going to do. i can assure he didn t like the missile strikes and probably worried about what the u.s. is going on do in syria. he s strong in syria, military forces on the ground, significant impact, and pushing back the moderate rebels that we support. we don t know what his next chess move is going to be. it s essential that we get him to stand down and get assad to step down. eric: a lot of people said under barack obama this country had become a paper tiger, would i say that s no longer the case. plenty more ahead. a lawyer for the man dragged off the united airlines flight says his injuries are horrendous. we ll tell you all about that. and later, possible nuclear activity in north korea? that s not good. we ll analyze the situation. yoe
the killing of five of his sub ordinance. all sorts of things indicating problems with the top of the north korean military. this means that this guy has a low threshold of risk, a different risk calculus than he should have. eric: a twitchy trigger finger so to speak. what are our military options, colonel? they re limited. on the 137 wide demill tarized zone, the pieces in north korea, pointing 30 miles south of them, to a 10 million populated city, seoul, korea. every war game we ve done, i spent six years in korea, infantry company, i was on the doing the terrorism for the olympics. every war game, always ends up with a nuclear option. because the artillery and the preparations for 50 years in north korea are massively extensive. the last five nukes that have gone off there, will have very limited options.
we would take it out. we re not going to ae into the . he s right, there s 25 million people in seoul. and north korea has the fourth largest military, forward deployed, 30 miles away. this is going to be a tragedy of unprecedented proportions. there s going to be a couple hundred thousand casualties in the first two hours. eric: colonel, do you think the 20,000 pound bomb dropped on afghanistan had any effect on kim jong un? no. that sted biggest weapon, nuclear weapon. he s paying attention to a lot of things. but this is a crazy man. the issue, it s a dark, black community. we can t see in it. the intelligence community is very blind here. my point is, military option is limited. i don t want i don t think we have to wait to get anything else nuked, that s the end result of our going to war with north korea. we have to use nukes to get at the stuff that s buried in these mountains.
to be a lobbyist in d.c. i don t know, i ve never been a lobbyist. but i m sure they make a lot of money. eric: congressman, come, on you know how profitable it is to be a lobbyist, come on. yeah, yeah. lobbyists make a lot of money and they dispense a lot of money to members of congress to their campaigns, to the national republican campaign committee or the dccc. and they have a lot of influence in washington, d.c. eric: should we be closing that money flow, that pipeline of funds from corporate and special interest right into the pockets of people like yourself? well, there s two different kinds of donations. there are ideological donations that are made on some one being a conservative or a liberal. and then there are transactional donations that are made based on some one voting for a certain bill. we should absolutely close the linkage between voting a certain way on a particular piece of legislation and receiving campaign contributions. eric: that s a big, big deal
difficult target. eric: gordon, do you think this had any effect on the mentality of kim jong un? absolutely. we used it on an underground network of facilities. no country has more military facilities than north korea. his father spent six weeks in the bunker during the 2003 iraq war, he was afraid of george w. bush. i think kim jong un will stay out of public. he understands that trump has a low threshold for the use of force and is willing to actually exert american power for good. eric: colonel, you know, one of the things that we say we re not allowed to do, legally we re not allowed to talk about doing it as an administration. how do you get rid of kim john il? kim jong un, do you kill him, quietly have some, you know, operation to take him out? the issue of killing an individual, decapitating a government, is not that difficult.