downed drone. he left it to bolton, who said no one should confuse prudence for weakness and left open the possibility that there may be a strike coming in the future if iran doesn t change its actions, apparently leaving an open-ended threat. and bolton concluded his remarks by saying, stay tuned. he seemed to pause before he said that, for effect. thank you. let s go to fred. tensions, fred, remaining high as president trump tightens the economic noose and iran saying they will not back down if provoked. how is this new threat from john bolton likely to go down? reporter: well, certainly not very well. i think one of the things the iranians have been saying is they believe that, for instance, the program of maximum pressure by the united states government, the sanctions that were put on iran after the u.s. left the nuclear agreement. obviously, that continued to be more. they view that as an aggression against iran rather than the other way around. also the fact that the u.s. is
seen. he has been very threatening beyond a normal state. and as i said, they will be met with fire, fury is that frankly, power. the likes which of this world has never seen before. reporter: a month later he belittled kim in a speech to the united nations. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime. reporter: then president admonished his secretary of state saying he was wasting his time trying negotiate with little rocket man. visiting south korea one month later, he had this to say. i say to the north. do not underestimate us. and do not try us. but recently his words have been far more diplomatic. i thought north korea was terrific. they came out, he this sbeemt the olympics, they went in with good spirits. they did well. let s see if we can carry it over. we may carry it over.
he s known quantity to them and connected to their industries and hired a former koch lawyer as his chief of staff. that s funny. again, a wonderful coincidence where they invest in his business and he makes money and then when he s in congress he hires their guy as chief of staff. probably just a coincidence. let s go to fred who is on the committee. he was skeptical in regards to the right wing talking point on global warming. tell us a little bit about that. where was his original position and where is he now? well, his original position and his original statements indicate that he at the very least considered global warming a serious problem that needed to be taken seriously. he as part of an effort to win the chairmanship once republicans had won in november, won control of the house, he had to make sort of a campaign for the chairmanship and there was some opposition from other conservative groups and he made
over the weekend conservatives were on the attack over president obama s stance on egypt. i don t agree with obama s stance on egypt. there s nothing wrong. you have to make sense while doing it. this time it was sarah palin so she struggled with that concept. let s see if we can figure out what she s saying here together. let s watch. it s a difficult situation. this is a 3:00 a.m. white house phone call and it seems for many of us trying to get that information from our leader in the white house it seems that that call went right to the answering machine and nobody yet has nobody yet has explained to the american public what they know and surely they know more than the rest of us know. one thing we know is someone knows more than you know. did anybody else understand. you take it at 3:00 a.m. or you
radio correspondent association that he s okay with more media but now that they re in charge things seem to have changed a little bit and he changed his mind. here s his new quote. i believe the american people and the dignity and decorum of the united states are served by the current system of televised proceedings provided by the house recording studio. i dent mean you could bring cameras in when we re in charge. given the obvious hypocrisy when c-span asked against to bring in cameras, boehner responded hell no you can t! dissatisfied with politicians who aren t taking on the deficit. you got to take on medicare and medication and social security and defense. let s watch. there s only one way to do this and you dig into the big