unsuccessfully dealing with north korea, he writes, for 25 years, giving billions of dollars and getting nothing. policy didn t work. this one day after republican senator bob corker told the new york times he feels the president has, quote, hurt the united states, quote, as it relates to negotiations that were underway by tweeting things out. my panel is back with me now. eugene, let me begin with you. look, this is nothing new from the president to attack north korea and frankly his own team aiming towards diplomacy with north korea on twitter. but at the same time, this comes as bob corker says, when he tweets things out, one could assume like this, it hurts our ability to negotiate. what do you see here. aibsolutely, and if you read the interview, he is concerned about this there being a world war iii because of how unintentional the president is how he talks about this issue on social media. this is not the first person to
intelligence committees allows us to question them and test the stories against each other and we can tell the american people what is truth. let me get your reaction to the president s new message this morning to north korea, he wrote on twitter, as he often does, about north korea. here s what he writes our country has been unsuccessful dealing with north korea for 25 years giving billions of dollars back and getting nothing. policy didn t work. he has a point. diplomacy has not worked in the long term with north korea. but this is coupled with republican senator bob corker saying the president is being irresponsible he could lead us on the path to in corker s words world war iii. too far? no, not too far at all because we re dealing with a nuclear armed country and that the president continues to make threats to an individual who i think is being pushed into a corner. poppy, i m rooting for the president here, though. just as i root for the pilot in a plane. we need him to succe
is the ignition point for kim jong-un s fuse with this provocative rhetoric? i understand, you know, military secretary mattis saying the right things. the military has got all kinds of options. the only problem with the options is it s going to be very difficult to limit the damage that s caused by the exercise of those options to purely north of the dmz. that is not going to happen. briefly, the president tweeted this morning that our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with north korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars and getting nothing. policy didn t work. does he have a point? in some respects, he does, but i would also offer that for 64 years we have had roughly speaking, with some exceptions, but generally speaking peace and stability on the korean peninsula. so, you know, we have a bad hand to play, and i think past
when they had dinner with president trump. as well as a crackdown on undocumented, uncompanied minors who come to the united states through central america and money for 10,000 new i.c.e. agents to cover and check the border so some very conservative points on a wish list that democrats said essentially are a nonstarter for a del. meantime you have in the backdrop of all of this, the threat posed by north korea. you have the iran nuclear deal. what s going to happen with that? here s what the president tweeted just this morning on north korea. our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with north korea for 25 years giving billions of dollars and getting nothing. policy didn t work. and that follows his cryptic comments this weekend including tweeting only one thing will work and then when peter alexander asked him, what is it? he said find out pretty soon.
nations like yemen and syria. so we ve got work to do against iran. but this kind of dance with the diplomacy and the congress is not going to have much effect at all on iran. president trump just tweeted moments ago. it says this. our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with north korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars and getting nothing. policy didn t work. katty kay, to you. admiral, when you read that tweet, saying only one possible thing will work with his comments, are you aware of moves within the pentagon, changes in war planning that might make you think that this is more than just tone and bluster, this is actually we are inching toward as the north koreans seem to think, we are inching toward some kind of military conflict with north korea?