Big question for the world tonight. Thanks for joining us. You can watch us any time, anywhere on cnn go. Have a good weekend. See you monday. Ac 360 begins right now. Good evening. We begin with more startling headlines from President Trump. In just a last four days, hes threatened north korea with fire and fury, said maybe that wasnt enough of a threat. Said American Forces are Locked And Loaded and late today he said even more. Appearing this morning outside his new jersey golf club, the president went before reporters. When he was over, he raised the possibility of u. S. Military action in venezuela and renews his warnings to north korea. Nobody loves a peaceful solution better than President Trump, that i can tell you. Hopefully it will all work out. But this has been going on for many years. It would have been a lot easier to solve this years ago before they were in the position that theyre in. But we will see what happens. We think that lots of good things could happen, and we
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military, says matthew. you would say what to him, peter? i would say we need to reconsider how we re treated treating the military in the culture war. republicans need to stop targeting the military, stop accusing the military by name and military leaders by name on the one hand. on the secondhand, democrats need to stop hiding behind the military to defend controversial policies. if it s a policy by the biden administration, civilian leaders in the department of defense take responsibility for advocating for it. then thirdly, the military needs to talk about its values, but in way that does not trigger culture war. so the military needs to recruit from all walks of life, but that doesn t mean they need to talk about dei or others that no longer mean to many members of americans what they once meant.
off the battlefield? confidence in american institutions on the whole is in decline. small business is thu.s. institution in which we have the most faith followed by the american military. but even faith in the military is on the way. 60% of americans say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military. that s down 4% in the last year. a new book argues that even that level of support is actually hollow. peter fever is a political science professor at duke university. he s the author of thanks for your service, the causes and consequences of public confidence in the u.s. pmilitar. welcome back. if public confidence in the military is high but it s hollow, does that suggest that some don t mean it when they say thank you for your service? i think that s the case. it s what political psychologists call social
that terms have become politicized and they should talk about values in a different way. i don t think the military is woke. there s just not a lot of evidence that members of the military operate the way they truly woke institutions at a the campuses operate. but the military does have to recruit from a all walks of life and does have to forge those folks together. that requires being sensitive to differences. so i think it s a mistake. peter, good luck with the new book. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. thank you for having your best and worst social media comments and the final result. cannot wait to see this. the poll question, do you believe the u.s. government is in possession of alien sp spacecraft? i watched my m mother go through being a single mom. at the end of the day,
america what that once meant. those terms have become politicized and the military should talk about values in a different way. i don t think the military is woke. there s just not a lot of evidence that members of the military operate the way, say, truly woke institutions and university campuses, for instance, operate. but the military does have to recruit from all walks of life and does have to forge those folks together, and that requires being sensitive to differences. so i think it s a mistake to call them woke. peter, good luck with the new book. thanks for being here. thank you for having me. still to come, more of your best and worst social media commts and the final result. cannot wait to see this. today s poll question at smerconish.com, do you believe the u.s. government is in possession of alien spacecraft? . mm. .a chow down day. a take a big bite day.