Big question for the world tonight. Thanks for joining us. You can watch us any time, anywhere on cnn go. Have a good weekend. See you monday. Ac 360 begins right now. Good evening. We begin with more startling headlines from President Trump. In just a last four days, hes threatened north korea with fire and fury, said maybe that wasnt enough of a threat. Said American Forces are Locked And Loaded and late today he said even more. Appearing this morning outside his new jersey golf club, the president went before reporters. When he was over, he raised the possibility of u. S. Military action in venezuela and renews his warnings to north korea. Nobody loves a peaceful solution better than President Trump, that i can tell you. Hopefully it will all work out. But this has been going on for many years. It would have been a lot easier to solve this years ago before they were in the position that theyre in. But we will see what happens. We think that lots of good things could happen, and we
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lumatic out. i talked to a number of former diplomats works trying to negotiate with north korea. and talked to general hayden who said if there is a military confrontation, obviously in all the war games they have ruled out, the u.s. wins but there s not a lot of great military options. you agree with that? from a human life standpoint? yeah, acbsalutely. you have to have a military option. you have to be prepared to execute it but that s the last thing you want to do. any military action, no matter what it is, is going to precipitate the destruction of seoul and ultimate destruction of the north korean government. everybody knows it and as everybody has said we all agree no one wants to have a war but somebody in this equation is going to have to back down or change their position because if, as peter said, if the
years. and he s threatened that the kim regime must not do what has been their principal export for 70 years, which is issue threats. i fear the president is in danger of backing himself in a corner. but if escalating the rhetoric and creating the crisis rattles china that they escalate their economic sanctions on north korea, then we ll see a better outcome going forward. no one wants a war here, including north korea. they don t want a war. so there s a potential for a diplomatic out. colonel francona, i ve talked to a number of former diplomats who were trying to negotiate with korea and worked on it in the past. i talked to general hayden just yesterday who said look, if there is a military confrontation between the u.s. and north korea, obviously in all the war games that they have rolled out, the u.s. wins. but there s not a lot of great military options. do you agree with that, just from a human life standpoint? absolutely.