more surprising, but nonetheles nonetheless, he spoke to this reporter yesterday over the telephone, and he said this, undermining the president's strategy in north korea, there is no military solution to the threats, forget it, until someone guarantees that people in -- don't die, there is no military solution, they got us, then he went on to attack far right elements of the republican party, he said ethno-nationalism, it's a fringe element, i think the media plays it up too much, these guys are a collection of clowns, he added, and then in a separate interview with a "new york times," it was unclear whether he thought he was on or off the record, he went on to say that he welcomes democrats and the left wing talking about race, while the right-wing can concentrate on the economy, he said "the race identity politics of the left want to say we are all races,