happening as a result of the heightened tensions. they always happen every year. every year north korea gets angry, but never before have we had a situation where the rhetoric from the white house is actually matching or even exceeding the rhetoric from pyongyang. to save face, will kim jong-un take another step. that s what we need to watch. thank you very much. and outfront now colonel wesley clark. colonel monday sewer, let me start with you w. when we hear trump s words, dunl the president is ready to strike, that he is ready to pull a trigger? absolutely. you know, you can argue with the tone and ten or of his remarks, but not their content. what the president is doing is putting the military lever of power back on the table, something that has been virtually absent in the last two decades. and diplomacy has gotten us nowhere other than a north korean nuclear program that has succeeded in making a bomb and