and i think wes makes an important point on the degree of rationality. the good news about north korea is they are a criminal regime. so they want to stay in power. so that makes them less likely to do some act that would bring armageddon down on them. having said that, remember they have shot down a u.s. air force aircraft, they seized a u.s. navy ship at sea, there was a couple three years of active warfare on the dmz in the 60s. so we have an issue with this guy and i think the next time around either president trump or the south koreans will not tolerate a major strike on us. so this is a very dangerous situation. what is the proper response here, what would you advise president trump do? there are no great options. we have to diplomatically engage, we have to go to the chinese and say you people will not be better off with a nuclear-armed unstable north korea. what if they strike at the
have to arm up to confront north korea. china doesn t want that. unstable north korea could push refugees over the border in china from north korea. they have an interest in improving stability. if president trump is the negotiator he says he is, he will sit down with the chinese leader and say we will condemn what north korea is doing and tell the world what we are going to do about it. i want to ask about the russian meddling into the election as well as the allegations of ties to mr. trump s campaign. you know, the trump white house says the real story here is about leaking and is about the unmasking of american names. it is about whatever national security adviser susan rice did. do think susan rice did something wrong? look, we should investigate it. there s an allegation that she was talking about names of people connected with the trump transition. i don t know if that is true or not. get to the bottom of it. alisyn, that does not obscure