the narrative is just that trump is a baffoon, and that kim jong-un is this 34 year old mass murderer is some kind of genius he s going to run circles around and i just want to take issue with one thing we heard in those clips which is trump has no idea what s going on in north korea. trump has been talking about this for a long time. i want to play a meet the press clip from 1999 where donald trump was on talking about north korea play the clip. president trump: we have a country in north korea which is sort of wacco, not a bunch of dummies and they are going out and they are developing nuclear weapons and they re not doing it because they re having fun doing it they re doing it for a reason and wouldn t it be good to sit down and really negotiate something and ideally negotiate and if that negotiation doesn t work you better solve the problem now than solve it later. david: so here is a man who became president been talk about this issue for a lot longer than some of these critics