not just the west, notjust the united states and western europe, but they re facing this extraordinary alliance saudi arabia, israel and the united arab emirates. they re not going to get away with being a nuclear power with those kind of powers ranged against them, are they? on one hand, it seems that the nuclear talks have reached a dead end. 0n the other hand, iran is increasing its nuclear activities, is decreasing its cooperation with the international atomic energy agency, iaea, and it s giving them every excuse to be worried. just this week, israel asked for an air defence alliance, which include the united states.
things were just going gangbusters. businesses all over, and then when it crashed everyone was caught by surprised and they crashed and crashed hard. the number of mining jobs in the region went from over 14,000 in the 80s to just over 4500 today leaving families and main streets to suffer. robert has been the mayor of eveleth for 18 years on and off. he votes democrat on state races, but he s got a trump stick or his desk, a christmas card from his president on the bulletin board and the deer sports a maga hat. it s a matter of survival. economics. yeah. he s our guy. he supports mining. he s our guy. our steel industry is vibrant again. it was dead. so is his easing of environmental regulations. they also like his crackdown on immigration. in a state that s 80% white the
the shutdown is also affecting private small businesses in places like oklahoma where properties are seeing less customers as thousands of federal employees are no longer traveling or spending money. it s a matter of survival. surviving as a business. how long can we keep this up and stay in business. if everything gets going within the next one to two weeks we can stay in business. fit lasts two or three weeks a lot of our competitors will go out of business as well. reporter: the irs is affected. refunds are at risk of being delayed if the shutdown stretches into february. eric: we are joined by new york congressman peter king. good to see you.
it s a matter of survival. we have often talked about how folks from the outside will say well kim is a crazy man, irrational behavior, et cetera. but folks who know north korea well say in fact north korea s security pols policy is very rational from their point of view. you ll hear this even from u.s. intelligence officials from their point of view they are outmatched. they re surrounded by rivals. basically have one sort of friend, china, in the world. so nuclear power, nuclear weapons are the best chance of survival. so when they say denuclearize really more likely to be talking about a freeze as gordon and mark general herteling were talking about. the question becomes what does the u.s. then does the u.s. freezes for exercising? how long? how comfortable is south korea with that? also possible only on the table an actual treaty to end the korean war which has been inactive since 1953 but not overtly over. if you reached agreement there suitable to both sides it would give nor
most to gain. he is in a very good situation. he has proven his nuclear program works. possibly not as much as he d like. he needs primarily the economic assistance, as gordon just said. that s critical to kim jong un right now. he needs to bring his population around. he has seen positive development. i think he is getting help from some of the neighbors. jim, if you were kim jong un why would you denuclearize? their definition of denuclearization seems to be different than ours. but you look at what happened to khadaffip it didn t end up well for him. it s seen as voifl. it s a matter of survival. we have often talked about how folks from the outside will say well kim is a crazy man, irrational behavior, et cetera. but folks who know north korea well say in fact north korea s security pols policy is very rational from their point of view. you ll hear this even from u.s. intelligence officials from