u.s. citizens. what are the options for the u.s. military in a situation like this one? joining me now, retired general barry mccaffrey. good to see you. we can start with the premise that all of know that any military option is not a good one. having said that. when you heard the president say fire and fury, did you consider it a threat of military action and when a president says words like that, what are our armed forces doing, if anything, to position themselves in the case they get called on? well, obviously very unhelpful comment by the president, you notice that tillerson and governor haley have made very moderate, sensible comments, they did organize a security counsel in an admirable to confront north korea s nuke program. you know secretary mattis has disappeared from sight. there s no comment coming out of him. so i think there s an attempt to be rational. the only danger here, in my
some talk talk, if you have confusion, if you have our allies wondering who speaks for the united states what exactly is our policy when off dhaesk deals with the korean peninsula that s not fully staffed. what does that mean and what does it mean for americans waking up? seeing these headlines that talk about fire and fury, and yet, they have the secretary of state saying, you know what, sleep well at night. well, mixed messages and a lack of staffing in that sort of thing, kris, does as one other guest said tleeds a bad outcome. and that is something to be avoided and the administration needs to try to coordinate better on that front. that said, i think they re going down two tracks here. and the president has seems to think that ratcheting up the pressure increases the chances if kim jong-un is a rational actor of getting a negotiated deal out of him, regrettably it also in a time of confusion
focus on six interviews. it s set to premier next year. the opening bell ringing just moments ago on the new york stock exchange as the showdown with north korea is royaling global markets. asian and european markets have take an hit this morning. right now u.s. markets are down. i want to bring in msnbc contributor josh barro, senior editor for business insider. what s going on? the markets are nervous, but they re not panicking. dow down was about a quarter of a percent. we saw asian markets and korea down about a percent and japan down a little more than a percent. so the markets are reacting to the news for the last few months, it seemed like they were calm. so they are reacting a little, but not a lot. that was my question. we have seen people thought that fair was on fire and the markets in any other presidency might indeed have gone down, they didn t, in fact in many cases, they went up. why is this different? well, i mean there s rising
one way or the other. we ll handle that. we re going to be able to handle them. it will be handled. it will be handled. president trump talking about how he plans to handle escalating tensions with north korea. and now his most insend area comments ever promising that fire and fury, the likes of which the world has never seen. far from the successful negotiator he promised voters he d be. so does all of this mean there is no hope far diplomatic solution? bill richardson negotiated directly with the north koreans as congressman and u.s. ambassador to the united nations, good to see you. you ve been to north korea i think eight times. so take us behind the scenes, give us a sense of what it s like to negotiate with north korea and is it different now from when you were there? we don t know how kim jong-un operates except he s afraid of his own shadow and that s e dent. with the north koreans, you don t know where they re coming
standoff between president trump and north korea s kim jong-un. two of the most unpredictable leaders on the planet, seemingly trying to one up each other with a prospects of a new korean war or nuclear exchange raising serious concern around the world. morning, trump is touting america s nuclear program and reinforcing on twitter that chilling warning from yesterday, that he gave just hours after reports north korea can now fit a nuke on the head of a long range missile. north korea best not make anymore 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.