TENSIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND NORTH KOREA ARE
RAMPING UP CONSIDERING DONALD TRUMP'S U.N. SPEECH WHERE HE HAD
HARSH WORDS FOR NORTH KOREA AND ITS MISSILES TEST.
WE WILL SHOW YOU A CLIP FROM HIS SPEECH AND KIM JONG UN'S
RESPONSE.
NOW NORTH KOREA'S RECKLESS PURSUIT OF BALLISTIC MISSILES
THREATENS THE ENTIRE WORLD WITH UNTHINKABLE LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE.
IT IS AN OUTRAGE THAT SOME NATIONS WOULD NOT ONLY TRADE
WITH SUCH A REGIME, BUT WOULD ARM, SUPPLY, AND FINANCIALLY
SUPPORT A COUNTRY THAT IMPERILS THE WORLD WITH NUCLEAR CONFLICT.
THE UNITED STATES HAS GREAT STRENGTH AND PATIENCE, BUT IF IT
IS FORCED TO DEFEND ITSELF OR ITS ALLIES WE WILL HAVE NO
CHOICE BUT TO TOTALLY DESTROY NORTH KOREA.
ROCKET MAN IS ON A SUICIDE MISSION FOR HIMSELF, AND FOR HIS
REGIME.
THE UNITED STATES IS READY, WILLING, AND ABLE, BUT
HOPEFULLY THIS WILL NOT BE NECESSARY.
IT IS ALWAYS INCREDIBLY JARRING FOR HIM TO GO FROM
TOTALLY DESTROY NORTH KOREA AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW IT WITH
ROCKET MAN.
I HAVE TO JUMP IN.
THE FIRST PART OF THAT WAS FINE.
HE WAS SAYING WHAT YOU GUYS DOING TRADING WITH NORTH
KOREA WHEN THEY ENDANGER THESE PEOPLE?
I AGREE WITH THAT.
IT IS INCUMBENT UPON US TO PRESSURE CHINA.
I THINK THEY ARE ENDANGERING THE WORLD WITH THEIR
RELATIONSHIP WITH NORTH KOREA.
SOME OF THAT TOUGH TALK IS NECESSARY, BUT HE CAN'T
HELP HIMSELF.
HE HAS TO TAKE IT OVER THE TOP WITH WE WILL TOTALLY
DESTROY YOU.
THAT IS SO UNHELPFUL.
AND I AM COMING AT IT FROM A PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN
TOUGH TALK.
BUT THAT IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
THEN WHEN YOU SAY ROCKET MAN, I CAN'T EVER THINK OF ROCKET MAN
WITHOUT EVER THINKING OF ROCKET MAN.
YOU SOUND LIKE AN IDIOT, LIKE A GOOFY KID.
YOU DESTROY ANY TYPE OF GRAVITAS YOU HAVE.
EXACTLY.
DO YOU KNOW THE WORDS TO ROCKET MAN?
OF COURSE.
ALL I KNOW IS ROCKET MAN.
FOLLOWING TRUMP'S SPEECH HE DID PUT SOME ACTION BEHIND HIS
WORDS MEANING THAT HE DID TARGET SOME OF THOSE COUNTRIES,
CHINA PRIMARILY THAT DO TRADE WITH NORTH KOREA.
HE SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER EXPANDING THE AUTHORITY OF
THE US AND THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT TO TARGET
INDIVIDUALS, BANKS AND OTHER COMPANIES THAT FINANCE OR
FACILITATE TRADE WITH NORTH KOREA.
HE IS ACTUALLY BEEFED UP THE SANCTIONS THAT THE U.N. HAD
PASSED
EARLIER.
MAYBE HE CAN START BY NOT HAVING THE TRUMP
CORPORATION MAKE ALL THE CLOTHES IN CHINA?
GREAT POINT.
WHEN IT IS JUST SANCTIONS AND IS MEANT TO PUT PRESSURE ON
THE REGIME, I AGREE.
THAT IS NOT A BAD MOVE.
IT WILL GET WORSE.
IF YOU JUST LEFT WELL ENOUGH ALONE, THE TOUGH TALK AND THE
SANCTIONS MIGHT BE A GOOD THING BECAUSE THEY DO NEED PRESSURE.
IT'S
NOT THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE TALKED TOUGH ON NORTH KOREA.
BUT HERE WE SAID WE ARE GOING TO WIPE THEM OFF THE FACE OF
THE EARTH.
THAT
HAS UNFORTUNATELY ESCALATED THE SITUATION EVEN FURTHER.
NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME KIM JONG UN HAS RELEASED A
STATEMENT IN THE FIRST PERSON.
I KNOW THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A BIG DEAL IN THE UNITED
STATES BUT IN NORTH KOREA THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED.
USUALLY THE DICTATOR DOESN'T DO THAT.
SO HE IS EVEN MORE ENRAGED ABOUT THIS.
THERE IS AN INTERESTING TWIST BECAUSE NOW NORTH KOREA SEES
ITSELF AS DEFENDING ITSELF RATHER THAN BEING THE AGGRESSOR.
NOT SURE WE MANAGED TO TURN THEM A LITTLE BIT INTO THE VICTIMS.
THIS ACCORDING TO EVERY EXPERT ON NORTH KOREA IS
TOTALLY UNPRECEDENTED.
IT IS VERY SERIOUS.
IT IS ONE THING FOR THE OFFICIAL STATE AGENCY TO DO OVER
THE TOP AND SAY WE WILL DESTROY YOU, HAVE SEX WITH YOUR
GRANDMOTHER, WHATEVER.
THEY DO THAT KIND OF NONSENSE ALL THE TIME.
IN A MINUTE WE WILL GET TO HILARIOUS PUTDOWNS OF OTHER US
OFFICIALS THEY HAVE DONE IN THE PAST.
WE WILL EXPLAIN WHAT DOTARD IS.
BUT THEY NEVER HAVE THEIR LEADER
MAKE THE STATEMENT BECAUSE THEIR LEADER IS SEEN AS ALMOST A
GOD IN NORTH KOREA.
HIS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER HAVE NEVER MADE A PERSONAL
STATEMENT LIKE THIS.
FOR HIM TO GO ON AND SAY NOW IT IS ON, PUTS THEM IN A
CORNER WHERE HE CAN'T POSSIBLY BACK DOWN.
THEN IT IS LIKE GOD BACKING DOWN.
GREAT.
THIS HAS NOW GONE TO ANOTHER LEVEL THAT IS WAY WORSE.
LIKE DEFCON UN.
I CAN'T TELL WHICH ONE IS TRUMP AND WHICH ONE IS KIM JONG UN?
IF YOU SWITCHED THE WORDS YOU WOULD NOT KNOW WHO SAID WHAT.
WHEN YOU HAVE THE US LEADER SAYING THE SAME THINGS,
THAT IS TERRIBLE.
NOW THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO PROVE
THAT THEY CAN LAUNCH A NUKE ON AN ICBM.
THEY HAVE DONE SIX DIFFERENT TESTS, ALL UNDERGROUND
WHICH IS WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO THEM.
FIRST OF ALL, DON'T DO THEM.
BUT IF YOU DO, DO THEM UNDERGROUND BECAUSE OF THE
RADIATION.
THERE HAS BEEN NO ABOVEGROUND TEST FOR 37 YEARS.
THE LAST TIME IT HAPPENED WAS IN CHINA AND THEY TESTED IT IN
THE DESERT.
PEOPLE WERE SO OUTRAGED IT HAS NOT HAPPENED SINCE.
NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN NORTH KOREA IS SAYING YES WE MIGHT DO ONE IN
THE ATMOSPHERE AND MIGHT TRY TO PUT ONE ON A LONG-RANGE
MISSILE.
THEY ALREADY TRIED TO FIRE A LONG-RANGE MISSILE OVER JAPAN.
BUT THEY ARE STILL NORTH KOREA, IMAGINE IF THEY SCREW UP A
LONG-RANGE MISSILE TEST WITH A NUKE ON IT AND IT FALLS SHORT IN
JAPAN, OR SOUTH KOREA, OR GOD KNOWS WHERE.
NUCLEAR WAR.
THIS IS WHY WHEN BUSH AND TRUMP SAY THEY DON'T DO NUANCE, IT IS
A TERRIBLE IDEA.
IT IS BASICALLY SAYING I AM STUPID, AND I SEE THE WORLD
IN A WAY THAT IS BLACK OR WHITE.
IT IS ALSO BY THE WAY- OBAMA AND NORTH KOREA- HAVE NOT
SOLVED THE PROBLEM.
IT WAS CONTAINED, WE WERE NOT AT THIS POINT.
IT'S ALSO WHY REPUBLICANS MANAGED TO ELECT A GUY
SUBSTANTIALLY LESS QUALIFIED FOR THIS JOB THAN GEORGE W.
BUSH.
AS LITTLE NUANCE AS HE DID, FOR THE MOST PART THE PEOPLE
NEGOTIATING WITH NORTH KOREA TOOK IT RELATIVELY SERIOUSLY.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS DID NOT CRUMBLE.
ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS WE
KEEP SAYING IS THEY CAN'T
FIRE A LONG-RANGE MISSILE WITH NUKES ON IT.
THEREBY DOUBTING THEM TO TRY.
THAT IS A REALLY BAD IDEA.
ONE MEANING ACT YOU CAN PERHAPS AVOID NUCLEAR WAR.
TWO OF THEM ON OPPOSING SIDES, THAT IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER.
AND KIM JONG-UN SAID ABOUT TRUMP, HE IS A FRIGHTENED
DOG BARKS LOUDER.
THAT WAS A PERFECT EXAMPLE.
TRUMP COULD'VE SAID THAT ABOUT KIM JONG UN.
YET, WHEN HE WOULD SAY THINGS LIKE THAT ABOUT OBAMA HE
WOULD SAY I DON'T CARE.
DO YOU KNOW HE CALLED OBAMA?
HE CALLED HIM A MONKEY.
HE SAID YEAH, WHATEVER.
I AM NOT GOING TO NUCLEAR WAR BECAUSE YOU CALLED ME A NAME.
BUT TRUMP IS NOT THAT GUY.
WE ARE IN A STRANGE POSITION WHERE WE ARE REALLY PRAYING
NIKKI HALEY SAVES THE DAY.
OF THOSE TWO IT WOULD BE NIKKI HALEY.
DOTARD, WHAT IS IT MEAN?
THAT IS A CRAZY OLD PERSON.
I FEEL LIKE IT IS CORRECT.
I AM ALMOST SORRY IT IS NOT PRONOUNCED DIFFERENTLY.
HAVING IT ENTER THE LEXICON MIGHT'VE FINALLY KILLED THE
OTHER WORD THAT ADDS ARD.
UNFORTUNATELY IT IS
SPECIFICALLY ABOUT OLDER PEOPLE.
THE NEW YORK TIMES WENT BACK IN THEIR ARCHIVES TO SEE HOW
MANY TIMES IT HAD BEEN USED SINCE 1980, IT WAS 10 TIMES.
ONE OF THEM SAID IT WAS A TALE OF A DOTARD HUSBAND CUCKOLDED BY
HIS WIFE.
CHARLES PIERCE OF ESQ.
USED IT ABOUT TRUMP IN MAY.
THEY CALLED HIM A DOTARD.
NOW I WILL GIVE YOU MORE PUTDOWNS FROM THE NORTH KOREANS
OF OUR LEADERS.
SOME ARE OUTRAGEOUS AND TERRIBLE LIKE CALLING OBAMA A MONKEY.
THEY CALLED HILLARY CLINTON � SHE LOOKS LIKE A PRIMARY
SCHOOL GIRL.
I DON'T THINK EITHER ONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE TRUE.
YOU LOOK LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL, OKAY.
JOHN KERRY THEY SAID WAS A WOLF WITH A HIDEOUS LANTERN JAW.
OH MY GOD.
ALL RIGHT HOLD ON.
I'M SORRY AND I LIKE JOHN KERRY.
AND GEORGE BUSH, WHEN HE CHUCKED A SHOE THAT WAS THROWN AT HIM.
THEY SAID HE LOOKED LIKE A CHICKEN SOAKED IN THE RAIN.
LIKE, THAT IS NOT BAD EITHER.
MAN, THOSE REFLEXES THOUGH.
THAT WAS AN IMPRESSIVE VIDEO.
THAT WAS PROBABLY THE ONLY TIME I WAS IMPRESSED BY BUSH.
IT IS ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL THE NUCLEAR WAR STARTS.
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, THIS IS THE ISSUE THAT I THINK IS BY FAR THE
MOST IMPORTANT AND WHY I LOOK FORWARD TO A PRESIDENT PASS.
FOR ALL OUTRAGEOUS MIKE PENCE IS AND HOW HE WOULD BE MORE
COMPETENT IN GETTING REPUBLICAN PRIORITIES PAST, I WILL
TAKE IT IN RETURN FOR NO NUCLEAR WAR WHICH THIS BUFFOON
LIKELY TO START.
I DON'T KNOW THAT IT IS AT 51%
YET BUT WE ARE WAY UNDERCOUNTING HOW POSSIBLE THAT IS.