FOLLOWING THE UNITED NATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE U.N.
SECURITY COUNCIL WOULD ROLL OUT A NEW SET OF SANCTIONS AGAINST
NORTH KOREA AND ITS MISSILE PROGRAM, OF COURSE KIM JONG-UN
HAD SOME STRONG WORDS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND THOSE WHO
HAVE PUSHED FOR THE SANCTIONS.
THE KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY
RELEASED A STATEMENT AND SAID THE FOLLOWING --
TO SUMMARIZE, WE ARE GOING TO
GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE
PUSHED FOR THE SANCTIONS, WE WANT RETALIATION.
THIS ISN'T ANY
DIFFERENT FROM WHAT NORTH KOREA TYPICALLY DOES, THEY'VE RELEASED
A NUMBER OF STATEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN THREATENING AND VIOLENT
AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, HOWEVER WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT
THIS STORY IS THE WAY LEADERSHIP IN THE UNITED STATES HAS
RESPONDED TO, AND WE WILL GET TO THAT IN A SECOND.
ONE QUICK NOTE, IT'S SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT, SLIGHTLY, IN THAT
NORTH KOREA IS IN THAT STATEMENT THREATENING QUOTE UNQUOTE
PHYSICAL ACTION.
THE THINGS ABOUT THE WOLVES ARE COMING,
WOLF-PAC.COM, GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, NORMAL -- PROBABLY NOT
WHAT THEY WERE REFERRING TO -- AND THEY WILL ALWAYS BE
MERCILESS AGAINST US, THOSE STATEMENTS ARE NORMAL FOR NORTH
KOREAN LEADERSHIP.
WE LIKE TO THINK OUR LEADERSHIP IS A LITTLE
MORE STABLE, BUT OH WELL.
THE REFERENCE TO PHYSICAL ACTION IS
A LITTLE BIT MORE AGGRESSIVE, BUT I WOULD HOPE WE WOULD BE
MEASURED IN OUR RESPONSE SO WE DON'T ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGER A
CATACLYSMIC WAR, BUT THAT LEADS US TO DONALD TRUMP.
EXACTLY.
DONALD TRUMP WAS ASKED ABOUT THE STATEMENT
RELEASED BY NORTH KOREA, AND HIS REACTION TO IT WAS NOT MEASURED.
TAKE A LOOK FOR YOURSELVES.
ANY COMMENT ON NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES?
NORTH KOREA BEST NOT MAKE ANY MORE THREATS TO THE UNITED
STATES.
THEY WILL BE MET WITH FIRE AND FURY LIKE THE WORLD HAS
NEVER SEEN.
HE HAS BEEN VERY THREATENING BEYOND A NORMAL
STATEMENT, AND AS I SAID, THEY WILL BE MET WITH FIRE, FURY, AND
FRANKLY POWER, THE LIKES OF WHICH THIS WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN
BEFORE.
THANK YOU.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MAN?
JESUS CHRIST.
IF YOU HAD A SMART
GUY IN POWER, EVEN A GUY I MASSIVELY DISAGREE WITH DICK
CHENEY, AND HE WAS MAKING THREATS, I WOULD BE CONCERNED
BECAUSE HE HAS CARRIED OUT HIS THREATS BEFORE, BUT YOU KNOW HE
PUTS SOME THOUGHT INTO IT AND HE HAS A STRATEGY.
MAYBE THE
STRATEGY IS TO PUSH YOU INTO WAR, MAYBE IT'S TO GET SOME SORT
OF BARGAINING CHIP -- BUT THE GUY HAS A STRATEGY.
WITH TRUMP
YOU DON'T KNOW.
YOU DON'T KNOW IF HE'S JUST BEING A CLOWN AND
BEING LIKE, WE WILL SHOW YOU, OR IS HE ACTUALLY THREATENING
NUCLEAR WAR?
BECAUSE FIRE AND FURY LIKE THE WORLD HAS NEVER
SEEN BEFORE -- WELL, WE'VE SEEN NUCLEAR BOMBS, AND OUR BOMBS
TODAY ARE MUCH MORE FORCEFUL AND MORE POWERFUL.
SO IF YOU ARE
TAKING HIM LITERALLY, AND I KNOW THE WHITE HOUSE ALWAYS SAYS
REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT IS AN IDIOT, YOU SHOULDN'T TAKE HIM
LITERALLY, BUT IF YOU ARE, THAT MEANS USING OUR NEW, MODERN
NUKES AGAINST NORTH KOREA.
AND THAT IS INSANE.
THAT COULD PUSH
US INTO A WAR, AGAIN, THAT I'VE BEEN WARNING ABOUT FROM DAY ONE.
I SAID THE NUMBER ONE THREAT WITH TRUMP IN OFFICE IS THE
CONFLICT IN NORTH KOREA.
HIS INCOMPETENCE COULD ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGER A WAR THAT
COULD COST HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES, POSSIBLY MILLIONS.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT INNOCENT CIVILIANS WHO ARE UNFORTUNATELY
UNDER A DICTATORIAL, CRAZY GOVERNMENT.
AND WE ARE REFERRING TO NORTH KOREA THERE, NOT THE U.S.,
BUT ALMOST.
THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THE REASONS WE HAVEN'T
ENGAGED WITH THAT TYPE OF WAR WITH NORTH KOREA IS A NUMBER OF
DIFFERENT RAMIFICATIONS, NOT JUST THAT ALL SORTS OF INNOCENT
CIVILIANS WILL DIE AS A RESULT OF MILITARY ACTION, NUCLEAR
ACTION, AGAINST THE COUNTRY.
THERE'S THE ISSUE OF SOUTH
KOREA, THE ISSUE OF JAPAN.
HOW WILL IT IMPACT THOSE COUNTRIES
AS WELL?
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY COMPLICATED ISSUE THAT
REQUIRES FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY THAT SOMEONE LIKE DONALD TRUMP
DOESN'T SEEM TO BE EDUCATED ON.
SO FOR THOSE WHO LISTEN TO HIS
STATEMENTS AND THINK IT SOUNDS GREAT ON THE SURFACE LEVEL,
TOUGH TALK SOUNDS GREAT, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHAT I WOULD ARGUE
IS IN A RATIONAL ACTOR WITH KIM JONG-UN, TALKING ABOUT THEM
DEVELOPING MISSILES THAT COULD CERTAINLY ALREADY HURT, KILL,
INNOCENT INDIVIDUALS.
DONALD TRUMP IS NOT MEASURED, HE
REFUSES INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS, HE IS NOT EVEN AN INTELLECTUALLY
CURIOUS PERSON WHO WOULD WANT TO LEARN ABOUT ALL THE NUANCES OF
THIS ISSUE, AND HE SPEAKS OFF-THE-CUFF.
MAYBE THAT'S OKAY
DURING A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BUT IT'S NOT OKAY WHEN WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR AND PEOPLE'S LIVES AT RISK.
THERE ARE ONLY A COUPLE POSSIBILITIES AS TO WHY HE WOULD
SAY THIS.
ONE IS, AS ANA POINTED OUT, TO SOME TOUGH.
IT SOUND
LIKE SOMEONE TOLD HIM TO SAY THOSE EXACT WORDS, THAT'S WHY HE
REPEATED IT A COUPLE TIMES.
COULD BE A STEVE BANNON THING
WHERE HE IS LIKE, THIS WILL APPEAL TO YOUR BASE AND HE WILL
SEEM STRONG IF YOU USE THE WORDS FIRE AND FURY AND POWER THE
WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
IF YOU ARE DOING THAT, YOU ARE
DOING THAT FOR INTERNAL POLITICAL REASONS, MAYBE TO
IMPROVE YOUR POLL NUMBERS, BUT REMEMBER THERE IS A MADMAN ALSO
ON THE OTHER SIDE AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WILL TRIGGER AND
HIM.
NOW THERE ARE REPORTS, WHICH PROBABLY DONALD TRUMP HAS
NEVER SEEN BECAUSE HE DOESN'T CARE TO FIND OUT FACTS, THAT
NORTH KOREAN LEADERSHIP IS SCARED TO DEATH OF WHAT HAPPENED
TO QADDAFI.
AND THEY THINK IF WE DON'T HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS --
QADDAFI GAVE UP HIS NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THAT LEFT HIM
DEFENSELESS, SO AT SOME POINT THE U.S. AND THE WEST TURNED ON
HIM AND HE WOUND UP BEING WINCED IN THE STREETS.
SO THEY HAVE
THAT FEAR.
WHEN YOU SAY WE ARE GOING TO STRIKE YOU, THEN YOU
STOKE THAT FEAR UP AND GOD KNOWS WHAT KIM JONG-UN AND HIS
GENERALS WILL DO.
IT MIGHT BE FOR POLITICAL REASONS, WHERE YOU
ARE PLAYING WITH FIRE IN THIS CASE, IT MIGHT BE YOU THINK WE
WILL JUST NUKE THEM, WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL?
THOUGH MY GOD, EVEN IF
NORTH KOREA DIDN'T RETALIATE, IF OUR NUKES WIPED THEM OUT AND
THEY COULDN'T LAUNCH ANY MISSILES AND KILL PEOPLE IN
SOUTH KOREA WITH GREAT EASE -- AND LINDSEY GRAHAM, THAT
MONSTER, THE SENATOR, HE SAYS WE WOULD BE TAKING THE FIGHT OVER
THERE, PEOPLE WOULDN'T DIE HERE -- SO FLIPPANT WITH THE LIVES OF
SOUTH KOREAN AND JAPANESE CITIZENS THAT IT'S GROTESQUE --
EVEN IF THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN, WHAT, WE WOULD NUKE INNOCENT
NORTH KOREAN CITIZENS?
HOW MANY OF THEM?
THEY ARE BASICALLY HELD
CAPTIVE BY THE DICTATORS WHO RUN NORTH KOREA, ALMOST THE ENTIRE
COUNTRY IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP, AND YOU ARE GOING TO NUKE THE
CAMP?
YOU ARE GOING TO DESTROY THE VILLAGE TO SAVE THE VILLAGE?
DESTROY THE COUNTRY TO SAVE THE COUNTRY?
THERE ARE NO GOOD
RESPONSES HERE.
AND LOOK, NORTH KOREA -- I KNOW TRUMP DIDN'T
KNOW THIS, AND RECENTLY DISCOVERED IT -- IT'S A
COMPLICATED ISSUE.
YES YOU HAVE TO APPLY PRESSURE TO CHINA AND
RUSSIA, YES THE RECENT SANCTIONS I THINK ARE A GOOD IDEA, AND
BOY, THAT IS A TOUGH CALL, BECAUSE YES THEY ALSO HAVE A
DESTABILIZING EFFECT, I UNDERSTAND THAT, AND IT PUNISHES
THE CIVILIANS, BUT YOU CAN TELL FROM THE REACTION OF THE
GOVERNMENT THEY ARE DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE SANCTIONS.
AT LEAST THAT IS A LEVER WE CAN USE TO ACTUALLY GET THEM TO
COMPLY WITHOUT GOING TO WAR.
SO LET THE SANCTIONS DO THEIR WORK,
PUT MORE PRESSURE ON CHINA AND RUSSIA, THAT HAS A CHANCE OF
WORKING.
BUT IF YOU GO IN TALKING ABOUT WEAPONS THE WORLD
HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE AND FIRE AND FURY, YOU WILL START A WAR.
AND TO ALL OF YOU, LOOK, WHO VOTED AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON IN
THE GENERAL ELECTION BECAUSE YOU ARE AFRAID SHE WOULD LEAD US TO
WAR, WHAT HAPPENED AND NOW?
I WAS FOR BERNIE SANDERS, I DIDN'T
WANT ANY OF THE WARMONGERS OR ANY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT GUYS,
WHETHER THEY WERE DEEP STATE OR WHATEVER THE HELL YOU CALL THEM,
WHAT YOU THOUGHT TRUMP WON'T START A WAR?
SORRY, BUT YOU WERE
DEAD WRONG.
I'M WORRIED THAT MIGHT BE LITERAL NOW.
ONE THING I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS TIME AND AGAIN, NOT JUST IN
THE UNITED STATES BUT OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL, WHEN YOU HAVE
A LEADER WHO IS UNPOPULAR, ONE OF THE TACTICS THEY USE TO
GARNER UP SUPPORT IS ENGAGING IN WAR.
FEAR MONGERING AND THEN
ENGAGING IN WAR, AND THEN CLAIMING THEY ARE PROTECTING
NATIONAL SECURITY.
AND I'M VERY CONCERNED THAT DONALD TRUMP SEES
HIS APPROVAL RATINGS AND HE WILL USE SOMETHING LIKE THIS CONFLICT
WITH NORTH KOREA AS A WAY OF GARNERING SUPPORT.
IT'S
WORRISOME TO SAY THE LEAST.
NETANYAHU HAS DONE IT, OUR
PRESIDENTS HAVE DONE IT, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH BUSH AFTER
9/11 AND PEOPLE VOTED HIM INTO OFFICE FOR A SECOND TERM.
THIS WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE OR A PHOTO OP ABOUT THE OPIOID
FIGHT, HE SET BACK, REPORTERS SHOUTED OUT QUESTIONS, ALL SHE
ASKED HIM WAS WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE LATEST ABOUT THE NORTH
KOREA NUCLEAR ARSENAL AND WHAT THEY SAID THEY CAN DO?
IT HAD
NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HE WAS SITTING THEREFORE, IT WASN'T A
PLAN, A POLITICAL SCHEME TO BE LIKE LET'S USE FIRE AND FURY AND
POWER TODAY, THEY MIGHT HAVE SAID THAT IN MEETINGS BEFORE SO
THOSE WORDS WERE SAID TO HIM TO HYPE HIM UP, HE HAS TO GET HYPED
UP EVERY DAY, HE'S LIKE I WILL ANSWER THAT QUESTION BECAUSE I
JUST HEARD HOW I'M SO HYPED UP AND I'M A BAD ASS.
HE ANSWERED
IT OFF-THE-CUFF BECAUSE HE THINKS THAT'S WHAT THE LIMIT OF
THE WORLD IS.
THAT DESCRIPTION YOU WENT INTO, CENK, ABOUT WHERE HE COULD
GO AND WHAT IT COULD BE AND THAT EFFECT AND THAT PUSH AND
THAT POLL, THAT CROSSES HIS MIND.
HE'S GOING WE ARE THE UNITED STATES, WE HAVE
OVERWHELMING FORCE AND POWER AND FIRE AND FURY, THAT'S ALL I
HAVE TO SAY, AND THEY WILL RESPECT ME.
THAT'S ALL HE THINKS.
IS WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT.
IT'S A COMBINATION OF
INCOMPETENCE AND HUBRIS.
TO GO BACK TO THE ELECTION FOR A
SECOND, KIND OF LIKE HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN, INCOMPETENCE
MATCHED ONLY BY THEIR HUBRIS.
AND HERE IS TRUMP THINKING I
KEEP GETTING BANKRUPT AND I KEEP GETTING BAILED OUT, AND I RAN A
DISASTROUS CAMPAIGN AND GOT BAILED OUT BY SOMEONE WHO IS
EVEN WORSE THAN ME.
SO I'M UNTOUCHABLE, I'M A GENIUS, THIS
IS ALL WORKED OUT FOR ME.
WHAT DO WE HAVE THE NUKES FOR?
HE
SAID WHAT DO WE HAVE THEM FOR IF WE ARE GOING TO USE THEM?
HE
DOESN'T THINK THROUGH THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANYTHING, AND HE
THINKS WE ARE AMERICA, THEY ARE NORTH KOREA, WE ARE GOING TO
"WIN."
WHAT DOES WIN MEAN?
LOOK WHAT HAPPENED IN IRAQ -- WE WON
BY DEPOSING SADDAM HUSSEIN AND THEN INVITED A GIGANTIC,
COLOSSAL MIGHT BEAR THAT KILLED SO MANY OF OUR TROOPS, SO MANY
IRAQI CIVILIANS, DESTABILIZED THE MIDDLE EAST, CREATED ISIS,
AND IRAQ DOESN'T HAVE AS MANY WEAPONS AS NORTH KOREA DOES.
AND
THEY WERE NOT AS ENTRENCHED, AND NOT AS NEAR CIVILIAN POPULATIONS
LIKE SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, TOKYO, JAPAN, ETC.
THIS GUY, WE HAVE TO
GET HIM OUT OF OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
THIS RESISTANCE AND
ALL THAT STUFF, IT'S A LOT OF PATTY CAKES.
LOTS OF PLAYING
AROUND.
NO, WE NEED TO ACT RIGHT NOW.
THIS GUY IS A DANGER
TO THE WORLD, HE WILL GET PEOPLE KILLED.
IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT
WORLD WAR III OR THE DEEP STATE YOU SHOULD BE DOUBLY WORRIED
ABOUT TRUMP, YOU HAVE TO GET HIM OUT RIGHT NOW.
IT'S TIME TO END
THIS NONSENSE.
LIKE, WE WILL HELP THEM ON TAX REFORM AND KIND
OF FIGHT HIM ON HEALTHCARE -- NO, GET HIM OUT, BECAUSE THIS
GUY WILL START A WAR.