country could have i guess as a real estate tourist mecca. the national security adviser calling him a war maniac, saying he has a different structure from ordinary people. president trump has done nothing to defend his own national security adviser against attacks from north korea. waterfront property and labor camps, it could be that the president likes the idea of kim jong-un going after his potential opponent, joe biden. anna, i thought that would be front and center at the top of today s play book. you didn t feature the president, you had rudy giuliani. why? my colleague had a great piece this morning that rudy giuliani wants to bring up to the president, he wants to be the number one hatchet man in the campaign. it is very interesting. what does that mean? he wants to be the president s biggest defender. he wants to have a public role.
recent short range ballistic missile tests were of great regret. the president doesn t feel the same way. listen to what he said. i am very happy with the way it s going. and intelligent people agree with me. you re not bothered at all by the small missiles. no, i am not. i am personally not. my people think it could have been a violation, as you know, i view it differently. i view it as a man, perhaps he wants to get attention. and perhaps not. who knows. reporter: quite an interesting statement from the president that intelligent people agree with him. it seems like he s sending a message between the lines to his national security adviser john bolton. north korea officials put out a statement making fun of john bolton s intelligence saying he s a war maniac and some of his per spespectives are less t
i view it differently. i view it as a man, perhaps he wants to get attention, and perhaps not, who knows? it doesn t matter. among the my people the president referring to, well, his own national security adviser john bolton who said there s, quote, no doubt that north korea violated international agreements. cnn s boris sanchez traveling with the president in tokyo. boris, what are you learning about this back and forth between the president, the prime minister, and his own staff? reporter: hey, ryan. this is really an instance that encapsulates just how much president trump trusts kim jong-un and how much he s staking in their personal relationship. he s essentially ignoring the outlook of his national security adviser, ambassador john bolton, who was attacked in north korean press earlier today, they put out a statement saying that he was a war maniac and that many of his ideas weren t logical. the president also clearly ignoring shinzo abe s take on
virtually nothing about these launches and the japanese thought that s okay for now, but if they are blimgs some action has to be taken and here we are now and the president seems to acknowledge that, a, these violates the regulations and, b, they are a risk to japan. and the two summits where he took a risk and good for him for trying, but two summits with kim jong-un have not produced any verifiable denuclearization steps and now you have a recent back towards where you have to have some form of provocation, smeller missiles, and the north koreans trash joe biden and the president. united states hugs that and agrees with that while overseas which is remarkable, they trashed his national security adviser john bolton saying john bolton is saying much more than anything or not. bolton does have a different mental structure from other people. he s a war maniac. why can t the president. united states find a spot where he says i hope this personal
as a war maniac. north korea continue to produce to tell me i m at the young gun facility and in two nine hundred ninety four announced that it would pull out of the international atomic energy agency. tensions between pyongyang and washington were running high the u.s. considered its options. and one of the things that was being looked at at that point was the possibility of striking north korea s reactor we knew where it was we were the facilities were. and so that was looked at very seriously other things that were looked at were even broader military options. at the white house meeting on june sixteenth defense secretary william perry outlined the possible consequences of a military strike i told him that there would be many casualties in south korea as