‘I UNDERSTAND HIM!’: Trump DOTES on Kim Jong Un and threatens MASS BOMBING in unhinged FREAK-OUT — Transcript

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1. 0:01Its 4 o'clock in the east.
2. 0:02If anyone were holding on to any last
3. 0:05DELUSION THAT DONALD TRUMP'S BLUSTER
4. 0:07AND WEIRD AND ERRATIC PUBLIC STATEMENTS AND
5. 0:10BEHAVIOR WAS SOMEHOW HIS SECRET STRATEGY OR
6. 0:14SAUCE ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE THOSE DELUSIONS
7. 0:16SURELY DIED A QUIET AND
8. 0:19MORTIFIED DEATH TODAY AS THE 60-DAY MEMORANDUM
9. 0:22OF UNDERSTANDING WITH IRAN EXPIRES DONALD TRUMP
10. 0:24PROVING ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT HIS EGO,
11. 0:27HIS FRAGILITY, his apparent instability,
12. 0:30might actually be America's greatest national
13. 0:32security threat.
14. 0:35As it becomes abundantly clear that he is way
15. 0:37out of his depth in the war he began with
16. 0:40IN THE SPAN OF JUST 20 HOURS DONALD
17. 0:42TRUMP THREATENED TO BOTH DRAMATICALLY
18. 0:45WIDEN THE WAR WITH IRAN AND TO ABANDON
19. 0:47ONE OF OUR CLOSEST ALLIES IN FAVOR
20. 0:49OF A DICTATOR WHO'S BEEN NICE TO TO HIM.
21. 0:51EARLIER TODAY IN A PHONE INTERVIEW WITH FOX NEWS,
22. 0:54DONALD TRUMP THREATENED TO BOMB THE
23. 0:56COUNTRY OF OMAN OVER ITS DECISION TO NEGOTIATE
24. 1:00WITH IRAN IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS FROM FOX
25. 1:03ABOUT THE PARALLEL TALKS TAKING PLACE BETWEEN
26. 1:05IRAN AND OMAN OF THE STRAIGHT OF HOMOUSE.
27. 1:08ABOUT THAT, TRUMP SAID THIS,
28. 1:10QUOTE, IF OMAN GETS IN THE WAY,
29. 1:11WE'LL BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF THAT.
30. 1:14TRUMP ALSO IMPLIED THAT THE U .S.
31. 1:16WOULD BE ABANDONING ONE One of America's closest
32. 1:18allies, South Korea,
33. 1:20due to Trump's friendship with North Korean dictator
34. 1:22Kim Jong-un.
35. 1:24On that, Trump posted on True Social
36. 1:27that we would be scaling down joint military
37. 1:29exercises with South OF NORTH KOREA,
38. 1:35I AM NOT HAPPY THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS LONG
39. 1:41AGO AGREED TO PARTICIPATE IN JOINT MILITARY
40. 1:44EXERCISES WITH SOUTH KOREA,
41. 1:46THESE EXERCISES SEND A SIGNAL THAT IS TOTALLY
42. 1:49INAPPROPRIATE AND HOSTILE TO A COUNTRY THAT AS
43. 1:52LONG AS DONALD J. TRUMP HAS BEEN PRESIDENT,
44. 1:55HAS BEEN UNTHREATENING AND RESPECTFUL.
45. 1:58I RECENTLY ASKED THE PRESIDENT OF
46. 2:00SOUTH KOREA IF THEY WOULD LIKE
47. 2:02TO JOIN US IN THE DENUCLEARIZATION
48. 2:04OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
49. 2:06AND THEY SAID QUOTE NO
50. 2:27I'M MAKING IT MUCH SAFER.
51. 2:29YOU SEE, I'M ACTUALLY MAKING IT MUCH SAFER.
52. 2:33KIM Kim Jong-un has always treated me
53. 2:35with great respect,
54. 2:36and we met on numerous occasions actually,
55. 2:39two primary occasions.
56. 2:43Spoken and spent
57. 2:59a lot of time, but we'd handle them very
58. 3:01easily just
59. 3:02like we do others.
60. 3:05I feel it's important to stop regular
61. 3:08programming and remind you of something
62. 3:10that Trump's first secretary of state once
63. 3:12said, REX TILLERSON,
64. 3:13HE QUOTE REPORTEDLY CALLED TRUMP AN
65. 3:16F-ING MORON FOLLOWING A NATIONAL SECURITY
66. 3:19MEETING AT THE PENTAGON THAT WAS PER
67. 3:20NBC NEWS REPORTING.
68. 3:22CNN REPORTED AROUND THE SAME time
69. 3:24that his first chief of staff
70. 3:26or maybe was the second general john kelly
71. 3:28said this about trump when it came to foreign
72. 3:30policy quote the depths of his dishonesty is
73. 3:33just astounding to me the dishonesty
74. 3:36the transactional nature of every relationship
75. 3:39though it's more pathetic than anything else
76. 3:41he is the most flawed person I've ever met
77. 3:45in my life back to today's news Donald Trump
78. 3:48they're speaking like a president
79. 3:50who has no idea that the ally
80. 3:53in this equation is Oman which is
81. 3:56America that relies on Oman's
82. 3:58military facilities there
83. 4:00while Donald Trump might be doing
84. 4:02his best to play a character,
85. 4:04the character of a strong man.
86. 4:06The reality is spoken by Rex Tillerson
87. 4:09and John Kelly and the reality of this moment
88. 4:12of America's military posture around the world
89. 4:15does tell a very different a very alarming story
90. 4:18as Trump's war with Iran depletes our weapons
91. 4:20stockpiles and exhausts our men and women
92. 4:23in the military.
93. 4:24Washington Post is reporting today that the U
94. 4:25.S.
95. 4:26supply of a drone,
96. 4:28that it's key to monitoring and defending
97. 4:30the Strait of Hormuz has dropped
98. 4:31by 25 % because of Trump's war with Iran.
99. 4:35Trump attempting to emulate his favorite
100. 4:37strongman on the world stage as our military
101. 4:39and national security and credibility pay
102. 4:42the price is where we begin today
103. 4:44with some of our favorite reporters and friends.
104. 4:46Former Deputy National Security Advisor
105. 4:48to President Obama,
106. 4:50now the co-host of Pod Save the World.
107. 4:52Contributor Ben Rhodes is back.
108. 4:54Also joining us, staff writer at The Atlantic,
109. 4:56Tom Nichols is back.
110. 4:57He's a professor emeritus of national security
111. 4:59affairs at the U .S.
112. 5:01Naval War College and our senior national
113. 5:03security reporter David Rhodes is with us.
114. 5:05David, I start with you.
115. 5:07And I went back and read the context
116. 5:10of Tillerson's description of Donald Trump
117. 5:13as an effing moron.
118. 5:14I think it comes after this now infamous
119. 5:16tank briefing where the generals are
120. 5:18trying to tell Trump basically why we go
121. 5:21to war WHAT WE ARE FOR AND WHY WE
122. 5:23FIGHT AND WHO WE ARE ALLOWED WITH AND WHY.
123. 5:26AND THE INNABILITY TO MAKE I THINK THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE
124. 5:27HIM
125. 5:28UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE OF ALLIANCE AND THE THREAT
126. 5:31POSED
127. 5:33BY OUR ADVERSARIES IS, I THINK,
128. 5:35WHAT CREATES TILLERSON TO
129. 5:37TRUMP TO JUST BURST OUT WITH THAT TRUTH BOMB,
130. 5:39DESCRIBING TRUMP AS AN F-ING MORON.
131. 5:41I THINK ON KELLY'S PART, GENERAL JOHN KELLY HAD BEEN
132. 5:43SORT
133. 5:45AND I THINK IT'S A LITTLE WHEN TRUMP
134. 5:48REPEATEDLY TWEETED ABOUT LITTLE ROCKETMAN,
135. 5:51WHICH WAS HIS SORT OF THE ENEMY PART
136. 5:54OF THE FRIENEMY RELATIONSHIP WITH KIM
137. 5:57JONG-UN WHEN HE CONCLUDES THIS, THAT,
138. 5:59QUOTE, THE TRANSACTIONAL NATURE
139. 6:01OF EVERY RELATIONSHIP THAT TRUMP HAS IS,
140. 6:03QUOTE, MORE PATHETIC THAN
141. 6:05ANYTHING ELSE.
142. 6:05SO THESE ARE TWO CREDIBLE MEN
143. 6:10WHO WERE THERE FOR WE ARE NOT GETTING
144. 6:14ANY WINDOW INTO THE HONEST PREDICAMENT
145. 6:17THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS PLACED IN THE
146. 6:19UNITED STATES.
147. 6:20WE ARE RELY ON JOURNALISTS LIKE YOURSELF.
148. 6:22TELL US, ARE THINGS AS BAD AS THEY SEEM?
149. 6:26THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE, I WOULD SAY.
150. 6:28THE STRANGE THING ABOUT I WANTED TO TALK
151. 6:29ABOUT THIS WEEKEND AND, YOU KNOW,
152. 6:30I HAD THE SAME FEELING YOU DID IS
153. 6:32THAT THE ERRATIC BEHAVIOR
154. 6:33OF THE PRESIDENT IT'S OBVIOUSLY
155. 6:34LED TO ENORMOUS PROBLEMS AND FAILURES AND,
156. 6:36YOU KNOW,
157. 6:38TREMENDOUS RISKS FOR American
158. 6:39servicemembers with Iran.
159. 6:41But you now have that sort of spreading
160. 6:43around the world.
161. 6:46Previously, you could also could have
162. 6:46said there was
163. 6:47a problem in Ukraine.
164. 6:48You talked about South Korea
165. 6:51and it's extraordinary that the The president
166. 6:53of the United States is sort
167. 6:55of praising the dictator, Kim Jong-un,
168. 6:58who is in his early 40s, you know,
169. 7:00who inherited this hermit kingdom
170. 7:02from his father, you know, that they should be treated
171. 7:04well because,
172. 7:10IT'S JUST ASTONISHING IN THAT
173. 7:13IT HELPS CHINA SO MUCH.
174. 7:15AND AT THE SAME TIME, YOU HAVE THE LAST U .S.
175. 7:19aircraft carrier, the Japan-based carrier,
176. 7:22leaving the region for the first time
177. 7:26since the 1970s.
178. 7:27And that this has been Republican
179. 7:29and Democratic presidents,
180. 7:30going back to and Nixon have had a carrier
181. 7:33there to protect South Korea,
182. 7:36to protect Taiwan, and to protect Japan.
183. 7:39And it's the rate at which Donald Trump is sort
184. 7:41of unraveling our alliances,
185. 7:59completely boxed in.
186. 8:00And I don't know what story his
187. 8:03own advisers could be telling him that doesn't,
188. 8:05you know, perhaps in softer terms
189. 8:07articulate
190. 8:08that when it comes to Iran.
191. 8:10But what is your sense of what their,
192. 8:13their own assessment is of what our options are?
193. 8:17It's hard for me to say I don't know.
194. 8:19I know at least in the first term, you know,
195. 8:21Trump's aides feared him.
196. 8:24He had a volcanic temper.
197. 8:25I mean, the big difference was
198. 8:27that there were people like Rex Tillerson,
199. 8:29like Jim Mattis, who resigned.
200. 8:31Gina Haspel threatened to resign
201. 8:34because she would not allow Kash Patel
202. 8:36to become the deputy director of the CIA.
203. 8:38You don't see that in his closer circle.
204. 8:41You do see some people leaving.
205. 8:43One announcement over the weekend was Andy
206. 8:44Baker.
207. 8:45He's a respected aide of J .D.
208. 8:47Vance's.
209. 8:48He's now leaving the White House.
210. 8:50Carolyn Leavitt, you know, said she was going to leave
211. 8:51earlier.
212. 8:52And so there's, it's not a large number of
213. 8:54people leaving,
214. 8:55but the different dynamic, the key here in this second
215. 8:57term is just,
216. 8:59it's just Trump doing what he wishes.
217. 9:03Todd Blanche saying, I'm going to consult with
218. 9:06the president
219. 9:08when it comes to the Justice Department.
220. 9:09It's a president getting more power
221. 9:11than we've ever seen since
222. 9:13the post-Watergate reforms and then a PRESIDENT,
223. 9:15AT LEAST IN TERMS OF FOREIGN
224. 9:18POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY,
225. 9:19THE AREA I KNOW WELL,
226. 9:20WHO JUST SEEMS TO BE MAKING THIS
227. 9:23UP AS HE GOES ALONG.
228. 9:26YEAH, I MEAN, BEN, AND THE UTTERANCES ABOUT
229. 9:31CANCELING MILITARY EXERCISES
230. 9:34AND ABANDONING SOUTH KOREA THE PEOPLE
231. 9:36THAT HAVE IN SOME WAYS ALARMED A WIDER CIRCLE OF
232. 9:40PEOPLE MORE PUBLICLY THAN THE
233. 9:42VOLATILE AND CHAOTIC AND
234. 9:46I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S JUST A NEW FRONT
235. 9:48THAT HE'S NOW PUBLICLY DESTABILIZING.
236. 9:51KIM JONG-UN IS AN OLD, I WANT TO CALL HIM PARAMOR,
237. 9:56SORT OF HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE,
238. 9:57HE'S SHARED HIS LOVE LETTERS BETWEEN
239. 9:59HIMSELF AND KIM JUNG-UN ACROSS THE TWO TERMS.
240. 10:02HE'S VERY PROUD OF THAT RELATIONSHIP BUT AGAIN
241. 10:05AND IT FEELS ALMOST LIKE HE WAS
242. 10:08STEERED TOWARD A FRIENDSHIP WITH
243. 10:10KIM JONG-UN BECAUSE THE ADVISERS
244. 10:12AT THE TIME FEARED THAT HE WOULD
245. 10:13START A WAR WITH NORTH SOUTH KOREA,
246. 10:15BUT JUST TALK ABOUT THE NATURAL EXTENSION OF THAT
247. 10:19RELATIONSHIP LEADING TO THE ABANDONING OF
248. 10:21ANOTHER KEY STRATEGIC U .S.
249. 10:23ALLY IN KOREA, SOUTH KOREA.
250. 10:26Well, I mean, first of all, it feels a bit like a bully
251. 10:29on the schoolyard who is not
252. 10:31getting his way to Iran.
253. 10:32And so now he's just going to look
254. 10:34for other people to beat up.
255. 10:36Right. It's a classic bully
256. 10:37behavior.
257. 10:38And let's take a step back here because,
258. 10:40first of all,
259. 10:42it bears noting that to much fanfare,
260. 10:44Donald Trump launched those talks
261. 10:46with Kim Jong-un in his first
262. 10:48term that achieved precisely nothing.
263. 10:50Like the purpose of THE TALKS GOING INTO
264. 10:52IT WAS TO ADDRESS NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR
265. 10:54WEAPONS PROGRAM AND NOTHING WAS
266. 10:56DONE TO CONSTRAIN NORTH I DON'T THINK
267. 10:58MISSILLE PROGRAM. IT'S ADVANCED SINCE THEN.
268. 11:00IT'S ADVANCED SINCE THEN. IT'S ADVANCED SINCE THEN.
269. 11:01IT'S ADVANCED SINCE THEN. IT'S ADVANCED SINCE THEN.
270. 11:02HE SAYS THEY'VE DONE NOTHING THREATENING.
271. 11:04THAT'S NOT THE THEY HAVE SENT TENS OF
272. 11:06THOUSANDS OF TROOPS TO FIGHT IN VLADIMIR PUTIN'S
273. 11:09ARMY IN UKRAINE AND IN RETURN THEY'VE GOT ALL
274. 11:10MANNER OF RUSSIAN MILITARY
275. 11:12TECHNOLOGY THAT PUTS THE UNITED STATES AT GREATER
276. 11:18HE'S ALREADY DIMINISHED OUR COMMITMENT TO SOUTH KOREA,
277. 11:21THE THAAD MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM
278. 11:23WHICH IS THE MOST ADVANCED
279. 11:25MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM WE DEPLOY IN THAT PART OF THE
280. 11:27WORLD.
281. 11:28INVOLVED TO DEFEND THEM AGAINST THREATS.
282. 11:29PART OF THAT WAS MOVED TO THE
283. 11:31MIDDLE EAST BECAUSE OF HIS IRAN WAR.
284. 11:33HE'S ALREADY KIND OF SIGNALLED HOW UNIMPORTANT
285. 11:37THEY THEY ARE GOING TO BE AROUND
286. 11:41AFTER TRUMP AND THEY HAVE OTHER OPTIONS.
287. 11:43THERE IS NO REASON SOUTH
288. 11:44KOREA HAS TO MAKE ITS ENTIRE
289. 11:46SECURITY ARCHITECTURE PLUG IN
290. 11:47THE UNITED STATES AS IT DOES.
291. 11:49THEY COULD TURN TO CHINA.