The white house already faces another crisis of confidence. Half of americans in our latest poll conducted before todays threats and counter threats saying they disapprove of President Trumps handling of north korea. Only 37 approve. Lets get right now to our top story and our cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto, gordon cheng, the author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world, and former allied commander general wesley clark. Gentlemen, good evening to you. Jim, im going to start with you on this one because the president is threatening north korea with fire and fury as north korea advances their Nuclear Weapons program. Here is the president. North korea best not make nim threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal statement. And as i said, they will be met with fire, fury and frankly, power the likes of which this world has never seen before. Its an extraor
south korean al plipz we can make the right measures to take the right military measures to strengthen them and give them even more capacity. we should be doing that. but we don t need the rhetoric to go with it. thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate it. thank you, general, thanks, jim. i appreciate it. how will world leaders react to the rapidly escalating threats between the u.s. and north korea? we ll ask fareed zakaria what he thinks. that s next. .it starts a chain reaction. .that s heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that s the power of and. somewhere along of self-discovery: a breakthrough.
jimmy carter went over there, it was so soft. these people are laughing at us. the former general of the air force it, meryl mcpeak, the former secretary of defenseles aspen said you could not launch a preemptive strike against north korea because the nuclear fallout could be devastating to the korean peninsula. i m saying that they have areas where they re developing missiles. but taking out their nuclear potential would create a fallout. do you know this country went out and gave them nuclear reactors free fuel for ten years? we virtually tried to bribe them into stopping and they re continuing to do what they re doing and they re laughing at us. i m saying we have to do something to stop. if the military told you, mr. trump, we can t do there. you re giving me two names. i don t know. you want to do it in five years when they have warheads all over the place? is that when you want to do it? interesting. what s your reaction? that donald trump was quite intelligent if