ultimately right, but in the meantime i think we have to do everything we can to get the information. and even, you know, political appointment of the justice department said that if impeachment proceedings commence, congress s tool is sharpened and strengthen. why is there so much reluctant on capitol hill to proceed in that election? beats me. i think they don t want to look like the impeachment party. i think there is great ambivalence within pelosi s. they re snakebit about it, and there s great conflict. but i think they d be better off really having the wherewithall to bring forward fact witnesses. that s what they need. rick, i am never not surprise when did i hear people around trump say i think having worked on campaigns we never took calls from foreign governments, we never took calls
stick with that plan that was mandated by the doctors assessment, that, you know, the weaker boys will come later. because not through any kind of harshness, they had to test whether they can even complete this extraordinary journey, and the best way to do that is with the strongest kids. it s amazing that any of them have the physical strength and the wherewithall to get out of that cave system given this horrifying experience that they ve gone through. so, obviously, the most sensitive of the rescues are still to come. not to suggest that any of this has been easy, but when we know that the strongest boys were coming out first, the weakest boys would be left for the latter part of the mission, that suggests that there s still a lot of work to do. exactly. talk about, if you would, the oxygen levels. because with these increased numbers of people who are coming into this chamber where the boys
and to sustain the financial wi wherewithall to defend our country and advance ourselves worldwide? yes, i think we re in the midst of that. i think we have to confront it today. most directly on point is the enormous amount of intellectual property that has left the hands. sometimes taken, sometimes coerced out of the hands of u.s. companies. the imagination and creativity of the american work force has delivered it and the chinese have taken it away from us. we have to develop a robust set of tools, a bunch of tools that we need and to do that well so we can prevent that from happening in the future. earlier you spoke of the need for my words, a china strategy. so my sense is you believe we need a whole of government, well coordinated, informed, strategic response to china s coercive,
around the world from bosnia to brazil, south africa to myanmar. the result is a fascinating and deeply engaging book. and now for the last look. donald trump accepted kim jong-un s invitation to meet face to face, and the white house made it clear its goal is denuclearization of north korea. but before celebrating, we should ask is denuclearization a realistic objective? it s occurred in the past but only four times. in three of these cases belarus, ukraine and kazakhstan, they renewed their cases with the ussr. they neither developed the weapons located in their territory nor had the wherewithall to maintain them. only one nation has ever dismantled a nuclear arsenal it had developed itself: south africa. like north korea today, in the 1970s, south africa was a pariah
jared kushner because of this wide-ranging role that kushner plays that could be seen by some as undercutting john kelly s ability to have full access to full range over policies within the white house. so all of this is kind of coming, you know, to a head. and it will be very interesting to see how john kelly handles this issue. the president is essentially punting to john kelly on this one, giving him the wherewithall to make the leeway. at the same time, we heard the president speak so highly of jared kushner. it s hard to imagine that john kelly would create a situation in which jared kushner would be forced to leave. frank, one interesting aspect of this is that this conversation between rod rosenstein and don mcgann did not occur between rosenstein and john kelly. because originally that is who rosenstein called to talk to. he said i want to talk to the