press. i would suggest you read the complete testimony from tuesday. a false narrative is so bad for our country. i value our intelligence community. happily, we had a very good meet, and we are all on the same page. the same page. let s hear what director coats said about north korea on tuesday. we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival. okay. that s pretty clear. here s what the president tweeted after his summit in june with kim jong-un. before taking office, people were assuming that we were going to war with north korea. president obama said that north korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. no longer. sleep well tonight. again, that s a contradiction. here is what director coats had to say about isis in syria. isis is intent on resurging and still commands thou
regime survival. so that s a pretty big difference from what the president tweeted back in june after his first summit with kim jong un before taking office people were assuming we were going to war with north korea. president obama said that north korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. no longer. sleep well tonight. joining me now is washington post columnist and cnn global affairs analyst max boot, author of the corrosion of conservatism: why i left the right. you just published a piece in the psht psht where you were saying you were questioning why these types of threat assessments are even necessary. until you remembered who the commander in chief is. exactly. i was reading the report this morning, anderson, and it s basically stuff you can read in the new york times or washington post or cnn. it is not a huge revelation to hear that global warming is a threat or the russians are trying to underminus. i mean, this is all stuff that s on the front pages every
sleep well tonight. joining me now is cnn global affairs analyst. you published in the washington post where you were questioning why these threats assessments were necessary until you remembered who the commander in chief is. i was reading this report this morning and it s stuff you can read on cnn. it is not a huge revelation to hear that global warming is a threat or the russians are trying to undermine us. it s stuff on the front pages every day. my reaction is this is a waste of money, but then i realized who is the person in the oval office? you have somebody who is a conspiracy theorist, somebody who claims that isis has been defeated, that north korea has already denuclearized, but iran is trying to acquire nuclear weapons and claims the biggest
cancer she has, she will be fine. dr. raja flores, chair of the department of thoracic surgery at the icon school of medicine at mount sinai. how long have you been at mount sinai? about nine years now. where were you before that? i was at sloan-kettering for ten years. do you mind if i just keep calling you about this stuff all the time from here on out? please. it s a privilege. dr. flores, itthank you very much. aren t you glad we had him on? haven t you been wondering? sleep well tonight. we ll be right back. p well tonit we ll be right back. [sneezing]
veri verbatim notes of everything that has been said. and if the president is smart, he will certainly not use a russian interpreter to carry his remarks that he will take his own. who can be exact, clear, straight forward, understanding, and obviously completely intel i imaginable. and then you have one record of the conversation, and that s the record the other side makes. having the two records is important. so if anybody is worried about that much, i think sleep well tonight. i m much more worried about what it is the president will say, what he ll agree to, and what he will actually do as a result of this meeting. particularly with the lack of preparation and particularly with the notion that he s the smartest man in the world, so nothing there can in one a or another cause him any difficulties. total overconfidence, total