well, let s listen to what the president said in this interview with bloomberg news today. he said it would be appropriate for me to meet with him. i would absolutely be honored to do it if it s under the right circumstances, but i would do that. and gordon, he doesn t say what the right circumstances are. no. and clearly at this point, he wouldn t be able to do that. i think the right circumstances are once he gets kim in the right position where kim feels he has no choice but to give up his weapons there has to be sanctions first and kim may be more amenable. but the point right here saying he would be honored to meet kim, this really is wrong. what does that communicate to both the south koreans and the north koreans? the north koreans, it legitimizes their ruler. to the south koreans, it s a real problem. it help ones of the candidates in the may 9th election. that candidate is very anti-american, very anti-u.s. alliance. so trump should not be saying things to help people
think they are quite some time from this. we ve had predictions they would have this capability. the prediction dates have come and gone. we don t have the wait for this to be a real deal. the president rightly points out. we have thousands of troops in south korea. thousands more in japan. i think north korea could probably get a weapon to both of those places. if they incinerated 28,000 american troops in south korea, i think that s a big deal. so it is a threat. and we don t have to obsess about the icbm to take this seriously. it s serious right now. well, let s listen to what the president said in this interview with bloomberg news today. he said it would be appropriate for me to meet with him. i would absolutely be honored to do it if it s under the right circumstances, but i would do that. and gordon, he doesn t say what the right circumstances are. no. and clearly at this point, he
authority. president trump said if it s not about u.s. national security interests, it s no business of the united states. and he encouraged president obama, don t get involved with syria. there is no doctrine. i looked forward to your interview with mcmaster because i wanted to understand. there is none. he doesn t say, you know what, conventional weapons are continuing to kill people in syria and we find this abhorrent and we ll stop it. he s not clear what the next step is. chris: let s turn to the other big story. that was republicans in the senate invoking the nuclear option in order to confirm neil gorsuch to the supreme court. here are the senate s two leaders. i believe it will make this body a more partisan place. it will make the cooling saucer of the senate considerably hotter.
authority. president trump said if it s not about u.s. national security interests, it s no business of the united states. and he encouraged president obama, don t get involved with syria. there is no doctrine. i looked forward to your interview with mcmaster because i wanted to understand. there is none. he doesn t say, you know what, conventional weapons are continuing to kill people in syria and we find this abhorrent and we ll stop it. he s not clear what the next step is. chris: let s turn to the other big story. that was republicans in the senate invoking the nuclear option in order to confirm neil gorsuch to the supreme court. here are the senate s two leaders. i believe it will make this body a more partisan place. it will make the cooling saucer of the senate considerably hotter.
authority. president trump said if it s not about u.s. national security interests, it s no business of the united states. and he encouraged president obama, don t get involved with syria. there is no doctrine. i looked forward to your interview with mcmaster because i wanted to understand. there is none. he doesn t say, you know what, conventional weapons are continuing to kill people in syria and we find this abhorrent and we ll stop it. he s not clear what the next step is. chris: let s turn to the other big story. that was republicans in the senate invoking the nuclear option in order to confirm neil gorsuch to the supreme court. here are the senate s two leaders. i believe it will make this body a more partisan place. it will make the cooling saucer of the senate considerably hotter.