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good day, everyone, i m andrea mitchell in washington where the biden administration is bolstering support for close ally south korea in response of course to kim jong-un s nuclear threat, a growing threat for the first time in four decades, u.s. nuclear armed submarines will dock in south korea for what national security officials are calling official visits, but no american nukes will be deployed onto the peninsula as part of the new agreement. and the u.s. has agreed that south korea will have a role in any u.s. use of nuclear weapons in a conflict with the north joining me now, nbc white house correspondent and today co-host, kristen welker. also jen psaki and victor cha, senior vice president for asia and korea chair at the center for international studies. the biden strategy on north korea is nothing more than love letters from president trump and kim jong-un. that s absolutely right what we re seeing today is effectively this show of force, pomp and pageantry ....
Powerful? where would they draw that power? what are the rules of the game and how did you win? that s a big part of what this book is about. it s about the washington that predated trump and the washington he left in his wake. mostly though, it s about the people. joining us now is ben terrace, the author of the big break: the gambler, party animals and true believers to win in america while they lose their mind clon. that s a long title. it s an accurate capture. i thought the last line i read is most important is about people. right? for those that don t know, and i m unabashed big fan of your work, personally, so-so, but the work is very well known in washington for being the person who actually shows you the real, not kind of the scene of washington. that s why he is so talented and why this book is so fascinating. when he set out to write this book which is not for washington types. this is for people outside of the city who want to understand why the city is so insane ....
Behavior after president trump went from rocket man and deriding kim jong-un to many bracing him and then he went so far as to cancel routine military exercises without telling his defense secretary so it depends on how you handle the summit. remember, as you know, because you ve covered this for so many years, the threat of north korea and the threat of that to the united states and other countries in the region, in asia, has predated trump. and when president obama met with incoming president trump, this was one of the issues they talked about because it has been so front and center for u.s. presidents for decades as you just said, there was some cleanup that needed to happen. that s probably a diplomatic way of saying rebuilding confidence and trust that our military assets, our military assistance would be there supporting south korea. also to announce this at the same time as the state visit i mean a state visit is so significant because it is sending a message to the world, thi ....
Anxious watching this. what you re watching is, you know, take your profession, take the worst nightmare scenario that you have in your profession, in our profession it is making a mistake, right? you have all of these journalists describing the worst possible scenario, making a mistake and not only a mistake, but a mistake that access someone of inciting the murder of six people. right. jeremy, when this comes down, does palin win either way? she wins if she loses, she can appeal and try to get the supreme court and wins if she wins. she has receded in her public profile. she s back in the news in a way that i think is wholly fitting with her persona as a politician early on. she lambasted the media for asking gotcha questions, waged public battles with katie couric, cnn, the new york times in a way that predated trump. this all comes back to anti-media feelings? ....
Gottlieb, a doctor, a scientist. you should have me back on when my book comes out and we ll bring out everything. here s the thing. if you blame it on trump, you ignore the funding and the culture wars that led us to where we are that predated trump and you ignore the fact that france, spain, italy, the uk, belgium all have per capita death rates that were very similar to ours base thond populism that exists beyond trump and beyond the united states. so, again, let s look at leadership, but let s also look at the other ingredients that help lead to this deadly pandemic. dr. jerome adams, you just booked yourself back on our show for when your book comess this morning. we look forward to speaking with you in the future. thank you, john. a florida high school halts distribution of its yearbook after complaints about pages of the black lives matter movement. ....