well, i think the senators that shawn hannity was carping about are all in strong political shape at home. i think they can take a primary. the bannon wing has been running and losing in republican primaries in most places for 15 years. i was part of the effort that help beat back chris mccannial in mississippi last time. i think it ll happen for wicker. his candidate kelly ward is now in a much weaker position than she was yesterday. because in arizona other candidates are going to get in including potentially a couple of pretty strong members of congress. so i think kelly ward s chance of being a nominee let alone make it to the senate now are very small. that said, there is an intimidation factor because politics is often the art of the bluff. and bannon is holding those and dotal cards right now. we ll see where we are seven or eight months into the primary season.
of the last few days, said rex tillerson on wednesday. this was an unusual, perhaps unprecedented statement. the secretary of state seems to have been telling americans and the world to ignore the rhetoric, not of the north korean dictator but of his own boss, the president of the united states. e it is probably what donald trump s associates have done for him all his life. they know that the guiding mantra for this donald trump has been not the art of the deal but the art of the bluff. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column this week. and let s get started. we ll gt back to north korea, but first we must begin with the horrifying events in charlottesville, virginia, this weekend. it all began with a gathering of
the world, to ignore the rhetoric, not of the north korean dictator, but of his own boss, the president of the united states. it is probably what donald trump s associates have done for him all his life. they know that the guiding mantra from donald trump has not been the art of the deal, but the art of the bluff. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed. and read my washington post column this week. and let s get started. we ll get back to north korea, but first we must begin with the horrifying events in charlottesville, virginia this weekend. it all began with a gathering of people who are anti-immigrant, anti-semitic, anti-black, what some might call anti-american. these racist protesters were there to oppose the removal of a
see a kind of fire and fury the rain the kind of which the world has never seen. but of course that was at the end of a carefully thought through strategy designed to force japan to surrender in the second world war. and when they didn t, when japan, in a sense called his bluff, harry truman dropped two atomic bombs on japan. in this case what we have is the art of the bluff. this is what trump does all the time, you know. he s got amazing stuff on obama, he s going to reveal. nothing. he s going to move the embassy to jerusalem, nothing. he s going to recognize taiwan, nothing. and my fear is the north koreans have watched donald trump. you know, i think at some level, i sometimes wonder whether trump thinks that the north koreans don t get cnn, so they don t know what s going on. but they know. they watch this guy make empty threats for much of his life and for a lot of his presidency. it s very worrying. and that s why they put in that statement, i m sure, as you said, they get cn
the end of a carefully thought through strategy designed to force japan to surrender in the second world war, and when they didn t, when japan in a sense called his bluff, harry truman dropped two atomic bombs on japan. in this case what we have is the art of the bluff. this is what trump does all the time, you know. he s got amazing stuff on obama, he s going to reveal. nothing. he s going to move the embassy to jerusalem, nothing. he s going to recognize taiwan, nothing. and my fear is the north koreans have watched donald trump. you know, i think at some level, i sometimes wonder whether trump thinks that the north koreans don t get cnn, so they don t know what s going on. but they know. they watch this guy make empty threats for much of his life and for a lot of his presidency. it s very worrying. and that s why they put in that statement, i m sure, as you said, they get cnn. he s on the golf course, and talked about his other actions, actions that they see as