jong il raising new concerns as tensions continue to rise with u.s. sec. tillerson says he wants peace in north korea but not go into talks unless they stop shooting missiles into the air. we are live in new york with more. north korea has a tendency to commemorate important anniversaries by launching rockets. so we are on alert as this is that fit the anniversary of the father current reader kim jong. the 59 or old australian man arrested saturday to try to sell north korean missile parts abroad. he was attempting to sell weapons of mass distraction working as an economic agent on behalf of north korea. he was in contact with high-ranking north korean officials it underscores the
interventionist commander-in-chief. nothing has changed from november 7th 2 today. he s been explicit. we explicit. we are not invading other peoples countries. this isn t some neoconservative administration. nevertheless, we have obligations to our friends in the region and on top of that, things like weapons of mass distraction, nuclear weapons in the hands of rogue regimes, chemical weapons, those will not be counted because they are a threat to americans as well and that is why you see the leadership out of the white house you are seen. maria: is extraordinary. we recognize that. let me ask you about the mother of all bombs. the u.s. dropping the most powerful and non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on what a sad with an asis complex in remote afghanistan come incredible to see the number of cases fighters killed as a result of that and civilians. this is really the untold story of the last few years and
but they are. they are the war criminals. but i think you also have to follow couple of basic rules. one conflict at a time. you can t do everything at once. so right now, i am concentrating on the issue of weapons of mass distraction in syria. see where that goes because if we could make an example of assad, if they re real penalties that reverberates with the other tyrants. bill: i m not sure about that. it does. some more than others. it would reverberate with the iranians. not so much with the north koreans. bill: it looks to me and i think the pentagon believes that to do, general mattis at a press conference today and were moving military assets into north korean peninsula. and it looks like kim jong-un, the leader, he may not be insane. and not saying that with any
good at being president. he s only had ten weeks, but he s driven himself to the lowest percent of approval in american history for an incoming president. but what he s great at, great, and i mean this, the best i ve ever seen, is distraction. he uses weapons of mass distraction. that s what the farkas fracas is, it s just a way to distract us. by the way, today! ten minutes before the senate intelligence committee convened a really interesting, informative hearing. ten minutes before, what did donald trump do? he tweeted out an attack on the house freedom caucus for primary elections that are 20 months away. he didn t do that because he really has a strategy to unseat republicans in primaries. he did it because he wanted to distract attention from the senate intelligence committee. we will see this every single day well, matt, to that point matt, to that point, he also was tweeting about, you know, bringing back or changing libell laws against the papers like the new york tim
says in there that the people in the administration were concerned. the new york times says but that s not anything about surveillance. what? well, where she doesn t say anything about surveillance. if it s not from surveillance, how did they get the information? she s talking about incidental collection! i mean, i feel like we ve had this conversation so many times! that is surveillance! all right. paul beglal, do you think the white house or its allies will be able to distract from all of this by continually bringing up evelyn farkas? not just by that, but by everything. it s not a smoking gun, it s a smoke screen. and donald trump is not very good at being president. he s only had ten weeks, but he s driven himself to the lowest percent of approval in american history for an incoming president. but what he s great at, great, and i mean this, the best i ve ever seen, is distraction. he uses weapons of mass distraction. that s what the farkas fracas is, it s just