when that happens, we should own up to it. but the effort today to get this best obtainable version of the truth is largely made in good faith. mr. president, the media is not fake news. eric: the president may have skipped it this year, but in one interview he says he will, quote, absolutely attend the dipper which raises scholarship money for journalism students next year. molly? molly: tensions rising between two key u.s. allies in the battle with isis as american troops begin patrolling the turkish/syrian border. our fox news military analyst weighs in on how this could affect our strategy. with the right steps. and take it from me, every step counts. a bayer aspirin regimen is one of those steps in helping prevent another stroke.
bomb them anymore, don t kill them anymore, they re our allies. is there any way to work this out? yeah, i think we can, but erdogan doesn t have his hands clean here. i mean, he kept his border open between turkey and syria that a facilitated isis to grow from several hundred iraqi fighters to 30,000 because he would not check them coming into the country. he naively believed that isis was going to help take down the syrian regime, but isis had no intention of doing that. as we know, they wanted to establish a caliphate, and they wanted to go south, not west. so he s got his hands dirty here from the beginning. can they work something out? i think they can. eric: okay, we ll see. may 26th he s due at the white house. remember general kobani with erdogan and the tanks, they were standing there like bystanders not doing a thing, so hopefully we ll see. general keane, good to see you. good talking the you, eric. eric: molly?
believe the president of china, who is a very respected man, will be happy either. not happy mean military action? i don t know, i mean, we ll see. molly: let s bring in retired lieutenant colonel dakota wood, also a research fellow at the heritage foundation. thank you as much for being here. good to be with you, molly. thanks. molly: president trump has taken great pride in his flexibility, in keeping things close to the vest particularly when it comes the if he may or may not take military action, to what does an unhappy president trump actually mean? well, i think it adds to the useful ambiguity, and i think that s a very positive thing in that you re not telling your opponent in this case, north korea specifically what you will or won t do, but it certainly keeps the military option on the table. and other folks in the region like china, south korea, japan and others have to take that into account. so nobody wants war, but they have to acknowledge that there is the pot
all of the damage in in the area just a short time from now, and this is an area that is very familiar with storms like this. you may remember back in 2015 they had a tornado just about 15 minutes from here, a number of people, two or three people were killed in that storm, plus there was massive damage across the area. and it s left this own or really believing that it s a true miracle that the toadied not hit right in the middle of this prom, because she believes the fatality number would have been much worse. eric. everything erik just so shocking. thankfully, those people are okay. will carr will be back with us, just about an hour east of dallas. molly? molly: president trump weighing in on the north korea crisis today hinting at military action and saying he believes china s president is pressuring the rogue nation over its nuclear program and this weekend s failed missile test. i would not be happy if he does a nuclear test, i not be happy. i can tell you also i don t
regime that is pursuing the weaponization of a missile with a nuclear weapon. molly: so we just heard the lieutenant general talk about open defines, and this is a president who does not appreciate open defiance. is there less of a until answer for despots and rogue regimes that we saw in previous administrations, and what does that mean going forward? yeah, i think it s a much more realistic approach to dealing with these tyrants. it s very clear from the kim regime from early on decades agoing to now the grandson really doesn t care what the rest of the world thinks. for a regime s survival, any international aid that comes in they use to prop up the regime, and a lot of their population starves or lives in political internment camps. so i think this administration under the trump leadership understands the reality of that, that kim jong un is only going to respond to the threat of force and that life would be quite difficult for him as posed to his people. and i think it s going t